Arts & Culture

Zevon Wagons

September 25th, 2019 - CBD News

Alternative country muso Henry Wagons will be performing on stage at The Athenaeum Theatre in Zevon, Accidentally Like A Martyr from October 16 to 26.

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The Old Melbourne Cemetery at QVM

September 25th, 2019 - CBD News

Royal Historical Society of Victoria

Tweet or deWitt: that is the question

September 25th, 2019 - Rhonda Dredge

Standing in a queue for a book signing is one of the hidden pleasures of the Melbourne Writers Festival, a place where you can hang out to pick up tips from great storytellers or just get close to fans.

Outside Nott’s confectioners

August 29th, 2019 - CBD News

This photograph was taken outside the shop of confectioner Thomas Nott in about 1900. He’d been in business for about 50 years by then and boasted that he made the best sweets for children in Melbourne.

Casual encounters with the past

August 29th, 2019 - Rhonda Dredge

Radical families are inspiring and the van Schaiks are a name when it comes to the CBD, in architecture and now art.

Planet B

August 29th, 2019 - CBD News

The Steve Lucas and Friends EP By Request launched this winter is an impromptu selection of songs dedicated to the memory of legendary blues musician Chris Wilson.

Too thick to drink and too thin to plough

July 24th, 2019 - CBD News

In the early 1970s, when I was a student at La Trobe University, I joined a folk club briefly where I was introduced to a number of modern versions of the traditional Australian folk songs that I’d always loved.

When the press performs well

July 24th, 2019 - Rhonda Dredge

Way above the CBD in a lovely little apartment hidden within a hotel on Highlander Lane, two thinkers work on articles for publication in the academic press.