Arts & Culture
Melbourne’s first “respectable” theatre
Early theatrical performances in Melbourne usually took place in temporary or makeshift venues and were often of a rowdy and disorderly nature.
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Why is football more important than art?
So this week it was announced that the government is giving half a billion dollars to all things Aussie Rules.
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Where “Chloe” once hung
The curious passer-by in Lonsdale St may wonder why an old-fashioned pair of wrought iron gates, slung between two stone pillars, stand in splendid isolation beside the modern office buildings at No. 460.
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Ava Gardner, Monaco Club 1954, height of summer, watching Quincy Jones on the bandstand conducting the orchestra.
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Someone is following
The Shoalhaven area up the east coast holds a special place in the hearts of even the most jaded nature watchers.
Read MoreEmpire of Melbourne
I have spent some of this month fixing up and re-doing the lanes at the north of the CBD.
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Palace of Winged Words
A 19th century three-storey redbrick building in Wills St in the CBD hardly rates a glance from most passers-by who are unaware that this building was once Melbourne’s first purpose-built telephone exchange.
Read MoreCallisto Woman near Ganymede
Many years ago, a woman is walking through undulating countryside with a grey horse, like Chautauqua.
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Pining for a lover
Last year someone at Dymocks bookstore in Collins St left a stray novel amongst those on the 2017 Stella Prize shortlist for women’s writing and the CBD News picked it up mistakenly out of the pile of hopefuls.
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More consolidation proposed
Perhaps a book for Christmas?
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