• Bar

    Howler

    14 Dawson Street, Brunswick

    A converted Brunswick warehouse with two bars, two performance spaces and great pub grub.

  • Bar

    The Everleigh

    Upstairs, 150-156 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

    Experience the hedonistic pleasures of the 1920s in Fitzroy's hidden cocktail den.

  • Event

    Bang! Crash! Tap!

    Wed, 11 Sep - Sat, 14 Sep 2013

    Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne

    Tap isn't all about Fred Astaire anymore.

  • Event

    The Comedy of Errors – Bell Shakespeare

    Sun, 25 Aug - Sat, 31 Aug 2013

    Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne

    A hilariously disordered, absurdly entangled, sexually farcical play about four identical twins and multiple mistaken identities. It takes Shakespeare’s couplets and transports them to town which kind of looks like Kings Cross in Sydney if it got mongrelised with Chapel Street.

  • Event

    Twiggy: The Face of '66

    Sat, 31 Aug - Thu, 5 Sep 2013

    ACMI, Melbourne

    Get your go-go dress on and your liquid eyeliner at the ready.

  • News

    The Secrets of the Abbotsford Quadfecta

    The the Abbotsford Convent's food precinct is about as far away as you can get from bain-maries and plastic cutlery.

  • Event

    Circa – Wunderkammer

    Wed, 14 Aug - Sun, 1 Sep 2013

    Malthouse Theatre, Southbank

    Human bodies become skipping ropes, hands become just another pair of feet to walk on, and the physically impossible looks effortless.

  • Restaurant

    Stovetop

    100 Leicester Street, Melbourne

    Your morning coffee just got a little bit more niche with Stovetop.

  • News

    Concrete Playground Runs the Tan Ultra

    Our arts and lifestyle writer Hilary Simmons goes from aesthete to athlete.

  • Event

    Tan Ultra 2013

    Sun, 11 Aug, 2013

    Pillars of Wisdom, South Yarra

    There's a distance for every type of runner at this annual event on the city's Tan Track.

  • Event

    Footy + Superstar + Evelyn Ida Morris

    Sun, 21 Jul, 2013

    The Toff in Town, Melbourne

    Clawing through the wind and rain to catch three excellent homegrown acts.

  • Event

    The Burlesque Hour: The Glory Box

    Wed, 10 Jul - Sun, 11 Aug 2013

    fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne

    Cocktail swigging, red hanky stripping, and a fairylit staircase down to discovery.

  • Event

    Bastille Day Party

    Sun, 14 Jul, 2013

    Evening Star-South Melbourne Market, South Melbourne

    What's red, white, blue and belligerent? A French beatnik who didn't find out about the Bastille Day Party.

  • Event

    Second Annual Lebowski Bash

    Sat, 13 Jul, 2013

    Astor Theatre, St Kilda

    Phone's ringin', Melbourne. The second annual Lebowski bash is bringing its beige bathrobes and White Russians to the Astor.

  • Event

    Unpaved Songwriter Sessions #27

    Mon, 24 Jun, 2013

    The Old Bar, Fitzroy

    Go and show your support for Melbourne’s live music scene - your ears, eyes and soul will thank you.

  • Event

    PopUp School: Documentary Drawing with Lily Mae Martin

    Sat, 20 Jul, 2013

    Antique Bookstore, Abbotsford

    What's the trick to finding inspiration in a cup of tea or cracked vase of flowers?

  • Event

    Herding Cats – Red Stitch

    Wed, 5 Jun - Sun, 7 Jul 2013

    Red Stitch Actors Theatre, St Kilda

    Join two mid-twenties housemates whose work fills them with expletive-filled fury and frustration.

  • Event

    The We and the I

    Thu, 6 Jun - Sun, 16 Jun 2013

    Michel Gondry's bus-set teen movie gets a limited screening at ACMI.

  • Event

    Phedre – Bell Shakespeare

    Sun, 26 May - Sun, 2 Jun 2013

    Malthouse Theatre, Southbank

    Indulge your penchant for psychodrama with a taut, classical tragedy about love, lust and fate. Some stories transcend space and time and this one remains remarkably compelling in the context of contemporary life.

  • Event

    Exhibition 55 at C3

    Sun, 26 May - Sun, 9 Jun 2013

    c3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford

    Six spaces housing six new exhibitions equals art to infinity and beyond.

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