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A scene of the annual Unseen Art bacchanalia. A sedately wild affair, with confetti to mark the death ...
La Trobe Reading Room
A huge park on the edge of the Maribyrnong River that the local punks sometimes use for a ...
Footscray Park
Expect to queue to get in. Does amazing looking cakes and a Devonshire Tea. In the rather swanky ...
Hopetoun Cafe
Every week The Wheeler Centre hosts talks by smart, intelligent speakers across a range of topics. Over more ...
The Wheeler Centre
Not much of a mall. Has pretty paving, and is the location of the Public Purse. Home to ...
Bourke St Mall
Lot's of Lebanese and Middle Eastern culture - Melbourne's best falafel and hummus is at the Half Moon ...
Coburg
An all night Arts festival - from 7pm to 7am - held at the end of February in ...
White Night Festival
Knowledge Melbourne, is an initiative designed to enhance and promote Melbourne’s knowledge sector so that it is more ...
Melbourne Knowledge Week
Industrial non suburb with a train station that looks like a Star Destroyer that has crashed into the ...
West Footscray
A loose collection of theatrical ne'er-do-wells, comedians, poets, and performance artists - a true cabaret. Can been seen ...
The Last Tuesday Society
Beautiful to look at, offensive in execution. Consistently busy, largely due to high floor staff turnover. Disturbing gender ...
Common Galaxia
No one really knows what it's about, tbh. But people seem to have a good time, and that's ...
Moomba
Melbourne has a "second airport". Especially if you ask people from Geelong.
Avalon Airport
The Brunswick bowls club does a rollicking trade, with a young team and barefoot Sundays in the summer ...
Lawn Bowls
An anarchist bookstore that existed for a decade from the mid 90s. Since turned into a cafe, The ...
Barricade Bookstore
We love the Trades Hall, the Bella Union Bar it hosts, the Radical Bookshop and the history. In ...
Trades Hall
Stumbling towards not failing.
Users/Musicman
The Other Film Festival is one of Melbourne's coolest, from their site: The festival programs the very best ...
The Other Film Festival
The Lord Mayor - a clown chosen by the local mass media as backup fodder for unfilled column ...
Powerless
Simply the best pizza in the West tasted so far.
Domenico's Pizza and Pasta
Enviropark, Farm, Market, Cafe. You can't do it too often, and the wet days are gnarly, but it's ...
Ceres
A recent addition to the Melbourne Film Festival scene, the Girls on Film festival: is a rockin’ good ...
The Girls on Film Festival
Rose is an Invisible. There's a secret door at the back of her shop.
Rose Chong Costumiers
Right in the centre of Footscray, across from the train station, this market is predominantly known for meats, ...
Footscray Market
Probably Australia's pre-eminent sound collage artist.
Buttress O'Kneel
Melbourne is served by both the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) and the Country Fire Authority (CFA). Melbourne's summer ...
Firies
Newman, Sam - trained monkey, encouraged to throw shit at the public. Mock outrage ensues and the working ...
Non Personalities
Those on the north side have known and loved Piedamontes for many years. A good range, if priced ...
Stupor Markets
Brunswick Music Festival, incorporating the Sydney Road Street Party. Golden Plains Music Festival Meredith Music Festival Melbourne Ukulele ...
Music Festivals
Notables Franco Cozzo - every Melbournian's favorite childhood multicultural television moment, Franco's sing song "Megalo!, megalo!, megalo!" stuck ...
Imagined
Long strip. Good for locals.
Sydney Rd
Mental Health Lifeline is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 ...
Health
A hang over from 1950, still does the cheapest breakfast in town - and it tastes like it. ...
Golden Shower
A sport for people who remember landlines. A televisual broadcast for same and/or those that will settle in ...
Boxing Day Test (Cricket)
The Metropolitan train system in Melbourne is not to a German or Japanese standard. Consistently deprived of infrastructural ...
Trains
For the cheapest and best herb pizza with salad (still $3.50!), Tabet's is your eatery.
Tabets
They used to do a pizza. There was a semi fine dining restaurant on site. I worked there ...
The Station Hotel (Prahran)
In reality, it's not the best face to put on a city. Should you disembark at Flinders St ...
the lost strip
The most central of the Melbourne radical bookstores. Friendly, informed, staff, excellent sales when they are on, great ...
The New International Bookstore
Flies under the contemporary radar. Specialises in teaching young theatrical students radical ideas. Has probably done more for ...
Lynne Ellis
Andy Griffiths Author of excellent books for children. Usually pretty gross ("The Day My Bum Went Psycho"), always ...
Personalities
Melbourne's first and foremost tea towel shop.
Third Drawer Down
The Mechanics Institute
Live Venues
The Tote has been a mainstay of Australian rock for over 20 years. Recently forced to close, until ...
The Tote
An award winning artist, illustrator, and film-maker, Shaun is based in Melbourne. Shaun has a blog, where he ...
Shaun Tan
Erinsborough is a leafy outer suburb of Melbourne. It is also entirely fictional. This is the setting for ...
Erinsborough
Because it happens outside the confines of the inner city, the Castlemaine State Festival is a somewhat mystical ...
Castlemaine State Festival
Long time cheap and cheerful mainstay. Fast and furious - don't be put off by a long queue, ...
Laksa King
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Chinese Museum Heidi Museum of Modern Art Immigration Museum Melbourne Steam ...
Museums
Does excellent, well priced, dumplings and central Chinese cuisine. The seats in the Flemington restaurant and grandiose and ...
I love dumplings
A quick history of Chinatown from Asia Rising (audio, pdf)
Chinatown
The Zinesters. They get together and trade their wares, their tips and their stories. Unseen Art think highly ...
The Festival of the Photocopier
Dark, brooding musician. Works hard. Music is so-so.
Nick Cave
The northern edge of reality.
Bell St
The Australian Football League is an 18 team ball sport that plays from April until September every year. ...
AFL
Flagstaff. That's what they call it. Only used by bankers, lawyers and Unseen Art (for meetings - they ...
That other one
Kerry Greenwood is the mind behind the beloved fictional character the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, Lady detective. Kerry ...
Kerry Greenwood
Little Vietnam. Lot's of Asian grocers and restaurants. Plenty of smack too, if that's your thing,
Victoria St, Collingwood
tilde is Melbourne’s international film festival created to showcase and support the work of trans and gender diverse ...
tilde: Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival
It's hard to walk passed Danny's on the top end of St Georges road in Bruswick, almost Northocote. ...
Burgers
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