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Probably Australia's pre-eminent sound collage artist.
Buttress O'Kneel
The Tote has been a mainstay of Australian rock for over 20 years. Recently forced to close, until ...
The Tote
Lot's of Lebanese and Middle Eastern culture - Melbourne's best falafel and hummus is at the Half Moon ...
Coburg
The Metropolitan train system in Melbourne is not to a German or Japanese standard. Consistently deprived of infrastructural ...
Trains
Culture. This is it's apex. So far up in the artistic stratosphere that it has, indeed, disappeared up ...
The Arts Centre
Long strip. Good for locals.
Sydney Rd
Melbourne has a "second airport". Especially if you ask people from Geelong.
Avalon Airport
Sport Australian Rules Football (aka AFL) Postcodes vs Suburb names Shepparton, postcode 3630, has the most football clubs ...
statistics
An all night Arts festival - from 7pm to 7am - held at the end of February in ...
White Night Festival
Brunswick Music Festival, incorporating the Sydney Road Street Party. Golden Plains Music Festival Meredith Music Festival Melbourne Ukulele ...
Music Festivals
Stumbling towards not failing.
Users/Musicman
The Mechanics Institute
Live Venues
Notables Franco Cozzo - every Melbournian's favorite childhood multicultural television moment, Franco's sing song "Megalo!, megalo!, megalo!" stuck ...
Imagined
The most central of the Melbourne radical bookstores. Friendly, informed, staff, excellent sales when they are on, great ...
The New International Bookstore
Erinsborough is a leafy outer suburb of Melbourne. It is also entirely fictional. This is the setting for ...
Erinsborough
A loose collection of theatrical ne'er-do-wells, comedians, poets, and performance artists - a true cabaret. Can been seen ...
The Last Tuesday Society
Dark, brooding musician. Works hard. Music is so-so.
Nick Cave
HAHA was a Kiwi that came to Melbourne for the greater opportunities available to street artists. By virtue ...
HAHA
Those on the north side have known and loved Piedamontes for many years. A good range, if priced ...
Stupor Markets
Because it happens outside the confines of the inner city, the Castlemaine State Festival is a somewhat mystical ...
Castlemaine State Festival
Does excellent, well priced, dumplings and central Chinese cuisine. The seats in the Flemington restaurant and grandiose and ...
I love dumplings
Melbourne is served by both the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) and the Country Fire Authority (CFA). Melbourne's summer ...
Firies
Expect to queue to get in. Does amazing looking cakes and a Devonshire Tea. In the rather swanky ...
Hopetoun Cafe
Held at the end of summer in the most glorious Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre. A three day, one stage ...
golden-plains-music-festival
Australian comedian. Was in the Hifi Bar when it was stormed by the SWAT during a nazi gig. ...
Aamer Rahman
In Yarra Junction, Camp Eureka is a space built in the mid 1970s by Eureka Youth League, the ...
Camp Eureka
Industrial non suburb with a train station that looks like a Star Destroyer that has crashed into the ...
West Footscray
For the cheapest and best herb pizza with salad (still $3.50!), Tabet's is your eatery.
Tabets
The Other Film Festival is one of Melbourne's coolest, from their site: The festival programs the very best ...
The Other Film Festival
Go there1, order the peas. It's the winning dish. The mural is open to interpretation. 1. We no ...
Le Chien
Kerry Greenwood is the mind behind the beloved fictional character the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, Lady detective. Kerry ...
Kerry Greenwood
The State Library of Victoria The Docklands Library
Libraries
Andy Griffiths Author of excellent books for children. Usually pretty gross ("The Day My Bum Went Psycho"), always ...
Personalities
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
A quick history of Chinatown from Asia Rising (audio, pdf)
Chinatown
Let's face it, ACCA is ruling class art. While it claims to be contemporary, the site itself is ...
ACCA
No one really knows what it's about, tbh. But people seem to have a good time, and that's ...
Moomba
Right in the centre of Footscray, across from the train station, this market is predominantly known for meats, ...
Footscray Market
A scene of the annual Unseen Art bacchanalia. A sedately wild affair, with confetti to mark the death ...
La Trobe Reading Room
On the Pakenham line, long disused. Barren wasteland. Perfect space to film a zombie apocalypse film, if that's ...
General Motors Train Station
Every week The Wheeler Centre hosts talks by smart, intelligent speakers across a range of topics. Over more ...
The Wheeler Centre
Flies under the contemporary radar. Specialises in teaching young theatrical students radical ideas. Has probably done more for ...
Lynne Ellis
Knowledge Melbourne, is an initiative designed to enhance and promote Melbourne’s knowledge sector so that it is more ...
Melbourne Knowledge Week
Traditionally held in Federation Square, it features an array of food and produce stalls, cultural performances, live music, ...
Thai Culture and Food Festival
The Lord Mayor - a clown chosen by the local mass media as backup fodder for unfilled column ...
Powerless
Melbourne's first and foremost tea towel shop.
Third Drawer Down
A relative newcomer, does an impressive array of thai and malay cuisine.
Yong Green
A recent addition to the Melbourne Film Festival scene, the Girls on Film festival: is a rockin’ good ...
The Girls on Film Festival
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Chinese Museum Heidi Museum of Modern Art Immigration Museum Melbourne Steam ...
Museums
An award winning artist, illustrator, and film-maker, Shaun is based in Melbourne. Shaun has a blog, where he ...
Shaun Tan
Flagstaff. That's what they call it. Only used by bankers, lawyers and Unseen Art (for meetings - they ...
That other one
Famous in the 80s and 90s as a bastion of the student and underclasses, that Richmond has long ...
Richmond
Newman, Sam - trained monkey, encouraged to throw shit at the public. Mock outrage ensues and the working ...
Non Personalities
Mental Health Lifeline is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 ...
Health
Rose is an Invisible. There's a secret door at the back of her shop.
Rose Chong Costumiers
Little Vietnam. Lot's of Asian grocers and restaurants. Plenty of smack too, if that's your thing,
Victoria St, Collingwood
A sport for people who remember landlines. A televisual broadcast for same and/or those that will settle in ...
Boxing Day Test (Cricket)
The Brunswick bowls club does a rollicking trade, with a young team and barefoot Sundays in the summer ...
Lawn Bowls
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
In reality, it's not the best face to put on a city. Should you disembark at Flinders St ...
the lost strip
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