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Rose is an Invisible. There's a secret door at the back of her shop.
Rose Chong Costumiers
Because it happens outside the confines of the inner city, the Castlemaine State Festival is a somewhat mystical ...
Castlemaine State Festival
Enviropark, Farm, Market, Cafe. You can't do it too often, and the wet days are gnarly, but it's ...
Ceres
It's hard to walk passed Danny's on the top end of St Georges road in Bruswick, almost Northocote. ...
Burgers
Beautiful to look at, offensive in execution. Consistently busy, largely due to high floor staff turnover. Disturbing gender ...
Common Galaxia
The northern edge of reality.
Bell St
The State Library of Victoria The Docklands Library
Libraries
Famous in the 80s and 90s as a bastion of the student and underclasses, that Richmond has long ...
Richmond
Australia's foremost curated discussion group, Cherchez la Femme is a monthly forum on Feminism. Inevitably sells out, get ...
Cherchez La Femme
Go there1, order the peas. It's the winning dish. The mural is open to interpretation. 1. We no ...
Le Chien
Culture. This is it's apex. So far up in the artistic stratosphere that it has, indeed, disappeared up ...
The Arts Centre
The Zinesters. They get together and trade their wares, their tips and their stories. Unseen Art think highly ...
The Festival of the Photocopier
Erinsborough is a leafy outer suburb of Melbourne. It is also entirely fictional. This is the setting for ...
Erinsborough
Long time cheap and cheerful mainstay. Fast and furious - don't be put off by a long queue, ...
Laksa King
Held at the end of summer in the most glorious Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre. A three day, one stage ...
golden-plains-music-festival
Let's face it, ACCA is ruling class art. While it claims to be contemporary, the site itself is ...
ACCA
Stumbling towards not failing.
Users/Musicman
Melbourne has a "second airport". Especially if you ask people from Geelong.
Avalon Airport
Mental Health Lifeline is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 ...
Health
A huge park on the edge of the Maribyrnong River that the local punks sometimes use for a ...
Footscray Park
Not much of a mall. Has pretty paving, and is the location of the Public Purse. Home to ...
Bourke St Mall
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Chinese Museum Heidi Museum of Modern Art Immigration Museum Melbourne Steam ...
Museums
The Metropolitan train system in Melbourne is not to a German or Japanese standard. Consistently deprived of infrastructural ...
Trains
Melbourne's first and foremost tea towel shop.
Third Drawer Down
This is where the Yarraville Angels live, and where power ends and where the fire gods where clothing.
Stoney Creek Reserve
Simply the best pizza in the West tasted so far.
Domenico's Pizza and Pasta
A quick history of Chinatown from Asia Rising (audio, pdf)
Chinatown
Flies under the contemporary radar. Specialises in teaching young theatrical students radical ideas. Has probably done more for ...
Lynne Ellis
A hang over from 1950, still does the cheapest breakfast in town - and it tastes like it. ...
Golden Shower
Lot's of Lebanese and Middle Eastern culture - Melbourne's best falafel and hummus is at the Half Moon ...
Coburg
A sport for people who remember landlines. A televisual broadcast for same and/or those that will settle in ...
Boxing Day Test (Cricket)
A relative newcomer, does an impressive array of thai and malay cuisine.
Yong Green
In reality, it's not the best face to put on a city. Should you disembark at Flinders St ...
the lost strip
An anarchist bookstore that existed for a decade from the mid 90s. Since turned into a cafe, The ...
Barricade Bookstore
Newman, Sam - trained monkey, encouraged to throw shit at the public. Mock outrage ensues and the working ...
Non Personalities
For the cheapest and best herb pizza with salad (still $3.50!), Tabet's is your eatery.
Tabets
the Upfield train line has a bike path almost all the way to ... Upfield. Not quite though ...
Bike Paths
The Australian Football League is an 18 team ball sport that plays from April until September every year. ...
AFL
Little Vietnam. Lot's of Asian grocers and restaurants. Plenty of smack too, if that's your thing,
Victoria St, Collingwood
A Melbourne version of the South East Asian food court, it's a breath of fresh air in the ...
Ong Food Court
A loose collection of theatrical ne'er-do-wells, comedians, poets, and performance artists - a true cabaret. Can been seen ...
The Last Tuesday Society
Yes, Melbourne has a group of blue wearing men and women that are one part protecting us from ...
POPO
Every week The Wheeler Centre hosts talks by smart, intelligent speakers across a range of topics. Over more ...
The Wheeler Centre
The Lord Mayor - a clown chosen by the local mass media as backup fodder for unfilled column ...
Powerless
Australian comedian. Was in the Hifi Bar when it was stormed by the SWAT during a nazi gig. ...
Aamer Rahman
Those on the north side have known and loved Piedamontes for many years. A good range, if priced ...
Stupor Markets
Simply divine Indian food, which is priced accordingly. An expensive night, but the food is worth it. Seriously ...
Aangan
Currently Melbourne's best Lebanese according to this person who has only ever eaten Lebanese in Melbourne. Honest mob. ...
Tibas
The most central of the Melbourne radical bookstores. Friendly, informed, staff, excellent sales when they are on, great ...
The New International Bookstore
An award winning artist, illustrator, and film-maker, Shaun is based in Melbourne. Shaun has a blog, where he ...
Shaun Tan
Notables Franco Cozzo - every Melbournian's favorite childhood multicultural television moment, Franco's sing song "Megalo!, megalo!, megalo!" stuck ...
Imagined
Andrew Bolt - Arch conservative commentator. Excels at distracting the masses, a master magician. On-sight. Malcolm Fraser - ...
Powerful
Knowledge Melbourne, is an initiative designed to enhance and promote Melbourne’s knowledge sector so that it is more ...
Melbourne Knowledge Week
Melbourne is served by both the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) and the Country Fire Authority (CFA). Melbourne's summer ...
Firies
Kerry Greenwood is the mind behind the beloved fictional character the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, Lady detective. Kerry ...
Kerry Greenwood
Probably Australia's pre-eminent sound collage artist.
Buttress O'Kneel
An all night Arts festival - from 7pm to 7am - held at the end of February in ...
White Night Festival
The Other Film Festival is one of Melbourne's coolest, from their site: The festival programs the very best ...
The Other Film Festival
Industrial non suburb with a train station that looks like a Star Destroyer that has crashed into the ...
West Footscray
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
An excellent seated venue - potentially the best - unfortunately let down with incredibly poor choice of music ...
Hamer Hall
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