Author robertbrown

Winter is dealing its last chills and the road trip season is getting nearer. Usually this would mean ice-cream sundays and Four'N'Twenty pie wrappers lodged under your seat but it doesn't have to be that...

Melbourne's annual celebration for writers, readers and thinkers begins another chapter this month beginning on the 22nd and closing on the 1st of September. The events over these eleven days range from...

Finucane & Smith is the provocative theatre house behind Salon The Burlesque Hour seen by 45,000 people since premiering and selling out 27 Australian and International seasons. Shows from their...

To the majority of Melbournians, Docklands might as well be antipodean to where they lay their heads. It is in fact a mere block away from the CBD and thanks to a few clever cooks, there's a new reason to...

Winter: it's dark by 5:30 and you spend your evenings wishing you had one of those power guzzling, fan-heaters. And as glorious as hibernating in front of a full season of streamed tv sounds, it's not...

Little Big Sugar Salt. What is in a name? Can a person look like a 'Terry'?, can Sue from marketing be just like the Sue from accounts? Well, where Little Big Sugar Salt is concerned, finding out what's in...

Thursday night saw the opening of the 30th annual St Kilda Film Festival, where attendees saw auteurs flex their creativity muscles via nine bite-sized tastes of what the festival has to offer. The Palais...

Now everyone likes to think they know Fitzroy and I'm sure you've has brunched at Breakfast Thieves and dined at Vegie Bar and think Naked in the Sky is totes magical at sunset, but if you're going to spend...

The St Kilda Film Festival, big brother of all Australian short films festivals, is almost thirty and instead of settling down and thinking of white picket fences, it's preparing to roll out another red...

Hungry for a taste of Indian culture? Well, you're only a $1100 ticket away from the next plane to Mumbai - either that, or you could head to Melbourne's Indian Film Festival between the 3rd and 15th of...

A few years back a couple of young volunteers sat on an African beach and sipped beer that tasted a lot richer than the economic climate. This disparity got Zanna Mccomish and Simon Griffiths talking and I...

If you're sitting at a cafe sipping your coffee and want to read the Newspaper you have two choices, Fairfax or News limited. Regardless of whether you're reading The Age, The Australian, The Sydney...

After closing down the lauded Der Raum to start Gamsei, "a produce driven Der Raum 2.0" in Munich, Matt Bax has left Bar Americano (and soon to come Bar Economico) in its wake. But far from an ode to the...

3D printing will be to the product industry what the internet was to information. It's the next step forward and it will revolutionise our lives by giving us a direct line to production. What would you do...

They say life is all about the journey, and since your wedding is symbolic of married life, why not make your transport there symbolic too. Recently couples have been getting more and more creative with...

On the tail end of last week and at the top of a secret staircase, Mamasita played host to a Mexican tour as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. The six course tequila-paired feast, showcased...

Ombra Salumi Bar is a fresh seedling with roots that run deep in hospitality culture. Having opened in November by Guy Grossi and managed by his son Carlo, the salumi bar next to Grossi Florentino, began...

Since 1993, the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival have hosted annual and year round events which cast the lime light on Victoria's disposition towards all things culinary. In 2013, the festival has reached the...

Spurring on rumours of being a married couple, Nicholas and Dax Byrne have produced their first child in the form of NBHD (neighbourhood) Neanderthal. This cafe and bar off Chapel may be the product of...

There are people who dedicate their careers to shining a little bit of light on the works of creatives who might otherwise go unnoticed. These people are publishers. Most people view publishers as capital...

Spring Street's Grocer is the opening act of John Brisbane's and Con Christopoulos' budding community centralised around the finer sensibilities of "old world Europe". The first cast member in this piece...

Photo by Anna Brown Bernard Caleo is, in the largest of understatements, a comic book enthusiast. Along with This Is Roller Derby director, Daniel Hayward, he has recently released a feature length...

Because you can't spend the whole day swimming, tanning, shopping or playing footy in the park, every now and then the holiday season calls for you to have a quiet one. This 'quiet one' will forever and always...

The festive season revolves as much around merry drinks as it does children's day time movies and tinsel. This week we ventured out in search of some cheer infused cocktails. We've narrowed them down to...

It's summer! The time to socialise more, party more, and make friends that you'd like to listen to Marvin Gaye with if you catch my drift. Whether it's a summer fling or whether the candle burns longer...

When its Forty degrees outside who can be bothered adding to the heat with hot coffee? No-one! But if you need something to get you through the day, why not take the chilled option? Cold coffee is going to get...

A trend will come. A trend will go. However the 'trend' of lining up for a restaurant will be around long after you finally get into Mamasita. There's no waiting this one out. Although lauded as being a recent...

Atop The Evelyn, the sun beamed on brighter ideas of the artists whose work was presented for the first OPEN AIR alternative art exhibition. A BBQ at the bottom of the stairs and a bar at the top, what...

Hola hombres! It's men's week and it's about time we had a little talk. There's been a lot of chat circulating over the past say…ten years about the media's effect on the male psyche. The idea is that the...