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MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2015

After a stunningly successful year in 2014, Melbourne Underground Film Festival is back with MUFF16 – their sweet 16th year supporting independent and guerrilla local and international cinema. MUFF, the...

THE BAR THAT JACK BUILT

September marks the birth of our favourite distiller, Jack Daniel. Celebrate in Sydney and Melbourne by helping to make the coolest pop up bar on the planet! As no-one is...

5 Things to NOT Do at Your Next Work Function

By Charlie Ranger Pash Your Boss: If you get to the point in the night where you’re sitting in a quiet corner with your boss, some low light, a bit...

4 ½ Things To Consider When Choosing Your Next Venue

1. Do You Dance? Maybe your friends are too cool to dance. Maybe they’re too cool not to dance. Or because they’re so not cool it’s cool for them to dance...

Queen Victoria Market – Winter Night Markets

Queen Victoria Market- Night Market Winter June 3 rd to August 26th 2015 2015 sees The Queen Victoria Winter Night Market return for its fourth year. This year will see an extended season,...

THE WISE

Chapel St is diverse. At one extreme is the high end shopping and dining, at the other sits everything hipster.  In between, bridging the gap, is The Wise, a freshly...

It’s time for MUFF

It’s the perfect time of year for MUFF. Before you draw your lead and pencil a repulsed letter to my editor regarding this coarse content, please, hear me out, or...

Melbourne Good Beer Week

Good Beer Week May 16th – 24th Good Beer Week is back. Starting this Friday 16th of May it’s one of the most anticipated and hyped beer festivals in the...

Comedy Festival Weekend Review

Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Weekend Review by Rachel Furolo MARK WATSON – "FLAWS" It takes a special kind of comedian to turn otherwise life shattering events into comedic gold. A master...

The Gangsters Palace Speakeasy

Spirit Station Pier THE GANGSTERS PALACE SPEAKEASY 18th APRIL 2015 The Gangster Palace Speakeasy is back! Let us take you on a face-paced, wild ride journey with our cast of...

Comedy Festival – Top 10 Shows

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Shows to see   By Charlie Ranger   So it’s that comedy month again. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival. But with 559 shows on,...

Comedy Festival Recommended Show

A SUNBURNT HISTORY – NOT GALLIPOLI!     It's those two guys (back again). It's dozens of new characters (again). It’s historically accurate comedy that is controversial and on the...

EASYGOING @ JIMMI JAMZ

Winter is setting in Escape with help from Jimmi By Rachel Furolo It's getting cold, we've been robbed of a true summer and now what do we do. We find...

THE WORLD OF WHISKY & ALEMENT

THE ONE, THE ONLY  WHISKY & ALEMENT By Charlie Ranger   I wasn’t brought up around whisky, I’ve never had many friends that drink it and I only learnt that Scotch means...

EUREKA WE’VE FOUND GOLD!

  THE EUREKA HOTEL  AN OLDIE, BUT A GOODIE The Eureka in Richmond is a bar that has plenty of history behind it. It has "changed owners and purposes dozens...

Laughter is always the Best Medicine

The Comics Lounge Australia's only 6 night a week live comedy venue. The Comic's Lounge in North Melbourne has become the unofficial home of the best comedy our city has...

ARTICLE: Devilish Fun @ Bohemia Cabaret

Corsets. Cocktails. Appetising cuisine… Do we have your attention? These are what you will find and more should you dare to visit the new Bohemia Cabaret Club in Melbourne city’s...

The Dreamer Examines His Pillow

by John Patrick Shanley Presented by Doppelganger Theatre Company     The writer of the cult classic "Moonstruck" and "Doubt". Set in the Bronx. A play about passion, betrayal and...

Top 10 NYE Events 2012! Let’s Party…

like it’s 1999… Or that we survived the apocalypse!      

The not so elusive… SASKWATCH

Many people claim Saskwatch doesn’t exist… Many people are wrong…

GOTYE Announces Oz Tour!

GOTYE ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN TOUR AFTER 8 WEEKS ATOP U.S. CHARTS After a mammoth 2012 Gotye will bring his world tour to a close with a handful of homecoming shows in...

Yunyu’s Twisted Tales

A multi-artform collaboration “Yunyu hasn’t just created music, a movie, or something else, she is creating an experience.” – Brice Fallon, Critical mass Yunyu [a former triple j unearthed winner]...

A [WEAR] Fashion Event

JUNE 6th   Put it in your diaries     Leave the labelling to the designers   Prahran Mission and Whitehouse Institute of Design are collaborating to host their annual...

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL

June 1 to 10 2012   Immersed in Music! A diverse cross-section of jazz royalty and the stars of a rising generation converge on Melbourne from all points of the...

Our Top 5 Melbourne CBD Laneway Bars

Melbourne: a city that prides itself on laneway culture. Many a night we Melbournians have hit the pavement of Melbourne’s CBD looking for that hidden hot spot yet to yield...

10 Questions to ask when booking a Venue

So you’re having an event? You’ll need a venue in Melbourne to host it! The latter we can help with really quickly… 3 easy ways! 1). Check out our Unique...

[HPSS]’s Top 3 Melbourne CBD Rooftop Bars

Finding a good rooftop bar is like finding $20 in an old pair of jeans.   You had no idea it was there .. and you’re going straight to the...

The Best Function Venues Melbourne

Melbourne has some of the best function venues in Australia. From small birthday parties to large product launches you’ll find a secret space that can accommodate.   The thing is...

Stephen K Amos: Has An Agenda

Down under again for this year’s MICF, Stephen spared some time to have a chat to Hidden Places Secret Spaces

Melbourne International Comedy Fest. 2012

The 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival will take place place from Wednesday 28th March to Sunday 22 April with a huge program of performances from every corner of Australia and...

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2012

With more than 250 events packed into 10 days right across Victoria, the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival spills through Melbourne restaurant doors, down narrow laneways, out into bustling foodie...

Midsumma Festival – Celebrating Queer Culture

Midsumma Festival is celebrating queer culture in Melbourne with a wide range of performing arts, visual arts, live music events, as well as community and sporting activities. Offering a diverse,...

Sugar Mountain Music Festival

Sugar Mountain Music and Visual Arts Festival is set to excite and ignite the summer plans of Melburnians. The festival kicks off for its second year running on January 14, 2012,...

St Kilda Openair Cinema

Ben & Jerry’s Open Air Cinema nights are a quintessential outdoor event with live music and feature films playing on a huge movie screen from dusk. On arrival film and...

NYE @ Transit Cocktail Lounge

Transit’s New Years Eve parties have become renowned as one of Australia’s most exclusive, stylish and fun spaces to bring in the new year. This year will feature a thrilling...

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NYE @ Red Bennies

A night of Burlesque, Cabaret, Circus, Vaudeville & Live Gypsy Music with a Red Bennies all-star cast! New Year’s Eve at Red Bennies will be a true spectacular that will...

Oh Hey Melbourne… Didn’t See You There

You know those things that live in the same city as you but you’ve never really, really paid much attention to them? Well, this is the article to help you...

Activity: Clay Pigeon Shooting

Despite what you might think, you don’t have to travel to America or be involved in underworld activities to fire a gun. Indeed you can do that very thing here...

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Get Shucking At This CBD Venue

So, you need to organise that end of year work party, that big yearly catch-up with your friend group, or perhaps you are wanting to impress the in-laws? We got you! In honor of the venue you are about to shuck, allow us to guide you through opening your oyster the right way. First, we […]

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Venues for the Breakfast Club Characters in Your Life

Perms, John Hughes, and the greatest era of music to date all came together in the iconic 80’s film The Breakfast Club. A film that encapsulates all the messiness of being in high school and celebrates the time in your life where you start figuring out who you are; there’s nothing quite like it an

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Your Seat In Heaven At This Rooftop Bar

From the moment you step down Meyers Place you know you are in for an amazing time. Embellished with shimmering walls (that you could probably see from space) and painted cobble stones, you can’t miss the front of Loop Rooftop Bar! You are engulfed by excitement from the moment you enter the Laneway

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