A note to all of you stressing about pre-summer body transformations before dreaded skin bearing beach weather: Heed the words of Sophia Loren ““everything you see I owe to spaghetti”. Life’s too short to count carbs and thankfully traditional Sicilian food has a focus on seafood and light sauces. I recently checked out new restaurant [...]
De Dietrich lunch at La Brasserie Oh those French, they have a way of making everything look sexy. Even things like smoking and stinky cheese look hot on the French. How do they do that? I should have known better that even their kitchen appliances would be stylish, sleek and well I guess being hot [...]
Dirty Granny Launch Party That Ms Darlinghurst. She sure is a kidder. We all have our weird and wonderful phobias. Snails, spiders, feet, but mine is wool. Anything mohair or chunky knit particularly bothers me, but all knits freak me out slightly. So much so, I once went to the extent of asking a date [...]
Good Food For Bad People I once stole three garden gnomes from the front yard of someone’s house and gave them to my friend for his birthday. Some would say this classifies me as a bad person. With the introduction of El Capo, the new Latin street food restaurant in Surry Hills I’m sure I [...]
Sad Day or Good Riddance? Iconic restaraunt Jordons Seafood Restaurant opened in Darling Harbour in 1988. With over 120 staff and seating for 594 diners it was the biggest seafood restaurant on the east coast. During the Olympics it took $1 million a week. OnTuesday it closed it’s doors due to an increase in rent [...]
Tired of another Thursday night shopping at the same soulless shopping centres filled with rack after rack of identical clothes and accessories? Feel like going somewhere fun where you can find a more individual style and meet with a local designer, all while listening to some great music and maybe having a relaxed drink? That [...]
Schweppes invites you to the unveiling of Elixir… come as you please, but prepare to be transported to another era in time. .. Sandstone corridors lit with candles, bartenders in top-hats creating steamy concoctions and a distinguished grandfather clock keeping watch over the crowd. Twirling our parasols and adjusting our corsets, we saunter into the [...]
‘Culture’ in Bondi conjures images of spectacular surf photography (aka Aquabumps), debate over the best soy flat white (Harry’s gets my current vote), and soft sand running comps, Bondi Rescue and Bondi Vet. Catering for culture buffs looking for entertainment slightly more edgy than the Miss Bondi Pageant at the Beach Rd Hotel, the Tamarama Rock Surfers [...]
Pack your passport and get ready to jet set around the world every Thursday night. There’s no need to leave Sydney to experience cultures of the world, Eat Drink Play and Fashion Palette have partnered to bring the world to you! Sydney-siders unite as foodies and fashionistas get ready to travel the world, visiting a [...]
“Layyyyy-dees and germs! We are falling into a vat of vulgarity!” announces the sequin clad femme fatale on stage to an appreciative crowd. Channeling a sexy version of Bette Midler (think Midler in her younger heyday), Catherine Alcorn delivers the hilarious so-called “vulgarity” between songs that range from bluesy ballads to comedic rock. At the [...]
Recently I attended Pure Bier Fest for 2011 – where I met Dom Dighton, Bier Professor. Now that’s a cool job. But first, I chatted with the team at Bavarian Bier Café York St where we were treated to some authentic meals and a bier flight (which means bier tasting). The first thing you notice about [...]
Free tattoos, rockabilly haircuts, swing dancing, pigs on spits, hot dogs and a whole lotta rum. These are things you don’t expect to experience on your usual Wednesday night. It’s been over a week since the Sailor Jerry 100th birthday bash at Low-Fi and the smell of rum and coke is still lingering in my [...]
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