01. Two Now or Never Festival events this week: Continue reading
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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. The Now or Never Festival has become one of my favourites (still thinking about a stunning installation I saw at last year’s festival). We spent a night looking at all of the free events, including: Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. My Melbourne International Film Festival picks this week: Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Chekhov’s tragicomedy, Uncle Vanya, brilliantly adapted for the MTC by Joanna Murray-Smith. What a treat. And the sets (above), with the backstage exposed and used as part of the space, were fantastic. Continue reading
Show-off Holiday Post – Vienna
The final part – the Vienna bit – of my Eurovision trip (so far: Zürich, Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Eurovision). Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Dine Out event at Frankie’s – a delicious set menu but the standouts were the grilled octopus, snapper and tuna with tostadas and the jericalla baked custard with blood orange sorbet (below). Continue reading
Show-off Holiday Post – Eurovision 2026
The Vienna-bit of my show-off holiday posts (so far: Zürich, Innsbruck and Salzburg) comes in two parts – the Eurovision bit and all the other Vienna stuff we did. If you have zero interest in Eurovision, stop reading here. Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Two fun theatre productions this week – Heartbreak Hotel, a look at the physiology of a broken heart through a musical lens (image above). Science and music and a strong emotional narrative combined! It was really terrific. Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. MIFF program release! As always, planning what to see requires a little effort (250+ films running over three weeks). On my list are Yellow Letters, The Incomer, Blue Heron and How to Divorce During the War (plus dozens of others). Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. So much fun at Sip and Sing – they played all the bangers (including a big Celine finale). Also: day discos might be my new thing. Continue reading