Author: Heather Kipling
INDEPENDENT INDONESIA
s part of my travels over in the Southern Hemisphere and keen to get some sunshine before heading back to a UK…
RETRO RELAXING ON THE GOLD COAST
ecovery firmly under our belts, the next stop on our travels was the surf town of…
SPLENDOUR SHINES FOR 2014
Known as the Australian version of Glastonbury, heading to Byron Bay for Splendour in the Grass…
WINTER SUN AND SURF – BYRON BAY
yron Bay was originally a village until 1963 until surfers discovered the seven beachfronts along the most…
YGAP PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON CHILD ABUSE WITH THEIR POLISHED MAN CAMPAIGN
It can be distressing to hear that 1 in 5 children globally experience violence before the…
THE FEEL GOOD FACTOR WITH PASSION AND SUPPORT AT KAYA HEALTH CLUB
Kaya Health Club guarantees the feel good factor giving visitors passion and support on their health…
SUPPORTING SPRING FLING FESTIVAL
Spring Fling Festival is a highlight of North Melbourne’s Spring/Summer calendar and this year looks set…
A TASTE OF WINTER WE CAN ALL EMBRACE – LUNA NIGHT MARKET
Ok, hands up who hasn’t quite got over the fact that summer seem to come and…
YGAP CLOSES 5 CENT CAMPAIGN WITH A BANG
After attending the launch of Ygap’s 5 cent campaign Couturing have been closely following their progress…
WINTER WARMERS – A VEGETABLE CHILLI FROM OUR FRIENDS AT LE CREUSET
After attending the launch of the Le Creuset store in Melbourne, a feeling of foodie inspiration…
CHET FAKER – MESMERIZING MELBOURNE
With a dashingly good beard, a voice that made every woman in the crowd swoon and…
A TASTING IN THE COUNTRY – RUTHERGLEN WINERY WALKABOUT
Hosted annually in the Victorian region of Rutherglen, the winery walkabout attracts a large crowd from…
1000 STEPS – A HIKE AWAY FROM THE CITY
Melbourne is a beautiful city, every week a new restaurant, bar, coffee shop, clothing store will…
2014 ST KILDA FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Australia’s short film festival, St Kilda Film Festival last night awarded Director Dave Wade and Producer Alexandra BlueBest Short Film for Welcome to…
OPENING NIGHT AT THE 31ST ST KILDA FILM FESTIVAL
Known as St Kilda’s night of nights, on Thursday the iconic Palais Theatre opened its doors…
R U MINE MELBOURNE? – ARCTIC MONKEYS ROCK ROD LAVER
For many people in Rod Laver last Friday night, they will only know the Arctic Monkeys on…
RELAXATION & RELIEF WITH SALTS OF THE EARTH
Salt therapy is designed to cleanse and relieve inflammation in both the skin and the lungs,…
HEAT IN WINTER – BIKRAM HOT YOGA
Making time for exercise during the Autumn/Winter months can always seem such a chore. By the…
HIKING IN WILSON’S PROM
Anyone visiting Melbourne has heard of the Twelve Apostles and the Great Ocean Road, a pinnacle…
SWEET VIBES AT BOOGIE FESTIVAL
With no plans over the Easter weekend what better way to take in a true country…
YGAP LAUNCH #5CENT CAMPAIGN AT FEAST OF MERIT
The 5cent campaign is simple: giving those unwanted five cent coins to people who need them. In…
HAMISH MUNRO NAMED AS KISHO PRIZE WINNER
This week within the heart of the city, Hamish Munro revealed his innovative installation paying homage…
A BARREL OF LAUGHS – MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL
A highlight of the events calendar sees Melbourne’s finest funniest return to the city for the…
REKORDERLIG LAUNCH AT VAMFF
This week super stylish and Swedish Rekorderlig Cider launched the Rekorderlig Fashion Lounge to Melbourne’s fashion elite for the star studded opening…
DRESSED FOR WINTER – FASHION FILM AT ITS BEST
A combination of guilty pleasures for a Sunday afternoon, fashion and French, Dressed for Winter explores…
THE STREETS COME ALIVE TO KICK OFF THE 26TH YEAR OF BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL
A festival not to be missed among Melbournians, Sydney Road closed its streets for what looks…
SUPERGRAPH – A GRAPHIC ART FAIR DEBUT
Five years in the making, the inaugural SUPERGRAPH launched in Melbourne with Australia’s newest Contemporary Graphic Art…
SPECTACLE – VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR
A dizzying exploration of music video as an art form… The Australian Centre for the Moving…
FORKLIFT – CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHY OF BODY AND MACHINE
It’s the graveyard shift and three women find themselves in an industrial wasteland, willing to risk…
THE SUN SHINES ON ST JEROMES LANEWAY FESTIVAL, MELBOURNE
Now in its 10th year, Laneway Festival was the brainchild of Jerome Borazio and Danny Rogers.…
ROOFTOP CINEMA ANNOUNCE PART TWO OF THEIR PROGRAMME
This week the iconic Melbourne rooftop announced the second part of their summer film programme and…
NOT YOUR AVERAGE MONDAY – CRYSTAL FIGHTERS, THE CORNER
Calypso beats, seventies sequin threads and faux American accents; it could only be the return to…
WAR IS OVER (IF YOU WANT IT) – YOKO ONO AT THE MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Yoko Ono is a fascinating character in her own right. Wife of John Lennon, artist and…
EXPERIENCE THE VIP TREATMENT AT MOONLIGHT CINEMA, MELBOURNE
Last night the Melbourne Maltesers Moonlight Cinema opened its gates in the Royal Botanical Gardens for…
EVERYBODY DANCE – MEREDITH FESTIVAL 2013
Festivals are pretty much up there as a favourite thing to do for me, dancing in…
PRINTISM – REAL ART IN PRINT
With technology at our fingertips and almost having too much choice in every avenue of our…
A LONG WEEKEND IN FREEMANTLE PERTH
Western Australian was never really on the agenda on my last trip to Australia but when…
EDITOR’S DIARY – INTRODUCING HEATHER KIPLING
On a trip to Buenos Aires, a year ago in August, my Australian friends spent two…