Are you a dance movie tragic? Can you recite entire scenes from Dirty Dancing, Save the Last Dance and Flashdance? Are you still haunted by Kevin Bacon’s jeans in Footloose? From June 19 – 25, Australians are being urged to pay attention to a different dance: The Wee Dance. The Wee Dance is a nifty...
Our story begins in 1888 with a wool store being built in the wharf district of Pyrmont. Fast forward 125 years – and $30 million dollars – and what was once a purely utilitarian space has been converted by 8Hotels group into a 90 room boutique hotel, complete with penthouse, meeting rooms and an eatery and...
Has anyone noticed how gardening has crept back into our lives? Community veggie patches, containers of herbs and heirloom tomatoes on balconies and footpath flower patches erupting from disused verge? Grandparents everywhere must be proud of the return to homegrown and horticultural nerds must thrill at seedbanks, award-winning landscape design and research into drought tolerant species. And where should those with...
Do you press your slacks? Bench press weights? Press flowers? Or are all these things passe now that you’re into cold pressed juices? Other juice extraction systems grind and crush fruit and vegetables which leads to oxidisation (when things go brown) but hydraulic pressing maintains the nutritional integrity of the ingredients. Fresh from NYC and LA,...
In what can only be described as a joyful triumph of good over evil, the gaming room at the old Buckland Hotel has been turned into a walk-in cool room. Barry McDonald, the founder of the Fratelli Fresh phenomenon is giving this neighbourhood stalwart the ‘FF’ treatment. Consider that to include a new branch of Cafe...
Imagine yourself as a bored, teenage child of a rich, powerful family. Your life has been mapped out; your birthright, your name, has become a burden. You’re not allowed to make your own choices, not even whom to date or befriend. Now imagine how enticing escape would become; hormone-driven, chaotic, romantic escape into the arms...
Named after a tiny bloke who once ate his way out of a Christmas pudding, Tom Thumb Cafe is surely full of fairy mischief, adventure and tasty snacks too. With Kris Wood’s Pony blend espresso, progressive baristas with magnificent beards and artisan breads made by Dr Marty from Zeally Bay, you’re sure to get a special bit of crumpet...
Just when you thought The Cullen Hotel couldn’t get any cooler, the doors swing open on Maison Tsumiki, a new salon from Taka and Linda Taka Nishimura. Combining a Japanese love for seasonal perfection with an effortless Parisian aesthetic, the salon features pale turquoise lacquered hair stations against a clean black and white palette of walls, mirrors and an ultra-luxe...
What better place to escape the doldrums than a florist shop? Slip into Poho Flowers in Potts Point and lose yourself among towering displays of flowers in quixotic colours. Owner and former fashion photographer Barnaby Wilshier has brought the shop floor to life with marble benches, copper detailing and stone finishes that echo the Art Deco surrounds of the...
Have you ever wanted to travel back in time to the glory days of cinema? When ladies wore gloves, couples went to supper and men drank whiskey neat? During those smoky halcyon days, movie theatres were so much more than an entertainment venue. They were a passport to the world; news from the front, access...
