If you could create your dream market, what would it be like? Street food from famous Chefs? Yoga? Live music, a bar and art installations in shipping containers? The People’s Market is back for another year and this time around, absolutely anything goes. There’s crafty retail stores, art exhibitions, live performances, fun food and all manner...
It’s Valentine’s Day soon, but L-O-V-E really is all around with the new Five in Five not-for-profit dating project. What’s the deal? Socially conscious singles sign up to www.fiveinfive.org.au and help spread the work about the five dates in a five weeks concept via their social networks. They then ask their friends and family to sponsor them on their quest for...
Do you yearn for the chance to talk about conversation, as opposed to merely having one? Do you wonder why everyone seems to be chasing a relationship (but so many people complain about their partner once they find one)? Founded in 2008 in London by modern philosopher Alain de Botton, The School of Life is...
Have you ever wished you could pay someone to do your random chores while you sleep/read/do fun things? Or maybe you want extra pocket money and have time on your side? Listen up folks – there’s a new kid in town called AirTasker. This fantastically nifty site connects ‘AirTaskers’ (the time poor individuals who need...
Remember the days of the Avon and Nutrimetics lady? When beauty was delivered straight to your door and samples came free with every delivery? Fast-forward to 2012 and Lust Have It will fill the hole these age-old institutions have left in your bathroom cupboard. For a small monthly fee of $14.95, members will receive some...
Do you ever wish you could swap lives with your Facebook friends? You know who we’re talking about. The girl who is gallivanting around Europe. That guy who spends half the year snowboarding. The friends who just bought a farm in the Tasmanian wilderness. Covet no more, monstre vert. CasaHop will hook you up with...
You know those days when you feel like you have nothing to wear? Your wardrobe looms in front of you like an impenetrable jungle. Now imagine that you really don’t have anything to wear. You have nothing. You just got out of jail, you’re homeless, or you’ve fled from an abusive home. Without a helping...
The experience of wine is sensory. It begins with a pop, sip and clink. Laughter, warmth in the limbs, and that delicious light headed feeling that comes with liquid loveliness. The Blocks is an architectural tribute to wine sense. It has nothing to do with a reality show about renovations – although it is creative....
Imagine an inner-city FernGully that you could escape to at lunch. The wizards at Pop Sydney (the cool kids department at City of Sydney council) are transforming dreggy Sussex Lane from a concrete stomping ground to a grassy parkland for two days next week. Slip off your shoes and feel the Clover (Moore) under your...
What could be more adult than learning the secrets of one of the most fetishised foodstuffs on the planet? The Sydney Chocolate School is located in a veritable den of iniquity, the Coco Chocolate Studio. Manned by Rebecca Knights-Kerswell, a skilled graduate of European cacao tradition, the shop is stocked to the rafters with real...
