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well it's february already and albert and amelia have been temporarily distracated from the found sound 2010 programming - so many projects, so little time! a short hiatus is in order ... thanks to everyone who's contacted us about being involved this year, we have you on our radar and will keep you posted for sure ...

hi all, check out the review of Dale Gorfinkel and Joe Talia's Found Sound performance in un magazine atwww.unmagazine.org

It has been a really long time since I made a post. But that doesn't mean that I stopped eating! Far from it, its the best time of year for eating, and believe me, I've done well. I got really busy finding a new place to live, moving into the new house, starting a new job, surviving christmas and starting a new year!  So as well as my memory serves me, I will attempt to wrap up of the places I have been and the things I have seen....The move has bought me within walking distance to Banda Parte` Pizza. I have read some mixed reviews, but I have to say, I really enjoyed eating here. Good selection of beers ... read more

On a wall near the Elgin St corner of Canning St. It uses unusually big words for graffiti. University students?

Fitzroyalty - hyperlocal news and reviews about Melbourne's first suburb: Fitzroy 3065 by Brian Ward is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.

The idea of Australia Day makes me feel vaguely unwell: the thought of yobbos with Aussie flags and cans of VB clasped tightly in their hands staggering around the streets. So here I am, hiding out at work, and hoping it will soon all be over. But despite disturbing reports coming out of this country about the way we treat aboriginals, Indian students and refugees, among others, there's gotta be some good news, right? Well here are some of the best things to come out of Australia recently - fiction, art, history - take your pick. And while your waiting for the snags to cook up on the barbie, sit back with your VB in your hand and enjoy.

And if you're interested, there's ... read more

It's Australia Day today. As our national day of celebration, it acts as a post for all sorts of flags. Once, in more innocent times - or at least, in the days when White Australia was a harmless nationalistic masthead that merely signified cutting off the pigtails of Chinese goldminers - it meant the Land of the Long Weekend was nearing the end of its summer hols. The Australian Worker returned

Today my recently Melbourne-relocated Sydney friend commented that Melbourne seems to have a particular fascination with Spanish cuisine which wasn’t evident in the Sydney dining scene. I can’t vouch for whether that’s actually true or not, but tonight I found yet another cool restaurant/bar serving Spanish-inspired food. And it was muy bueno.

Markov Place is the perfect Melburnian space – an unadorned concrete frontage hides a cool front bar and more. The bar reminded me of shadowy 60s vintage pictures of coiffed women perched on ... read more

A couple of weeks ago Tim Watts got a lot of coverage (here’s the Club Troppo version) for criticising the lack of response – from himself, and from others – to an incident on a tram, where a beggar started threatening and racially abusing a group of young Asian people. Like everyone else on the tram, he felt intimidated. He said the ‘inadequacy of the police response has created a climate in which people are fearful of speaking out’.

While the incident I observed on the number 96 tram this morning didn’t have a racial element, it did show that not everyone responds passively to threatening incidents. After a brief spray of abuse, a young man struck an elderly man, ... read more