On Brunswick St on the corner of Moor St.
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Monthly archives: July 2012
breakfast at Grace cafe on Rose St
Grace cafe opened a bit over a week ago in one side of the small semi-detached cottages on Rose St covered in art. I arrived about 9.45am on Saturday for breakfast, when there was only one other occupied table, but within 20 minutes the place was full.…
pensive
On Leicester St west of Brunswick St.
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shopping on Brunswick St in 1875
These advertisements are from the Mercury newspaper (which was published in Fitzroy between 1875 – 1877) on 7 August 1875, p. 1.
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it’s not the art that’s ugly
So what if you don’t like a particular piece of street art? You taggers are not judges who get to decide what everyone else looks at. Your hostile destruction of creative expressions that are infinitely more sophisticated and appealing than your illiterate garbage demonstrates how pathetic and passive aggressive you are.…
globular
Globes in the window of Mark Denver on Brunswick St.
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the final chapter in the Cape Live employee exploitation story
Back in 2010 I wrote about the owners of the former Cape Live cafe being forced by the Fair Work Ombudsman to repay wages to illegally underpaid workers. Unfortunately, some of the exploited workers still have not been back paid their full wages and some may never receive what they earned.…
the Smith St internet cafe has closed
Another longtime Fitzroy business has closed – the big internet cafe on Smith St. In an age of 3G and wi-fi, where there is internets everywhere, we no longer need specialist providers.
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lunch at Albert St Food and Wine
Despite having Albert St Wine and Food on my list of places to eat at for months, I was not planning on going there on Saturday. I was trying to take the girlfriend to lunch next door, at Greenfield, a cheap and cheerful Vietnamese that comes recommended from friends.…