Arts & Culture
French performers satirise society in shipwreck tale in Carlton
After several months in development, new Melbourne French Theatre company show Il etait un petit navire (SOS Save Our Savings), is now in full swing at the group’s Carlton venue.
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Farewell Inner City News – a short but meaningful chapter
After 62 editions serving East Melbourne, Carlton and Parkville, Inner City News is signing off – but the stories, relationships and local voices it has helped bring together will continue through The Melburnian.
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Naughtons to toast 10 years under its current custodians
Naughtons Hotel will mark 10 years under the stewardship of Ryan Moses and his family with a community celebration on Saturday, August 15, inviting Parkville locals, students, hospital workers and regulars to raise a glass to one of the suburb’s most important meeting places.
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Pro-Palestine protesters challenge council on free speech amid Carlton meeting room cancellation
Pro-Palestine activists have staged a concerted confrontation over the City of Melbourne's handling of their activities, asking questions at two recent meetings suggesting anti-Zionism had been wrongly conflated with antisemitism and free speech suppressed by the cancellation of a meeting room booking in Carlton.
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Women artists’ society brings 117th annual exhibition to East Melbourne
Australia’s oldest surviving women’s art society will celebrate more than 120 years of creativity, friendship and professional support when it presents its 117th annual exhibition in East Melbourne this October.
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Carlton’s Dan O’Connell hits the market
As Inner City News foreshadowed last month, Carlton’s iconic Dan O’Connell Hotel is back on the market – for sale or for rent – with real estate agents listing the landmark building on Friday, July 31.
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La Mama’s new festival puts hope at the heart of climate action
La Mama Theatre will place artists at the centre of the climate conversation this September with the launch of a new three-week festival in Carlton.
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Carlton clinic goes fully bulk-billed
Carlton’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinic has become 100 per cent bulk-billed, with local patients already responding strongly to the change.
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Vale Barry Dickins: Carlton farewells a prolific man of words and art
Barry Leonard Dickins, who died in Parkville on July 13 aged 76, was “a renaissance man of the people” and “a real Carlton character”, according to Readings co-owner Mark Rubbo.
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Hidden Carlton café blends automation with the art of coffee
Tucked away in a tiny lane behind the busy corner of Lygon and Elgin streets is a surprising new hospitality venture – a specialty coffee shop with fully automatic machines alongside traditional ones and the aim of providing a relaxing escape.
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Kalingra: a story of firsts
Reviving history: student’s transformative designs for Melbourne General Cemetery
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