Arts & Culture
On being a spinster
Spinsters are supposed to be retiring women sitting quietly in the sidelines while all the action takes place elsewhere.
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Cockatoos taking over Carlton
Huge flocks of corellas and cockatoos have been seen all over Carlton to the delight of some residents.
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La Mama back to full capacity
The theatre is finally running at full capacity at La Mama and Carlton’s iconic theatre group is putting on three plays a week for the Midsumma Festival as it comes out of the lockdown.
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How Carlton Scouts blazed through lockdown
From tying knots to camping under the stars, Scouts Clubs are championed for their group-based outdoor activities.
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Community plants 2000 new plants at Royal Park
Thousands of native plants have been planted at Royal Park in a community effort to bring native vegetation and wildlife back into the space.
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Mass COVID vaccine rollout begins at Royal Exhibition Building
One of Melbourne’s biggest COVID vaccinations hubs, the Royal Exhibition Building, had a steady trickling of people when Inner City News visited in late April.
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Twenty-four refugees now detained in Carlton’s Park Hotel
Twenty-four refugees are now indefinitely detained at Carlton’s Park Hotel after 13 additional refugees were transferred from a Brisbane quarantine facility on April 19.
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Outrageous art hits East Melbourne
A hotel manager has staged an art happening at her normally quiet East Melbourne apartment block to honour one of her guests, an outrageous painter who used to live on the streets.
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Gender-equal plans for Ikon Park
Carlton’s Ikon Park will become the first AFL facility in Australia where training areas for women are identical in size and quality to those for men.
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Is Lygon St still Melbourne’s “Little Italy”?
From chariot races to the greasy pole competition – the Lygon Street Festa of the ‘80s was a grandiose celebration of Italian Carlton that brought people in from far and wide.
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The myth of the golden bust in Royal Park
A mansion on Rathdowne St
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