Author results: Matt Hurst
Edible Garden
There are two types of home gardeners in this world. There's the "Would you like some of these plums? Or a little basil? I've got so much growing out the back I don't know what to do with it all!" and the "Why is my mint dying? And how can I keep those little f*ckers from eating my lettuce?" According to Vinegar: 1001 Practical Household Uses, you can spray semi-eaten leaves with, you guessed it, vinegar.
Soundwaves Pool Party
What:
Soundwaves Pool Party
Where:
Fitzroy Pool, cnr Alexander Pde and Young St, Fitzroy
When:
Sun Feb 7, 1-5pm. Then every Sunday in Feb.
How much:
Pool entry $2.30/$4.50
Description:
The Fitzroy Pool's annual ‘Soundwaves' pool party series kicks off this weekend. Every Sunday in February from 1-5pm, the aqua waters of the pool are joined by DJs at one end and sausages and white bread at the other. What more do you need? Warm weather? Check: Sunday will be pushing 30 degrees.
Event: Party
Stimulus: Barefeet
Va Piano
If you're a community radio presenter or a person who's fallen asleep on the Nicholson Street tram, you'll know that when people talk about good cafes in East Brunswick they ain't talking about the social no man's land around the Triple R studios at the end of route 96. And then there are the poor locals who have to walk all the way to Lygon Street, where people wake up and have arguments about whether to go to Small Block or Sugardough.
Rowena Parade General Store
Remember walking down to the corner shop as a kid to buy milk for your parents, proudly holding the 50 cents extra in your hand you deftly negotiated to buy a Sunny Boy? As we speak, kids who were born in 1999 are developing such memories of the Rowena Parade General Store.
A few metres yet a world away from the DFO-with-a-tram-line-through-the-middle that is Bridge Road, this store sells staples such as papers, liquorice, milk and bread along with more important items such as cigarettes and mini packets of sunbeam sultanas.
MIFF - coffee fixes
Us Festival Passport holders, we know how hard it is catching three to four films a day. The next session starts in 15, and boy did that poetic Syrian film take it out of you. To avoid embarrassing "You fell asleep during Les Plages d'Agnès?!" -type situations, you need coffee.
Thankfully, for sessions at the Forum, the little hole-in-the-wall-that-could, Two Fingers, is just around the corner.
Cumulus Inc
It is said that there is a point in anyone's success when your formula is known (1). Seinfeld in season 7, The Simpsons since Homer stole Bart's limelight (2) or Alex Perry having his sunglasses surgically implanted on his head (3).
Chef Andrew McConnell is certainly en route to such success, based on a foundation of undeniably fabulous food served in designed spaces courtesy of wife Pascale Gomes-McNabb (who was clearly christened with profession in mind).
St Jude's Cellars
Previous occupant The Hideout was a funky, over-priced café that went out of fashion years ago, like nachos, wedges and the word funky. This gave way to Bungalow 8, a café you've never heard of because no one ever went there. Once, when nature called at an inconvenient moment, I went into the empty establishment, asked to use their facilities and was told it was for customers only.
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