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An evening with Dale DeGroff @ Kittyhawk

Blog — August 11, 2018

An evening with Dale DeGroff Kittyhawk Sydney, Australia August 3, 2018 There is no shortage of accolades that cocktail innovator, veteran bartender and envelope pushing coryphée Dale DeGroff has been decorated with over fifty years of being active in the realm of serving alcoholic quality …

Yale University Press book reviews

Blog — August 14, 2018

Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination Yale University Press Based on an exhibition at the Met, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination is one opulently curated thing of beauty that in essence displays extremely beautiful artefacts, objects and designs, most of which find their origin in …

Grape, Grain and Graze

Blog — August 15, 2018

Grape, Grain and Graze. Showgrounds Sydney, Australia August 11, 2018 What a beautiful alliteration that not only rolls off the tongue well but clearly portrays what one of Australia’s most prestigious wine shows is all about. The shindig is essentially based on the annual …

Spirit of the Wild - Wild Turkey Pop-up

Blog — August 16, 2018

Spirit of the Wild - Wild Turkey Pop-up Sydney, Australia There are pop-ups abound. There is hardly a multi-national brand that has not at least dabbled in providing an experience to win new audiences over and extend what they are known for with some sort of …

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Political Writings

Blog — August 17, 2018

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fundamental Political Writings Broadview Press   A philosopher – both in the realms of politics as well as morality and psychology. The influence Rousseau has exerted cannot possibly be overstated. What has always made him an interesting figure to me and more …

High Adventures in the Great Outdoors - Part 4

Blog — August 18, 2018

High Adventures in the Great Outdoors Performance Enhancing Gear, Digestive Health and Moisturisation Alight, are you firmly in touch with your feminine side? Gird your loins, alpha males – this instalment of “High adventures in the great outdoor” will deal with leggings. Leggings for the male …

Rembrandt's Roughness by Nicola Suthor

Blog — August 19, 2018

Rembrandt's Roughness Nicola Suthor Princeton University Press   Ah, roughness. It was not only Benoit Mandelbrot who discovered that there is at least some roughness everywhere. Now, focussing merely on it is not what makes art but the holistic melange of seemingly diametrically opposed extremes, …

Gerhard Richter: Abstractions

Blog — August 21, 2018

Gerhard Richter: Abstractions Prestel Publishing   With its telling title, there is not a whole left to the imagination as to what this beautifully illustrated and curated book zeros in on: Gerhard Richter’s abstract emissions from the mid 1960ies to the current day with a well-balanced …

Big Poppa’s Cheese Club

Blog — August 22, 2018

Big Poppa’s Cheese Club Big Poppa’s Sydney, Australia August 19, 2018 The result of separating the curd of milk from the whey. C2H5OH. Recurring, insistent beat patterns providing both the foundation and counterpoint for boastful rhyming patterns intoned by a vocalist. In …

Courtney Barnett @ Sydney Opera House

Blog — August 24, 2018

Courtney Barnett Opera House Sydney, Australia August 23, 2018 Going to Melbourne is never not a delight. Apart from culinary discoveries, its arts and music scene always produces something new and original or at least emissions that add an idiosyncratic twist on the tried …

Denfair - Sydney

Blog — August 25, 2018

Denfair Hordern Pavilion Sydney, Australia August 16-18, 2018 Over the last three years, Denfair has established itself as a yearly curated design destination event in Melbourne for professionals in the realms of architecture, interior styling and art. Showcasing hundreds of design related brands is has …

School of Life

Blog — August 26, 2018

School of Life Food for Thoughts Now, here’s an interesting one: The School of Life. An organisation that devoted itself to developing emotional intelligence. Sounds a bit esoteric? Fret not. They offer a wider variety of surprisingly sensible programmes and services with the focus …

The Good, The Tasty, The Sustainable

Blog — August 27, 2018

The Good, The Tasty, The Sustainable Loving Earth What did they say? All you need is love? Well, a lil’ chocolate every then thrown in for good measure certainly does not hurt. Who does not like good chocolate? I am talking the good …

Andrew WK @ Manning Bar

Blog — August 29, 2018

Andrew WK Manning Bar Sydney, Australia August 26, 2018 While Andrew WK himself might not have changed, the way his oeuvre has evolved and come a long way since he had what seemed like “everyone” singing along to what became a bona fide synth metal …

Expo Liaison Festival Experience @ Luna Park

Blog — August 30, 2018

Expo Liaison Festival Experience Luna Park Sydney, Australia August 25, 2018 For the unitiated: Client Liaison is a two-man performance operation and a dedicated homage to Australian tackiness and the hedonism of the corporate world of the late 1980ies running the gamut from fashion, demeanour, …

Gene Simmons @ Festival Hall

Blog — August 31, 2018

Gene Simmons Festival Hall Melbourne, Australia August 30, 2018 Gene Simmons. Ace Frehley. Spearheads of KISS. Outworn labels like “legendary” are not inappropriate in this context as it would prove to be difficult to find anyone who grew up in the 1970s/80s …

Blasted @ Malthouse Theatre

Blog — September 3, 2018

Blasted Malthouse Theatre Melbourne, Australia August 31, 2018 Artist provocateur Sarah Kane’s polarising play has been described as being one of the more shocking and provocative ones. Dysfunctional, alcohol addled tabloid journalist meets trouble young woman in Leeds, England. The act of seduction goes …

Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art

Blog — September 4, 2018

Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art Nelson Atkins   Spirituality, huh? There is a case to be made for it being essential for existence not unlike a fire is for a candle. Some would claim the same for art and even go a step further claiming …

Water of Life: The Whisky Club

Blog — September 6, 2018

Water of Life The Whisky Club There is no shortage when it comes to curated whisky services catering to the consumer’s every whim. Services that proffer samples, ones that send you bottles of different expressions in a bid to educate your palate and enable a deeper appreciation …

Japanese Water of Life - Sake

Blog — September 8, 2018

Japanese Water of Life Sake – Toji Sake and Four Fox Sake If you have read a couple of my previous articles, you would know that I harbour quite a few spot for Japan, its culture and its culinary emissions - Sake being only one of them. …