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Shady Pines Saloon Darlinghurst

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Victoria might have had a head start on the bar scene, due to the forward thinking Jeff Kennett, but there is no two ways about it – as with our restaurants,  Sydney has the last word in bars, and none more obvious than Shady Pines saloon. This is a great place to have a drink with friends, the bar staff very friendly and knowledgeable – the feeling is straight out mid west America with very cool country music.  Buffalo heads …

SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2012- opens 7January 2012

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Music, theatre, dance, visual arts, ideas, free Sydney festival events including Festival First Night – 7 January. It’s big.           This is Sydney in summer!  

OUTPOST PROJECT- COCKATOO ISLAND

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The inaugural Outpost Project now on – it features 150 Australian and international street artists and collectives and transforms Cockatoo Island’s amazing industrial spaces into a huge street art festival – the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere. If you’ve never ventured to Cockatoo Island for the Sydney Biennale – DO IT NOW!  Free entry with ferry ticket - a 12 minute ferry trip from Circular Quay.   4 November to 11 December 2011 Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour      

MARDI GRAS – SYDNEY

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Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras – one of the world’s premier gay and lesbian celebrations 12 February – 4 March 2012

Pour Tous-Vivienne Westwood Jewellery

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assin in sydney

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ASSIN in Sydney sets the highest standard for fashion retail.  In the past, they have carried such designers as Dior Homme, Lanvin, Rick Owens and Ann Demeulemeester to name some, but never staying still and always looking to the future for the best of the fashion world.  The store merges high end fashion retail with the feel of a contemporary art gallery. Love it!   ASSIN Verona Cinema Complex Verona Street Paddington Sydney  2021 93316265 sydney@assin.com.au

Vintage fashion Sydney

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  Every weekend at Potts Point market, you’ll find a stall run by a husband and wife team who sell some of the best vintage women’s hand bags and clothes.  Clementyne also designs a range called APIS REGINA. You will have to hunt them out as they seem to change stalls from one week to another.  But let me tell you the hunt will be welcome with open arms buy your wardrobe, some of the bags are what you see …

Scent of quality

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If you haven’t rushed in to smell the new/only fragrance to date from the fashion house BOTTEGA VENETA – do it now.  It is the scent you want today – the first thing that registers with your brain is a very soft woodsy smell that is not too sweet.  It is modern and calm with a hint of BLACK AMEX as an underling mood that lingers.  I LOVE IT AND KNOW YOU WILL. Available at DAVID JONES SYDNEY CITY. BOTTEGA …

Capsule, Right Shoe Forward

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This small shop in the city called Capsule has got some very cool Clarks Originals mens shoes in at the moment.  I don’t know about you but they are the shoe you want for summer.  There are different designs and colours but the shape that is important for NOW is the Desert boot – great with narrow leg trousers as is with shorts. The perfect classic foot accessory. They also carry some other classic men’s lines from around the globe. …

SYDNEY BIENNALE

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One  of  the  world’s  longest  running  art biennales! 27 June – 16 September 2012