Curious Kate

Pearly Whites

Week one - August 6, 2008

• See

  Olympic Opening Ceremony

  Why: It only happens every four years. The director of the ceremony, award winning Zhang Yimou, has been working on this for three years.
  Most of the world will be tuning in. There will be 10,000 dancers in The Birds Nest.

  When: 08.08.08 [Friday]. Eight is a lucky number in China.
  Where: Channel 7

  Read about the leaked footage incident by a South-Korean broadcaster.

  

• Food

  Pearl Cafe

  Pearl Cafe is adjoined to Paperpoint on Church Street. The menu is a blend of asian inspired dishes and the more traditional crowd pleasers such as a hearty vegetable soup, baguettes, BLT and eggs 6 ways.
  Nothing over $16. The muffins are huge and the hot chocolates are an experience.

  Open: Weekdays 7am-4pm, Weekends 8am-4pm
  Location: 599 Church Street, Richmond

  

• Watch

  Priceless

  Priceless is the story of a French gold digger who targets the very wealthy men who holiday on the French Riviera. Here she meets a bell boy who instantly falls for her. Will she choose love or the money that buys her the most gorgeous clothing, hotel rooms and meals?
  Starring the gorgeous Audrey Tautou (Amelie, The Da Vinci Code).

  Watch the trailer.

  

• Go

  Lord Ivy

  Lord Ivy is a lounge, restaurant, functions facility and gallery. This is a place where you can enjoy delicious food and experience the work of emerging and established artists.

  Where: Level 4 / 145 Flinders Lane
  Open: Wednesday - Saturday Lunch and Dinner 11am - 11pm
  Monday - Tuesdays - 11am - 6pm

  

• Shop

  Perfect Pieces

  Perfect Pieces stocks furniture inspired by 18th Century French Provincial and English Country Styles. A versatile range of quality but affordable pieces that suit any sort of home.

  They also sell a range of home wares sourced from around the world. Expect great service and decorating tips to help you make the right decision.

  Where:
  65 Surrey Road, South Yarra, Ph: 9824 0487 (at the end of the Jam Factory side street)
  &
  131 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, Oh: 9813 1300

  

• Bambini

  Kids' Flicks at ACMI

  Smart Films for Smart Kids
  Weekly Sunday Screening until 30 November 2008

  The program includes such films as: Edward Scissorhands, Annie, Labyrinth, ET and The Muppets Take Manhattan.
  There's nothing like taking them to watch the classics on the big screen. With a line up like that, you'll surely enjoy it too!

  Tickets: $5
  Where: Australian Centre for the Moving Image
  Federation Square Flinders Street, Melbourne

  

• Read

  The Shack

  Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
  Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.

  Buy it here.

  

• Listen

  Paris Wells

  Paris (a different one, one with talent!) has a strong, soulful voice. Her unique sound warranted two thumbs up from Justin Timberlake when she opened for the Australian leg of his world tour.

  Du dat Du is her debut single and its weirdly alluring.

  Listen here.

  

• After Dark

  1806

  It was announced last week that 1806, a bar that opened inn Melbourne last October, had won an award for its cocktail list. The award was won for Best Cocktail List in the World at the New Orleans Tales of the Cocktail Festival and it's the first Melbourne bar to receive the award, beating other bars in London, New York, Vienna and Copenhagen.
  Their top selling drink is the Aviation. The first cocktail was defined in print in 1806 and the cocktail list follows a time line from that year. There's a cocktail for every decade, now that's worth drinking to!

  Location: 169 Exhibition Street

  

• Tech Heads

  Electronic Bubble Wrap

  This annoying little gadget, electronic bubble wrap, is here for your popping pleasure. Six realistic sounding and feeling bubble wrap buttons to pop. Every 100th pop you'll here a different sound! It's bubbles o' fun!?

  You can also get a bubble wrap application on your iphone if you're not into keychains.....