Curious Kate

Seeing Red

Week three - October 15, 2008

• See

  Will Hartl's Photography

  www.willhartl.com is the love child of a young traveller who began to record all the beautiful moments in a journey and turned it into a professional photography career.
  Feel free to contact for all photo needs.
  All prints for sale.

  Email: will@willhartl.com
  Phone: 0409 142 093

  

• Food

  The Red Emperor

  The Red Emperor is a Chinese restaurant located at Southbank. Delicious, fresh food. Great san choy bow, salt and pepper squid & Peking duck. Ask for a table with a river/city view.
  Avoid being seated near the lobster and fish tanks if you don't want to see them being taken to the kitchen.

  Yum Cha served daily.
  Lunch: Mon - Sat 12 to 3pm, Sun 11 to 4pm
  Dinner: daily 6pm till late
  Ph: 9699-4170
  Where: Ur3, 3, Southgate Avenue, Southbank

  

• Watch

  The Flight of the Red Balloon

  This French art house film was one of the official selection at the Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festivals. It's not a film you can describe in short; it's about life, pain and simple beauties. It's divine.
  Starring Juliette Binoche (Chocolat, Dan in Real Life).

  Watch the trailer.
  Buy the DVD.

  

• Go

  Sky Diving

  Now that the beautiful spring weather is here it's a great time to go tandem sky diving in the Yarra Valley. Cruise up in the plane, looking down at the stunning Victorian wine region and then free fall towards it at 220kms an hour!
  It's something you really should experience!

  So close to Melbourne.
  Enjoy wine and a delicious lunch at a winery afterwards.
  Book at melbourneskydivecentre.com.au.

  

• Shop

  Forever 21

  Forever21.com is another online shopping site from the States. It has a fresh young feel to it.
  Current fashion at reasonable prices.

  
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• Bambini

  Minifashionista

  Minifashionista.com.au is jammed packet full of fashionable items for the little ones. Woollen goodies, cute Ts, gorgeous shoes and colourful jewellery. There's a white Mexican dress that is to die for ($59.90)! Love the gift voucher idea too.

  

• Read

  Careless In Red

  Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley discovers the body of a young man who appears to have fallen to his death. The closest town, better known for its tourists and its surfing than its intrigue, seems an unlikely place for murder. However, it soon becomes apparent that a clever killer is indeed at work, and this time Lynley is not a detective but a witness and possibly a suspect.
  Written by Elizabeth George. Eleven of her Detective Lynley novels have been adapted for television by BBC.

  Buy it here.

  

• Listen

  Gin

  Gin is a New Zealand singer/songwriter who currently resides in Australia. She has recently toured Australia and New Zealand opeing for Sheryl Crow. Her album Extended Play is out now and contains the catchy and probably familiar single Under My Skin.

  Watch the Under My Skin video here.

  Listen here.

  

• After Dark

  Simply Red Live

  Simply Red are touring the world and they're coming to Australia, fronted by charismatic lead vocalist Mike Hucknall, they are set to seduce and charm audiences across the country with their Greatest Hits Tour.

  When: 7.45pm, February 10, 2009
  Where: Palais Theatre, St Kilda

  Buy tickets here.

  Need your memory jogged? Listen here.

  

• Tech Heads

  LED Blow On-Off Candles

  These candles can fool anyone as they have a waxy coating and a natural-looking, flickering light just like normal candles, only they have an on/off switch. They wont drip wax and they wont start fires.
  Each candle has a switch to select either a cool blue flame, or a more realistic yellowish flame.
  The candles are approx. 3" in diameter (a choice of 4" or 6" tall). The candles will "burn" for 300 hours on a single set of batteries.

  Buy them here.