Curious Kate

Walk The Walk...

Week three - August 20, 2009

• See

  "Ponyo" Competition - WIN A DOUBLE PASS

  Madman Films together with Curious Kate present Ponyo.
  In a small town by the sea lives five year-old Sosuke, high on a cliff overlooking the Inland Sea. One morning while playing on the rocky beach below his house, he discovers a goldfish named Ponyo, her head stuck in a jam jar. Sosuke rescues Ponyo and keeps her in a green plastic pail.
  Both Ponyo and Sosuke are fascinated by each other and promise to stay firm friends until Ponyo's father - once human, now a sorcerer who lives deep under the sea - forces her to return with him to the ocean depths. What follows is an amazing underwater adventure for all ages....

  "A little boy and a little girl, love and responsibility,
  the ocean and life-these things, and that which is most elemental to them, are depicted in the most basic way in 'PONYO.'"
  ~ Hayao Miyazaki, Director
  Voices of: Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Tina Fey

  All you have to do is: Recommend Curious Kate to 3 friends and then email Curious Kate your name & your 3 friend's names. Then you go into the draw to WIN. Winners will receive their free double pass next week in the mail.

  Watch Trailer

  

• Food

  The Mess Hall

  The Mess Hall is understated, unpretentious, quirky, honest & charming. Simple Italian cuisine with a simple wine list to match. Dinner before a show or a night out on the town.

  Cost: Mains around $19
  Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner: Mon-Thu: 7.30am-8pm, Fri 7.30am-10pm, Sat 7.30am-10pm, Sun 7.30am-6pm
  Where: 51 Bourke Street, City
  Phone: 03 9654 6800
  There is a function room upstairs.

  

• Watch

  Moonwalker

  Exclusive to Village Cinemas Jam Factory as a tribute to the late King of Pop, for 1 week only they will be showing Michael Jackson's cult film, Moonwalker.
  So if you love and miss MJ, check this film out on the big screen.

  Beginning August 20

  Watch trailer

  

• Go

  Pole Dancing

  Unleash Your Inhibitions.......Pole Divas is a lot of fun with a group of girls and a glass of bubbles. Get your body movin' in a clean venue, with great instructors (who show you what they can do with a pole at the end of your workout - impressive!).

  Where: Mornington, Prahran, Richmond & Moonee Ponds
  Cost: $35 per head for a group booking (min of 5 people)
  Pefect for a hens party or just go to a class or do a course.
  Website

  

• Shop

  Bamboo Clothing

  Bamboo Body collection is all about looking good, feeling good and essentially, doing good... for the environment. Bamboo Body offers stylish, comfortable and trans-seasonal clothing that is environmentally friendly and supports ethical fashion production. Not only do the natural fibres breathe better than cotton, but thermo-dynamic properties make their range prefect for work, drinks with friends and travelling. Bamboo Body pride themselves on producing pieces that are designed to fit and flatter all shapes and sizes; for both men and women...what more can we ask for!

  Website

  
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• Read

  The Elegance of the Hedgehog

  We are in an elegant hotel particulier in the center of Paris. Renee, the building's concierge, is short, ugly and plump. She has bunions on her feet. She is cantankerous and addicted to television soaps. He only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she is everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in a posh Parisian neighbourhood. But Renee has a secret: she is a ferocious autodidact who furtively devours art, philosophy, music and Japanese culture. With biting humour she scrutinizes the lives of the building's tenants-her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth.

  Then there's Paloma, a super-smart 12 year old and the youngest daughter of the Josses, who live on the 5th floor. Talented, precocious and startlingly lucid, she has come to terms with life's seeming futility and has decided to end her own on the day of her 13th birthday, Until then she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity, acting the part of an average pre-teen high on pop subculture, a good but not an outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter.

  Paloma and Renee hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a new tenant arrives, a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu. He befriends Paloma and is able to see through Renee's timeworn disguise to the mysterious event that has haunted her since childhood.

  This New York Times bestseller is a moving, witty and redemptive novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.

  

• Listen

  Tamarama

  If you're a fan of MTV's reality show, The City, then Tamarama is just a household name! The New York based band from Sydney is comprised of Jay G Lyon (who is dating Whitney Port) and his band mate Nick Potts, and they have just released their very chilled debut album Wonderland City. Tamarama's sound is reminiscent of the Beach Boys but with an Aussie twist. If you're an easy listener then ride the wave of this duo, their EP is fun and floaty.

  Listen here

  

• After Dark

  Pearl Jam Live

  One of the world's most popular live bands, Pearl Jam, is returning to Australia very soon to promote the release of their new album, Backspacer. Pearl Jam tours in Melbourne on November 20, for their first show in three years. Tickets are on sale now so don't miss out on this concert of a lifetime!

  Price: $99.90
  Buy tickets here or call 1300 660 013