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Down in Hobart for MONA FOMA  Down in Hobart for MONA FOMA

The type of mainland thinking that breeds bad jokes about Tasmania is also responsible for the belief that what happens there could never be as relevant as what happens here.

But an encounter with MONA FOMA, an arts festival as otherworldly as the blue Hobart light, proves mainland types to be painfully wrong. Like dreams and astral projections, being at MONA FOMA took you outside yourself.

Shape-Shifter, an installation by David Chesworth and Sonia Leber, created a haunting soundscape by removing the human voice from its original source. Luckily, Tune-Yards took care of any leftover unease with a brand of sonic gymnastics that left you feeling everything but disembodied.

The 10-day festival saw meanings shift, change shape and collide – the Violent Femmes supergroup brought the past to the present, while an electrifying set by noise rock duo Paint Your Golden Face erased the divide between music and performance art.

The same can’t be said for Nell’s Chanting to Amps, whose effort to find out if anything could be transcendental could only lead the audience to one grim conclusion. It’s only while wandering, dumbstruck, through MONA at the end of the festival, that it becomes clear that’s precisely the point.

mona.net.au/what's-on/monafoma/

Neha Kale February 7th
LMFF Set to Open with a Bang LMFF Set to Open with a Bang

A month out from the start of L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF), the program has been announced and we’re pretty excited.

More than ever, LMFF is continuing their democratisation of fashion. Unlike fashion weeks around the world, LMFF is a festival for the people. Alongside runway shows, the extensive cultural program and business events mean that anyone can get involved. And there’s certainly no reason not to get involved, with the six group runway shows featuring the likes of Karen Walker, Gorman, Magdalena Velevska, Kirrily Johnston and Aurelio Costarella among many, many others. Both Alex Perry and Toni Maticevski will have their own shows, plus there’s a graduate showcase and all kinds of special events scattered across the city.

Most exciting for us though is the LMFF Opening Event, supported by Broadsheet. The open-air fashion block party will kick off the week with a bang as models storm the runway and bands take to the stage. The runway show will feature designs from some of the country’s biggest names, including Colette Dinnigan, Alex Perry, camilla and marc, Alannah Hill and Josh Goot. On the musical side of things, Canyons, Van She Tech, Nfa, Grant Smilie and Andy Murphy will all be there to entertain the crowd. Come join us; it’s going to be a great night out.

The LMFF and Broadsheet fun doesn’t stop there. Our March print edition will feature a fashion lift out special and during the festival we’ll have daily updates on LMFF goings-on, so be sure to check back.

*LMFF Opening Event, Thursday March 8 at 6.30pm. Tickets are available from Ticketek

lmff.com.au

Jess Basser February 7th
A Rosy New Eatery in the Port A Rosy New Eatery in the Port

With a new fit-out, a new menu and some new faces behind the venture, The Rose Hotel in Port Melbourne opens once again as Rose Diner and Bar.

Friends Steed Sherriff (ex The Royal Saxon) and Ashley Cranston (ex Little Creatures Dining Hall) bring Port Melbourne a versatile new venue. With the Diner open daily from midday, the back bar serving drinks and bar food on the weekends and Little Rose open every morning for breakfast, it really is an all-day eatery.

The art deco building has kept is original structure and features, but the new team has given the inside a much-needed makeover. Sherriff and Cranston have transformed the venue, renovating the previously dark interior into a light, open space with green highlights, timber features, small intimate tables and large communal ones.

UK-born chef Stephen Drake (ex The Royal Saxon) is behind the food and has an impressive history. Having trained under Gary Rhodes, Drake’s menu at Rose Diner draws from his roots. It’s the food from your childhood, but executed to a much higher quality, with Drake admitting his love for the Country Women’s Association and drawing inspiration from their nostalgic cooking. This is reflected in menu items like Coronation Chicken vol-au-vents, Mum’s Trifle and Sunday roasts. We recommend the Welsh Rarebit Croquettes with pickled tomato and raisins and the Steak Diane with brandy, mustard and shallot. And if you have any room left, order the Peach Melba.

Drinks feature the Little Creatures range on tap along with other local and boutique beers. Wines are kept local and a few nostalgic cocktails make an appearance.

Sister cafe Little Rose, which launched over the weekend, is open for the breakfast and lunch, with Syndicate Coffee served alongside jaffles, baked eggs and milkshakes.

And the final element to this grand reinvention? Upstairs, Back Bar will have live music on the weekends, focusing on local jazz and folk bands for the bayside crowd.

All in all, a rather rosy affair in the Port.

Rose Diner and Bar
309 Bay Street, Port Melbourne
(03) 9681 8550

Hours
Rose Diner
Mon- Thu 12pm–late
Fri & Sat 12pm–1am
Sun 12pm–6pm

Back Bar
Fri & Sat 5pm–11pm

Little Rose
Mon- Fri 7am–3pm
Sat & Sun 8am–4pm

Amy Collins February 6th
Helados Jauja Brings the Flavours of Patagonia to Melbourne  Helados Jauja Brings the Flavours of Patagonia to Melbourne

An ice cream enthusiast from way back, the Malaysian-born, Australian-based traveller Po Lin would encounter an artisan helados establishment while travelling through San Carlos Bariloche, Río Negro in December 2010. Put simply, it would have a dramatic effect on her choice of livelihoods.

The store was Jauja Argentina, a local Patagonian Valley institution. Founded by artist, Lucy and her craft-maker partner Pepe, Jauja had been constructing ice cream flavours from their neighbouring single kitchen/laboratory in El Bolson since 1980.

In March 2011, Po Lin was soon jetting back to Argentina, where over the coming months she would learn the craft under the watchful eye of its titleholders.

Now, with the blessing of its South American originators, a Jauja Argentina operation has opened in Melbourne. It’s the first time the brand has left said continent, but this is far from a franchise store.

“It annoys me when people think that,” laughs Po Lin. “I mean we do use 100 per cent Argentinian techniques I learnt from working with ‘Mum’ (that’s Lucy), and I wouldn’t change that because it would do an injustice to the ice cream, but I do vary recipes.”.

Sampling the flavours at Helados Jauja, the most immediate qualities you notice are the textural fluctuations and sensation shifts in your mouth; from the cleansing blackcurrant and raspberry helados or blood orange sorbet, to the lighter coconut juice granita with Nata de Coco and real mint offering that uses fresh mint leaves.

And for that full-blooded smack, the ‘Sambayon’ (made with pure egg yolks and plenty of Marsala wine), the Argentine-style caramel with walnuts (‘Dulche de Leche’), or the silky smooth peanut butter explosion do the trick.

Whether it be simmering and caramelising black sesame seeds, crushing blood oranges by hand to boiling down white chocolate with berries, Po Lin blends artistic creativity with scientific precision.

And with some Malaysian inspiration in her flavours, ice cream and sorbet creations are made every few days without the use of flavouring, colouring or gelatine – the embodiment of the artisan way. This is ice cream like we haven’t experienced in Melbourne.

Helados Jauja
254 Lygon Street, Carlton
heladosjauja.com.au

Nick Argyriou February 6th
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