Author: OutInCanberra

What’s hot on your head?

Posted by | Feb 24, 2009 | |

Race day is the perfect opportunity to frock up in Canberra, grab your girlfriends, a bottle of Chandon and don an incredible hat.

Headwear can be tricky and there is no shortage of options out there. So where do you start? Local millenary designer and race wear guru Angela Menz says to start with the basics.

"There are a few basic rules when selecting a hat. You need to take your face shape, height and build into account."

Oblong should try wider brims to add width to the face. Avoid too much height at the crown, which will lengthen the face.

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Event wrap-up: Carnival in the City @ Multicultural Festival

Posted by | Feb 23, 2009 | |

Caliente! The Hottest place to be last Saturday night was at Carnival of Canberra National Multicultural Festival in Garema Place. Approaching the festival you could hear the music, smell the flavours and feel the heat. Carnival’s spell made you want to samba on arrival and the intoxicating atmosphere flowed through the crowd in a contagious beat.

Latino heritage was unleashed boasting Tango, Salsa, Reggaeton, Candombe, Danzon, Samba and Black Peruvian music starting in the afternoon and carried on into the early hours of the morning.

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Hawker dining in Canberra’s finest

Posted by | Feb 23, 2009 | |

Owning a restaurant in Hawker was one of the easiest decisions ever made by long time friends and new business partners Geoff Brooks and Tim Jensen. Both grew up in the area, and still remember the days of attending college in the area.

“We have both been in the Canberra dining scene for a while, and just hit that age and experience level where we were finding it hard to work for other people,” front of house manager Geoff Brooks said.

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Win Film Tickets: Easy Virtue

Posted by | Feb 23, 2009 | |

Based on the 1924 play by Noël Coward, Easy Virtue marks the much-anticipated return of Australian director Stephan Elliott (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert).

Set in the late 1920s,featuring an impressive cast including Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas, Easy Virtue is effervescent entertainment telling the story of Larita (Biel), a glamorous young American woman who is swept off her feet by young Englishman, John Whittaker (Barnes), and marries impetuously.

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Hoodoos to ring in Canberra’s 96th

Posted by | Feb 20, 2009 | , |

As the flagship event of the Canberra Festival, Celebrate in the Park 2009 is warming up to do the biggest yet, as Canberra turns 96 and we count down to the centenary.

Aussie icons Hoodoo Gurus will headline the free event on Monday 9 March at Commonwealth Park’s Stage 88.

Avant pop goddess, Kate Miller Heidke and songstress Jessica Mauboy will play alongside the Hoodoo Gurus and lead an exciting bill of national and local musicians.

In 2008, over 30,000 people celebrated in style as Canberra turned 95 at Commonwealth Park on Monday 10 March.

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