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Third Village Cafe

Two things you desperately need to know about Third Village...

1. They serve Sonoma Bread
2. They have excellent coffee and if you ask for a large it comes in a bowl (that was kind of three things but I love that bowl).

Located on Stanley Street in Darlinghurst Third Village is a great spot to hit up on your saturday morning. They have something for everyone, including a healthy breakfast with an egg white omelette. Where were you when I was getting ready for summer! It's a cosy spot that is moderately priced and the meals are colourful and satisfying. They have a generous amount of reading material scattered around so you can take your time. Great place for people watching, head upstairs on a rainy day for some chilled out times.

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When good nights go bad

Karl Lagerfeld

"He doesn't give a rats what anyone thinks and he's always dressed so impeccably you could eat a dinner of dry insults right off him."

Muchas Gracias

To the S U P E R S T A R that slayed the HTML Beasties and gave us a Facebook Like button ---->

(Faux) Fur

... was on everything at New York Fashion week. That means we can expect it to start popping up in Australia circa 2015. To get a jump on the trend before autumn hits, eyeball the below from NYFW.

I'm a monochrome fanatic and I can tell I'm going to enjoy this Autumn. Layers, metallic and natural fabrics, dark, broody, gloomy pieces. New York meets Winterfell. I love it.

Bellissima Beresford

Sydney hotspot The Beresford launches the first of their new March Into Merivale Food and Wine Festival initiatives tonight with an event called 'Mammas Table' an Italian themed long table meal for you to bring your own friends or make some new ones! The gist is this:

1. Make a booking at $30 a head
2. Sit down at an Italian style long table for 26pax with people you know (and some you don't!)
3. Feast on dishes of pasta, salad, meats, cheeses, wagyu and gnocchi
4. Drink from the selection of whites and reds at the table (until they run out)
5. Go buy more wine to shout the best friends you never knew you had two hours ago

We think this is a brilliant initiative and a fabulous way to spend your previously unscheduled Wednesday. Contact The Beresford for bookings - every Wednesday until the 27th March.

Obligatory Pre-Valentines Day Post

Pre and Post in the same sentence?! Yessssss

Take heart city singles - society is changing. Gone are the days when marriage and kids were considered the epitome of relationship success. As much as we would like to think we can meet someone whose life metamorphoses parallels ours it's just not reasonable. I am not the person I was five years ago, and five years from now I will not be me today.

People want more, from everything. Like a pillow at bedtime, we've squashed our lives into the shape we desire. We can choose where to live, eat, play, we choose what we wear, who we surround ourselves with. Give us a pillow that refuses to squash itself into the shape we want? Why bother. We'll just get one that does. And why would we, (as pillows - stay with me now) choose to conform to another heads desires? No way. We get what we want when we want - the proof is all around us in our carefully constructed little lives.

The moral of this story is we're all just walking around like tired zombies without pillows.

*Pause to breathe through the metaphors...*

Look beyond the rigid pillow fortress you have constructed for yourself. Recognise that if you want a partner you may have to compromise on some of the things that don't really matter. For men, that is often physical appearance. For women, it's quite often shoes? A lot of women will not date a man wearing bad shoes. Anyway, I'll leave it up to you, but here is my list of what you need. The rest doesn't really matter.

1. Someone who loves you
2. Someone who appreciates the importance of your family and friends
3. Someone you can trust
4. Someone who is kind to you
5. Someone who makes you feel good about yourself
6. Someone who is 'on your side'
7. Someone who makes an effort for you
8. Someone you can talk to
9. Someone who makes you laugh
10. Someone who can take care of themselves, so you can take care of each other.

THE REST IS JUST BULLSH1T.

Happy V-Day for tomorrow - go kiss a stranger X

MANIAMANIA

Australian art director and stylist duo Melanie Kamsler and Tamila Purvis are enjoying international commendation for their stunning jewellery line - check out the new collection at Maniamania

I for one, want. Especially the Filmore West Neckpiece and Crowley Cocktail Ring

Go Brooklyn

Brooklyn Boy Bagels made a huge splash at their launch on Sunday at Sydney's Darlie Laundromatic, selling out of those delicious boiled bad boys in just two hours

The Bagel has remained largely unrepresented in Australia and the reason is clear - a shitty bagel is pretty shit. You can't really get away with skimping where bagels are concerned. Enter New York raised Sydney food writer Michael Shafran (TheMeltingPot). Exhausted from years of tough, dry, sub-par bagels he took destiny into his own hands, studying master bagel-ry in the US before returning to Oz with a his own recipes for boiled bliss.

Perhaps one day we will see the salt beef of London's Brick Lane sandwiched between  those holey rolls. *hint*.

Embrace the bagel. Head to the Darlie.

Holy Fire

I've had a thing for Foals ever since an intoxicated Jimmy Smith told me that they had "the biggest dicks on tour" in a 2010 interview for Pages Digital. The Oxford boys have just dropped their third album 'Holy Fire'. It's more of what you'd expect - and by that I mean they've changed tack again and presented something you probably weren't expecting. The album opens with a pretty amazing prelude and continues to defy pigeon holing from there. Second track Inhaler seems to be a bit of a throwback to the rock era, while third track My Number is a D-Floor burner. Highly original, and as always, highly listenable. Get in.

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