Latest articles by Jack Hayes
Social Animals: the new barber that is a cut above the rest
West Melbourne’s Social Animals Barbershop is anything but your typical barber, and the story behind its founder is just as intriguing.
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Celebrating the “limitless potential of people living with disability”
Brett Duncan’s journey into business ownership is a tale of perseverance and talent.
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The Voice: “our chance to change the path that we are on”
For Sheena Watt, Victorian Upper House MP for the North Metropolitan Region, enshrining constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through a Voice to Parliament is “not just about being recognised, it’s about being heard.”
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Healthy spine, healthy life
The thing Dr Lisa Smycz, principal chiropractor and founder of Errol Street Chiropractic Centre, loves most about her job is getting people back to what they love doing.
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Is this North Melbourne’s newest, and only, wine bar?
After teasing locals with the promise of wine, beers, aperitivos and tasty morsels for months, Lumen People is now open for night service.
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It’s Now or Never
Melbourne will soon be transformed with large-scale outdoor sculptural installations and projections, an immersive 360-degree pop-up dome cinema and a slew of boundary-breaking performances that explore the realm where technology and art converge, as the City of Melbourne debuts its newest digital art and future thinking festival, Now or Never, this month.
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A new feel for an old favourite
Since being handed the keys in early 2022, business partners Phil Gijsbers and Neil Mills (Green Acre, Rusty’s, East End), the duo behind North Melbourne modern bistro, Bobbie Peels, have quietly forged a following among industry experts and locals alike.
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A bright new light in North Melbourne’s café community
The more you dig into the North and West Melbourne café scene, the sooner you come to a realisation …
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Biggin Scott Kensington: “simple, ethical real estate”
For Biggin Scott Kensington’s Kylie Harrigan, real estate is her life.
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Take a walk down EziStreat
An Australian first has landed in a 600-square-metre warehouse on Macaulay Rd in North Melbourne.
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A place for every student
A unique outlook, broad curriculum and a focus on brilliant teaching are part of Haileybury City’s success story.
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One last weekend to Dance This Way
For the first two weekends of November, Errol St has been awash with rhythmic dance, art and colour as part of the North and West Melbourne Precinct Association’s (NWMPA) Dance This Way street activation.
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Queensberry Cup attracts bumper crowds
More than 5000 locals and residents braved the elements for the inaugural running of the Queensberry Cup on October 22.
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Celebrating more than two decades of property management success in the city
A lot has happened in the Melbourne since the turn of the millennium.
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Queensberry Cup: the race that stops North and West Melbourne
This October, the streets of North Melbourne will transform into a sea of festivity with the running of the inaugural Queensberry Cup.
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A slice of France in North Melbourne
Famous French chef, Auguste Éscoffier, a man dubbed “the king of chefs and the chef of kings,” once said “good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.”
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The world’s biggest fitness brand lands in West Melbourne
With more than 530 clubs nationwide, Anytime Fitness is a giant of the fitness industry.
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New respiratory clinic for kids opens in North Melbourne
A new GP-led respiratory clinic (GPRC) for kids has opened in North Melbourne, connecting children with respiratory symptoms to doctors and nurses.
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A premier team supporting our community
We’re all familiar with the saying, “it takes a village to raise a child” … well, the same could be said for running a business during the past few challenging years. For owner and director of Premier Health Partners Paul O’Keefe, he would tell you that “it takes an amazing team to keep a business running!”
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Discovering something new in your own back yard at Mr Tucker
Iconic North Melbourne café, Mr Tucker, may be a regular for some locals and at the same time a complete surprise for others.
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