Year: 2010

Since voting opened in The OutInCanberra People’s Choice Awards, thousands of Canberrans have taken to the polls to support their favourite restaurant, café and nightlife venue. As a result, OutInCanberra has announced the TOP 5 venues from each category – as voted by you!

This year marks the addition of the Favourite Café category, alongside long running categories, Favourite Restaurant and Favourite Nightlife Venue.

Meet your Top 5 Cafes; Adore Tea, Café Essen, Cream Café Bar, Gus’ Café and Tilley’s Devine Café.

I absolutely love breakfast. I especially like eating it out on the weekends, in good company, while pouring over weekend newspapers. Just the smell of a cafe serving breakfast – overwhelmed by coffee and bacon- makes for a delicious, sensory experience. So when I was asked to review Ha Ha Bar I was delighted. Not only does the breakfast menu represent exceptional variety at reasonable prices, Ha Ha has quickly become the ‘it’ venue in North Canberra for all kinds of events.

Canberra’s boutique offerings have always been slim pickings, but now we can add another store to the line up with boutique, Alice Be Curious, open now in the city.

The draw card is one-off, handmade jewellery from new and vintage materials sourced far and wide. The jewellery is reasonably priced, making it an accessible option that’s still unique.

Alongside the impressive line-up of rings, brooches and more, the team stock this season’s hottest threads from WISH, Cooper St, V & M and more.

LOW FREQZ aims to showcase quality electronic music from around the globe to open-minded Canberra audiences, with a strong emphasis on bass and beats. The night will pioneer both new and classic music from a number of sub-bass oriented genres, including (but not strictly limited to) Dubstep, Grime, UK Funky, Future Garage, D’n’B, Hip-Hop, IDM, Glitch as well some proper wonky beats.

Low Freqz aims to keep it interesting, keep the sounds and styles moving and be versatile in order keep the punters both interested and guessing.

Armed with nothing more than a scalpel, sheet of acetate, a can of spray paint and a battalion of patience, notorious stencil artist E.L.K. spends his time in his dimly lit studio creating his latest piece – a monkey’s head topped with a crown thorns for his first ever solo exhibition. Layer after layer is meticulously cut with German engineering precision, then laid onto art board, sprayed, next layer cut, then sprayed, then cut again. This is the laborious process of stencil art. This is the work of E.L.K.