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Cara Waters

Cara Waters

Cara Waters is the city editor for The Age.

Mark Walker is opening a single screen indpendent cinema in Collingwood.

In an age of streaming, Melbourne is getting another independent cinema

Eclipse Cinema, a 64-seat, single-screen affair, will open on Thursday in a warehouse that once housed the Sherrin football factory.

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Fred and Alex Grimwade at Cooks’ Cottage in the Fitzroy Gardens. Fred is a descendant of Russell Grimwade who donated the cottage.

Family who donated Cooks’ Cottage angry at council inaction spurring on vandals

Members of the Grimwade family say the Fitzroy Gardens monument should acknowledge Indigenous history and the impact of colonialism, but the council continues to sit on its hands.

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Pro-Palestine protesters gather at the State Library of Victoria on Sunday.

Huge pro-Palestine crowd marches in Melbourne as part of national rally

Victorian activists joined a nationwide pro-Palestine demonstration that kicked off in cities across Australia on Sunday, amid rising starvation in Gaza.

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Aboriginal elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe at Camp Sovereignty.

‘We’re not going to go away’: Call for better access to burial site in Kings Domain

Uncle Robbie Thorpe and Indigenous advocates want the area, known as Kings Domain Resting Place, to be recognised as a ceremonial space and to be made more accessible. 

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Bourke Street Mall has its buzz back.

Melbourne’s key street has got its buzz back, and it’s bigger than, well ...

For years, the city’s spine has been on life support, but a string of new openings suggests our entertainment and retail hub is returning to its best.

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Soak Bathhouse has opened in South Yarra and aims to provide an alternate social space.

The rise and rise of the Melbourne bathhouse

The city’s bathhouse boom is giving Melburnians a healthy way to catch up and reconnect.

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Sam Astafi is leading a push for the southern part of Docklands to break away from the suburb.

Docklands divide: South side in push for secession from rest of suburb

Some residents in the southern part of the suburb want to break away and change the name from Docklands to Yarra’s Edge.

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Luciana and Mario Martini are determined to stay in their home in North Fitzroy as they get older.

Luciana and Mario want to dance into old age at home and avoid aged care

A new documentary is exploring the complicated issue of ageing and the determination of some people to continue living independently.

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The owners of Ponyfish Island at the bar: Jerome Borazio, Grant Smillie and Andrew Mackinnon.

Floods, dead bodies and lost phones: Melbourne’s most unlikely bar

Ponyfish Island is under constant threat of flooding but that hasn’t stopped it from notching up 15 years’ serving drinks under the Evan Walker Bridge on the Yarra River.

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Jo Horgan, founder of Mecca, with staff as she prepares to open the new flagship store in Bourke Street, Melbourne.

‘An enormous risk’: A first look inside Mecca’s Bourke Street megastore

The beauty giant is taking a major gamble on bricks and mortar retail in Melbourne’s CBD as it prepares to open its flagship store this week.

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