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  • Brisbane’s biggest Easter chocolate buffet

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    Tanya Heading

    If you like chocolate, this event will be the highlight of your year! The team at Bistro Allure will take you to a whole new level of chocolate appreciation to celebrate Easter, from Monday 18th April to Monday 2nd May 2011. For just $20, you can indulge in as much chocolate as you dare for…

  • TQ launches Million Dollar Memo campaign to the world

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Businesses around the world will go head to head for a $1 million Queensland travel package in Tourism Queensland’s latest global marketing campaign. Companies and workplaces around the globe would vie for the opportunity to win a luxury Queensland reward as part of the Million Dollar Memo campaign. On Friday 18 March, domestic and international businesses were…

  • Why do clothes cost what they do?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Because of my retail background, I was drawn to this story by Jade Warne, featured in the Shop til you drop magazine, which I have temporarily stolen from my daughter, who has never forgiven me for leaving the retail industry. Why do clothes cost what they do? How do you know if the price is…

  • Equal out the St Paddy’s Day Boozefest with ReelFit!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Fee diddly dee potatoes! It’s March 17 and St Paddy’s Day and I’m excited! The one day of the year where we celebrate all things Irish – drinking, drinking and well… drinking! But this St Paddy’s Day you can enjoy a night of drinking AND dancing (which might help equal out the drinking) at the…

  • Accidentally legendary

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    Tanya Heading

    A good friend of mine brought a very interesting site called 9-eyes.com to my attention recently. This site shows a collection of fantastic images that were caught by Google maps with Street View. I’ve shown you a few of my favourites here, but there are plenty more. It just goes to show some of the…

  • Surrealism exhibition to open at GoMA

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    One of the world’s important collections of surrealist art will be shown at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art this winter. Paris’s renowned Centre Pompidou will loan the core of its surrealist collection for Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams, a major survey exhibition showing at GoMA from June 11 to October 2, 2011. The exhibition will include more than 180…

  • Girls, spend the night at IKEA!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    IKEA is a furniture and design marvel. Everything in IKEA screams to me: “Buy me! I am amazing! I am cheap! I look great! You need me!”. I love IKEA like I love chocolate. It’s an addiction. And I know I am not alone when it comes to IKEA love. So, if you’re an IKEA…

  • Green Earth Day to help plant the seeds for change

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Green Earth Day (the brainchild of Leigh-Chantelle Koch) will delight Brisbane greenies this Saturday 12 March at a new venue: Albion Peace Centre, 102 McDonald Road, Windsor, Brisbane. This free, family orientated, community event aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental, green, health and lifestyle, cruelty-free, recycling and sustainable issues into the public eye. Green…

  • Clean Up Australia Day

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Just one day left to Clean Up Australia Day 2011! The event will be held on Sunday, 6 March. Clean Up Australia Day has been running since 1990 and has become the nation’s largest community-based environmental event. It attracts hundreds of thousands of volunteers from the community, schools and businesses to help clean up and…