Header image blatantly nicked from Festival Girl The Love Vintage Show and Sale takes over the Hordern Pavilion all weekend - the site will groan beneath a monstrous collection of retro, vintage and limited edition apparel, footwear, jewelry and assorted knick-knacks. Swing dancing, boogie bands and fashion parades will distract you from the omnipresent odor of mothballs and workshops will limber you up for bouts of high-speed credit card desecration. Shop hard, ladies, this is going to be a big one. WHAT: Love Vintage Fashion Show and Sales WHERE: The Hordern Pavilion WHEN: 23rd March - 25th March HOW MUCH: $14 bucks on the door. The rest depends on what you feel like spending, dear! Who will be there? All of these legends and more, that's who: * My 50s Closet - retails original vintage fashion from the 50's. * Nelly Bligh - Vintage sewing accessories, jewellery, patterns, fabric, linen & clothing. * OK Wow - Vintage clothing, accessories & fabrics. * Kaleidoscope - Vintage & retro fashion, accessories patterns, jewellery, textiles. * Kathy Gaffney Vintage Linen -Antique & vintage linen, lace, christening gowns, jewellery. * Leigh's Collectables -Unique antique, vintage & collectable jewellery. * Love Me or Leave Me -Gorgeous vintage dresses and accessories from the 1950s. * Magik Eyes - Vintage Sunglasses - Original, designer-brand vintage sunglasses, never worn. Caps & scarves. * Miss Parasol -Ladies, gents & children's vintage umbrellas & parasols for the sun & rain.

A new not for profit gallery space is putting the call out for local artists who want to mount their virginal walls. But first, a boozy launch: Gallery 2010's opening exhibition will feature new works by one of Australia’s pre-eminent fashion and celebrity portraiture photographers, Christopher Morris. The collection in Yo No hablo Español is a stunning selection from Christopher’s personal works. In 2011 Christopher returned to Central North Mexico, capturing the banality of the everyday and giving it a sense of dignity. Christopher’s photographs evoke a strength, beauty, and timelessness in the ordinary.  Also FREE WINE from the great lads at Cake Wines  Want to oust Christopher Morris as the Mayor of Gallery 2010 with your own exhibition? Contact sam@theofficespace.com.au WHAT: Gallery 2010 Opening exhibition featuring Christopher Morris WHERE: 69 Reservoir St, Surry Hills, 2010 WHEN: Thursday 8 March 2012 6pm – 8pm, Friday 9 March 6pm – 8pm, Saturday 10 March 10am – 4pm, Sunday 11 March 11am – 3pm HOW MUCH: Free

Holly had a blog about flowers. Not content limiting her horticultural addiction to the www's, she has opened a pop-up florist in Manly's Sugarmill Fine Surf Emporium. Coffee, fashion, local art and flowers. Your girlfriend is going to love it. Also, Holly looks toats babe. WHAT: Flower Drum Pop-Up Florist WHEN: Saturdays, weekly WHERE: Sugarmill Fine Surf Emporium, 2/1329 Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen HOW MUCH: Arrangements start at $10

Count to a hundred and play hide and seek with the latest addition to the Sydney small bar scene. To play, first head to Clarence Street. Seek out a deserted alleyway at street number 156. Walk down and follow the directions of a man pointing left. Open the door and go down the steps. If you've made it this far, you better set up a tent in the candlelit confines; you won't be leaving anytime soon. Run by the award-winning Shady Pines crew, The Baxter Inn has all the tell-tale signs of a small bar - dimly lit, no signage and themed. That's where the similarity ends. The focus is the long wooden bar manned by a decent number of dapper bartender gentlemen. Liquor bottles cozily line the wall, nestled among fairy lights. The selection is so epic it requires each bartender to use a library-style booze ladder to reach their desired bottle. Hosting and boasting more than 300 types of whisky, this could be a secret bar from the 1930s (I still have my suspicions that it is). We hand our fate over to award-winning bar manager Lewis Jaffrey of Grandma’s Bar fame. He expertly whips up a concoction that has the perfect balance of freshly squeezed apple juice, (made right in front of you), whisky and unknown additions, a drink not found on the menu. The Continental Sour, the Baxter signature take on a New York Sour, comes highly recommended, made up of rye whisky, egg white, lemon and a sweet hint of Young Blood red wine. Lewis takes us for a short tour into an old bank vault that’s been fashioned into an impressive wine cellar with an even more impressive wine list sourced by the enigmatic Enrique Mendoza. Bowls of pretzels are passed around; you can hear yourself speak over the old school tunes in the background. There are enough tables and booths to sit at and stools lining the bar; sit there and it's likely you will get to know all the bartenders and a few locals too. No detail is left untouched; from large hand cut ice cubes, to sockets lining the bar for phone charging convenience. Having only opened last week, The Baxter Inn has already been attracting a decent sized crowd on a Tuesday night. Decorated with fog horns and old style coin machines, take a trip back in time, but try to do so before the crowds ebb you out. WHAT The Baxter Inn WHERE The Basement, 152-156 Clarence St WHEN 4pm-1am, Monday-Saturday  Sheree Joseph www.twitter.com/flyfromadream

Bondi's Camera Club presents Meet The Locals - an international photographic exhibition of street-style snaps from all over the planet. Twenty of the world's leading fashion photographers and street fashion bloggers have each selected five photos for a paste-up style display in the first globally curated event at The Camera Club. There’s submissions from bloggers as far afield as Malaysia, New York and Beijing plus a healthy contingent of Sydney snapperazi. Check out some profiles on the artists here. The exhibition kicks off Thursday at the Beach Road Hotel and it’s FREE WHAT: Camera Club pres. Meet The Locals WHEN: Thursday, 1st December @ 7:00pm WHERE: Beach Road Hotel, Bondi

FROM THE HEART OF THE FOREST TO THE EDGE OF THE ROADIt's the end and beginning of an exciting era for the cultural curiosity journal, Ampersand Magazine, - their fourth edition is out now, bringing them round about to officially become a quarterly mag. Now I hope that we may look forward to their colourful pages arriving with each new season...This journal, a handy pocket-sized package bursting at its colourful seams with glossy photos, poetry, critiques, cartoons, fiction and more, sidesteps the mainstream in favour of the uncut, unfashionable and unpredictable. Here's a sneaky preview...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A5muYIFu5E&feature=player_detailpageThis edition delves into remoteness; exploring the desolation and emptiness, but also the opportunities and escapism that lie beyond the suburbs.A huge huge success for the brainchild of editor, Alice Gage, this issue brings together a massive creative line up of contributors including (to name drop a few) Tracy Moffatt, Bob Brown, Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint's drummer), playwright Tommy Murphy, Fabian Muir, poet John Forbes, Craig Reynolds and My Darling Patricia. Within the pages are a whole bunch of pieces old and new, a mesh of words and images, hilarious, disturbing and hiding a great big melting pot of things that you'd never even thought about.Launched in the ballroom of the National Library of NSW on Tuesday night, the room was brimming with many an individual of Sydney's creative underworld and bursting with good food, wine, images and stories.An impressive culmination of the first full quarterly and an exciting taste of, hopefully, more to come... when's that summer edition due folks?Ampersand Magazine (Spring 2011), $10 from these stockists.http://www.ampersandmagazine.com.au/Liz de Fegely: liz_defegely@hotmail.com

Summer is coming to Bondi this weekend. Fashionably speaking, that is. There won’t be sun (according to those darn Bureau of Meteorology kids) but there will be bikinis, fake tans, six-packs and sunsets galore at the Speedo Fashion Parade. It’s all going down at the Bondi Sunburn Store. You can hang out with former Miss Universe Australia, Rachael Finch and the guy that made photography a hipster sport, Aquabumps legend Eugene Tan. They'll be there signing autographs (on paper, not bare chests, people!) and having their photos taken with fans. Meanwhile, models will be swanning about in Speedo's latest Spring/Summer swimwear. If you're bored on a rainy Saturday, this could be the ultimate pick-me-up.Speedo Aquabumps Fashion ParadeBondi Beach Sunburn, 178 Campbell ParadeSaturday 10th September, 201112 - 2pm Leesa Hamiltonleesa.hamilton@gmail.com

As part of their latest exhibition On Sale! the Library of NSW is opening its doors next Tuesday night for a rare little bargain. Fashion After Hours, the first of weekly events surrounding the show, will kick off next week so that you can enjoy a glass or two as you meander through the 250 vintage treats that have been dug up from the archives for the display. First up for these Tuesday night sessions will see designers Claire Press of Mrs Press and Anna Plunkett, the mind behind romance was born, chatting away with the exhibition's curator, Margot Riley, to take you through the design journey from runway to the mass market. The exhibition harks back to the simple days of yesteryear with an array of retro advertising paraphernalia, catalogues, photos and promo goods and follows all the way through to the massive chain stores and online shopping of today. Bar opens at 5pm. Talk starts at 6. And how much, do you say? FREE. On Sale! Shops and Shopping, Exhibition Galleries, The Library of New South Wales Open now until 30 November http://bit.ly/oLDbBl And speaking of libraries... Make sure you head on down to one of these City of Sydney Libraries in the next month to express that little bit of poetic genius that you've been keeping bundled up inside. From the 1st of August, these libraries have been immersed in 40 days of Poetry as part of the Stacks project put on by the Red Room Company. The aim of this literary treasure hunt is to find the pretty little cards the red room had produced for their poems to share series that are scattered throughout the rows of shelves. Each card has a poem or excerpt from a selection of our best Australian poets while the other side prompts you to be creative and write down your own musings. All writing collected over the 40 days will be collated on the red room website and the top poems of the bunch published in the Sun-Herald. Now well into it's second week, you can see the massive responses from Sydney poets here.So quick, don that beret if you must, and unleash your creative. 40 days of poetry, 1 August - 9 September, City of Sydney Libraries listed http://bit.ly/mdx92o Liz de Fegely liz_defegely@hotmail.com

MOTORIKTechno party. Downstairs in the Beauchamp's secret Rave-Cave. I can't tell you anymore than that really, otherwise you'll all wanna go and there'll be no room for me :(WHERE: The Beauchamp, 265-267 Oxford StWHEN: TonightHOW MUCH: FREETHE SYDNEY INSTITUTE'S HISTORY OF DESIGN A free exhibition displaying everything from the Sydney Institute’s 120 years of leading edge design. Showcasing the techniques and technologies used to train their students, as well as displaying never before seen photos and artefacts representing some of the top work from the 900,000 or so graduates since its birth in 1891.A celebration of fashion, architecture, jewellery, animation, everything and anything design.WHERE: The Muse, Ultimo TAFE Building C, NSW TAFE, 695 Harris St, UltimoWHEN: 1-28 August, 10am – 4pmLINK: http://bit.ly/pcQuBuWAREHOUSE SALE If you can't bring yourself to spend your hard earned coin on 'spency designer threads when you know they'll eventually go on sale, get yourself to this larger-than-large sample sale this weekend with pieces from THERESE RAWSTHORNE, ROMANCE WAS BORN & FRIEDRICH GRAY.WHERE: 401 Crown St, Surry Hills (across from Surry Hills Park)WHEN: Saturday 6th August 10am-6pmLINK: http://bit.ly/ntkEyVHAVE AN EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTER THROUGH ‘SITUATIONIST’ The latest iPhone App from the unpredictable artistic duo, Benrik, the guys behind the bestselling book ‘The Diary Will Change Your Life’ series.This app aims to bring a thrilling spontaneity to your everyday encounters with strangers, alerting members of their proximity to each other and then inviting them to interact with each other by supplying a profile photo and command.These instructions range from the innocent, ‘Compliment me on my haircut’ and ‘wave at me like a long lost friend’ to the political ‘Help me rouse everyone around us into revolutionary fervour and storm the nearest TV station’.Members pick their own shortlist of interactions and although they can suggest their own these are screened to dissuade creepy stalker behaviour. Photos are also moderated to prevent Chatroulette-style shenanigans.I’m sceptical and intrigued. Give it a shot – you never know who you’re going to meet.WHERE: Out and AboutWHEN: Whenever you likeWHAT: Interactive Iphone App LINK:  http://www.situationistapp.com/ 

The basketball hoop. A classic image of suburbia, an ingenious procrastination tool, a means of exercise, and an image that is sure to resonate with everyone who grew up in a house with a driveway in the 'burbs. Photographer Robert Gray, with a background in fashion and sports photography, describes how he "discovered hoops everywhere. From beautiful mansions to driveways and small rustic houses. There is a great story behind each dormant hoop and they create a powerful sense of nostalgia." He collected images from America, Hawaii, western NSW and around Sydney to put together Hoops, a photographic series that explores the purpose of an object (the basketball hoop) after fulfilling its intended function. As in... after you've gotten bored with acting out the Basketball Diaries every weekend. Sport, landscapes, suburbia, a twinge of loneliness and a whole lotta nostalgia is wrapped up in Hoops. Get yourself down to Kind Of Gallery from tonight until August 14.Hoops - a photographic exhibition by Robert GrayAugust 4-14 (opening tonight at 7pm)Kind Of Gallery: 72 Oxford St, Darlinghurstwww.robertgrayphotography.com.auSophie McComassoph_mccomas@hotmail.com

Tuesday is a bit of a nothing day. Especially in winter (and this apocalyptic rain that's been going on doesn't help) when after work all you feel like doing is dashing home to shelter amongst mountains of woollens and central heating.So time to make something out of nothing and bring back a bit of warm reverie to Tuesday night on the town.What better way than trying your hand at a bit of rockin' BINGO. Take that leap out into the rain and head over to Darlinghurst where the now familiar Darlie Laundromatic is serving up rock and roll bingo every Tuesday night. The old legs eleven and two fat ladies have been ditched for Axle Rose, Morrison, Mitchell and Elvis. And the little old bingo ladies ousted for beehive hairdos and fashionistas of the Happy Days era. The great thing about bingo? You don't even need skills for this game. Perfect for that midweek night out when the haze of Monday's still hanging over and the weekend's just that little bit far away. Let's hope your card's a little luckier than mine was though to wrangle yourself a fabulous laundrette prize.JD specials all night, $5 Tsing Tao cans, mouthwatering gourmet toasties, exotic spins on hot dogs and a sweet swingin' rock and roll soundtrack.DARLIE LAUNDROMATIC - bar & cafeWhere: 304 Palmer Street, DarlinghurstWhen: Open 11am - 11pm Tuesday - Saturday (Sundays starting up in August!)Link: http://darlielaundromatic.com/Phone: (02) 8095 0129

Three nights of creative collaboration presented by Siberia and Chocolate Jesus Industries at Goodgod Small ClubAmazing line-up presenting music in a completely unique, perhaps never to be repeated format.See some magic unwravel at the first gig on July 7th.JULY 7GoodGod Small Club,53-55 Liverpool St, Sydney CBDin alphabetical orderDONNY BENET (Melb)BROUSKIRIN J CALLINANERIK OMENPIKEWith an improvised performance from Fashion Launches Rocket Launchesand music by El Peludo (aka Andre from Hand Of Tyme / 2SER)  More info on the Siamese Facebook GroupxDS