Next Thursday, December 15, Showcase Gallery, and The Owl House present the first in a series of pop-up dining events. This Thursday's event coincides with Showcase Gallery’s latest exhibition - Drawing Attention by Barry Patenaude. Menu includes signature dishes like stuffed zucchini flowers and confit lamb shoulder from Darlinghurst’s The Owl House, which was recently awarded “Best Food in a Bar” by the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2011. Throughout the three course dinner, diners can check out the works of Barry Patenaude while enjoying gourmet, tapas-style mean from chef John Rankin, partnered with Argentinian wines. WHAT: Drawing Attention Art Dinner WHERE: Showcase Gallery & Dining, Suite 3, Level 2, 85 William Street, Darlinghurst WHEN: 6:30pm Thursday 15th December 2011 HOW MUCH: $85 - limited to strictly 30 places. Tickets here

Seventh Wonderland, maker of swimsuits in eye-popping prints, clever cuts and beautiful colours, will be available in real life, as in not just online, when they pop-up for one month only at the Grand Social Store on Crown St. You can take your pick, and actually try on, the entire S/S 11-12 collection - a jewel-toned one-piece with cut-out detail here, a striped bandeau bikini there, it could get dangerous. Get in quick!Seventh Wonderland Concept StoreNovember 15-December 15The Grand Social Store, 214 Crown St

We got tickets!They're great tickets too because they're tickets that will get you into a bar, a pop-up bar at that, and even better, a SECRET pop-up bar. Exciting, yes? The winemaker collective known as the New Generation Hunter Valley will be popping up in a secret location somewhere in Sydney on Friday October 21 at 6pm, loaded up with cases and cases of their new-wave Hunter Valley wines, which are mighty delicious (we know this for sure because we were there at the last event and drank eeeeeverything in sight). If you want this double pass worth $60, thanks to the sexy ladies over at Winestream, head on over to our facebook page, like us, and tell us why you think pop-up bars are better than regular bars. Easy peasy. The winners will be drawn on Tuesday September 13.For everyone else who doesn't want free tickets (....?) head over to the New Generation Hunter Valley's website and register for tickets and further info. You'll only find out the secret venue if you register, so get clickin'.Sophie McComassoph_mccomas@hotmail.com

Julia Roberts would have loved this in Pretty Woman. She would have high-tailed it to Mulberry in her pleather knee-highs to pick up the latest Alexa bag, clip-clopped over to Miu Miu for some sparkly kicks and then swanned over to Gucci to swap her polyesters for silks before collapsing into the Pommery Champagne Cube weighed down with her success. Open for 5 days only, from Wednesday August 17 (tomorrow!) until Sunday August 21, Westfield have collaborated with Champagne house Pommery to help ease the retail stress which comes with having enough cash to splash at Bottega Veneta (you poor darlings). Help yourself to a glass of chilled, creamy Champagne, and perhaps a Becasse macaron or two before you go off on your merry way to the high life. Minus the pleather. Pommery Champagne Cube August 17-21 Level 3 Westfield Sydney CBD out the front of the Mulberry store. Sophie McComas soph_mccomas@hotmail.com