So…why should Hotels and Airlines have all the fun?

Yup, that’s right folks - “real-time” online restaurant bookings are coming to RAYV real soon.  Keep you eyes peeled.

From a selection of over 200 of Sydney’s finest dining establishments (with new restaurants being added daily) you’ll soon be able to jump to their page on RAYV and not only review your past dining experiences, but you’ll be able to open the booking calendar, select your preferences (number of people, time etc), view the availability and book in real-time direct from the site.  Could it be any easier?

More info to follow soon.

Kids in the Park

Looking back many years ago my brothers and I use to make jumps out of timber and dirt for our BMX bikes to pass the time, nothing was more cool then that in them days!

Now this is SOOO cool the Monster Mountain X and BMX 250 metres of meandering track, downhill and dirt jumps at the Sydney Olympic Park. A great way to have fun and test them mountain bike skills for young and old.

Where?: Sydney Olympic Park
Date?: Everyday
Time?: Sunrise to Sunset 7am - 6pm
Tickets/Bookings?: N/A
Cost:? FREE!!
Age Limits: 10 years and above
More Info Email info@sydneyolympicpark.com.au

School Holiday Fun! at the Australian National Maritime Museum, a great way to get the kids out of the house and your hair.

Start Date: 28 June 2009

Join our pirate guide on a hunt to find the hidden treasure and make a pirate bandanna to take home.

Times?:
11am-12.30pm

1pm-2.30pm

How much?: $10 per child/$5 members (includes entry to all children’s activities)

Age limit?: Suitable for children over 5 years.

Bookings essential: 9298 3655

Where:?
Street address:
2 Murray Street
Darling Harbour
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
For more informtaion check out the  Australian National Maritime Museum website click here

Customs House Square forecourt

7 & 8 July 2009, 7am - 4pm

Customs House will host a photo gallery of work by Australian born international photographer Russell James for the Australasian launch of his retrospective photography book ‘Russell James’.

James is known for his work for Vogue and Victoria’s Secret, as well as his personal nomadic work focused on the Aboriginal peoples. This exhibition will feature on Customs House Square forecourt in an erected gallery and will be open to the public on 7 & 8 July.

When?: 7 July 2009 – 8 July 2009 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Where?: Customs House Square forecourt
Further details at Customs House Website

After two years of sharing a room in a mental institution Elling (Darren Gilshenan) and Kjell (Lachy Hulme) are allowed out, back into society. It’s not that they’re dangerous, they’re just a little… hopeless.

Elling is too smart. Too sensitive. Too… Elling. And Kjell? Well, Kjell has a plan, a dream, a great ambition. He wants to lose his virginity. Preferably today.

For full article on Sydney Theatre Company website click here

Tickets / Bookings
Box Office: Visit website for further details or

Box Office
Mon: 9am-7pm
Tue-Fri: 9am-8.30pm
Sat: 11am-8.30pm
Sun: 2 hours prior to show (Performance days only)
Tel: (02) 9250 1777
Fax: (02) 9247 3584
Email: boxoffice@sydneytheatre.com.au
Address
Pier 4, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay NSW 2000

What did you think of Elling? Have your say click here

by Steve Rodgers

This is the story of three lost souls at the edge of Savage River - now just a dam, a mine and a ghost town in Tasmania’s north-west.

From a ramshackle hut by the water, Kingsley forages a living with his young son, Tiger. Times are tough and money in short supply, but with good-humour, invention and resilience they make the best of it, bundled together as family.

One night, Kingsley brings home a stranger, the beguiling Jude. Seemingly in trouble, disorientated and with a moral compass way out of whack, she unwittingly changes three lives overnight.

For the full article check out the Griffin Theatre Conpany website

Where?:  SBW Stables Theatre
10 Nimrod Street
Kings Cross NSW 2011
Season?: 18 June - 18th July
Tickets call Booking line: 02 8002 4472

Something you never forget and that’s how to ride a bike. Thats something I was always told and now its time to get off the couch and go for a ride!  hmmm I just realised I dont have a bike. Think about it a bit. Solution Hire one! (Fits of laughter) I can see my first date with the girl I like on one of them tandem bikes.

Sydney Olympic Park now offers a great range of mountain, hybrid and children’s bikes for hire including dragsters, choppers and cruisers, tandems and trikes.

Bike Hire @ Sydney Olympic Park is available 7 days a week (except Christmas Day) from Bicentennial park (near Lilies on the park cafe). Selected bikes can also be hired every weekend and on public holidays from Blaxland Riverside Park (at the Information Booth).

For more info on Costs and other important details click here

Call for submissions

All Australian photographers are invited to submit to Sydney Life, a large format photography exhibition, held each year in Hyde Park North as part of Art & About.

Sydney Life Photography Exhibition and Prize (valued at $10,000)

This exhibition is a major component of Australia’s biggest public arts festival, Art & About and features 22 works by Australian photographers, displayed along the beautiful grand central walkway of Hyde Park North.

For full details checkout City Of Sydney Website  click here

When?: 5 June 2009 – 7 July 2009  – 5:00 PM

Entries close 5pm on Tuesday 7 July 2009.

Power and Panache

Walton’s First Symphony is easily the most powerful music he ever wrote. He thought he was a fool to take it on – ‘treading where so many angels have come a “cropper”’ – but rose to the challenge with music of intensity and strength, even a sense of defiance. Hugh Wolff returns with an incisive interpretation of this breathtaking symphony – sure to be a revelation.

For full article check out the Sydney Symphony Website click here

When:? June 17th,19th,20th
Where:? Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
Time:? 8PM
How to buy tickets and bookings details click here

This is so cool! Everyone should experience Life Drawing during their life time and get that artistic flow going. I found the perfect place to do it  the world famous Friend in Hand Pub at Glebe Sydney. Professional Artists  conduct classes in Life Drawing. I even say take a friend. Friend in hand runs many other activities check out the website for details.

Where?: 58 Cowper Street GLEBE Sydney
When?: Mondays 6:30pm
How much?: $10.00
For more information Check out the Friend in Hand website

(Male & Female models)

Share your thoughts about your Friend In Hand Experience (Life Drawing)?Click Here