Carlton lunch to celebrate food, friendship and community connection

Carlton lunch to celebrate food, friendship and community connection

Long shared tables, home-style food and live music will transform a Carlton community space next month, as residents gather for a free lunch designed to bring people together.

Business

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Hidden Carlton café blends automation with the art of coffee

August 4th, 2026 - Sean Car

Tucked away in a tiny lane behind the busy corner of Lygon and Elgin streets is a surprising new hospitality venture – a specialty coffee shop with fully automatic machines alongside traditional ones and the aim of providing a relaxing escape.

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Carlton welcomes first international hotel brand

July 13th, 2026 - Sean Car

Carlton has welcomed its first internationally branded hotel, with Crowne Plaza Melbourne Carlton officially opened on July 13 at a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Tourism Minister Natalie Suleyman.

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Da Guido La Pasta enters its next chapter

June 30th, 2026 - Sean Car

After 10 years on Lygon St, Da Guido La Pasta is entering a new chapter, with owner Mirco Cossavella using the milestone to reimagine the Carlton restaurant while preserving the Italian hospitality at its heart.

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Cinema Nova: the heart of Carlton’s film culture

Cinema Nova: the heart of Carlton’s film culture

June 2nd, 2026 - Jenny Denton

Watching films on a big screen “collides with people’s souls in a way we don’t fully understand,” Cinema Nova CEO Kristian Connelly says.

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Feed me. Fill me. Fico me.

Feed me. Fill me. Fico me.

June 2nd, 2026

It reads like a line you shouldn’t say out loud. That’s exactly why you remember it.

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Hidden Carlton café blends automation with the art of coffee

August 4th, 2026 - Sean Car
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Carlton welcomes first international hotel brand

July 13th, 2026 - Sean Car
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Da Guido La Pasta enters its next chapter

June 30th, 2026 - Sean Car
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Cinema Nova: the heart of Carlton’s film culture

June 2nd, 2026 - Jenny Denton
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Feed me. Fill me. Fico me.

June 2nd, 2026

Columns

The International Club of Victoria

The International Club of Victoria

August 4th, 2026 - Sylvia Black

The relatively modest house at 68 Powlett St, East Melbourne once went by the rather grand name of the International Club of Victoria.

Local News

Farewell Inner City News – a short but meaningful chapter

Farewell Inner City News – a short but meaningful chapter

August 4th, 2026 - Sean Car

After 62 editions serving East Melbourne, Carlton and Parkville, Inner City News is signing off – but the stories, relationships and local voices it has helped bring together will continue through The Melburnian.

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Naughtons to toast 10 years under its current custodians

Naughtons to toast 10 years under its current custodians

August 4th, 2026 - Sean Car

Naughtons Hotel will mark 10 years under the stewardship of Ryan Moses and his family with a community celebration on Saturday, August 15, inviting Parkville locals, students, hospital workers and regulars to raise a glass to one of the suburb’s most important meeting places.

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Carlton clinic goes fully bulk-billed

Carlton clinic goes fully bulk-billed

August 4th, 2026 - Sean Car

Carlton’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinic has become 100 per cent bulk-billed, with local patients already responding strongly to the change.

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Vale Barry Dickins: Carlton farewells a prolific man of words and art

Vale Barry Dickins: Carlton farewells a prolific man of words and art

August 4th, 2026 - Jenny Denton

Barry Leonard Dickins, who died in Parkville on July 13 aged 76, was “a renaissance man of the people” and “a real Carlton character”, according to Readings co-owner Mark Rubbo.

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Alleged machete attack driver headed to County Court

Alleged machete attack driver headed to County Court

August 4th, 2026 - Jenny Denton

An accused in the brutal 2025 New Year’s Eve attack on two young men in Lygon St has been committed to the County Court.

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Farewell Inner City News – a short but meaningful chapter

August 4th, 2026 - Sean Car
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Naughtons to toast 10 years under its current custodians

August 4th, 2026 - Sean Car
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Carlton clinic goes fully bulk-billed

August 4th, 2026 - Sean Car
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Vale Barry Dickins: Carlton farewells a prolific man of words and art

August 4th, 2026 - Jenny Denton
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Alleged machete attack driver headed to County Court

August 4th, 2026 - Jenny Denton
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