★★★★★ Sonsa Market Reopens
When Sonsa Market on Smith St was firebombed into oblivion in June last year, The Paris End was shocked. Devastated. And reluctant to report on any, ahem, possible organised crime links, as we retained our fealty to the shop’s gozleme—truly the best in Melbourne. Time passed. Seasons changed. Cam moved to London. Sally moved suburbs. Oscar moved streets. Cam moved back again. Still no Sonsa. Until late last week, that is, when the doors burst open to the public, displaying a glitzy new reno that makes the shop look like it has been fed through a Sonsa Sims rendering program (bright Ikea white and cedar trimmings), but with all the non-perishable goods put back exactly where they were pre-explosion. So, has the goz changed?! We are delighted to announce that the answer is not at all. They’re still serving up those hand-kneaded layers of stretchy, chewy pastry, filled with fresh green spinach and oily, molten feta, served in neat squares with a lemon wedge and a handful of green pickled chillis on the side. It was a challenge not to return immediately for seconds. Welcome back Sonsa Market!
★★★★ McKenzie Wark Lecture
Loitering at Cathedral before McKenzie Wark’s public lecture at the Capitol Theatre last Thursday evening, we bumped into curator and bonafide man about town/Soft Centre Discord, Joel Stern. (The lecture should have been, but was not, titled The Capitol Is Dead; Is This Something Worse?) Stern was buying Wark a coffee; her appearance was courtesy of This Hideous Replica, an RMIT exhibition Stern co-curated. It was past 5pm, and for a moment, we wondered how the Newcastle-born, NYC-based, New School professor was going to get to sleep later. But questions like this are why we’re mere loiterers and Wark is one of our epoch's most prolific critical theorists.
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