Norwood parades onto global cool list | Fishy seafood vending push | Departmental dating
This week, InSider finds Norwood hailed among the internationally grungy and glamorous, a new way to buy some South Australian seafood, and some weird courting.
‘Heritage meets hip’ in Adelaide suburb
London magazine TimeOut has named Norwood one of the 38 ‘coolest’ neighbourhoods in the world, right up there with grungy Freidrichshain in Berlin and glamorous East Hollywood in LA.
The publication looked at food, drinks, arts, culture, street life, community and “one-of-a-kind flavour” to determine its list which placed Notre-Dame-du-Mont, Paris in top spot.
Norwood placed 35th in the rankings, with TimeOut noting the neighbourhood is where “heritage meets hip”.
“You could spend a whole day strolling down its leafy main drag, The Parade, which is lined with stylish boutiques, eclectic galleries and a drinking hole on pretty much every street corner,” TimeOut said.
The strip’s best spots were highlighted including eatery Argo, retailers A Trip To The Moon and Bauhaus, gallery Art Images and dining hotspot Arkhé (something tells us they’ve been reading CityMag).
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Sadly, Norwood wasn’t the top-ranked Australian neighbourhood; that honour went to Chippendale in Sydney which landed the 7th position.
Other Aussie suburbs to get the nod: Windsor in Melbourne (10th) and Northbridge in Perth (21st).
Anyone feeling peckish?
The Lower Eyre Council has invited expressions of interest from local seafood producers to stock a – wait for it – seafood vending machine at Port Lincoln Airport.
Don’t get us wrong, InSider has big respect for South Australia’s seafood industry, but something about the words ‘seafood’ and ‘vending machine’ together have left us feeling a little… squeamish.
“With 180,000 passengers travelling through our airport annually, it has been identified to further enhance Port Lincoln Airport users experience is [sic] to have seafood available at the airport by way of a unique vending machine,” the council said.
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Unique is right. What better way to remember your trip to the beautiful Eyre Peninsula than some delicious seafood out of a machine?
While some may have suspicions about such a dubious culinary treat, the refrigerated vending machine will be required to meet all relevant health and safety standards. That doesn’t mean you’ll be safe from fellow plane passengers who may not be thrilled if you pull out some lovely vending machine oysters to snack on instead of a Kit-Kat.
‘I guess they are data-ing’
InSider is a keen follower of social media accounts – where else can you find political gems? – but has been saddened that many public service accounts have gone from grey to greyer.
Even the Australian Federal Police, whose posts used to have zing, have moved to mimicking crime podcasts from what used to be hilarity (Insider notes that this is because Adelaide social media manager Caitlin Jinks left the cops to join recycled toilet paper company Who Gives a Crap).
So it was with glee that we found the CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Statistics professing their love for each other on #LoveNoteDay yesterday.
The CSIRO started it with:
And the Stats boffins replied:
InSider was also impressed with the reader feedback (one of which we stole for the headline)… click on the comments for a laugh.
