Correspondent

Wren Calloway

Wren follows the smell of a good feed through Melbourne's markets and back lanes.

Friends gathered around food on a cold night at a Melbourne market

Christmas in July Is Back at the Queen Vic: Fake Snow, Mulled Wine, Fire Pits

The Queen Victoria Market's Winter Night Market runs every Wednesday until late August, free entry, with a full Christmas-in-July overlay in July. Here is the easiest, warmest plan in the city.

By Wren Calloway18 June 20263 min

Read the city. Then meet it.

The Dispatch is the reading. Hey Sini is the doing: a standing weekly table of five people near you, the same five, every week.

New in Melbourne?Take a seat

The Dispatch is written under pen names by Hey Sini's editors. The reporting is real; the bylines are a house tradition.