This is our last ‘snapshot’ before we turn up the creative heat for winter with Lost and Found Volume II. As of June you can expect deeper insights into underbelly happenings, more pictures, competitions, Guest Editors such as London fashion's bad boy Kim Jones, and a brand new look from Melbourne based design studio Chase & Galley.

Don't forget, Tourism Victoria is launching a user-generated forum in June. It's called The Red Thread and it basically exists so that people can share their Melbourne experiences with others. There is a really simple competition to get some great creative content up online. They are inviting people to submit a snapshot of their Melbourne experience and are offering a $2,000 prize for best video, $2,000 for best photo and $2,000 for best text. Entries close June 7, 2007. Go to visitvictoria.com/redthread to enter.

When Order and Progress declared they were disappearing from level six of Curtin House, Melbourne hipsters shook in their Melissas. Where would they go for a fix of Alexander Herchcovitch, space-rave TV and rainbow Oestudio? Luckily they didn't have to shake for long, as the store reappeared three floors down in a bigger, brighter and more beautiful space. Packed with all the original Brazillian fashion bits and new pieces from hard-to-find designers such as Rittenhouse, Princess Tina and Hamish Munro (who does wearable things with braided rope), O&P has also scored the biggest range of LA label Mike&Chris in the country.

Order and Progress, Level 3, Curtin House 252 Swanston St, Melbourne, tel: (03) 9654 1329

Gallery hopping can be sweaty work, particularly on the deceptively steep slopes of Flinders Lane. They may be two kilos lighter and clutching at their chests, but those who make it to the top only need to remember a number and a word: fortyfivedownstairs. Conveniently these are also the directions. The creaking stairs descend to a raft of polished floorboards and a huge gallery with plenty of headroom.

First impressions induce visions of a New York loft, where Truman and Andy types might mingle for erudite critique. Not only housing an array of modern art, the gallery features regular music, dance and drama shows in the open space downstairs (at Downstairs). Until 2 June you can find photography by Marjan Stojkovski in an exhibition entitled Life Drawing, and a collection of paintings and sculpture by Christopher Beaumont, Alana Kennedy, Grant Nimmo and Adriane Strampp. For those who like their art live and moving, Verve Studios is presenting the play Crave by Sarah Kane here until 3 June.

fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, tel: (03) 9662 9966

Without fireworks or fanfare, and still unknown to some, a new venue has arisen on the site of a former boozy late-night Russell Street karaoke joint. The Red Hummingbird has flown under the radar for long enough to make it Melbourne’s hot new (slightly hard-to-find) drinking spot. Visitors are tipped off at street-level by a red birdcage dangling curiously above the door. Heading upstairs they discover a spacious-yet-cosy bar with low-slung leather ottomans, plush cushions and super flattering Moroccan-lamp-style lighting. It is, in fact, ideal date territory.

But as they recline in cocktail-fuelled luxury, some newcomers remain blissfully unaware that the best is yet to come. Another set of stairs leads to a rooftop bar complete with mezzanine deck, beer on tap and an ample array of undercover lounges. There may be no singing here, but who needs open mic when it's open air, open slather?

The Red Hummingbird, Level 1, 246 Russell Street, Melbourne, tel: (03) 9654 2266