Except when burlesque artists strip to their garter belts for the Dr Sketchy’s art school nights (which involves drinking and sketching a burlesque artist – this usually happens every second Tuesday) there’s not much drawing …

You don’t expect to see anything risqué in Darling Harbour and yet on a Friday night there are barmaids in corsets and garters, a burlesque dancer weaving on the dancefloor, a painter dabbing on canvas …

A night in De Nom has always felt like being in a Mexican telenovela (soap opera) for me, even though its décor is inspired by 18th-century France. After all, amongst its chandeliers, silk-tented ceilings and …