Once again, the streets of Adelaide will light up and the city will explode with excitement as we celebrate the opening of the 2013 Adelaide Fringe this Friday the 15th of February.

As usual, thousands of eager onlookers are expected to line Adelaide’s premier boulevard, King William Street, to welcome an array of floats and Fringe artists in the Fringe Parade as they ‘strut their stuff’ from North Terrace to Victoria Square.

The Parade commences from 8.30pm, signalling the start of four weeks of Fringe mayhem, and will mesmerise revellers with a wonderful array of stunning floats and costumes, all around the theme of ‘Lit from Within’.

hanks to innovative fuel cell technology, a former milk factory in historic Port Adelaide is aiming to become the nation’s greenest commercial office building.

Developed by boutique property development group Acdev, the St Vincent Street property – built in 1921 – has been converted into a premium quality office building featuring five ‘BlueGen’ ceramic fuel cell units, which convert natural gas to electricity and heat. It is the single largest commercial fuel cell installation in Australia.

Combined with a 22kW, 90-panel photovoltaic solar cell installation, the two storey, 1,100 square metre property has been designed to be carbon negative, with the solar power system generating enough energy to more than offset emissions from the natural gas used to operate the fuel cells. The predicted operational greenhouse gas emissions savings associated with this project is 55 tonnes of CO2 emitted per annum – the equivalent of taking 50 cars off the road for a year.

This year Yellow Pages© is introducing new metropolitan phone books for Adelaide which will also serve as local business directories. To add to the local flavour of your phone book, Yellow Pages® wants people from Adelaide to submit photographs to feature on the cover as part of their Capture the Cover competition.

With the photographic theme of “‘Through the Eyes of a Local” in mind, Adelaide residents are invited to submit original photographs from their area that best depict life in their community. Your entries will showcase the best of Adelaide, whether that’s an iconic building, your favourite coffee shop, a secluded natural spot you love to relax in, or a seasonal experience that’s unique to our city.

Entering the competition is easy…

Adelaide Central Market is much more than a meeting place for friends, a place to purchase fresh local produce, and a place to get a bargain on Saturday morning. Adelaide Central Market also offers activities every Friday, always food centred, often focussing on local produce.

This Friday 6th of July at 5pm, four greats of the Australian food and wine community will be at the south-west corner of the Adelaide Central Markets for ‘Beef, Butter, Truffles and Wine’. Until 7:30pm there will be an opportunity to talk with them and taste their produce. Beef, Butter, Truffles and Wine promises to be an excellent display of food and wine… and the best bit? It’s all free!

The call is out for South Australian women to help make Christmas come early for some of the State’s most disadvantaged people at a unique networking event. The Christmas in July event A Cracker of a Night, on Monday 23rd July, is being held for women to meet while making a difference.

Multi award winning social enterprise m.a.d.woman – making a difference, SA organisation Female Friendly and event promoter Jedo are joining forces to run the event to support Foodbank Australia – which supports more than 2,500 charities nationwide.