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NewsConcrete Playground’s Melbourne Writers Festival 2015 Reading List
Put this wintry weather to good use and get clued in for MWF.
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NewsBrisbane Writers Festival Announces 2015 Program
Those with a penchant for prose will feel well and truly pampered.
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NewsThe Onion Is Launching a New Web Series Parodying Vice Media
Throwing acid in the face of ignorance.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things Happening in Sydney This Weekend
Whether it's gourmet coffee, old-school hamburgers, indie flicks or the very best Splendour in the Grass sideshows, Concrete Playground has you covered.
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NewsTake a Delicious, Delicious Tour of Nick Offerman's Pizza Farm
“If it’s on a plant, it’s good for you, who cares how it got there.”
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NewsConcrete Playground's Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015 Reading List
Put this wintry weather to good use and get clued in for FODI.
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GuideGroup Dining: The Best International Restaurants for Celebrating the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023™
Get the gang together to fully embrace this footy season with a culinary journey throughout Sydney.
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GuideEight Vivid Sydney Highlights to Add to Your Diary If You Want to Farewell Winter with a Bang
Put these big-ticket items on your hit list, stat.
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GuideTen Sydney Solstice Highlights You Should Have on Your Radar This Winter
Don’t hibernate — head to debaucherous feasts, aquarium nightclubs and music-filled stargazing sessions instead.
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GuideSix Gigs to Catch During Sydney Solstice If You Can't Get Enough of Live Tunes
After so many months without live music, you've got some catching up to do — here's your chance.
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GuideNine Outdoor Adventures You Can Have in Sydney This Winter If You Unabashedly Love the Cold
Embrace your favourite season with laneway dance parties, harbourside ice rinks and kayak trips under the stars.
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NewsFestival of Dangerous Ideas Announces Huge 2015 Lineup
With Jon Ronson, Naomi Klein and Peter Greste all bringing their soapboxes to the Opera House.
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NewsBrisbane Festival Reveals Complete 2015 Lineup
Backyard cinema, an all-male Importance of Being Earnest and a brand new festival village.
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NewsGrey Gardens Projects Exhibition Space to Open in Fitzroy
With a gallery and performance space, coffee bar and a brand new permanent home for Speakeasy Cinema.
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NewsThe State of Fun in Australia
Gelato Messina, The Festivalists, Giant Dwarf and Secret Garden discuss active play, festival culture and whether red tape is killing creativity.
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NewsSydney Fringe 2015 Has a Brand New Festival Village
Expect prohibition-style gin bars, masquerade horror installations and a huge focus on Erko.
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NewsLee Lin Chin Announced as Australia's Official Eurovision Spokesperson Because All Is Well
"I’m not worried about being up early, I’ll just have to take a break from the clubs for 20 minutes."
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NewsGiant Dwarf to Launch New Event Where Pollies Present Their Own Slide Night
Kristina Keneally and Julian Morrow invite Australian politicians to bring along their own personal photos — and explain themselves.
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NewsHumans of New York's Brandon Stanton Photographed the 2015 Met Gala
Ordinary people as celebrities, celebrities as ordinary people.
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NewsPalace Theatre to Hold a Huge Garage Sale This Weekend
Take home a piece of the Palace, however bittersweet it may feel.
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NewsEmerging Writers' Festival Announce 2015 Program
This year, EWF tackles the F word — in more ways than one.
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NewsDark Mofo Announces Huge 2015 Program
British jellymongers Bompas and Parr are just the tip of this dark and delicious Tasmanian iceberg.
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NewsNew Store Junky Comics Is a Space for More Than Just Buying Books
Vintage superheroes, introspective indie titles and art exhibitions all meet at West End's brand new bookshop.
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NewsSydney Writers' Festival Announces 2015 Lineup
Learn 'how to live' with Mohsin Hamid, Helen Macdonald, Alan Cumming and David Walliams.
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NewsStephen Hawking to Deliver His First Ever Australian Lecture
An evening with one of the greatest minds of the modern age.
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NewsNine Incredible Things You're Missing at SXSW This Year
From Tinder robots to Kwik-E-Mart food trucks and virtual reality SNL, SXSW 2015 has truly opened with a bang.
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NewsVivid Sydney Announces Huge 2015 Program
Giant Rococo pigs, interactive games of duck, duck, goose, Sufjan Stevens and TV on the Radio.
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NewsAll the Life Advice You Need from Terry Pratchett
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
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NewsAnita Sarkeesian to Talk #Gamergate in Melbourne
She explained #Gamergate to Stephen Colbert. Now it's your turn.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to See and Do During Mardi Gras 2015
The parade is just the cherry on top.
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NewsThe Eight Best Ways to Celebrate Chinese New Year in Melbourne
Dragon dances, illuminated Chinatown laneways, kung fu cinema for White Night and all the dumplings you can handle.
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NewsNew Web Comedy 'The Katering Show' Skewers Foodie Culture
"The journey of a food intolerant, and an intolerable foodie."
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to See, Do and Taste at Sydney Chinese New Year 2015
From food markets to lantern warriors, the Year of the Sheep is bringing quite a bounty.
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NewsNYC Bar Marie's Crisis to Pop Up for First Spectrum Now Festival
This festival bar is no passive drinking spot.
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GuideThe Six Best Things to See at MELT Festival
Your guide to Brisbane's newest summer arts event.
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GuideConcrete Playground Does Sydney Festival 2015
Everything we're watching, eating, dancing to, swinging on and Instagramming this festival.
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NewsGo Backstage Before the Show with the Opera House's Summerhouse Program
Sydney's most iconic venue has gone troppo.
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NewsJurassic Lounge Heads Back to the Australian Museum
Your favourite after-hours museum party is back.
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NewsShould One of Sydney's Main Museums Move to Parramatta?
Premier Mike Baird wants to pick up the Powerhouse Museum and plonk it down in Western Sydney, but a Questacon-like offshoot could be the better option.
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NewsAfter Hours Circus Extravaganza to Launch at the Powerhouse Museum
Run away to the circus, without fully committing.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Summer Reading List
Ten books from this year that no bibliophile should miss.
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NewsAnita Sarkeesian Heads Lineup for All About Women 2015
She explained #Gamergate to Stephen Colbert. Now Sydney.
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NewsA Pedestrian-Friendly CBD May Have to Make Way For More Cars
Plans include narrowing CBD footpaths. Actually narrowing them.
