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The Global Mail: Not-For-Profit News Site Launches
Launched today, the not-for-profit news and features website will offer its readers public interest stories both locally and from around the globe.
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Ten Brands That Should Open Shop in Australia
After the recent explosion of interest in the In-N-Out Burger pop-up store in Sydney, we take a look at the other cult brands we hope hit our shores soon.
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Stuart Ringholt’s Naked Art Tours Come to Sydney
An art tour where all participants must turn up in the flesh, literally.
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Win a Summer’s Supply of C Coconut Water
Show us a plant that you can use to make medicine, soap, a mean green curry, alcohol (and a requisite hangover cure), and bikinis from, and we'll show you a coconut.
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The Top Five Sydney Festival Shows It’s Not Too Late To See
Sydney Festival 2012 may have wrapped up on Sunday, but you can still catch a number of Concrete Playground's highlights on stages around Sydney.
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In-N-Out Burger Pops Up in Sydney
Restaurant Barrio Chino in Kings Cross will undergo an American invasion today, as cult fast-food chain In-N-Out Burger will host a pop-up store for the day from 12 pm.
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Food Trucks to Hit Sydney in 2012
This is one government initiative that all Sydneysiders will welcome with open arms and open mouths.
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Win a Double Pass to St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival Brisbane
For those, like us, who like their festivals a little more niche and boutique, you can't go past St. Jerome's Laneway Festival.
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Win a Double Pass to St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival Sydney
For those, like us, who like their festivals a little more niche and boutique, you can't go past St. Jerome's Laneway Festival.
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Win a Double Pass to See Best Coast
Their upbeat indie sound is laced with surf rock, with lead singer Bethany Cosentino's fantastic voice carrying each song to glorious, summery heights.
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Your Guide to Australia Day 2012 in Sydney
Smack bang in the middle of summer, there is no better time to lounge yourself outdoors for a well-deserved day off.
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Online Community Rallies Against the SOPA & PIPA Proposals
Here are some of our favourite online reactions to the world's most controversial bills.
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Win a Copy of The Summer Guide by Concrete Playground
Well folks, it’s that time of year again, when the rising mercury sends us outdoors en masse, pumping our concrete playground with an energy of revelry and renewal.
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Win a Double Pass to See Martha Marcy May Marlene
A dark and magnetic exploration of human consciousness, Martha Marcy May Marlene exposes the unturned side of humanity that we fear to recognise.
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Peats Ridge Festival 2011 Review
It’s one-seventh the travel time to Woodford, one-fifth the number of Southern Cross tats at Field Day, as picturesque as Falls, and the local line up is without parallel.
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Make Food Not War
Stage a war in the kitchen and attempt to replicate these deliciously evil masterpieces.
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Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of New York
Before he was a filmmaker, Kubrick was a photojournalist for Look Magazine, for whom he captured the street life and subjects of New York City.
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Win a Double Pass to See Young Adult
Director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, who previously collaborated on the Academy Award-winning Juno.
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How Happy is Your City?
A giant emoticon erected above this Bavarian city is set to measure the general mood of the people below.
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Fireworks by Day
A Chinese artist takes modern art to the sky with his daytime fireworks exhibition.
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A-List Actors Become Evil Villains
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and others appear in vignettes as nefarious villains in this online video exhibition by Alex Prager.
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The Ten Best Art Exhibitions in Sydney this Summer
This year Sydney's art institutions have produced an array of promising art events on the horizon to help you push into summer past the new year, whatever else the weather may hold.
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Give Your Bike a New Life
Sydney's resurgence of all things bike-related has translated into a thriving cycle culture.
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Cultural Disappearing Acts
UNESCO has added 'intangible' cultural traditions to the list of the world's endangered phenomena.
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Please, Steal Our Banksy
A Melbourne hotel issues an open invitation to steal their artwork straight off the walls.
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Sydney: The Summer Guide
Welcome to the inaugural Concrete Playground Summer Guide, a comprehensive shortlist of the best this city has to offer over the next three months
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Gourmet Food Hampers for a Good Cause
The Philanthropic Foodie is a demiurgic thinktank that come up with ideas that marry Sydney’s love of fine food and worthwhile charities.
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Sydney’s Noteworthy New Bars and Restaurants
It's summer now and there's no excuses for staying curled up inside, rain or no rain.
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Manly’s New Guard
Manly's reputation as a tourist destination is firmly established - but what about us locals?
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The Summer Film Guide
With La Nina working her unholy magic, you may need to take shelter in your nearest cinema on more than a few summer eves.
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Win a Book of Italy’s Most Beautiful Hotels
Italy is not just about the food, as the folks at Mr & Mrs Smith know.
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The Summer Concert Guide to Sydney
A summer line up this good is not going to be easy on the wallet. Let’s just hope that after a couple of months of epic gigs followed by dusty days at work, you’ve still got your day job.
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From Barley to the Bottle in the Heart of the City
Watch your beer 'grow' from start to finish at this temporary inner city brewery.
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A Guide to this Summer’s Best Beach Reads
In attempt to help out those with a literary whim, Concrete Playground presents the ten best books to read this summer.
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Win a Double Pass to the Rare Finds Festival
To celebrate their fledgling year in business, the guys and girls at Rare Finds are throwing a party, putting on a showcase of their bands, taking over The Zoo and Winn Lane this Saturday.
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Concrete Playground’s Summer Road Trip Essentials
Road trips can be an idealised summertime activity, so Concrete Playground has come up with some tips to make sure you never have a bad one again.
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The Spirit of Youth Awards Set to Grow in 2011/2012
With the competition's expansion into unprecedented categories, there are now more opportunities for Australia's finest creative minds to showcase their work to the world.
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WIN /// Concrete Playground and Jameson Present ‘A Movie Night’
What happens in the world’s largest trash city will transform you.
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Win a Double Pass to the Hola Mexico Film Festival
Foreign films don't have to be so foreign, which is why we are giving you amigos a helping hand - señors and señoritas, we have 25 double passes to the Hola Mexico Film Festival to give away.
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Benetton Receives Hate for its ‘Unhate’ Campaign
The United Colors of Benetton are the centre of controversy after their new 'Unhate' campaign showed some of the world's leading figures locking lips.
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Win a Double Pass to Tiger Translate
Concrete Playground has ten double passes to give away to attend the artistic, musical and beer-infused extravaganza that is Tiger Translate.
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Hemingway’s: A Literary Drinking Hole in Manly
A far cry from the back lanes of Darlinghurst or even the fame of King Street, this bar is firmly situated on Manly's main strip, right across from the beach.