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NewsIn-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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NewsFood 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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NewsWin 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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NewsWin 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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NewsWin 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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NewsYour 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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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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NewsOnline 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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NewsWin 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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NewsWin 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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NewsPeats 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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NewsMake Food Not War
Stage a war in the kitchen and attempt to replicate these deliciously evil masterpieces.
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NewsStanley 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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NewsWin 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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NewsHow 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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NewsFireworks by Day
A Chinese artist takes modern art to the sky with his daytime fireworks exhibition.
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NewsA-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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NewsThe 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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NewsGive Your Bike a New Life
Sydney's resurgence of all things bike-related has translated into a thriving cycle culture.
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NewsCultural Disappearing Acts
UNESCO has added 'intangible' cultural traditions to the list of the world's endangered phenomena.
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NewsPlease, 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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NewsGourmet 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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NewsSydney’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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NewsManly’s New Guard
Manly's reputation as a tourist destination is firmly established - but what about us locals?
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NewsThe 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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NewsWin 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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NewsThe 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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NewsFrom 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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NewsA 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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NewsWin 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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NewsConcrete 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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NewsThe 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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NewsWIN /// Concrete Playground and Jameson Present ‘A Movie Night’
What happens in the world’s largest trash city will transform you.
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NewsWin 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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NewsBenetton 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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NewsWin 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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NewsHemingway’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.
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NewsFood Trucks Come to Sydney
The food truck revolution has well and truly taken hold of the U.S. and Sydney is set to finally get its own fleet.
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NewsIt’s Just a Plant: The Children’s Book on Marijuana
The story of a young girl's educational journey as she comes to understand cannabis, explained to her by her parents, a doctor and a kind gang of Rastafarians.
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NewsThe New Seven Natural Wonders of the World
With so many fantastic places to visit around the world, it's often hard to decide where to possibly go. The New7Wonders makes it a little easier for you.
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NewsCockatoo Island Turns Into a Cocktail Haven
This weekend Cockatoo Island officially transforms into Cocktail Island, a two-day long festival celebrating all the best bits of bar and cocktail culture.
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NewsWin Tickets to an Adventuresome Afternoon Tea with Hendrick’s
The very epitome of legend, Jon Muir will tell his esteemed tales of exploration and adventure.
