• News

    Buns and Balls to Relocate in Response to New Licensing Laws

    One of our favourite bars is packing up shop and moving to safer ground.

  • News

    Dave Chappelle Heads Out on First Australian Tour

    It's Rick James, bitch. No wait, It's Dave Chappelle.

  • News

    Peng You China Kitchen and Bar Offers Up Chinese New Year Feast

    What better way to welcome in the Year of the Horse than with an indulgent feast?

  • News

    What the New Liquor Licensing Laws Would Mean for Our Favourite Bars

    How do we create a vibrant, all-hours city that's also safe? We ask some of the pros.

  • News

    March into Merivale Festival Returns with a Unique Spin on Food and Wine

    A 'Things on Sticks' banquet, Mafia-themed Italian dinners and plenty of cocktails.

  • News

    Samantha Jones Hilariously Dirties Up Spike Jonze’s Film Her

    Theodore Twombly's new artificially intelligent operating system is crude, lewd and incredibly rude.

Latest Guides
  • News

    Sydney’s Ten Best Australia Day Long Weekend Events in 2014

    Featuring tinnies, snags, lamingtons, thong-throwing, rainbow dust and an 'epic water trampoline'.

  • News

    Concrete Playground is Looking For Wellington Writers

    For those who like free things in life.

  • News

    Win Tickets to See The Great Beauty

    See Rome through the eyes of a jaded socialite in Paolo Sorrentino's latest.

  • News

    Concrete Playground’s Sydney Festival 2014 Diary

    We're seeing everything we can see and bouncing on everything we can bounce on.

  • News

    Melbournalia: The Souvenir Store for Locals

    A Bourke Street oasis for the Melbourne faithful.

  • News

    Meet Five Australian Fashion Designers Fighting to Keep It Local

    Now more than ever is the time to support labels that manufacture in the same place where they design.

  • News

    Adriano Zumbo Brings Back the Old-School Aussie Bakery with Fluffy’s Pop-Up

    You'll find Zumbo's Australia Day pop-up down on Memory Lane.

  • News

    Boutique Festival Lost Picnic Packs Music with Gourmet Goodies

    The newly announced Lost Picnic will make for a bohemian alternative to the silly season.

  • News

    The Dutch Masters Recreated as Astonishing Entomological Displays

    Seventeeth-century portraits get a beautiful and complex 21st-century update.

Latest Events
  • News

    Concrete Playground Meets Strange Yonder

    In music, they've discovered, incest can be good.

  • News

    You Can Now Brunch With Harbour Views at the Opera House

    There's no time of day that's not an Opera House time of day.

  • News

    Tim Minchin to Turn Groundhog Day into a Musical

    The same songs over and over again?

  • News

    Coachella 2014 Lineup Announced

    It features a reunited Outkast and a gee-whiz number of Antipodeans.

  • News

    The Ten Best French Eateries in Brisbane

    The result of our quest to stuff ourselves with croissants and cheese.

  • News

    Artist Toon-Bombs Toronto with Googly Eyes

    Liberty Village's local monsters revealed.

  • News

    Sydney’s Ten Best New Summer Bars

    Ten places where you can make the holidays stretch forever.

  • News

    How War Became Both Traumatic and Beautiful for The Railway Man

    Jonathan Teplitzky on war, visual irony and how Gen Ys respond to silence.

  • News

    Do Sydney Festival Without Paying a Dime

    The best free events of the Sydney Festival - plus one trick to get into the others for cheap.

  • News

    Enjoy Dinner and a Show with Fast Festival Feasts

    Sample some of the city's finest cuisine at special festival prices.

  • News

    Win Tickets to See Spike Jonze’s Her

    Catch 2014's first real must-see film on us.

  • News

    The Ten Best Things to See at the Sydney Festival 2014

    An even bigger festival hub, a dance-powered party and a version of Stonehenge you can bounce on.

  • News

    Watch the Blues Brothers’ Bondi Turn in the Flickerfest Trailer

    The Blues Brothers go Eastern Suburbs for 61 seconds.

  • News

    Something’s Just a Little Off in These Photographs by Patrice Letarnec

    Fall head over heels in love with the French artist's quirky photography.

  • News

    Festival Director Bronwyn Kidd’s Top Seven Flickerfest Films of 2014

    The short-film guru lets us in on her favourites.

  • News

    The Ten Best Things to See at Midsumma 2014

    Melbourne's alternative to Mardi Gras is about to kick off for another year.

  • News

    Healthy Eating, Melbourne-Style

    For the day when you realise your adult body hates you.

  • News

    The Abercrombie Hotel Calls Last Drinks

    Bid farewell to 'deep-fried everything' and cult dance parties.

  • News

    Giant Rubber Duck Explodes

    Yet another chapter in the misadventures of Hofman's oversized plaything.

  • News

    Japan’s Sky Sofas Make for a Cosy View

    Love seats in the Japanese countryside wouldn’t be a bad place to spend an afternoon.

  • News

    Your Last-Minute Guide to New Year’s Eve 2013-2014

    It's never too late to make your night awesome.

Tap and select Add to Home Screen to access Concrete Playground easily next time. x