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NewsFinding the Perfect Japanese in Brisbane
From gyoza to shabu shabu, here's where to get your fix of Japanese.
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NewsA Wallflower’s Guide to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2013
Concrete Playground brings you the best of the Melbourne International Comedy festival, sans awkward silences.
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NewsIntroducing Courtyard Bar: built by friends with benefits
Courtyard Bar is the latest newbie causing a stir on Potts Point's notorious Bayswater strip. With a winning formula of friends with benefits, however, they might just last.
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NewsIndie Theatre in the Spotlight for MTC’s NEON Season
Leading Melbourne indies The Hayloft Project, THE RABBLE, Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Fraught Outfit and Sisters Grimm storm the big stage.
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NewsHow to make the Perfect Coffee with Master Barista Jack Hanna
Master Barista Jack Hanna is preaching his coffee expertise with new 'how to' workshops at The Grounds of Alexandria.
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NewsWin Tickets to See The Loneliest Planet
A backpacking couple find their world turned upside down when they venture into the Georgian wilderness.
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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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NewsSeven Forward-Thinking Foodies Create Meals from the Future
Good news for people who like needles, kelp and insects.
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NewsSydney Comedy Festival 2013 Program Announced
Including a 30 Rock star and a dummy without his ventriloquist.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Simon Griffiths from Shebeen Non-Profit Bar
Australia gets its first non-for-profit bar and we learn how it all came together.
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NewsWin a DVD of Savages
Oliver Stone's brutal, ferocious and sexy look into the lives of two marijuana growers.
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NewsWin a $150 Voucher to PaperPlanes and LL Wine and Dine
Tuck into a multisensorial Asian dining experience, whether you fancy a taste of Tokyo or have a hankering for Hong Kong.
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NewsSee the Lights of Vivid Sydney from Fort Denison Restaurant
Dinner DeLIGHTS gives you a new view of Vivid Sydney, plus a happy tummy.
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NewsBrisbane’s Best Pre- and Post-Movie Restaurants
We've narrowed down the top 10 pre- and post-film eats all within walking distance of movie theatres.
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NewsThe Best Bicycle Shops in Sydney
There's a bicycling renaissance afoot, and these are the places where you want to pimp your ride.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass Moves to Its Permanent Home
The North Byron Parklands are prepped and ready to go for July 2013.
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NewsWhen a Building Brightens a Neighbourhood
Reko Rennie's Welcome to Redfern is part of a history of large-scale murals that have driven urban renewal.
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NewsPicasso’s Cubist Portraits Brought to Life in Photography
Spanish photographer Eugenio Recuenco reinterprets Picasso's Cubist portraits with live models.
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EventOut 2 Lunch Festival with Vodafone
Sat, 3 May - Sun, 4 May 2025
Surfers Paradise Beachfront, Surfers Paradise
Catch FISHER, music, surf and overall good vibes at the most quintessentially Aussie beach party ever.
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NewsSix Unbelievable Things You’re Missing at SXSW 2013
From a talking show courtesy of Google to a vending machine that lets you choose the party beats, SXSW 2013 opened with a bang.
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NewsBe Transported by Smithsonian Magazine’s 10th Annual Photo Contest Finalists
Forget the official winners or the Reader's Choice Award, we present Concrete Playground's best of the Smithsonian Photo Contest.
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NewsBe Jealous, Bikers: London Goes Dutch with $1.4 Billion Cycle Highway
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announces cycle-friendly plans to inspire city planners everywhere.
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NewsSpace Odyssey: Ten Futuristic Hotels Around the World
When only futuristic chic will do, check out these ten space-age stays around the world.
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NewsThe Fashion Victim’s Guide to LMFF
The 2013 L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival presents a variety of enriching things, many of which don't come with a price tag on a hanger.
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NewsYour Tweets Control the Music in SXSW’s Interactive Vending Machine Stage
With Doritos' Bold Stage concert you can choose the songs, special effects and even performers with nothing more than a tweet
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NewsThe Best Places to Eat and Drink in Brisbane When You’re Heading to the Football
Our favourite places to go before or after a game at Suncorp Stadium.
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NewsGet Your Hands on a Mix-Tape for the Digital Age
Sharetapes give modern music a decidedly old-school twist.
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NewsHow to Graze Your Way Through Taste of Sydney
It's kinda like the food and cocktail circus is in town.
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NewsCarrie Fisher Is Returning to Star Wars, According to Carrie Fisher
Princess Leia is is bringing back those famous bagel buns and reprising her role.
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NewsThe Best Laneway Cafes in Melbourne
We select our favourite laneway spots to grab a latte or two in the shade.
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NewsHow Reasonable Things Still Get Banned by the Australian Classification Board
I Want Your Love is in the spotlight after James Franco's YouTube rant, but it's banning is just one of many 'silly' decisions made by Australian censors over the years.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Ash Flanders of Trash-Theatremakers Sisters Grimm
We learn how they've taken their high-camp, low-tech shows from the garden shed to the main stage.
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NewsThe Off-White Album: How History and Decay Affect 45-Year-Old Records
No matter what their colour, condition or quality, Rutherford Chang wants your iconic 1968 Beatles 'White Album'.
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NewsFive Must-See Acts at the Brisbane Comedy Festival
We save you the unenviable task of having to pick and choose out of all the great talent.
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NewsWhat Happens to Funny-Shaped Vegetables?
Food wastage is rife, but some restaurants are determined to be part of the solution rather than the problem.
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NewsWheat and Art to Thrive at The Rocks’ New Pop-Up Windmill
Pop-ups just keep getting bigger, and this four-storey arts centre and wheat grind has to take the cake.
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NewsThe Really Bad Dancer’s Guide to Dance Massive 2013
For those of you who love to krump, or perhaps enjoy something a little more structured, you want to be twerkin’ all the way to Dance Massive 2013.
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NewsBerlin Wall Is Being Torn Down…Again
For the second time in a matter of only a few years, a chunk of the Berlin Wall, and the striking art that covers it, is set to be torn down
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NewsA Lego Hogwarts Exists That Is Almost Big Enough to Enter
This Hogwarts castle made out of 400,000 Lego blocks is possibly more stupefying than the real Hogwarts.
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NewsWin a $150 Bar Tab at Cake Wines’ Closing Night Party
The pop-up bar is ending on March 3, but not before throwing one helluva party.
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NewsSeven Intricate Structures You Won’t Believe Were Made Out of Paper
Check out seven of the most intricate and incredible structures ever made out of paper
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NewsRainford Street Social Brings Back Breakfast
Head chef Ben Orpwood gives us the lowdown on the new breakfast menu.
