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    What Music Looks Like as an Object

    German artist Martin Klimas endeavours to answer the question: 'what does music look like?'

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    Win a Double Pass to see The Grey

    John Ottoway (Liam Neeson) is forced to lead a group of roughneck men in their fight for survival when the men come under attack by a pack of vicous, aggressive wolves.

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    Concrete Playground Meets Two of Sydney’s New Food Trucks

    Are Sydney's new food trucks prepared to cope with the frenzy of a city of people who really, really like their food and booze?

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    Concrete Playground Meets Wok+Wine

    We catch up with the team behind Wok+Wine ahead of their visit to Sydney, where they're teaming up with us to host an event.

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    Hotel Offers Champagne Baths for Valentine’s Day

    In what resembles a scene from a high-end gangster rap video, guests at London's Cadogan Hotel will be able to bathe in 122 hand-poured bottles of Dom Pérignon.

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    Michael Cera Takes the Stage at the Sydney Opera House

    Theatrical masterpiece 'This Is Our Youth' will undergo another celebrity makeover when the play hits the Sydney Opera House this March.

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    Gallery /// Concrete Playground at St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2012

    Concrete Playground heads along to check out St. Jerome's Laneway Festival in Sydney.

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    The Best Ads From Super Bowl 2012

    It's usually the off field antics and advertising that captures the imaginations of those outside of the 50 US states.

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    Wes Anderson From Above

    All of the auteur's beautifully crafted overhead shots compiled into one stylish montage.

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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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    Concrete Playground Meets The Drums

    Being The Drums means being one of the most hardworking bands around at the moment – since they skyrocketed in hype in 2009, The Drums haven’t slowed down, incessantly touring and releasing two LPs in that time. They’ve visited antipodean shores before, working the festival circuit and are about to do it for the third time – this time around for St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival.

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    Matthew McConaughey Returns as Wooderson from ‘Dazed and Confused’

    In a flashback for stoners and film fanatics, Matthew McConaughey has reclaimed his trademark role as Wooderson from the cult film Dazed and Confused.

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    Odd Future Pop-Up Store in Sydney

    Streetwear gurus and underground hip-hop heads have a chance to meet the Odd Future crew today.

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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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    Concrete Playground Meets The Kooks

    We spoke with band member, Hugh Harris, about bringing in the New Year at Falls, cooking spag bol and retracing his roots in his spiritual homeland, Sydney.

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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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    The Song Map

    This is what the world would look like if you could build a city from your iTunes library.

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    Coachella Line-Up Lands for 2012

    The highly-anticipated line-up for the colossal Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has just emerged.

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    LCD Soundsystem Documentary to Launch at Sundance

    Almost one year after their break-up, a film documenting the final chapters of alternative powerhouse LCD Soundsystem will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

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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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    Concrete Playground Meets The Arctic Monkeys

    The band's perfectly coiffed and sonorous toned lead singer, Alex Turner, takes time out to chat to Concrete Playground.

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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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    Five Things to do on Christmas Day

    If you're in town on holiday, grew up in a Christmas-free tradition or are otherwise disinterested in the big day, you might find yourself looking for something to help fill an otherwise quiet afternoon.

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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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