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Come Out and Play: The Offspring Have Announced a 2025 Australian Arena Tour with Simple Plan

After The Offspring's 2024 Melbourne gig sold out in 30 seconds, they're coming back to Australia for a four-city trip in 2025.

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On the Way: Upcoming Brisbane Openings to Put in Your Diary for 2024 and Beyond

Brisbane is about to look a whole lot different — these are the newbies we're counting the days for.

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Five Romantic Brisbane Date Ideas for This Week From Budget to Blowout

This week, you and your plus one can make and eat a gingerbread house over Christmas-themed cocktails, enjoy a river swim and get competitive at festive mini golf.

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Coming Soon: Queensland Museum Is Dedicating an Exhibition to Secrets — and It Wants You to Share Your Own

Spy gadgets, items with hidden compartments, your own tales submitted anonymously — 'Secrets: Objects of Intrigue' will feature them all.

Guide

The Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Week

This week, you can hear an orchestra play dance music hits, catch 'Gladiator II' under the stars and stock up on supplies for festive season from Scenic Rim producers.

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Great Scott!: 'Back to the Future: The Musical' Is Making Its Australian Premiere in Sydney in 2025

After hit seasons in West End and on Broadway, the award-winning stage version of everyone's favourite time-travelling 80s flick is zipping Down Under.

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Level up Your Lunch Break with $10 Burgers at These Brisbane Burger Joints

Big burgers, bold flavours and banger deals.

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On the Way: Upcoming Brisbane Openings to Put in Your Diary for 2024 and Beyond

Brisbane is about to look a whole lot different — these are the newbies we're counting the days for.

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CP Staff Picks: The Best Summer BBQ Meals, According to Our Editors

These recipes pack maximum flavour with minimal effort.

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Now Open: Noosa Chocolate Factory Has Launched a Permanent New Store in Brisbane Arcade

This Sunshine Coast-born brand has added a new outpost to its chocolate empire, alongside its Noosaville, Maroochydore and Adelaide Street shops.

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Brisbane's Best Inner-City Bars for After-Work Drinks with Your Coworkers

These rooftop bars, cosy pubs, riverside hangouts and wine havens are suitable for both celebrating and commiserating.

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The Ultimate Singapore Food Guide (For More Than Chilli Crab and Chicken Rice)

You’ll be ordering like a local in no time.

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Latest Openings

Bar
Slipstream Brewing Social House

8 The Avenue, Birtinya

This Brisbane brewery has expanded to the Sunshine Coast with a 40-tap hangout that's pairing beers and bites.
Restaurant
Dumbo

39 Hercules Street, Hamilton

Stacked burgers, dirty water dogs and fish sandos are on the menu at this Portside burger bar from the Red Hook crew.
Bar
Montrachet

30 King Street, Bowen Hills

Brisbane's famous French restaurant is back in business on King Street under chef Clément Chauvin.
Bar
Portside Social

39 Hercules Street, Hamilton

You'll find pints, parmigianas and games of pool at this Hamilton gastropub at Portside — and burgers, ribs and boozy bottomless weekend brunches, too.
Restaurant
Black Hide Steak and Seafood

33 William Street, Brisbane City

Black Hide's Queen's Wharf restaurant is Brisbane's new go-to for steak, seafood and cocktails with a view.
Bar
Claw BBQ & Grill Carindale

1151 Creek Road, Carindale

Brisbane's seafood lovers can now don bibs, crack open shellfish and watch sports at this chain's second crab shack, this time in the city's south.
Bar
Slipstream Brewing Social House

8 The Avenue, Birtinya

This Brisbane brewery has expanded to the Sunshine Coast with a 40-tap hangout that's pairing beers and bites.
Bar
B-SIDE

5 Boundary Street, Brisbane City

Yoko Dining now boasts an upstairs record bar with boozy slushies, ramen and miso caramel soft serve.
Bar
Rays by Range

4 Newman Avenue, Camp Hill

This Camp Hill watering hole takes inspiration from European corner bars, and marks the Range Brewing crew's fourth Brisbane venue.
Bar
Montrachet

30 King Street, Bowen Hills

Brisbane's famous French restaurant is back in business on King Street under chef Clément Chauvin.
Bar
Portside Social

39 Hercules Street, Hamilton

You'll find pints, parmigianas and games of pool at this Hamilton gastropub at Portside — and burgers, ribs and boozy bottomless weekend brunches, too.
Bar
Cicada Blu

33 William Street, Brisbane City

This sky-high Brisbane cocktail spot sits 100 metres above the city on Queen's Wharf's Sky Deck.

Arts & Entertainment

Love Arts & Entertainment experiences? Navigate the best venues and events near you picked by our expert curators at Concrete Playground.

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Come Out and Play: The Offspring Have Announced a 2025 Australian Arena Tour with Simple Plan

After The Offspring's 2024 Melbourne gig sold out in 30 seconds, they're coming back to Australia for a four-city trip in 2025.

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Coming Soon: Queensland Museum Is Dedicating an Exhibition to Secrets — and It Wants You to Share Your Own

Spy gadgets, items with hidden compartments, your own tales submitted anonymously — 'Secrets: Objects of Intrigue' will feature them all.

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Great Scott!: 'Back to the Future: The Musical' Is Making Its Australian Premiere in Sydney in 2025

After hit seasons in West End and on Broadway, the award-winning stage version of everyone's favourite time-travelling 80s flick is zipping Down Under.

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Childish Gambino Has Cancelled His 2025 Down Under Tour So There'll Be No Summertime Magic After All

It was meant to be the rapper and hip hop star's first trip our way since 2019 — but just like his North American, UK and European dates, it's no longer happening.

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When a Delightfully Strange Screen-to-Stage Australian Musical Happens: Paul Hodge and Simon Phillips Chat 'Round the Twist'

Have you heard the word about Queensland Theatre and Queensland Performing Arts Centre's new adaptation of the beloved 90s series? We chatted to the composer/playwright and director behind it.

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The NGV's Huge Yayoi Kusama Exhibition Will Feature Ten Immersive Installations — Which Is a World Record

The Japanese artist's latest Australian showcase will include more of her immersive environments than has ever been assembled in one place before.

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Victoria Park Christmas Putt Putt

Fri, 8 Nov 2024 - Thu, 2 Jan 2025
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Thu, 3 Oct - Sun, 22 Dec 2024
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The Enchanted Garden

Fri, 22 Nov - Sat, 21 Dec 2024
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Sat, 16 Mar - Sun, 8 Dec 2024
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Sat, 30 Nov, 2024
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News You Can Use: Nine Things That Happened in Brisbane This Week

Here's what's been catching our attention, including revamped Brisbane parks, a new Italian restaurant and the 'Round the Twist' musical.

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Fifteen of the Most Unique Stays You Can Book Around New Zealand

Spend a few nights in a leafy treehouse, a beautifully restored truck perched right on the bay or even a mountaintop cabin with views for days.

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These Four Brisbane Park Precincts Are Getting a Revamp in the Lead Up to the 2032 Olympics

Oxley Creek, Kedron Brook, and the Wynnum, Manly and Lota foreshores join Victoria Park / Barrambin in scoring upgrades.

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