This year's 197-title program also includes a Hunter Schafer-starring thriller, Sundance hit 'I Saw the TV Glow' and the latest from 2015 Sydney Film Prize-winner Miguel Gomes.
The Best Things to Do On, By and Near the Water in Brisbane
Now Open: Emme Is the New Woodfired Eatery That's Taken Over Spoon Deli Cafe's Old James Street Digs
Breakfast, brunch and lunch here — and soon dinner — means enjoying a Jordanian- and Moroccan-inspired menu across from James St Market.
El Primo Sanchez and Maybe Sammy are the only Australian bars to make the initial picks from this new bar recognition system, which gives pins — not stars — to top watering holes.
The event's big names will play The Tank, a Second World War oil tank that’s been turned into a performance and art venue.
This week, you can check out Affordable Art Fair's first-ever visit to Brisbane, catch an improvised whodunnit and hit up a free live music festival in the Brunswick Street Mall.
SXSW Sydney Has Dropped the First Lineup of Speakers, Musicians, Films and Games for 2024's Festival
Australian astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg, TikTok marketing head Sofia Hernandez, Courtney Act, Nakkiah Lui, Hamish Blake, 'Heartbreak High' star Ayesha Madon: they're all on the bill.
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NewsNow Open: Emme Is the New Woodfired Eatery That's Taken Over Spoon Deli Cafe's Old James Street Digs
Breakfast, brunch and lunch here — and soon dinner — means enjoying a Jordanian- and Moroccan-inspired menu across from James St Market.
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NewsTwo Sydney Cocktail Bars Have Been Named Among the World's Best in The Pinnacle Guide's First-Ever Picks
El Primo Sanchez and Maybe Sammy are the only Australian bars to make the initial picks from this new bar recognition system, which gives pins — not stars — to top watering holes.
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NewsFirst Look: Fatcow Is Reopening in Luxe New James Street Digs with Gold-Wrapped Steaks on the Menu
When it launches on Wednesday, May 8, the former Eagle Street Pier steakhouse will also serve wagyu tasting boards and a 300-strong wine list in its new Fortitude Valley location.
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NewsHere's Everywhere That You Should Eat and Drink When Culinary Festival Dine BNE City Returns for 2024
You've got more than 90 dining offers to take advantage of at 50-plus venues throughout June, including $25 lunch specials, blindfolded meals and winter roasts.
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NewsThe Best Places in Brisbane to Treat Your Mum on Mother's Day (or Any Day)
Try slightly harder than your favourite sticky dive bar — your mum deserves it.
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NewsNow Open: Toby's Estate's New Brisbane Flagship Cafe in Newstead Will Pour 80-Plus Unique Types of Coffee a Year
The sleek new caffeine-slinging spot features a round coffee bar in the middle of its space, complete with an espresso bar, filter bar and training bar.
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RestaurantCooee Cafe & Restaurant
1825 Creek Road, Cannon Hill
This 200-seat Cannon Hill spot for a caffeine fix, bite and cocktail is part of Minnippi Golf & Range, Brisbane's first public golf course in more than 70 years.
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RestaurantDapl
200 Creek Street, Spring Hill
Located inside Brisbane's Amora Hotel, this restaurant heroes native Australian ingredients.
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RestaurantComo
119 Melbourne Street, South Brisbane
This modern Italian restaurant in South Brisbane takes its cues from Lake Como.
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BarBeenleigh Artisan Distillery Restaurant
142 Distillery Road, Eagleby
Beenleigh's heritage-listed 140-year-old rum distillery is home to an 80-seat restaurant.
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BarManiax Brisbane CBD
Burnett Lane, Brisbane City
This second Brisbane site for the axe-throwing chain comes with a Viking-themed bar — and will get you hurling hatchets on Adelaide Street.
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BarAlba Bar & Deli
34 Burnett Lane, Brisbane City
Brooklyn meets Barcelona at this bustling brick-front bar in Brisbane's city centre.
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BarFrog's Hollow Saloon
26 Charlotte Street, Brisbane City
Inside a retrofitted brick warehouse from the 1910s lives a bustling bar promising good times and great cocktails.
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BarDoughcraft Mary Street
181 Mary Street, Brisbane City
The European bakery and deli has launched a second outpost in the Brisbane CBD — and it's also a wine bar.
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Beenleigh Artisan Distillery Restaurant
142 Distillery Road, Eagleby
Beenleigh's heritage-listed 140-year-old rum distillery is home to an 80-seat restaurant.
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BarPink Flamingo Spiegeland Brisbane
98 Bincote Street, Hamilton
For seven years — until it needs to make way for Brisbane's Olympics preparations — Northshore Hamilton is home to a 400-seat riverside cabaret club.
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NewsFrom Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Kinds of Kindness' to Indigenous Aussie Horror, Sydney Film Festival's 2024 Lineup Is Here
This year's 197-title program also includes a Hunter Schafer-starring thriller, Sundance hit 'I Saw the TV Glow' and the latest from 2015 Sydney Film Prize-winner Miguel Gomes.
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NewsAndré 3000, Kim Gordon, Genesis Owusu and Tkay Maidza Are Headlining AGNSW's Volume Music Series for 2024
The event's big names will play The Tank, a Second World War oil tank that’s been turned into a performance and art venue.
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NewsSXSW Sydney Has Dropped the First Lineup of Speakers, Musicians, Films and Games for 2024's Festival
Australian astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg, TikTok marketing head Sofia Hernandez, Courtney Act, Nakkiah Lui, Hamish Blake, 'Heartbreak High' star Ayesha Madon: they're all on the bill.
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News'In the Heights' Is the Next Tony-Winning Hit Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda That's Coming to Australia
Sydney Opera House will turn into Washington Heights to host a six-week season of the Broadway smash in July and August.
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NewsThe Jedi Are Under Threat in the New Trailer for 'Star Wars' Murder-Mystery Series 'The Acolyte'
A crime spree, a new masked villain, sinister forces all round: that's all in the latest small-screen effort from a galaxy far, far away.
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NewsThe Bloody Full Trailer for 'The Boys' Season Four Is Here Ahead of the Superhero Satire's June Return
The new sneak peek at the caped-crusader hit contemplates the reasons that its characters, good and evil, keep turning to violence.
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EventFelons' Yoga
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Felons Brewing Co, Brisbane City
Bend, stretch and drink at Brisbane's CBD riverside brewery every Wednesday after work.
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EventRamses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
Saturday, November 18, 2023 - Sunday, May 19, 2024
Australian Museum, Darlinghurst
Explore the life of one of Egypt's longest reigning rulers at this exhibition exclusive to the Australian Museum.
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Event'Jurassic World' by Brickman
Friday, December 8, 2023 - Sunday, July 14, 2024
Queensland Museum, South Brisbane
Lego finds a way — with more than 50 dinosaurs, props and scenes from the movie built out of the popular plastic bricks.
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EventTen Thousand Suns: 24th Biennale of Sydney
Saturday, March 9 - Monday, June 10, 2024
Various locations across Sydney
More than 400-plus works are on display, created by 96 artists and collectives, at Sydney's biennial citywide art celebration.
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EventLeonardo da Vinci: 500 Years of Genius
Saturday, March 16 - Sunday, June 16, 2024
THE LUME Melbourne, South Wharf
Hello 'Mona Lisa': Melbourne digital art gallery The Lume's big multi-sensory 2024 exhibition is dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci.
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EventNot on Your Rider
Thursday, April 4, 2024, Thursday, June 13, 2024 and Thursday, August 1, 2024
The Triffid, Newstead
This Brisbane music game show takes place live, featuring different musicians each time — and you can play along.
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EventBrunswick Street Live
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Brunswick Street Mall, Fortitude Valley
This free day-long music festival is bringing its live tunes back to the Brunswick Street Mall for a second year.
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EventPortside Wharf Love Me Again Markets
Saturday, March 9, 2024, Saturday, April 13, 2024, Saturday, June 8, 2024
Portside Wharf Hamilton, Brisbane
Head to the riverside precinct on the second Saturday of each month to shop for pre-loved fashion from 20-plus stalls.
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EventAdults-Only Mini-Golf Night
Saturday, May 11, 2024
The Jungle Adventure Play, Tingalpa
Tingalpa's 16-hole jungle-themed mini golf course with a cocktail bar throws weekly boozy parties just for adults.
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EventShuckin' Sundays
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Victory Lane, Ascot
This weekly special serves up $2 oysters from the Ascot venue's streetside cart.
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EventVertigo's Sunday Brunch
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Vertigo, New Farm
You can now tuck into weekly champagne brunches while hanging over the side of Brisbane Powerhouse.
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EventVEND Doggo Day
Saturday, May 18, 2024
VEND Virginia, Virginia
The northside's permanent marketplace is going to the dogs for a day with themed market stalls slinging pawsome products.
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EventSleater-Kinney: 'Little Rope' Tour
Friday, May 17, 2024
The Triffid, Newstead
Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker are touring Down Under three decades after recording their first album in Australia.
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EventAll-You-Can-Eat Pizza Mondays
Monday, May 13, 2024
Salt Meats Cheese Gasworks, Newstead
Devour all the slices of pizza you can handle in 90 minutes from $29 — with a drink purchase.
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NewsWinter Wardrobe, Sorted: Aldi's Massive Snow Gear Sale Is Back for 2024 with Nothing Over $100
Making a beeline to the middle aisle to rug up has become an Aussie tradition, and this year's sale includes everything from gloves to thermoboots.
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NewsChic Digs Alert: The Australian Interior Design Awards Have Unveiled 2024's Shortlisted Bars, Restaurants and Homes
If you're looking for stunning hospitality, residential, workplace, retail and public settings around Australia, here's where you'll find them.
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NewsKmart Has Teamed Up with Dharug and Darkinjung Artist Kyralee Shields on a New Homewares Range
The latest collection in the department store's First Nations program includes bedding, candles, servingware, candles, wall art and more.
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NewsALDI Is Launching Its First-Ever Streetwear Collection — and Everything Costs Less Than $20
You can literally wear your love for the discount supermarket on your sleeves (and legs, feet and head) thanks to this 23-item range.
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NewsThe Latest Homewares in IKEA's 80th-Anniversary Range Will Fill Your House with Flower Power
Autumn might have arrived Down Under, but the Swedish retailer is slinging bright colours, bold designs and retro florals in the latest drop in its 80th-birthday collection.
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NewsWestern Australia Just Became the First State to Ban Single-Use Non-Compostable Coffee Cups
Lids must be entirely plastic-free, too, in a move that aims to save more than 154-million cups from landfill each year.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Week
This week, you can check out Affordable Art Fair's first-ever visit to Brisbane, catch an improvised whodunnit and hit up a free live music festival in the Brunswick Street Mall.
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GuideFive World-Class Sporting Events in NSW to Add to your 2024 Calendar
Check out the serious sporting events happening in the state.
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NewsEurovision Alert: Here's When and Where 2024's Song Contest Is Unleashing Its Europop Marvels
Electric Fields are representing Australia with 'One Milkali (One Blood)', which features the language Yankunytjatjara from the Anangu peoples.
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GuideNews You Can Use: Nine Things That Happened in Brisbane This Week
Here's what's been catching our attention, including the heartbreaking news that The Zoo is closing forever, plus a lavish new bathhouse and a Japanese fine-diner.
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Five World-Class Sporting Events in NSW to Add to your 2024 Calendar
Check out the serious sporting events happening in the state.
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NewsSouth Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula Is Set to Score a Massive Surf Park with 35 Villas So You Can Stay Onsite
The seaside town of Aldinga will become home to The Break Surf & Stay, a $100-million facility set back from the coast with an 11,700-square-metre surf lagoon.
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News2024's Eta Aquariids Meteor Shower Is Soaring Across Australia's Skies This Month (and Peaking This Weekend)
This spectacular starry event is back for another year — here's how you can get a glimpse, and when is best to watch the skies.
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NewsFrom the 'Up' House to Prince's 'Purple Rain' Mansion, Airbnb's New Icons Listings Go Big on Pop Culture-Themed Stays
Thanks to the first 11 listings, you can also step inside 'X-Men ’97', sleep in the 'Inside Out 2' headquarters and be hosted by Doja Cat.
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GuideSix of the Best Natural Hot Springs and Spas in Victoria to Visit When You Need Some R&R
Make the pilgrimage to one of Victoria's best natural hot springs and spas for some well-deserved rest.
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NewsQueensland's First Kimpton Hotel Is Opening in Brisbane with a Stunning Infinity Pool Overlooking the River
Set to open in 2028, the Teneriffe spot will feature 155 rooms and suites, a signature restaurant and bar that can seat at least 200, and an openair garden terrace bar.
Trending Bars and Restaurants
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BarMaggie May
84 Longland Street, Newstead
This Newstead supper club is Brisbane's gloriously 70s-inspired new go-to for cocktails and all-day bites.
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BarThe Belvedere
Oxley Avenue, Woody Point
Woody Point's 122-year-old pub has relaunched after a $10-million-plus redevelopment.
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BarLina Rooftop
80 Tribune Street, South Brisbane
This 1500-square-metre beach club-inspired bar with a 30-metre infinity pool sits on a South Brisbane rooftop.
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BarIris Rooftop
458 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
The Mediterranean-inspired venue is the latest addition to Brunswick Street's new Hotel X.
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BarByblos Bar
39 Hercules Street, Hamilton
Byblos is where the north-easterners flock on a Sunday afternoon.
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