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Hooroo Uncovers Australia’s Top 40 ‘Secret Spot’ Travel Destinations

Travel website Hooroo has uncovered 40 of Australia's best-kept holiday secrets.

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Concrete Playground’s Summer Reading Guide

Concrete Playground duly presents our suggestions for the best books to read over your summer.

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Interview: Nick Palumbo of Gelato Messina

"I wanted to create a brand that used traditional craftsmanship but was flexible in the sense that there is no limit to how creative you want to be."

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Eight Boutique Online Stores for Beautiful Gifts

Quirky, inspiring, and fun boutiques are only a click away.

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The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows

The website "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" are doing their little bit to make the inexpressible more expressible

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The Five Best Places to Keep Cool this Summer in Brisbane

As the temperatures begin to soar, birds are dropping off their perch, snakes are slithering into bath tubs and the humans of Brisbane are starting to seriously sweat.

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Riverbar & Kitchen Opens this Friday

Summer is about to get a whole lot better for those in the CBD with Aria co-owners Matt Moran and Peter Sullivan opening their latest creation, Riverbar & Kitchen.

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The Autark Home Floating Houseboat

The Autark Home brings a whole new meaning to living on the water.

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Win Tickets To Two Little Boys

Two Little Boys follows the hilarious bond between two best mates as they face a series of unfortunate incidents.

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The Five Best Craft Beers Spots in Brisbane

Beer enthusiasts have decided to make beer-drinking a hobby by getting into the ever-growing phenomenon of boutique (or craft) beer.

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Concrete Playground meets Dead Europe director Tony Krawitz

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Concrete Playground talks to Rohan Anderson (Whole Larder Love)

We preview the new book and talk about cities without supermarkets.

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Alfred and Constance Opens

Alfred and Constance is charming, versatile and laid back, with options to suit everybody.

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Brisbane’s RosÉ Revolution

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Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People

Ten photos that prove that sometimes what the spin media show us about famous people is not exactly the whole story.

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Win Tickets to Bachelorette

Bachelorette combines humour, drunken romance and the dynamic of female relationships in a raunchy and intoxicated weekend.

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Discover the Favourite Hangouts of Your Friends Around the World

A social search engine that'll help you find the favourite places of your friends and friends of friends.

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Win The Walking Dead

To mark the launch of season three, Concrete Playground has the ultimate catch-up giveaway.

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The Five Best Places to Eat French in Brisbane

Eating the French way means you can eat what you want, but in moderation. See Concrete Playground's top French picks.

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Ten Helpful Cooking Tips You May Not Know

Some unorthodox but incredibly helpful kitchen and cooking tips.

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The Five Best Dumpling Places in Brisbane

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Ten Scathing Reviews of Classic Books

Reviews really are a matter of taste. Here are ten books we now consider sacred, which - at the time of publication - received at least one scathing review.

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Win Tickets to Searching for Sugar Man

Win tickets to see the incredible, heart-warming documentary about the mysterious disappearance of cult musician.

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Ten Weird but Wonderful Spas

Whether you use them for cleansing, decompressing or just some well-earned R 'n' R, spas have been a ubiquitous part of the tourism industry.

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The Five Best Fast Lunch Spots in the Brisbane CBD

Concrete Playground has selected five delicious, ultra-convenient and reasonably priced places from five corners of the Brisbane CBD.

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Concrete Playground meets Actor/Writer Ian Meadows and his Climate-Change Rom-Com

Meadows explores the funny and terrifying ways an uncertain future can affect Gen X and Y's family planning.

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Win Tickets to See Killing Them Softly

Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta and Ben Mendelsohn show us just how complicated it is to be a crim in modern America.

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The Five Best Spring Breakfasts in Brisbane

As they say, breakfast is the most important meal, so we have come up with Concrete Playground’s top five breakfast spots to put spring into your step.

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Win a Double VIP Pass to Parklife

Do you like music, burgers and free stuff?

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Ten Images That Stopped The World

In the wake of the 11th anniversary of 9/11 here are ten more images that have stopped the world and ten stories that have shaped the course of history

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