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NewsTen Hidden and Not-So-Hidden Historical Gems to Check Out This Summer in Sydney
From immersive tours of Ancient Egypt to hidden heritage bars and floating shipwrecks, go back in time with a tour of these sites across Sydney.
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NewsSydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras' 2024 Program Will Feature 100-Plus LGBTQIA+ Events Across the City
After proving a huge hit at Sydney WorldPride, the 15,000-person Bondi Beach Party will return for Mardi Gras.
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NewsYothu Yindi and Two Kim Gordon Exhibitions Will Headline Brisbane Powerhouse's Festival of Other Music in 2024
Drab Majesty, Boris, Michael Rother and The Necks are also on the lineup when ΩHM returns for a second year.
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NewsOpera on a Lightship, Courtney Barnett, a New Music Fest and a Giant Octopus: Sydney Festival's 2024 Program Is Here
More than 150 events will take over the Harbour City, featuring 1000-plus artists, including a waterside Walsh Bay Arts Precinct takeover, a Kate Bush cabaret and a huge Blak Out lineup.
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NewsSix Spooky Indie Games to Get You in the Mood for Halloween
If your favourite facet of Halloween is getting into some spine-tingling horror, we've assemble a list of spooky indie games guaranteed to give you goosebumps.
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NewsSix Ways to Get Your Gaming Fix at the First-Ever SXSW Sydney
SXSW is loading up a whole week of gaming events — here are our top picks, from a celebration of crab games to a chance to flex your voice-acting skills.
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NewsTen 2025 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
Your newly Oscars-approved viewing list includes films about determined architects, whirlwind romances, catty cardinals, sandworms and more.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 33 of 2025's Oscar-Nominated Movies in Australia Right Now
Massive musicals, monumental dramas, stunning animated gems, heartbreaking documentaries, two Timothée Chalamet movies: they're all Oscar contenders, and you can watch them all.
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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, Aussie westerns and expressive dance flicks.
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NewsEleven 2025 Golden Globe-Winning Films and TV Shows That You Can (and Should) Watch Right Now
Make a cinema or a couch date with a freshly minted Golden Globe-winner — here's what you can watch right away, and where.
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NewsTwenty-Five Movies That You Can Stream This Christmas No Matter How You Feel About the Festive Season
Pour a glass of eggnog, find your comfiest spot on the couch, then enjoy everything from 'The Holdovers' and 'Die Hard' to 'Last Christmas' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
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NewsNine 2024 Emmy-Winning TV Shows That You Should Watch Immediately
Your new must-watch list of Emmy-winners includes 'Baby Reindeer' and its has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed tale, the history-making 'Shōgun' and, yes, 'The Bear'.
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NewsNine New Movies You Can Watch Right Now That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Austin Butler's latest brooding role, serial-killer chiller 'Longlegs' and the animated antics of 'Inside Out 2'.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching Rashida Jones navigate a sci-fi mystery in Japan, Nicolas Cage face a post-apocalyptic future and a gripping Australian romance-scam thriller.
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NewsThe 15 Best Straight-to-Streaming Movies of 2024 So Far
From 2024's first half, you need to be catching an Oscar-winning documentary, Glen Powell as a fake assassin and plenty of horror shocks from your couch.
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NewsTen of Our Most-Anticipated Games to Check Out at SXSW Sydney's Gaming Festival
With over 150 games to check out at SXSW Sydney, we're taking out the stress of choosing with 10 recommendations.
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NewsTen Must-Catch Talks and Panels That You Don't Want to Miss at the Inaugural SXSW Sydney
What does the executive producer of 'Bluey' think of horror movies? What's the future of Chinatown? How do you communicate the magic of music? All these and more will be answered at SXSW Sydney.
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NewsDark Mofo Is Taking a Break in 2024, Except for Its Beloved Winter Feast and Nude Solstice Swim
After turning ten with a bang, the Tasmanian winter arts festival is pausing the bulk of its events in 2024 to shape its plans for 2025 onwards.
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NewsFive of the Best Australian Video Games That You Should Play Right Now
From mischievous geese to intergalactic rock stars, here's five standout homegrown video games to have a crack at.
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NewsMELT Festival's 2023 Lineup Is Here with Kah-Lo, Aluna, KUCKA and Club Toilets-Set Theatre Hit 'Overflow'
Brisbane Powerhouse's annual celebration of queer culture returns with a feast of music, visual art and theatre in November.
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NewsFran Lebowitz Is Bringing Her Sharp Opinions and Deadpan Humour Back to Australia in 2024
The author, social commentator and 'Pretend It's a City' star will get chatting in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in February.
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NewsMelt OPEN Is the New Fringe-Style Queer Arts and Culture Festival That's Taking Over Brisbane From 2024
Building upon Brisbane Powerhouse's LGBTQIA+ fest Melt, this newcomer will host events from Fortitude Valley to Woolloongabba.
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NewsSave the Date: 'Parrtjima — A Festival In Light' Will Dazzle the Red Centre Again in April 2024
This spectacular First Nations festival will light up Alice Springs for another year, but with a different team delivering its events.
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News'Queer Eye' Star Tan France and Coachella's CEO Are the Latest Headliners on SXSW Sydney's Speaker Lineup
The Austin-born festival's Down Under debut will span 700-plus speakers, more than 300 panels and events, and over 400 artist performances.
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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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NewsPeter Andre Is Headlining The Wickham's Beloved Big Gay Day Street Festival for 2023
The Rogue Traders, Sunshine & Disco Faith Choir, Briefs and Jawbreakers are also on this year's bill.
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NewsSXSW Sydney's Speaker Lineup Just Added First Nations Filmmakers, Osher Günsberg and Layne Beachley
The debut festival's screen lineup is still on its way, but Leah Purcell, Jub Clerc and Kodie Bedford are already part of it.
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EventNundah by Night
Sat, 31 May, 2025
Nundah Farmers Market, Nundah
Browse your way through wintry stalls under fairy lights — then stop for slow-cooked meats, wings, tiramisu, craft beers and mulled wine.
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EventPretty Woman: The Musical
Sun, 5 Oct - Sun, 9 Nov 2025
QPAC Lyric Theatre, South Brisbane
This stage musical based on the 90s film is making its Australian Debut in Brisbane this spring.
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EventCloudland Garden Bottomless Lunch
Sat, 19 Apr - Sun, 20 Apr 2025
Cloudland, Fortitude Valley
Because all the best meals come with bottomless refreshments.
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EventGolden Glow High Tea: Easter Edition
Fri, 11 Apr - Sun, 27 Apr 2025
Living Room Bar, Brisbane City
For three weekends across Easter, this high tea is adding hot cross scones — and also vanilla, cherry and hazelnut eggs.
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EventEaster High Tea at Belle Époque
Thu, 3 Apr - Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Belle Époque, South Brisbane
Head to Emporium's French patisserie for a chocolate egg that melts in front of you, turning into fondue.
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EventEaster Cocktails at The Terrace
Thu, 3 Apr - Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Emporium Hotel South Bank, South Brisbane
Celebrate Easter 21 storeys up sipping banoffee cocktails and soaking in one of Brisbane's best views.
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EventAfter Hours
Multiple single dates
Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm
Keep laughing well into the evening at Brisbane Comedy Festival's late-night Saturday show.
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EventIndigo Isuta Soirée: A High Tea Affair
Tue, 1 Apr - Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Bar 1603, Brisbane City
Easter gets a Japanese spin at this high tea, which includes yuzu custard bunny teacups — and you can add a cherry- and chilli chocolate-infused umeshu cocktail.
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EventEaster Weekend at One Fish Two Fish
Fri, 18 Apr - Sun, 20 Apr 2025
One Fish Two Fish, Kangaroo Point
For the last time before it closes, One Fish Two Fish is celebrating Easter with seafood platters, lobster croissants, and hot cross bun bread and butter puddings.
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NewsBrisbane Festival's Full 2023 Program Boasts Dancing Drones, Circus in a Cathedral and 1000-Plus Performances
Brisbane's annual arts festival is back to light up the sky, the City Botanic Gardens, and every stage and venue it can find around town.
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NewsPussy Riot, Tony Armstrong and 'The Betoota Advocate' Just Joined Splendour in the Grass' 2023 Lineup
A month out from the Byron Bay fest, the event has just dropped its Forum, Science Tent, Comedy Club and Forum Live Podcasts programs.
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NewsA Huge Obstacle Course Inspired by Retro Video Games Is Taking Over Surfers Paradise This Spring
Popping up as part of the three-day SPRINGTIME festival, 'Quest of Chaos' also nods to Japanese game shows.
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NewsSXSW Sydney Just Dropped the Program for Its Inaugural Gaming Conference — Including a Dedicated Tabletop Game Expo
A global esports tournament and a celebration of indie video games are also part of the festival lineup.
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NewsSolange Is Returning to Australia for a Huge New Festival at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Volume will celebrate music, film and performance, with Sampa The Great, Mount Eerie and Sonya Holowell also on the lineup.
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NewsDemonic Teddy Bears, 36-Hour Raves and Mulled Negronis: Seven Standouts From Week One of Dark Mofo 2023
Couldn't make it to week one of Hobart's boundary-pushing winter festival? Here's what you missed.
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NewsRoman Coppola Is Coming to Australia to Headline Melbourne's Semi Permanent Spinoff Never Permanent
Just as Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' hits cinemas — which he co-wrote — the filmmaker will do his first-ever keynote talk in Australia.
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NewsDark Mofo Is Broadcasting Max Richter's 'SLEEP' Live So You Can Slumber to Its Eight-Hour Lullaby From Home
The neuroscience of sleep informs this massive overnight performance, which has previously played the Sydney Opera House, Philharmonie de Paris and more.
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NewsCP Picks: How to Have the Weirdest and Wildest Dark Mofo 2023 If You're a Last-Minute Planner
If ever there's an arts festival that's all about embracing the unexpected, revelling in the moment and making last-minute plans, it's this one.
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NewsGold Coast Arts Festival Bleach* Is Back for 2023 with a Rollerskating Theatre Show and Beachside Dance Parties
This 11-day, 218-performance event also includes cement mixers turned into works of art and a floating barge concert series.
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NewsBrisbane Festival Has Just Dropped a Sneak Peek at Its Stacked Music Lineup for 2023
Paul Kelly, Gretta Ray, Groove Terminator with the Soweto Gospel Choir and a tribute to rock's Laurel Canyon era will all echo through Brisbane in September.
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NewsFrom Wholesome to Hedonistic: A Guide to Dark Mofo 2023 According to the Level of Chaos You're After
Keen on the sunnier, sweeter side of this year's lineup? Prefer letting loose and making "when at Dark Mofo" your mantra? Find your ultimate itinerary here.
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NewsVivid Sydney's 2023 Program of Lights, Installations, Tunes, Dinners, Venue Takeovers and Talks Is Here
More than 300 activations and events are coming to Sydney, including Cat Power performing Bob Dylan, a dining pop-up on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and 50-plus light installations.
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News"It's Time for Some Payoff": The Trailer for Hannah Gadsby's New Netflix Stand-Up Special Is Here
"Just for the next hour, we're going to feel good together, and then we can head back out there and be the mass-extinction event that we are."
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NewsDark Mofo's 2023 Night Mass Will Take Over 13 Stages and Three City Blocks Over Five Wild Nights
This massive party features everything from music and cocktail lounges through to punk theatre and junkyard raves.
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NewsDark Mofo Has Just Added Three-Day Theatre-Meets-Rave Performance 'TRANCE' to Its Huge 2023 Program
The Tasmanian festival also scored a blend of sonic meditation and storytelling, plus a bigger show from Trentemøller.
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Hannah Gadsby's New Stand-Up Special 'Something Special' Will Hit Netflix in May
Based on the Aussie comedian's 'Body of Work' tour and filmed at the Sydney Opera House, it follows 'Nanette' and 'Douglas'.
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NewsThis Is What the Red Centre's Stunning Parrtjima — A Festival in Light Looks Like in 2023
This spectacular First Nations festival is currently lighting up Alice Springs if you're keen on a last-minute getaway.
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NewsConcrete Playground Has Submitted a Panel for Selection in SXSW Sydney — And We'd Love Your Support to Make It Happen
We've cooked up a very special panel idea to celebrate the arts and event industries — and we need your votes to bring it to life.
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NewsFrom a 'Twin Peaks'-Inspired Ball to a Giant Teddy with Laser Eyes, Dark Mofo's 2023 Lineup Is Ready to Dazzle
Soda Jerk's latest film, Black Flag's first Aussie gig since 2013, an overnight sleepover with Max Richter — they're all coming to Tasmania's must-attend winter fest.
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NewsIrvine Welsh, Grace Tame and Tim Winton Headline Brisbane Writers Festival's Packed 2023 Lineup
The 'Trainspotting' author returns to the River City as part of a stacked program filled with 150-plus live literary events.
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NewsMelbourne Writers Festival Has Unveiled the Packed 2023 Lineup for Its New May Time Slot
MWF will also welcome Sam Neill chatting about his career, music great Paul Kelly and several Booker Prize-winners.
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NewsThe Wickham's Beloved Big Gay Day Street Festival Is Moving to October in 2023
Due to scheduling conflicts, the queer party has shifted dates — but Little Gay Day will pop up at the end of April in the interim.
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NewsHere's Everyone You Need to See (and Read) During 2023's 226-Event Sydney Writers' Festival Program
Close to 300 writers and thinkers will hit the Harbour City, including four Booker Prize-winners and two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient Colson Whitehead.