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NewsThe Land of Yes and The Land of No
Let me preface this by saying that I am by no means an expert in the world of movement. However, what I can offer to you dear readers is a review from the perspective of someone who appreciates dance but can’t tell the difference between a plié and a pirouette.
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NewsUnload Your Emotional Baggage and Get a Free Song in Return
This new site lets you unload your worries to a perfect stranger, who will in turn read it and send you a song they think will make you feel better.
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NewsIPhone Bike Speaker Lets You Listen While You Ride
Play sweet music and use your iPhone as a GPS while riding through the town on your bike.
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NewsSlavery Footprint: Calculating How Many Forced Labourers Work For You
Cue the bright-eyed, pigtailed offspring of ethical consumerism and social media, Slavery Footprint.
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NewsSemi-Fictional Audio Guides Narrate New York’s Museum Mile
A conceptual sound collective and the French join forces to take you for a merry and blissfully confusing journey down Manhattan's Museum Mile.
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NewsMicro-Hotel Sleepbox Makes Being In Transit Appealing
The pod with bed and drop-down desk may mean the days of sleeping in airport food courts are well behind us.
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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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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch in July That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with 'Furiosa', the latest gem from Hirokazu Kore-eda and a hypnotic vision of an AI-dominated future.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to See The Whistleblower
Based on a true story, The Whistleblower, tells the story of human trafficking in a UN controlled post-war Bosnia.
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NewsNike Release Back to The Future Sneakers
Nike has released a near-exact replica of the shoes worn by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future 2.
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NewsNYC Artist Brings Subway Etiquette to Life
NYC artist Jay Shells' Subway Etiquette Posters pokes fun at commuter pet peeves.
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NewsSwiss Artist Injects Order Into the Everyday
Ursus Wehrli wants to put some order into your life.
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NewsPost-it Note Wars Erupt in Paris
French corporate types are unleashing their creative sides in the French capital.
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NewsThe Web Wants to Know Your Secrets
As part of London's Ignite Festival, people are anonymously confessing their deepest, darkest secrets online.
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NewsThe First Photojournalist in Fukushima’s Power Plant
Photojournalist Kazuma Obara has taken some of the first pictures of the inside of the Fukushima Power Plant and the daily lives of the people who work there.
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NewsInterview /// Concrete Playground meets Bangs
Bangs is the Sudanese refugee turned viral internet star who just wants to take girls to the movies and meet them on Facebook.
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NewsFinders Keepers Open Permanent Store in Surry Hills
Follow, a design concept store from the duo behind the Finders Keepers Market, has thrown open its doors to the world.
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NewsThe Team Behind Frankie Set to Launch Men’s Magazine
The same team behind Frankie is about to launch Smith Journal, a guy-friendly take on the concept that worked so brilliantly for the ladies.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Art vs Science Perform the Music of Icehouse at the JD Set
Our old mate Jack Daniels has made it to 161 fine years. And to celebrate, he’s throwing one mighty big blow out.
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EventWorld Science Festival Brisbane
Fri, 21 Mar - Sun, 30 Mar 2025
Various Brisbane venues, Brisbane
Whether you're interested in the a peek inside Queensland Herbarium, the physics of skateboarding or seafaring cinema, this fest has you covered.
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EventInnocent Bystander Tasting Bar at Babylon Garden
Thu, 27 Feb - Sun, 16 Mar 2025
Babylon Garden, Brisbane City
Come for the pop-up cellar door from this Yarra Valley winery, stay for the Harry Styles lookalike contest, free tattoos, and gin and wine masterclass.
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EventBig Gay Day
Sun, 4 May, 2025
The Wickham, Fortitude Valley
The Wickham's queer street festival is turning 25 with Peach PRC and The Presets leading the lineup.
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EventNew Order: Australian Tour 2025
Tue, 11 Mar, 2025
Riverstage, Brisbane
After their 2020 tour was cut short due to the pandemic, these music icons are returning Down Under.
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EventMargs-a-Million
Sun, 16 Mar, 2025
Southside Restaurant, South Brisbane
This returning margarita festival at Southside is pairing 'ritas, mariachi tunes, and a mezcal and tequila tasting station bites with whipped up with the Baja crew.
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EventMarch Into Margarita
Sat, 1 Mar - Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Fish Lane, South Brisbane
Fish Lane is dedicating the entire month of March to margaritas and marg-fuelled events.
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EventFeel Good Program
Sat, 1 Mar - Thu, 1 May 2025
South Bank Parklands, Brisbane
Bend, stretch, splash and dance your way through spring at South Bank's free exercise classes.
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EventHSW Margarita Week
Thu, 20 Feb - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
Howard Smith Wharves Precinct, Brisbane City
Spend 11 days sipping margaritas by the river at Howard Smith Wharves, and tucking into Mexican-inspired dishes from Stanley Chef Louis Tikaram.
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NewsBanksy Takes On TV
While most people think of a concept before a title is given to the project, graffiti artist and satire king Banksy does the opposite.
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NewsDesign Similarities That Will Have you Seeing Double
Bob Caruther's collection of images will leaving you wondering just how 'new' a new idea really is.
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NewsThe London Riots: The Impact on Creative Communities
While London was engaged in a process of repeatedly kicking itself in the face, some of those hardest hit have been independent artists and small businesses.
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NewsTom Ballard to Miranda Devine: ‘What the F**k are You Talking About?’
Tom Ballard responds to columnist Miranda Devine's article connecting Senator Penny Wong's pregnancy to the London riots.
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NewsResponses to the London Riots
As London takes stocks of last week's riots, its people are quick to respond with a varied and unique online initiatives.
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NewsWin Tickets to Silent Comics at Graphic
We have five double passes to giveaway to Silent Comics at Graphic.
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News2020 Vision: A Clear Picture of Conservation
A UK multi-media conservation project brings together 20 of the UK's best wildlife photographers.
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NewsAustralian Artist Creates Perfume You Can Swallow
A scent that is not applied but taken as a pill.
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NewsMove, Learn, Eat: Take in Eleven Countries in Three Minutes
Three shorts films by independent filmmaker Rick Mereki remind of the joys of travel.
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NewsMelbourne Street Artist Creates Australia’s Largest Paste-Up
A Melbourne street artist has transformed the exterior of a product design company.
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NewsInterview /// A Conversation with Mike Mills
Tom Melick meets him in a beige-smothered hotel room. He wears a suit, looks overworked and speaks with a casual generosity.
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NewsNYC Garbage Sold As Art
Justin Gignac's success in selling garbage as art is proof you can sell anything that is packaged nicely.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to See Indie Film, Win Win
Director Tom McCarthy delivers an offbeat comedy-drama about a family man who tries to stay afloat of financial and familial woes.
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NewsInterview /// Concrete Playground meets webuyyourkids
Kirstie Sequitin talks to Sonny Day head of their appearance at Semi-Permanent.
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NewsKeep The Harry Potter Dream Alive With Quidditch
If you find life a little empty without Hogwarts perhaps you should give quidditch a try.
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NewsThree Ideas Shaping the Future of Music
Technology is changing the way music is made and consumed.
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NewsImprov Everywhere Causes a Scene in New York
Their eighth mp3 experiment proves we've come a long way since the Napster debacle of the early noughties.
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NewsRandom Acts of Kindness in Sydney
For his new artwork Acts of Kindness, UK artist Michael Landy is collecting stories of Sydney's random acts of kindness.
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NewsThis Is Not Art Festival Saved
This Is Not Art is the dream that keeps us trudging through winter each year. Except that, for a moment there, it looked like this year's festival wouldn't happen.
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NewsChris Jordan’s Rubbish Photography
Artist Chris Jordan takes everyday items and scary statistics to make some thought-provoking digital photographs.
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NewsText-Me-Up! The Art of Text Messages
British artist Tracey Moberley works in the medium of texts.
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NewsBlacktown City Art Prize Calls For Entries
Need help funding your art habit? Blacktown Council can help.
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NewsOne Day On Earth Brings the World’s Filmmakers Together
Filmmakers across the globe participated in the One Day On Earth project to capture the images and stories of 10/10/10.
