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NewsConcrete 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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NewsWin 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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NewsThe 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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NewsSt Jerome’s Laneway Festival Announces 2013 Lineup
Bat for Lashes, Nicolas Jaar, Yeasayer and Perfume Genius among this year's headliners.
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NewsTen 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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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these potent westerns, horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, and expressive dance flicks.
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NewsA List of All of the Wes Anderson Films, Ranked
No one makes movies quite like Wes Anderson, so we've revisited and ranked them all — even though every single one is a gem.
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NewsIt's Eurovision Time: Here's When You Can Watch 2025's Song Contest (with Tony Armstrong and Courtney Act Hosting Australia's Coverage)
This year's Australian entry: Go-Jo with the song 'Milkshake Man', which is being performed with a four-metre-tall blender as part of the set.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsTen 2025 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
Your newly Oscars-approved viewing list includes movies 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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NewsEleven 2025 Golden Globe-Winning Films and TV Shows That You Can (and Should) Watch Right Now
Make a cinema or 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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NewsHow to Get Out of Your Internet Ghetto
Often we end up in a little media bubble, never challenged by new information or opinions. Unless we go looking for it.
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NewsThe Five Best Italian Restaurants in Brisbane
Thanks to our culturally diverse city, Brisbane has many wonderful Italian restaurants to choose from. Here are Concrete Playground’s top picks.
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NewsThe Five Best Restaurants to Visit During Brisbane Festival
On your Brisbane Festival adventures we know you will be looking for a delicious bite to eat, so we have come up with our top five places for you to eat during this wonderful month in Brisbane.
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NewsWin Tickets to see On The Road
Win tickets to see Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund head up a stellar cast in the adaptation of cult novel On The Road.
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NewsBird’s Eye View of TV Show Apartments
Artist Inaki Aliste Lizarralde has transformed her TV fixation into beautiful hand-drawn blueprints of some of television's most beloved apartments.
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NewsA Surprising Infographic of the Ten Smartest People Alive
And the nature versus nurture debate rages on.
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NewsThe Five Best Garden Eateries in Brisbane
With spring well and truly upon us, we at Concrete Playground thought it necessary to find the best garden cafes in Brisbane.
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NewsVertigo-Inducing Views From One World Trade Center
Tour Manhattan from the 103rd floor of 1 WTC.
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NewsCovert Cocktails: A Perrier Tea Break
Presenting Concrete Playground's first covert cocktail, brought to you from Wendy's Secret Garden.
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NewsTen Helpful Hangover Cures
Rather than just waiting out the torture of the self-inflicted pain you have forced upon yourself, try some natural hangover cures...
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NewsThe Best Photos From Bilbao’s Annual ‘Ugly Face Contest’
Stuffing fingers into eye sockets proves an effective distraction from the Basque County's economic woes.
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EventThe Great Artist Market
Sat, 28 Mar, 2026
Felons Barrel Hall, Brisbane City
This riverside brewery is celebrating Brisbane's creative community with a one-day market featuring over 70 local talents.
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EventArmand Van Helden at The Tivoli
Fri, 10 Apr, 2026
The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley
Groove to house music all night long, as one of the genre's pioneering stars makes a long-awaited return to Brisbane.
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EventArchie Moore: kith and kin
Sat, 27 Sep 2025 - Sun, 18 Oct 2026
GOMA, South Brisbane
This artwork won the 2024 Venice Biennale's Golden Lion — and Australians can see it at home in Brisbane.
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NewsA Bluffer’s Guide to Hosting the Perfect Dinner Party
Let us present to you our tips for the time poor and culinary challenged.
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NewsThe Five Best Mexican Restaurants in Brisbane
Concrete Playground's handpicked guide to Brisbane’s top Mexican joints.
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NewsWin Tickets to see Beasts of the Southern Wild
Win a double pass to see one of the most talked about films of the year.
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NewsPsychedelic Photographs From Burning Man 2012
Radical, revolutionary and just downright ridiculous, this is the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
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NewsYou+1 Floating Festival with Steve Aoki, Rudimental and Flight Facilities
Sound waves meet ocean waves at Sydney's brand new floating festival.
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NewsThe Best Places in Brisbane to Take Your Dad this Father’s Day
Here at Concrete Playground we want to make sure that if nothing else, your dad’s stomach is satisfied on his special day.
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NewsWin Tickets to see Hit & Run
Win a double pass to see Dax Shepard's new movie starring Bradley Cooper.
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NewsAmazing Aerial Images of Earth
The contours, shapes and colours that the topography the Earth's surface forms are breathtaking marvels.
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NewsDan and Andy’s Hawthorne Garage Opens
Local brothers Dan and Andy have opened a one-stop shop in Hawthorne for all of your grocery needs (and more).
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NewsCamouflaged Bodyscape Photography
Jean-Paul Bourdier's breathtaking photos seamlessly integrate painted bodies into the background of wondrous natural topography.
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NewsCelebrities Photographed by their Famous Friends
Ten brilliant photographs of celebrities taken by their superstar friends.
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NewsWords of Wisdom from Famous Authors
Take a look at these invaluable words of wisdom from the mouths of some of history's best writers and poets.
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NewsWin Tickets to see Holy Motors
Holy Motors follows the life of Monsieur Oscar, a roving assassin who meanders between varying identities and lives.
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NewsThe World’s Greatest Train Journeys
For people who know that the journey is always greater than the destination.
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NewsConcrete Playground’s Guide to Eating at the Ekka
We take you through all of the food experiences that the Ekka has to offer.
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NewsBec Dean’s Top Five Artists to Watch in 2012
If you've ever marvelled at one of Carriageworks' stranger corners, you'll dig these five emerging artists.
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NewsWeird and Wonderful Celebrity Transformations
Musicians are notorious for their reason-defying epiphanies that are usually indicative of either groundbreaking creativity or mid-career slumps.
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NewsTen Cool Artists From Across the Ditch
New Zealand artists have been making big waves recently in musical fields that have nothing to do with dubstep or flying anything.
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NewsHow to Make the Perfect Dumpling
This recipe is based on the traditional jiao-zi dumpling originating in northern China.
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NewsThe Five Best Cheap and Cheerful BYO Restaurants in Brisbane
When you’re trying to please everyone, often your best option is to go for the easiest and most fail-safe option.
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News14 Brilliant Business Card Designs
With designs that range from a balloon to a fortune cookie to a lego piece, here are some of our favourite creative business cards.
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NewsPhilip Johnson Launches New Restaurant, One Eleven
One Eleven will be multi-faceted with an espresso bar for casual dining and a bistro for more formal dining.
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NewsWin a Copy of This Must Be The Place on DVD
Writer/director Paolo Sorrentino itched to create a character based on The Cure's Robert Smith, and this is the result.
