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NewsFuture Music Festival Announces 2013 Lineup
The Prodigy, Dizzee Rascal and Azealia Banks headline Future's "biggest line-up yet".
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NewsWin 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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NewsIncredible Maps Depicting Human Activity
Modern digital technology allows us to produce and manipulate visual representations of geography in simply astounding ways.
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NewsVintage Postcards Using Google Maps
Resembling vintage photos from a bygone era, these time-aged Postcards from Above are actually aerial images taken from Google Maps.
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NewsTen 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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NewsAwesome Underwater Photographs
A Canadian artist shows that the world is at its most bizarre and beautiful when viewed through water.
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GuideSpectacular Autumn Events For Culture Vultures Seeking Their Next Fix
Make sure you add these must-do events to your Sydney culture calendar.
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NewsFrom the 'Mona Lisa' to 'Codex Atlanticus': A Look Inside The Lume's Multi-Sensory Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition
The only 360-degree exact replica of the world's most-famous enigmatic portrait, da Vinci's notebook pages, 40 of his machine inventions brought to life: they're all on display.
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GuideSix Spectacular Art Exhibitions Hitting Sydney in 2023
Famous Modern masters and significant contemporary artists from Australia and abroad are being celebrated in these unmissable exhibitions.
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GuideAll the Big Exhibitions, Installations and Art Festivals Around Brisbane That'll Dazzle Your 2023 Diary
Fill your year with Warhol pop art, glowing gardens, Monet's water lilies and street art everywhere.
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GuideDay to Night Guide: Ten Standout Brisbane Events No Matter What Time You Want to Visit
Would you call yourself a day-tripper or a night owl? Either way, we've got you sorted.
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GuideTen Must-See Art Exhibitions and Installations to Check Out Around Brisbane Before Winter Ends
Fill the rest of winter with woolly labyrinths, Disney delights, a giant kaleidoscope you can wander through and all the Lego.
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GuideSeven Vivid Sydney Highlights You Need to Add to Your Winter Calendar
With pop-up cabaret bars, thought-provoking conversations and free live music, the 2022 run of Vivid Sydney is set to shine bright.
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GuideImmersive and Impressive Blockbuster Exhibitions to Look Forward to Around Australia in 2022
Plan trips to dive into all things Disney, peer at Yayoi Kusama's finest in two different cities, scope out Picasso's best and fall in love with Elvis paraphernalia.
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GuideHow to Get Your Arts and Culture Fix in Tropical North Queensland
Explore beachfront markets, local art galleries and a tropical gin distillery.
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GuideTen Sensational Exhibitions to See in and Around Brisbane This Summer
Spend your summer wandering through masterpieces, bouncing around a multi-sensory installation, and embracing the surreal and sublime.
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NewsThe 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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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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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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EventAffordable Art Fair Brisbane 2026
Thu, 7 May - Sun, 10 May 2026
Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills
Bargain alert: this global event is making its return to Brisbane across four May days, with artworks for sale from $100.
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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 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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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.
