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NewsLondon to See World’s First Edible Firework Display This NYE
Could this inspire Australia's first ever case of firework envy?
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NewsThe Seven Best Restaurants with a View in Brisbane
From mountaintop views to waterside hotspots, these special locations flaunt Brisbane's diverse beauty.
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NewsUbiquitous Sriracha Sauce Now Has Its Own Documentary Film
Your favourite condiment is now a movie star.
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NewsCraft Beer and Book Matching for the Perfect Summer Read
See out a long summer day with The Sundowners and a Sundown Lager.
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NewsMr & Mrs Smith’s Ten Hottest Hotel Bars
If you're a jetsetting barfly, get ready to spread your wings and drool over the world's top ten hotel bars.
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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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NewsYourfork Wants to Let You Order Home-Cooked Food from Your Neighbours
Hooking up the home cooks and the take-out fiends.
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NewsStock Up on Sriracha Sauce as Factory Goes Into Shutdown
Fans of the spicy sauce might want to stalk up, or risk battling it out in the aisles.
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NewsThe Hunger Games Luxury Chocolates Are the Most Delicious Movie Tie-In
Because you certainly want to know what District 12 tastes like.
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NewsThe Eight Best Banh Mi in Brisbane
There is not a lot that can beat a truly great sandwich and banh mi is up there with the best.
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NewsPony Chases the Best Cocktail Bartender in Brisbane
Brisbane celebrates the art of cocktail creation, in the search for the city's best cocktail bartender.
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NewsJellyfish Protein Gives Us Creepy, Glowing Ice-Cream
Calcium-activated luminescent protein takes dessert to a whole new level.
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NewsEat Street Markets Ship a Taste of Asia to Brisbane
All the tastes of hawker Asian street food, with the cool quirk of shipping containers and arts programming.
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NewsWise Up at Moga’s Sake Masterclass
Sake is fermented rice at its finest and it's high-time we learned a thing or two about it.
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NewsThe Five Best Vegetarian Cafes in Brisbane
Natalie Portman doesn’t. Neither does Pamela Anderson, Bill Clinton or Ellen Degeneres.
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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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EventCorteo — Cirque du Soleil
Thu, 18 Sep - Sun, 21 Sep 2025
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Boondall
Focusing on a clown imagining his funeral procession, this dazzling hit filled with acrobatic wonders features the Montreal-based company's first-ever central stage setup.
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NewsSouth Side Diner Brings Americana to Brisbane
South Bank gets a new, retro addition in South Side Diner.
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NewsThe Complete Guide to Eating in Sunnybank
Hunting down these future favourites can be a laborious and occasionally disheartening process so we at Concrete Playground have tried to take some of the guesswork out of things. Here’s our list of some of the best meals the 4109 postcode has to offer.
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NewsTry Banana Bread and Espresso Butter Beer from 4 Pines and Single Origin
It's Up & Go for beer enthusiasts.
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NewsThe Seven Best High Teas in Brisbane
High tea is a serious art and we've found the best that Brisbane has to offer.
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NewsThe Seven Best Bagels in Brisbane
You might not have to travel as far as you thought to get your fix, because Brisbane's experiencing a rather tasty bagel boom, and it's hitting taste buds hard.
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NewsThe Discerning Person’s Pub Crawl: Southside Passage
This is the beginning of a short series of treks taking in the finest drinking and dining experiences Brisbane has to offer from the comfort of a bar stool.
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NewsPicnic-Themed Cafe to Open Just in Time for Summer
A new cafe packs the picnic basket for you in preparation for a summer of fun in the sun.
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NewsThe Bluffer’s Guide to Oysters
Everything oyster is illuminated in conversation with chef Sean Connolly.
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NewsDevastating and Beautiful Animated Ad Will Turn You Off Factory Farming
An ad for a popular fast food chain that might just make you cry.
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NewsMoreton Bay Oyster Season Launches with All-You-Can-Eat Oysters
The poshest all-you-can-eat around.
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NewsAlfred & Constance Launch New Summer Menu
Find us on the deck with a Jumbled Julep cocktail in one hand and a fork in the other. Hello summer.
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NewsBoozing Now Acceptable at Breakfast Thanks to Spreadable Beer
An Italian duo have done their bit to make the world a better place, engineering a chocolate-flavoured beer spread.
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NewsYour Guide to Eating and Drinking at Brisbane Festival
Enjoying live theatre, a gig or experimental art is never fun on an empty stomach, so with the annual Brisbane Festival kicking off this week we thought a pre-game feasting guide could help fill your tum right up. We also have a sweet giveaway to tempt you. Read on.
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NewsThe Seven Best Tapas Restaurants in Brisbane
Share plates are all the rage and there’s now a cornucopia of Brisbane restaurants with menus fashioned on the communal dining concept. Tapas has captured the heart of Brisbane dwellers, and become something of a neat catch-all term, not exclusive to Spainish cuisine, in the process.
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NewsAvocado Beer Is a Possibly Delicious Invention
An LA brewery has created a guacamole-inspired beer to celebrate the beginning of avocado season in California.
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NewsJan Powers Farmers Markets Coming to Albion Mill
Bottled or baked, pickled or plucked, caught or dug up, you'll be able to get your hands on it at Albion Mill's Farmers' Markets.
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NewsThe Ten Best Hot Chocolates in Brisbane
Whether you're a purist who likes their fix plain and simple or are willing to mix it up - we have you covered.
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NewsPlating Up: The Bespoke Tableware Inspired by Chefs
Chefs lend a hand in creating unique tablewares, fit for their food.
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NewsThe Ten Best European Foods in Brisbane
We've picked out the best croissant, pork knuckle, gelato and more to feed your travel bug.
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NewsThe Five Best American Eats in Brisbane
Though it’s not helping us keep our waistlines in check, the US food on offer is just too good to ignore.
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NewsPaleo Before You Faileo: Brisbane’s Caveman Food Movement
It seems like ‘paleo’ is sweeping us off our feet, but are we quite literally feeding into the hype?
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NewsThe Five Best Cafes in Woolloongabba
Besides being famous for The Gabba cricket ground, Woolloongabba is offering up some great breakfast spots.
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NewsThe Five Best Dessert Spots in Brisbane
Because sometimes dessert should be the main deal, that's why.
