The Top Things to Do After Work This Friday, May 11
Plus, how you can get to and from them for free.
The Top Things to Do After Work This Friday, May 11
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Plus, how you can get to and from them for free.
It's no secret that here at Concrete Playground, we love an event or two (hundred). Every single day, our fair city is buzzing with cool, classy and downright crazy happenings. Sure, the daily grind can often leave you wanting to crawl straight into bed at tools down, but that inner culture vulture of yours needs to be fed. So, we've teamed up with uberPOOL to round up the best things to do in Sydney after work tonight. Rather than heading straight home, check out a burger pop-up, $12 espresso martinis or a place where you can smash your stress away and have something interesting to talk about at work tomorrow. And with Uber's newest service, which allows you to share rides with people heading in the same direction as you, getting to these events has never been easier — or cheaper (see: free).
To celebrate the Australian launch, the ride-sharing service is giving you five free uberPOOL trips in select Sydney suburbs until Friday, May 11 (to be booked between 4pm and 8pm), so you can save your precious dollars for all the excellent events below. The day is still young, so figure out what you'll be doing tonight, order that uberPOOL at the closing bell and pat yourself on the back for not succumbing to the call of your usual end-of-week Netflix and binge session.
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Superior Burger‘s Jovan Curic has taken up a weekly residency at Camperdown’s Deus Cafe. Since April 6, Curic has been in the kitchen for Superior Fridays from 6pm, bringing with him his much loved Wakeley burgers. The menu has all of the Superior classics, including the namesake burger with salt-aged beef, special sauce and McClures pickles; the Dooce Dooce with double beef, cheese and bacon; plus the Magic Shroom burger with confit field mushroom, slaw and smoked barbecue sauce. Sides include dirty fries and Curic’s famed hot ‘n’ sticky chicken wings that hail from his Pub Life Kitchen days. The Superior menu will be paired with Deus’ local beer and cocktail specials.
Head for the burgs from tonight from 6pm.
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Have you always wanted to reenact the Office Space printer smashing scene? Well, your chance has finally come. Smash Brothers has popped up in Kogarah for three months, starting Saturday, April 21. A clear nod to the Nintendo video game of the same name, the concept is a new kind of stress and anger management workout geared towards millennials. It takes the workplace term ‘break room’ in a very literal sense — water coolers will only be of the smashable variety. You actually can smash printers here, along with plates, bottles, blenders, toasters and even televisions, fridges and — the most satisfying of all — computer monitors. So how does it work? Choose your weapon of choice and you’ll be escorted to a break room filled with a crate of smashable goodies (plus a few ‘mystery items’) to break to bits. You’ll be outfitted with overalls, gloves and a face shield, so you can go at it without the machines taking their revenge.
De-stress from the work week and book a smash sesh for tonight here.
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“Part safari party. Part murder mystery. All denim.” That’s the tagline for Double Denim Adventure Show, a gut-busting, rapid-fire and very skill sketch comedy show from Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew. Whereas the last Double Denim had the pair embrace their inner pre-teens, the sequel sees them journey “from teenage years to avocado days”. The affable and hilarious Brasier and Frew were nominated for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s prestigious Golden Gibbo Award in 2017, and their new show — in which you will be required to dance and drink from a kings cup — is raucous, hilarious and an all-round good time. Try not to leave with a smile on your face and at least a few early 2000s bangers stuck in your head.
Book tickets here to catch the show at Factory Theatre tonight at 9.30pm.
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King Street Wharf’s Cargo is notorious for its rowdy vibes — almost everyone has a story to tell after a night out there. Proving it’s still a winning destination for shaking off a hard day’s work, the venue has recently introduced plenty of offers to get the party started. A fresh happy hour is now pouring, which means tonight, from 4pm–7pm, there are $6 house beer, wine and spirits. Once the clock strikes 7pm, you can then head upstairs for classic cocktails — including espresso martinis — for $12 each until 9pm.
The bar also has a new nighttime entertainment offering, with the introduction of its new Friday Feels session. Kicking off tonight, the early-evening music lineup will see a host of musicians and producers re-interpret familiar songs. Think of it as an electro-disco take on Triple J’s ‘Like a Version’. These funky tunes will run from 5–8pm, after which DJs — playing everything from dance to hip hop — will take over, spinning tunes till the wee hours. Friday Feels’ inaugural musician is Sydney electro artist For Life (aka Adam Bozzetto), who’ll be live tonight from 5pm, followed by DJs Swimteam and Bobby Gray from 8pm.
Entry is free so all you have to do is get yourself down to King Street Wharf once it’s knock-off time.
Image: Kai Leishman.
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We have a lot to thank Mexico for: tequila, tacos and festive music, for starters. And Mexico’s annual holiday Cinco de Mayo is as good an excuse as any to celebrate the country’s colourful culture. And SoCal, Neutral Bay’s southern-Californian eatery, agrees — this week it’s hosting the inaugural Taco and Tequila Fiesta with seven days of Mexican-themed festivity.
The week of festivities wraps up with a taco degustation menu. So, grab an amigo and feast on five courses of tequila-paired culinary delights. Dinner will start with a refreshing tuna and kingfish ceviche-topped taco paired with a jalapeño-spiked tequila cocktail, it then moves on to tacos topped with Moreton Bay bug and grilled tofu and ends with buñuelos — a dessert of crisp tortillas, dulce de leche, agave praline and ice cream — and a caffeinated cocktail with Kahlua and vanilla-infused tequila.
Taco and Tequila Degustation takes place tonight and is $65 per person with a minimum of two people per booking.
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This autumn, the Sydney Opera House has announced a new biannual series, UnWrapped, that features rarely seen, critically-acclaimed works by both new and established independent artists and small performing arts companies. It will take place under the sails every May and August, with the inaugural season already underway until May 13 at The Playhouse and The Studio. What’s more, the series aims to make performing arts at the Opera House from theatre to circus accessible to all, so all tickets cost just $45.
In both spaces, emerging artists will showcase alongside established artists who are boldly trying something different. In The Playhouse, Aussie artists Brian Lipson and Gideon Obarzanek star in Two Jews Walk into a Theatre…, a dry, humorous exploration of the father-son relationship that sees both performers take on new artistic territory. They’ll share the space with performances of Personal, an intimate piece by award-winning Jodee Mundy who expresses her experience growing up as the only hearing person in a deaf family. Presented in two languages, Auslan and English, the piece combines performance, storytelling, multimedia and animation. In The Studio, the wildly popular Mother’s Ruin: A Cabaret About Gin, with performances by the beloved Maeve Marsden and Libby Wood, takes the audience on a hilarious trip through the history of gin.
Tonight, book into Personal at 6.30pm, Two Jews Walk into a Theatre… at 8.30pm or Mother’s Ruin at 9pm.
Image: Ashley de Przer.
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As fans across the globe gear up for the Arctic Monkeys’ sixth album to drop later today, the acclaimed English rockers have pushed the excitement levels even further, announcing a series of international pop-ups and film screenings to coincide with the launch. And even Australia’s got a local edition of the store — named after the forthcoming album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino — popping up at Golden Age Cinema and Bar today and Saturday, May 12. According to the Arctic Monkeys’ website, the TBHC pop-ups offer a range of “unique and limited album and merchandise items”, alongside screenings of the band’s favourite 70s flicks. Titles include Le Cercle Rouge, Inherent Vice, The Last Waltz and Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse.
Tickets to tonight’s Le Cercle Rouge are selling fast. Book yours here.
Figured out what you want to do tonight? Now plan to get there and back (for free until Friday, May 11) by booking an uberPOOL in select suburbs between 4pm and 8pm.
Top image: Jacquie Manning.
