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NewsNewcastle Hosts Two Festivals In One Weekend
Yes, we do like to poke fun at our younger brother Newcastle now and then. But next week we have to admit he's winning big time.
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NewsJoin the Chocolate Wonderland at Baroque Bistro
We all have our weaknesses. And if there's one thing that could have me lying to friends and mortgaging a house, it would be chocolate.
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NewsDine on Wine and Dumplings at New Shanghai
We're talking a feast of delicious dumplings, including New Shanghai's genre-busting soupy and crispy Pan Fried Pork Buns.
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NewsTop 5 Events at Basement Fest 2011
Basement Fest 2011 brings together a strong line up of theatre, comedy, dance, art, spoken word and music for three weeks in both the main stage of The Basement theatre and upstairs in The Basement studio.
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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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NewsGiveaways /// Win Exclusive Cloudy Bay Tasting for you and 3 Friends
To celebrate the release of their 2011 Sauvignon Blanc on October 1st, Cloudy Bay is bringing the first of the season together at an exclusive tasting event.
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NewsInterview /// Concrete Playground meets Fern Sutherland
A couple of gins down, I sat down with my beautiful friend Fern Sutherland to talk about her latest role in Auckland Theatre Company's The End Of the Golden Weather.
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NewsExperience Slow Food at A Tavola
In this age of fast food, fast cars and fast women, there's something to be said for taking things slow.
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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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NewsWin One of Three VIP Passes to Parklife
The good folk at Barcardi are giving you and a friend the opportunity to get your hands on a VIP Parklife experience.
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NewsSubscribe to Win a $100 Bar Tab at 1885
We were thinking of adding in a clause that a percentage of this bar tab needs to be used on shouting the CP news team, but legal made it too complicated. So it is all yours, if you win*.
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NewsBelvoir and Griffin Theatre Reveal 2012 Seasons
Sydney's theatre companies have started rolling out their plans for season 2012, and they have us excited already.
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NewsThe Ten Best Festivals in Sydney
Get ready to dance kids, because summer’s coming. Here is Concrete Playground's shortlist of Sydney’s best festival experiences.
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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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NewsReview /// The Wizard of Oz
Whether you have been living in a cave and don’t know the story or it’s an old favourite of yours, this show is wonderfully uplifting and well worth seeing.
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NewsWin Tickets to the Opening of The Standard
The Standard, Sydney's newest multi-purpose performance space, opens this Thursday.
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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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NewsHighlights of New Zealand Fashion Week
Fashion Week has been and gone. Here are some of the highlights that stood out.
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NewsWin Tickets to see Alan Ball at the Sydney Opera House
This discussion of the True Blood creator's process promises to be no less seductive than a naked Mena Suvari writhing around in a bunch of roses.
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NewsGiveaways /// Win a VIP Malt Bar experience
This is a great way to meet new people, talk shop, exchange words, and who knows, cut a deal that will save the nation. You just never know.
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NewsGiveaways /// Win Scallop Festival Tickets
One of the most popular excuses to head out of the Concrete Playground and up the Coromandel to enjoy some of New Zealand's finest Scallops, Wine and Food.
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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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NewsGiveaways /// Win Ringmaster Access to Carnival42
Carnival42 is here as your escape portal to a more magical place, assuring us if you ask for anything “all black” you’ll get a cocktail without milk.
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NewsReview /// Billy T: Te Movie
With just 90 minutes to spend on this journey, there’s still time to include the best Billy T moments.
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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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NewsCollab Burger: Babekühl x Bill & Toni’s Pub Life
Sydney design trio Babekühl are collaborating with Bill and Tony's Pub Life in Surry Hills this week to bring us a burger of epic proportions.
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NewsReview /// The Only Child
The Only Child is acutely honest, each character unfolding to expose a selfishness; they are all as awful as each other. And who is the real only child?
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NewsReview /// Dylan Moran – Yeah Yeah
The audience relished every minute of his performance and the detail of his wit. As the older man who sat next to me succinctly put it, “he’s funny because everything he says rings true.”
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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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NewsThe Ten Best Small Bars in Sydney
Those changes to licensing for small bars have certainly been shaking things up around here.
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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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NewsWin Double Passes to The Only Child and Mt Eden Dubstep
If you get nostalgic over New Kids on the Block and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, traded Garbage Pail Kids or owned a chatter ring, this one’s for you.
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NewsInterview /// Concrete Playground Meets Rhythm and Vines
Concrete Playground catches up with Hamish Pinkham, the Creative Director and Founder of New Zealand's premier 3 Day Music Festival Rhythm and Vines.
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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.
