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    Concrete Playground's 2015-16 Summer Reading List

    Ten books to get stuck into by the pool, the beach or on the couch with an Icy Pole in hand.

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    Concrete Playground's Summer Reading List

    Ten books from this year that no bibliophile should miss.

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    Concrete Playground’s Summer Reading Guide 2013

    Read books this summer. Read these books.

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    Spend an Evening with David Sedaris on New Tour

    You know you wanna hear David Sedaris read his insightful, satirical, real-life stories aloud.

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    ‘A Bricolage of Shit': The Act of Killing’s New Take on Documentary and Genocide

    The Act of Killing has been the talk of Sydney Film Festival. Director Joshua Oppenheimer tells how his astonishing documentary came together.

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    The Human Scale

    Friday, June 14 - Thursday, July 4, 2013

    The movie manifesto about how we can build cities that put people first.

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    Reimagining How to Build Cities on a Human Scale

    Andreas Dalsgaard, director of The Human Scale, explains how we address the contradictions of contemporary cities.

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    Concrete Playground's Road Trip Essentials

    Road trips are an idealised summertime activity, but when the heats eases in autumn there's really no better time to be in the car for extended periods of time.

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    How Reasonable Things Still Get Banned by the Australian Classification Board

    I Want Your Love is in the spotlight after James Franco's YouTube rant, but it's banning is just one of many 'silly' decisions made by Australian censors over the years.

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    Concrete Playground’s Summer Reading Guide

    Concrete Playground duly presents our suggestions for the best books to read over your summer.

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    Concrete Playground meets Dead Europe director Tony Krawitz

    The filmmaker seeks out the ghosts of Europe with his new Christos Tsiolkas adaptation.

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    On The Road

    Thursday, September 27 - Wednesday, October 31, 2012

    Various cinemas in Melbourne

    The book that's taught generations how to live as honestly, passionately and freely as they can is finally a movie.

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    How 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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    Seven Australian Novels They Don’t Teach You In School

    We present our pick of the best of Australia's oft-forgotten cult classics; the kind they wouldn't dream of teaching you in school.

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    Win Tickets to see Bel Ami

    We have five double passes to see Bel Ami, the adaptation of the famously salacious 19th century novel.

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    Bucking The Trend, Sydney Gets a New Superclub

    Going against the trend for opening small bars for people to escape the pokies and nightclubs, The Star opens a new superclub. With pokies.

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    Ron Burgundy to Return In Anchorman Sequel

    Will Ferrell announces on Conan O'Brien that there will be a sequel to Anchorman.

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    Vivid Ideas 2012 Program Announced

    Vivid Ideas is the creative part of the extravaganza that is Vivid Sydney, and this year it's bigger than ever before.

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    The Ten Best Boutique Cinemas in Sydney

    Our pick of the best places screening the best films in atmospheric theatres with excellent beer and fancy ice cream.

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    New York’s Iconic Water Tanks To Become Public Art

    The Water Tank Project aims to raise awareness about water sustainability in a whimsical urban makeover.

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