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NewsYou Can Now Tour This Enormous David Bowie Exhibition Via Your Phone
The collection of more than 400 Bowie items has gone virtual.
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NewsTen Intriguing and Informative Podcasts to Listen to This Summer
From real-life tales of murdering doctors to the stories of history's trailblazing women.
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NewsA Huge Exhibition Dedicated to NASA's Space Travel Efforts Is Coming to Australia
'NASA – A Human Adventure' will display at Brisbane's Queensland Museum from March.
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NewsYou'll Be Able to Tour This Blockbuster David Bowie Exhibition Via Your Phone From Next Month
The collection of around 500 Bowie items is going virtual.
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GuideThe Best Free Things to Do in Melbourne This Summer
Swallow your disdain for crowds and curb your complaints about people who only go to exhibition openings for the complimentary drinks and get amongst these events, which you can attend gloriously cash-free.
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NewsSummer Reading List 2018–19
Including a controversial memoir, this year's Man Booker winner and the latest effort from the author behind 'Call Me By Your Name'.
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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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NewsThe Six Best Ways to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival in Melbourne
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) in Melbourne by hitting up cultural performances, noshing on mooncakes, and gathering together a big group mates for a yum cha feed.
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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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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch in July That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with 'Furiosa', the latest gem from Hirokazu Kore-eda and a hypnotic vision of an AI-dominated future.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsThe 15 Best Returning TV Shows of 2024 So Far
These are the beloved small-screen favourites to say "yes chef!" to, sleuth along with and giggle with — and get catchy songs stuck in your head from, too.
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NewsThe 15 Best Films of 2024 So Far
The best movies from 2024's first half include a meditative trip to Tokyo, a scorching neo-noir thriller, multiple Oscar-winners and a stunning robot story.
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NewsThe 15 Best New TV Shows of 2024 So Far
From gloriously surreal comedies and unforgettable true tales to stunning remakes and savvy sci-fi mysteries, 2024 has been filled with new small-screen highlights.
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NewsAlcohol Is Now Permanently Banned on the St Kilda Foreshore During Summer
The 24-hour ban will be in place from November 1 to March 31, every year.
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NewsDr Jane Goodall Is Coming to Australia to Chat About Her Pioneering Work with Chimpanzees
Nearly 60 years after she first lived with chimps in Tanzania, she'll also chat about animal welfare and her ongoing conservation efforts.
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NewsMassimo Bottura, the Chef Behind the World's Best Restaurant, Is Coming to Australia
He'll take the stage for four exclusive Aussie appearances next August
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GuideMelbourne's Best New Events of 2018
The six most innovative and inclusive events to have landed in Melbourne this year.
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NewsMelbourne Might Be Getting a New Major Pride Festival
The European-style event would take place in Fitzroy's Smith Street and Gertrude Street in 2021.
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ShopCounterweight Vinyl & Espresso
32 Chambers Street, Footscray
Browse secondhand vinyl — the specialty is classic dance and bass — or sit down for a coffee and pastry.
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NewsThis New Collection of Audiobooks Has Been Specifically Curated for Dogs
The new Audible for Dogs collection aims to calm down canines left home alone.
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NewsAdelaide Festival Has Announced a Massive 2019 Program Worth Heading Interstate For
Including soap made from human fat 'Fight Club'-style, real-time theatre across two days and Tim Minchin's new show.
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News'The Handmaid's Tale' Author Margaret Atwood Is Coming to Sydney
She'll speak at the Sydney Opera House and share her thoughts on today's key issues — and what sort of dystopian futures they might foretell.
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NewsYou Can Now Pay for Your Copy of 'The Big Issue' Simply by Tapping Your Card
Many vendors of the charity magazine are offering cashless payment options from today.
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NewsKNDRD Is Melbourne CBD's New Drop-In Meditation and Mindfulness Studio
And your first session is on the house.
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NewsSBS Is Opening Up Australia's 2019 Eurovision Entry to a Public Vote
There'll be a national song contest to decide who'll represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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EventTogether for Lebanon Fundraiser
Sun, 8 Dec, 2024
Abla's, Carlton
Abla’s, A1 Bakery, Alimentari, Larderfresh and Linden Cook are joining forces to raise money for people in Lebanon.
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EventRhys Darby: The Legend Returns
Tue, 8 Apr - Sun, 13 Apr 2025
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
The New Zealand comedian is bringing his first stand-up show in almost a decade to Melbourne.
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EventThe Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale
Sat, 26 Apr - Fri, 30 May 2025
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
The musical version of JRR Tolkien's classic is taking the hobbits to Melbourne's Comedy Theatre.
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EventLego 'Star Wars': The Exhibition
Sun, 4 May 2025 - Mon, 26 Jan 2026
Melbourne Museum, Carlton
Australia's world-first Lego 'Star Wars' exhibition is soaring into Melbourne in 2025 — from May the fourth, of course.
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EventThis Never Happened Presents
Fri, 17 Jan, 2025
170 Russell, Melbourne
Dance Music record label This Never Happened is back for another Melbourne party that won't allow phones.
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EventThe Rose Street Market
Sat, 23 Nov - Sun, 24 Nov 2024
Rose Street Artist's Market, Fitzroy
Fitzroy's weekly artisan design and art market is a must-hit if you're up for some weekend shopping and wandering.
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EventThe Fitzroy Mills Market
Mon, 25 Nov, 2024
The Fitzroy Mills, Fitzroy
This much-loved Fitzroy market showcases a top selection of local food producers an makers each Saturday.
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EventEtta's Summer Seafood Towers
Fri, 22 Nov - Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Etta, Brunswick East
This incredible wine bar and restaurant is serving decadent seafood towers for just $75 per person every Friday and Saturday afternoon.
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EventPortsea Hotel's Summer Music Series
Multiple single dates
Portsea Hotel, Portsea
The Presets, Jake Webb, Darley and DJ Levi will be playing waterfront gigs this summer at Portsea Hotel.
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EventLong Live Longnecks at BANG
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025
BANG at The StandardX, Fitzroy
You can get two-for-one Melbourne Bitter Longnecks and $1 homemade dumplings during this happy hour deal.
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NewsLaunceston's First Mona Foma Has Revealed Its Impressive and Eclectic 2019 Lineup
It has everything from real human body parts to onesie exhibitions to Courtney Barnett — and free tickets for the local Amish community.
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NewsSeven Cultural Experiences Found Around the South Island that Aren't Just Going to a Gallery
Visit New Zealand's one and only castle and help deliver the mail by boat.
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NewsDead Letter Club Is Turning the Art of Handwritten Correspondence Into a Boozy Game
Grab a pen (and a drink) and start scrawling letters the old-fashioned way.
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NewsThe NSW Government Has Set Up a New Panel to Advise on How to Make Festivals Safer
But it will not be considering pill testing.
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NewsAlice Springs' Incredible Light-Filled Parrtjima Festival Has Unveiled Its 2018 Program
The Red Centre's Indigenous festival of light returns for its third year.
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Season Three of 'Serial' Will Explore the Failures of the US Criminal Justice System
And it's hitting the air on September 20.
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NewsMelbourne's White Night Is Moving Its All-Night Arts Extravaganza to a New Winter Time Slot
It'll form part of a broader city-wide winter arts festival that's set to launch in 2019.
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NewsWorksmith Is Collingwood's New Hospitality-Focused Co-Working Space
It features desks, meeting rooms, a podcasting studio, an eleven-metre bar pumping out craft beers and an event space that caters for up to 100 people.
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GuideSeven Shows You Need to See at This Year's Melbourne International Arts Festival
From immersive fire garden installations to ancient Azerbajani operas, these are the things you'll want to have tickets for this October.
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NewsThis New Australian Opera Is Inspired by the Life of Celebrated Artist Brett Whiteley
It's coming to the Sydney Opera House in 2019 as part of Opera Australia's new season.
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NewsMelbourne Fringe Festival Has Unveiled Its Ambitious 2018 Program
Taking over 150 Melbourne venues, the festival will transform the city into a virtual playground.
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NewsMelbourne Is No Longer the World's Most Liveable City
After seven years at the top, Melbourne has been dethroned by the Austrian capital.
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News'The Betoota Advocate' Is Heading On a 13-City Tour of Australia
Clancy Overall and Errol Parker, founders of the "newspaper", will perform a satirical show responding to a recent media merger.
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NewsActivist Malala Yousafzai Is Making Her First Australian Visit
The youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate will host two speaking events in Sydney and Melbourne this December
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News
You'll Soon Be Able to Tour London's Blockbuster David Bowie Exhibition On Your Phone
The collection of around 400 Bowie items is going virtual.
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NewsMelbourne Writers Festival 2018 Will Be Headlined By a Bunch of Music Legends
Music meets literature in this year's lineup, featuring Jimmy Barnes, Paul Kelly and Sarah Blasko.
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NewsFive Ways to Get Some Culture in Your City After Work
Just because it's a 'school night' doesn't mean you have to go straight home — at least, not with this list.
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NewsThe World's First Official Studio Ghibli Restaurant Has Opened in Bangkok
Filled with Totoro figures and serving up susuwatari-shaped dishes, it's your next adorable must-visit destination.
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NewsBrisbane Festival Is Throwing a Free Garden Wedding for Eight LGBTIQ Couples
And if you're looking to tie the knot in September, it could be you.
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NewsFive Hacks for Going Back to Uni When You're Not Sure You're Ready
First and foremost, start studying something you're actually passionate about.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do in Melbourne This Month Under $20
You don't have to spend your salary to enjoy this city.
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NewsYou Can Now Watch the Aussie Town of Yass Receive Its Fabulous 'Queer Eye' Makeover
And the Fab Five were officially crowned Yass Queens.
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Mona Foma Will Officially Make the Move From Hobart Up to Launceston in 2019
MONA's summer arts and music festival will move north permanently thanks to a three-year funding commitment from the Tasmanian Government.
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NewsSydney Opera House's Antidote Festival Has Just Announced Its Thought-Provoking 2018 Lineup
Over one weekend, Sydney will hear from trans activist Chelsea Manning, 'Black Panther' writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and one of the journalists that helped expose Harvey Weinstein.
