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NewsHelen Bird: The Making of a Modern Craftswoman
We talk to Helen Bird, the recently announced winner of Ketel One’s Modern Craft Project, about transforming the humble food bicycle-cart into a literal vehicle for empowering migrants from disadvantaged backgrounds and how she plans to establish a lasting legacy with the $100,000 prize money.
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NewsCaravan of Courage Pulls Into Melbourne
Next Generation Hunter Valley's third annual pop-up wine bar goes on tour.
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NewsWin Tickets For Ten People to Daft Punk’s Album Launch Party in Wee Waa
That's right, one lucky reader will get to take 9 of their friends along to the most hyped album launch OF ALL TIME.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Playwright, Feminist and Twitterer Van Badham
Her new play injects smarts into the rom-com genre.
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NewsWin Tickets to the Audi Festival of German Film
See the bizarrest and the best of German cinema, on the house.
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NewsWorld’s 50 Best Restaurants Have an Australian Flavour
Melbourne's Attica is best in Australasia, and Peter Gilmore's usual suspect makes an appearance.
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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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NewsWin Tickets To The Indian Film Festival Melbourne 2013
Win tickets to see your choice of a rich, lively program showcasing India's finest films.
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NewsTen Gourmet Winter Getaways
These hotel dining rooms draw food critics like thirsty wildebeest to a watering hole.
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NewsObama Plays Daniel Day-Lewis Playing Obama in Spoof Video
Obama adds comedian and method actor to his already dazzling resume.
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NewsAt Age Ten, Emerging Writers’ Festival Is Well Established
The bookworm's answer to Woodstock unveils a program worth leaving the solitary safety of the laptop screen for.
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NewsBorgen: The Best TV Show You’ve Never Heard Of
The drama of a governing coalition, Danish style.
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NewsWhat’s So New About SBS2?
SBS2 does TV that's made for Goldilocks — not too old, not too young, but just right.
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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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NewsUS Gun Lobbyist Makes John Howard Look Progressive
Two Johns team up to bamboozle US gun lobbyist and general loose cannon Philip van Cleave.
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NewsMONA Reveals Dark Mofo Festival Program – And Will Fly You There for Free
Enough art, music and jet fuel to blast through the winter chill.
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NewsDaft Punk Two-Day Afterparty Weekend Vines Announced
Inspired by Daft Punk, Wee Waa is throwing a festival of camping and dancing.
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NewsGrow It Local Is Out to Map Sydney’s Urban Gardens
The City of Sydney gives Grow It Local two green thumbs-up.
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NewsThe Best Women’s Fashion Boutiques In Melbourne
The local womenswear boutiques you won't find in every Hidden Laneways of Melbourne tour.
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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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EventMoon Dog's Fizzer BYO Cup Day
Sun, 1 Dec, 2024
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
BYO drinking vessel, get it filled with free Moon Dog Fizzer — and celebrate the first day of summer in style.
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EventALWAYS LIVE — Yerambooee
Sat, 7 Dec, 2024
Federation Square, Melbourne
A free communal celebration of First Nations legend and song.
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EventALWAYS LIVE — Garage Band
Sat, 7 Dec - Sun, 8 Dec 2024
Federation Square, Melbourne
A free event shining the spotlight on Victoria's talented young musicians.
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NewsMonocle Does Coffee Now
The magazine-gone-global brand synonymous with cool is now serving designer lattes to savvy Londoners.
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NewsDon’t Just Mourn for Oxford Street’s Rainbow Crossing – DIY One
Prepare for a serious rainbow chalk shortage in Sydney.
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NewsSydney Writers’ Festival 2013 Boasts More Storytelling Events and Molly Ringwald
The thinker's answer to Glastonbury launches a dynamic program of events that celebrates the pleasure of a good old-fashioned story.
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NewsBoost Your Fitness with These Ten Weird Workout Trends
Because sometimes you can't bear to run, Powerplate or Zumba a day longer.
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NewsBourke St Bakery Launches Social Enterprise Training Refugees in Baking
A new social enterprise taking refugees from outer Sydney and skilling them in sourdough baking.
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NewsCapture a Moment of Purity and Win $10,000
All that Instagramming could finally be your pay day.
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NewsEight Genre-Defining Beards of Modern Music
The Beards aren't the only band with facial hair that says a lot about their music.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Rust and Bone
What helps a despairing person keep on living? It's not usually a brute like Ali.
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NewsTime Travel via Phone Box Is Possible Thanks to NYC’s New Museum
The pay phone finds new life as an auditory time machine letting New Yorkers escape reality.
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NewsTen Inspiring and Insightful TED Talks by Musicians
Amanda Palmer isn't the only industry luminary with a penchant for both lyrics and discourse.
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NewsConcrete 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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NewsVivid Sydney Announces 2013 Lineup
The festival turns five this year, and is celebrating with its most dazzling lineup yet.
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NewsTry a Truly Sustainable Diet at Pestival
The Noma chefs pitch in to help tune your tastebuds to the appreciation of bugs.
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NewsFour Interesting Ideas in the New Australian Cultural Policy
The Gillard Government announced their long-awaited cultural policy which look set to have some unexpectedly awesome consequences
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NewsA Wallflower’s Guide to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2013
Concrete Playground brings you the best of the Melbourne International Comedy festival, sans awkward silences.
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NewsIndie Theatre in the Spotlight for MTC’s NEON Season
Leading Melbourne indies The Hayloft Project, THE RABBLE, Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Fraught Outfit and Sisters Grimm storm the big stage.
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NewsWin Tickets to See The Loneliest Planet
A backpacking couple find their world turned upside down when they venture into the Georgian wilderness.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Simon Griffiths from Shebeen Non-Profit Bar
Australia gets its first non-for-profit bar and we learn how it all came together.
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NewsWin a DVD of Savages
Oliver Stone's brutal, ferocious and sexy look into the lives of two marijuana growers.
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NewsWhen a Building Brightens a Neighbourhood
Reko Rennie's Welcome to Redfern is part of a history of large-scale murals that have driven urban renewal.
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NewsSix Unbelievable Things You’re Missing at SXSW 2013
From a talking show courtesy of Google to a vending machine that lets you choose the party beats, SXSW 2013 opened with a bang.
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NewsBe Jealous, Bikers: London Goes Dutch with $1.4 Billion Cycle Highway
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announces cycle-friendly plans to inspire city planners everywhere.
