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Download Concrete Playground’s Free Melbourne Summer Guide
Welcome to the inaugural Concrete Playground Summer Guide, a comprehensive shortlist of the best this city has to offer over the next three months.
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A Bluffer’s Guide to Champagne
With Concrete Playground's bluffer's guide to wine prepare to become a bona fide wine aficionado.
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Amazing Bars Around the World
When it comes to mind-boggling designs, wacky themes and unique going-out experiences then these ten bars are a cut above the rest.
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Goodreads’ Best Books Of 2012
Goodreads Choice Awards offers readers the closest thing the literary world has to a People's Choice Award.
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A Bluffer’s Guide to Cheese
If you're sick of bringing the crackers and drip to the party listen up. Here's Concrete Playground's Bluffer's Guide to Cheese.
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US Political Maps
Mark Newman's monstrous election maps are more realistic than regular maps, and scarier.
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Ten Rock-Star Retreats Around the World
You don't have to release a Pitchfork-approved debut album or sell out a stadium to live the life of a travelling troubadour.
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St Ali North: Salvatore Malatesta’s All-in-One Coffee, Bike and Mail stop
Salvatore Malatesta delights us with his newest venture, St Ali North.
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Win Tickets to The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Win a double pass to Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, starring Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller.
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Hooroo Uncovers Australia’s Top 40 ‘Secret Spot’ Travel Destinations
Travel website Hooroo has uncovered 40 of Australia's best-kept holiday secrets.
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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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Interview: Nick Palumbo of Gelato Messina
"I wanted to create a brand that used traditional craftsmanship but was flexible in the sense that there is no limit to how creative you want to be."
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Eight Boutique Online Stores for Beautiful Gifts
Quirky, inspiring, and fun boutiques are only a click away.
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The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows
The website "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" are doing their little bit to make the inexpressible more expressible
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Make Your Own Perrier Summer Berry Mojito
Mixologist Tomas Vikario shows Concrete Playground how to make a Perrier Summer Berry Mojito in the comfort of your very own herb garden.
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Learn Code or UX Design with a $3000 Scholarship to General Assembly
Concrete Playground has partnered with General Assembly to offer you the chance to receive a $3,000 scholarship to learn a new tech skillset.
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The Most Magnificent Moustaches Throughout History
In the spirit of Movember here are thirteen of history's most magnificent mo's
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The Silent History Reinvents Storytelling
One of the first applications to expand the unchartered boundaries of e-book storytelling.
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The Autark Home Floating Houseboat
The Autark Home brings a whole new meaning to living on the water.
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Win Tickets To Two Little Boys
Two Little Boys follows the hilarious bond between two best mates as they face a series of unfortunate incidents.
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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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Concrete Playground talks to Rohan Anderson (Whole Larder Love)
We preview the new book and talk about cities without supermarkets.
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The Ten Best Things to See and Do at Taste of Melbourne
Taste of Melbourne, a food and wine extravaganza, is about to hit Albert Park.
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What Your Favourite TV Show Says About Your Politics [Infographic]
If this infographic is anything to go by it seems that our TV habits can be a useful barometer for understanding our politics.
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Win Tickets to see Alex Cross
Alex Cross follows the action-packed journey of young detective/psychologist as he meets his match in a serial killer.
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Introducing the Ketel One Modern Craft Project
Do you have a traditional craft, an enterprising spirit and a hankering for $100,000 cash prizes?
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Vintage Halloween Costume Ideas
Perhaps the only thing scarier than your fake blood and broomstick are these vintage Halloween get-ups.
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Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People
Ten photos that prove that sometimes what the spin media show us about famous people is not exactly the whole story.
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The Ten Best Ways to Spend your Spring Racing Bounty
The frenzy of Spring Racing is upon us and we think it's about time you thought about how to spend your bounty. Here's Concrete Playground's top ten ways to spend your Spring Racing bounty.
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Win Tickets to Bachelorette
Bachelorette combines humour, drunken romance and the dynamic of female relationships in a raunchy and intoxicated weekend.
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Discover the Favourite Hangouts of Your Friends Around the World
A social search engine that'll help you find the favourite places of your friends and friends of friends.
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Win The Walking Dead
To mark the launch of season three, Concrete Playground has the ultimate catch-up giveaway.
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Ten Helpful Cooking Tips You May Not Know
Some unorthodox but incredibly helpful kitchen and cooking tips.
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Ten Scathing Reviews of Classic Books
Reviews really are a matter of taste. Here are ten books we now consider sacred, which - at the time of publication - received at least one scathing review.
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Win Tickets to Searching for Sugar Man
Win tickets to see the incredible, heart-warming documentary about the mysterious disappearance of cult musician.
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Ten Weird but Wonderful Spas
Whether you use them for cleansing, decompressing or just some well-earned R 'n' R, spas have been a ubiquitous part of the tourism industry.
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Concrete Playground meets Actor/Writer Ian Meadows and his Climate-Change Rom-Com
Meadows explores the funny and terrifying ways an uncertain future can affect Gen X and Y's family planning.
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Win Tickets to See Killing Them Softly
Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta and Ben Mendelsohn show us just how complicated it is to be a crim in modern America.
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Ten Images That Stopped The World
In the wake of the 11th anniversary of 9/11 here are ten more images that have stopped the world and ten stories that have shaped the course of history
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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.