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GuideShow Victoria's Hospo Scene Some Love at These Nine Good Food Month Events
A program of long lunch feasts, crafty chef dinners and wine-fuelled parties await.
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NewsSeven Winter Gigs, Shows and Festivals That'll Help You Throw Off the Melbourne Chill
Suburb-wide festivals, screaming thrash metal and saucy pop culture burlesque — Melburnians, this is how you warm up your winter.
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NewsSpringtime Is the New Three-Day Beachside Music Festival Hitting the Gold Coast This September
It's bringing 40-plus acts to a heap of outdoor stages — and entry is free.
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NewsCoachella Is Planning to Return to the Desert in April 2022 — and YouTube Will Be Streaming It
The huge Californian music festival was last held in 2019.
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NewsAlanis Morissette's Rescheduled 'Jagged Little Pill' 25th Anniversary Tour Will Hit Australia in 2022
Originally set to visit our shores back in 2020, the famed 90s singer will now bring her world tour to Perth, Melbourne and Sydney next year.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass Is Hosting a Virtual Festival So You Can Still Get Your Music Fix This Winter
Splendour XR will feature more than 50 acts, including The Killers, Khalid, Chrvches, Charlie XCX and The Avalanches.
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NewsEleven 2025 Golden Globe-Winning Films and TV Shows That You Can (and Should) Watch Right Now
Make a cinema or a couch date with a freshly minted Golden Globe-winner — here's what you can watch right away, and where.
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NewsTwenty-Five Movies That You Can Stream This Christmas No Matter How You Feel About the Festive Season
Pour a glass of eggnog, find your comfiest spot on the couch, then enjoy everything from 'The Holdovers' and 'Die Hard' to 'Last Christmas' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
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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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NewsMy Chemical Romance Is Heading to Australia in 2022 for Their First Local Shows in a Decade
Grab your eyeliner and prepare to relive your teenage emo years.
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NewsMidnight Oil, Paul Kelly, Tash Sultana and Jimmy Barnes Headline Bluesfest's October Lineup
The four-day lineup also features Ocean Alley, Ziggy Alberts, Xavier Rudd, Kate Ceberano, The Church, Briggs and Kate Miller-Heidke.
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NewsHere's When and Where You Can Watch Eurovision 2021 and Add Some Europop to Your Year
Montaigne is representing Australia — and if you want to vote, you'll need to get up early.
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NewsBluesfest's Rescheduled 2021 Festival Will Now Take Place in October
After being cancelled in March due to an COVID-19 outbreak, it'll now be held over October's four-day long weekend.
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NewsMTV Has Launched a Luxe Travel Experience Featuring an Intimate Tash Sultana Concert
Those that book the experience will also be treated to an exclusive afterparty and a stay at the new Ovolo South Yarra.
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NewsBIGSOUND Is Returning in 2021 as a Three-Day Physical Festival Packed with Gigs and Talks
It's back in its in-person format, with around 150 musicians hitting Fortitude Valley's stages this September.
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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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NewsLive At Last Is the New National Tour Hosting Free Intimate Shows By Beloved Local Bands
Hockey Dad will perform in Sydney and Last Dinosaurs will hit the stage in Brisbane — and to attend, you have to win tickets.
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NewsMusic From the Home Front Is Returning in 2021 as a Live Concert That'll Be Streamed Nationally
Melburnians can head along — and everyone else can watch at home.
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NewsNew Three-Day Music Festival Dream Machine Will Take You Island-Hopping in The Whitsundays
Dance to tunes from Hayden James and Flight Facilities, then sleep on a yacht or on Daydream Island.
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NewsBluesfest Has Been Cancelled Due to COVID-19 for the Second Year in a Row
The move has been made "to minimise the risk of the highly infectious COVID-19 variant of concern being transmitted in the local area, as well as across states and territories."
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NewsThe Avalanches Are Touring Australia's East Coast This Autumn
The iconic Australian electronic act will be hitting up Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney to play its first live shows since releasing 'We Will Always Love You' in late 2020.
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NewsApril Sun Is the New Two-Week Music Festival Hitting the St Kilda Foreshore This Autumn
Get set for a program of gigs and day parties, from the likes of G-Flip, Touch Sensitive, Hiatus Kaiyote and more.
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EventGABS Craft Beer Fest
Fri, 4 Apr, 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Where can you get a drink from a 120-tap bar? At 2025's Great Australasian Beer Spectapular.
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EventWhat's on in Frankston: 2025 Events
Multiple single dates
Various Frankston venues
From European beach clubs to street art and sand sculpting, here's everything hitting Frankston in early 2025.
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EventBiggest Best IMAX Film Festival
Sat, 11 Jan - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
IMAX Melbourne, Carlton
This IMAX Melbourne film festival is filled with the best and biggest flicks to see on its huge 32-metre-wide by 23-metre-tall screen.
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EventEuropa! Europa Film Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Wed, 12 Mar 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Celebrate European cinema with a packed film festival lineup featuring 44 movies from 26 countries.
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EventThe Glam Slam
Fri, 24 Jan - Sun, 26 Jan 2025
Melbourne Park, Melbourne
Beyond the official Glam Slam tennis matches, you'll also find roaming drag queens and kings, glam stations, DJ sets, and plenty of rainbow flags.
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EventDrake: 'Anita Max Win' Tour
Multiple single dates
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
The 'Hotline Bling' performer 'The Degrassi: The Next Generation' star is returning Down Under for the first time in eight years.
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EventThe Play That Goes Wrong
Wed, 3 Sep - Sun, 21 Sep 2025
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
This comedic production about a chaotic play focuses on The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society's efforts to stage a murder-mystery.
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EventPickleball Pop-Up at Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya
Thu, 9 Jan - Thu, 6 Feb 2025
Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya, Fitzroy
Drop by this Japanese restaurant to pair your sushi and cocktails with a few rounds of pickleball.
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Event$15 Cacio e Pepe at Marameo
Tue, 7 Jan - Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Marameo, Melbourne
The team is slashing the price of its most-popular pasta to celebrate its fifth birthday — but only until the end of January.
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EventAn Evening with David Sedaris
Thu, 6 Feb - Fri, 7 Feb 2025
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
David Sedaris is bringing his latest tour to Hamer Hall in Melbourne in February to delight NPR obsessives.
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NewsBrunswick Ballroom Is the New Melbourne Music Venue In the Former Halls of The Spotted Mallard
Sit beneath stained glass domes and eat vegan wings at this new Brunswick concert venue.
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NewsTyler, The Creator, The Strokes and Gorillaz Will Headline Splendour in the Grass This November
After skipping 2020, the Byron Bay festival was due to take place this July, but has postponed again.
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NewsTasmanian Arts Festival Dark Mofo Is Returning This Winter and Has Announced Its 2021 Dates
It'll be shorter, but "a typically grim and gloomy affair".
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NewsBluesfest Has Been Given a Provisional Green Light to Go Ahead at 50 Percent Capacity This April
A COVID-safe iteration with camping and an all-Australian lineup will take place over the Easter long weekend.
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NewsBrunswick Music Festival Has Unveiled Its Jam-Packed All-Aussie Lineup for 2021
The beloved northside music celebration returns with a new 10-day format — and no ticket costs more than $10 (plus booking fee).
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NewsSocially Distanced Festival Summer Sounds Is Bringing Its Stacked Local Lineup to Melbourne
After a successful first season in Adelaide during January, the new fest heading to Melbourne next as part of the Live at the Bowl series.
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NewsThe 2021 Grammy Awards Have Been Postponed Due To Rising COVID-19 Cases in Los Angeles
Australians will now be able to tune in on Monday, March 15.
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NewsTen Songs You May Have Missed in 2020 But Can Listen to On Repeat Over Summer
Refresh your summer playlist with these tracks — from feel-good hip hop to anthemic indie-rock.
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NewsHigh-Profile Musicians Are Doing Surprise Performances Around Melbourne for the Next Fortnight
Next time you walk past a busker, it might be someone familiar.
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NewsA Waterfront Dance Festival with an All-Aussie Lineup Is Touring the Country This Autumn
For The Love returns for three huge shows in March and April, headlined by Flight Facilities, Cosmo’s Midnight and Mallrat.
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NewsSeven Ways to Throw Your Own Mini Festival While You Wait for the Real Deal to Come Back
Recreate your favourite festival experiences at home this summer.
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NewsA Supremely Festive Mariah Carey Christmas Special Is Coming to Apple TV+ Next Month
The beloved singer will sing, dance and get merry alongside Tiffany Haddish, Billy Eichner, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson and Snoop Dogg.
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NewsGuns N' Roses Have Announced a 2021 Stadium Tour of Australia and New Zealand
According to the rock band, international tours may be on the horizon.
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NewsSydney Is Set to Host Australia's First Pandemic-Era Indoor Arena Gigs with 5000-Plus Crowds
The Great Southern Nights will hit up Qudos Bank Arena, with Ocean Alley, Jack River, Ruby Fields, Bernard Fanning and Matt Corby on the bill.
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GuideEight Live Gigs Worthy of a Road Trip Around NSW This November
Chair-dance from country to coast this spring.
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NewsHistoric Melbourne Music Venue Festival Hall Has Been Bought by Megachurch Hillsong
Having played host to everyone from The Beatles to Frank Sinatra, the site has now been purchased for $23 million.
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NewsThe Team Behind Pitch and Let Them Eat Cake Has Planned a Post-Lockdown Street Rave for March 2021
Novel has nabbed a 5000-person inner city venue for a COVID-safe dance party headlined by German DJ Ben Klock.
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NewsThis New Western Australian Event Could Show Us What the Future of Aussie Music Festivals Looks Like
Good Day Sunshine is set to debut a game-changing festival format, featuring four separate audience quadrants and a rotating central stage.
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NewsVictoria Has Announced More Than $13 Million In Grants to Support the State's Live Music Scene
It includes $9 million to 106 live music venues to help them cover current costs, and to prepare for reopening.
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NewsChair-Dancing, Online Vinyl Sales and Community: How Cottonmouth Records is Surviving 2020
"Our reward is people coming in and enjoying our venue."
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NewsBIGSOUND 2020 Has Scrapped Its Physical Plans and Will Now Go Ahead as a Virtual Festival
The free event will stream across two days in October.
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NewsA Mariah Carey Christmas Special Is Coming to Apple TV+ to Help Salvage This Chaotic Year
It'll feature the beloved singer alongside a lineup of special guests — and we're sure 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' will get a spin.
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NewsFalls Festival Is No Longer Going Ahead With Its 2020 End-of-Year Festival
"Given the current status of things and border restrictions in place, it won’t be possible to hold Falls Festival in our regular New Year’s timeframe."
