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NewsA New Cafe and Multi-Purpose Venue Is Bringing African Culture to Melbourne
From the woman behind Saba's Ethiopian Restaurant comes a hub dedicated to Melbourne's African community.
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NewsMonster Fest 2016 to Open With Faint-Inducing Horror Film
If gory cinema makes you queasy, consider yourself warned.
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NewsSomeone Has Finally Invented Noise-Free Movie Munchies
They're called Silent Snacks, of course.
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NewsFive Must-See Films at the 2016 Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia
Daytime horror flicks, '70s pulp and the Czech Republic's answer to Twin Peaks.
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NewsMONA Announces First Glimmers of 2017 Mona Foma Lineup
Hobart's weird and wonderful summer art and music festival is back.
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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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NewsMelbourne Music Week Announces the State Library as 2017 Festival Hub
Rave in the Reading Room.
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NewsBritish Film Festival Reveals High-Profile Sneak Peek At 2016 Lineup
The October festival will bring Cannes' top film to Aussie screens.
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NewsFive Must-See Films at the 2016 Lavazza Italian Film Festival
Coming of age dramas, politically incorrect comedies and an Australian-Italian co-production.
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NewsThe Simpsons' Matt Groening Is Coming to Australia for the First Time
The cartoonist will speak at the Sydney Opera House's GRAPHIC festival.
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NewsAn Epic Banksy Exhibition Is Coming to Australia
It's the largest showcase of Banksy pieces to ever make its way to our shores.
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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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NewsFive New Artists to Watch at Bigsound 2016
Track 'em down — they're all playing Brisbane's huge annual music hoo-ha this week.
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NewsThe School of Life Is Launching a Brand New Philosophy Festival in Melbourne's West
Think West will take over some of the inner west's most iconic venues this November.
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GuideThe Ten Most Interesting Things to See at Melbourne Fringe Festival 2016
Lasers and white lights, cabaret and comedy — and everything in-between.
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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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NewsMalthouse Theatre Announces Slam Dunk of a 2017 Program
We're in for one heck of a year of theatre.
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NewsMelbourne Is Getting a Virtual Reality Film Festival
Ride creepy ghost trains and visit faraway islands from your seat.
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NewsMelbourne's Newest Library Is Located on the City's Trains, Trams and Buses
Books on the Rail sees books travelling on the city's public transport network.
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NewsSex, Lies and Tickling: Behind the Scenes of the Year's Strangest Documentary
'Tickled' all started with a very strange online ad and prompted legal threats within a week of pre-production.
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NewsMeet the Aussie Photographers Shooting the Country's Best Bar Teams
Capturing the multi-sensory world of the cocktail.
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NewsLondon's Latest Interactive Art Exhibition Is Designed Entirely for Dogs
With a dog bowl-shaped ball pit and a meat-scented car window simulator.
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NewsThe New York Times Might be Launching in Australia
They're "focused" on Oz as part of their global expansion.
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NewsFalls Festival Drops Colossal Full 2016 Lineup
Ring in the New Year with The Avalanches, Childish Gambino and London Grammar.
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NewsWhy Down Under's Abe Forsythe Made the Cronulla Riots Into a Comedy
There's never been a more timely moment to release a film about the Cronulla riots (even though they were ten years ago).
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NewsLondon Grammar and Childish Gambino to Headline Falls Festival 2016
The rest of the lineup will be announced this arvo.
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NewsMelbourne's Dog-Friendly Music Festival is Back
The music event of every pet-lover's dreams of is back.
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NewsThe Italian Film Festival Has Unveiled Its 2016 Program
Another ace year of excellent Italian cinema.
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NewsThe Best, Weirdest and Most Surprising Films of The 2016 Melbourne International Film Festival
Starting with the film with the most horrifying, taboo-shattering, laugh-or-you'll-vomit finale.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival Reveals 2016 Audience Award Winners
With a delightfully charming Swiss animated effort taking the feature gong.
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NewsFairgrounds Festival Announce Stellar 2016 Lineup for Second Year
Rodriguez will headline country NSW's freshest festival.
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NewsLost Paradise Drops Stellar 2016 New Year's Eve Festival Lineup
Planning your NYE camping adventure? Here's a spanner in the works.
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Melbourne Fringe Reveals Doozy of a 2016 Program
Featuring lasers and white lights as well as cabaret, comedy and all the regular festivities.
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NewsFive Must-See Films at the 2016 Korean Film Festival in Australia
With lovers, killers, monsters and reverse mermen, this year's festival has it all.
