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NewsArbory to Transform Into an Immersive Riverside Art Wonderland
Expect everything from floating sculptures to surprise dancers after dark.
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NewsPalace Is Opening a New 15-Screen Cinema in the Old Pentridge Prison
Popcorn and prison movies. Yes.
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NewsAustralia's Biggest Light Installation Has Been Unveiled in Alice Springs
2.5 kilometres of lights shining on a 300-million-year-old natural canvas.
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NewsSydney Hip Hop Collective One Day Are Hosting Block Parties Around the Country
Bouncing from coast to coast.
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NewsFlume Joins Forces with Keep Sydney Open to Preview Brand New Music
Sydney’s favourite son lends a hand to a cause dear to his heart.
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NewsFree Things to Do in Melbourne Every Day of the Week
Dog watching, art galleries and miniature towns – are the best things to do in Melbourne free?
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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, Aussie westerns and expressive dance flicks.
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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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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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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 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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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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EventSection 8 Birthday Beach Party
Mon, 24 Feb - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
Section 8, Melbourne
The return of a cult classic Melbourne laneway party to celebrate a very special occasion.
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EventTesselaar KaBloom Festival of Flowers
Sat, 29 Mar - Sun, 27 Apr 2025
Tesselaar Tulip Farm, Silvan
Give your autumn a blooming boost with this floral event, featuring flower displays, acrobats, food trucks and, for the first time, a soaring ferris wheel.
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EventCorteo — Cirque du Soleil
Fri, 22 Aug - Sun, 24 Aug 2025
John Cain Arena, Melbourne
Focusing on a clown imagining his funeral procession, this dazzling hit filled with acrobatic wonders features the Montreal-based company's first-ever central stage setup.
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EventWine & Cheese Fest 2025
Sat, 1 Mar, 2025
The Timber Yard, Port Melbourne
The best days out are ones packed with dreamy local cheese, vino and grape stomping.
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EventHans Zimmer Live
Tue, 29 Apr - Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Hear 'Dune', 'Gladiator', 'Interstellar' 'The Lion King' and more performed by a live orchestra and a full band.
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EventYounghusband Market
Multiple single dates
Younghusband Precinct, Kensington
Once a month until July, you can drop by this newly developed precinct in Kensington to shop all sorts of local artisan wares.
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EventHerb & Chilli Festival
Sat, 15 Mar - Sun, 16 Mar 2025
125 Quayle Road, Wandin, Wandin
Spice up your life at this Yarra Valley food fest, featuring live music, chilli-eating contests, cooking demos and hot sauce aplenty.
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EventFocus on David Lynch
Thu, 6 Feb - Sat, 1 Mar 2025
ACMI, Melbourne
BYO damn fine cup of coffee for this season of Lynch's ten features, which pays tribute to the late, great visionary.
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EventAlliance Française French Film Festival
Wed, 5 Mar - Wed, 9 Apr 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Make a French movie date with 42 films, including hit biopics, a new take on 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and plenty of star-studded flicks.
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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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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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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.
