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GuideFive Brilliant New Melbourne Art Exhibitions to See During July
Dive into Degas, Del Kathryn Barton and detailed paintings of delicate animals.
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NewsThis New App Lets You Hear the Stars Sing
A Galaxy of Suns translates constellations into beautiful musical scores.
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NewsWin a Private Screening of Maggie's Plan For You and 20 Mates
Get out of the cold and into a warm cinema with a Greta Gerwig-led modern rom-com.
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NewsWhite Night Is Coming to Ballarat for the First Time Ever
Joining Melbourne, Paris, Toronto and São Paulo as the newest global location for the one-night festival of light.
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NewsBitTorrent Is Launching a New (and Legal) Music Streaming Service
Not just the platform that helps you sneakily pirate TV shows.
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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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NewsThis Incredible Public Installation Lets You Walk on Water Across an Italian Lake
After 50 years of planning, Christo's The Floating Piers are open to the public.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival to Screen 30 Titles Direct from Cannes
The French Riviera is coming to us.
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NewsThis New Service Texts Your Friends Game of Thrones Spoilers After Each Episode Airs
The ultimate jerk move.
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NewsListen Out Drops Slam Dunk of a 2016 Lineup
Topped with California's inimitable Anderson .Paak.
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NewsFive Must-See Films to Catch at Palace Cinemas' New Documentary Festival
Hot Docs is here with boxing epics, cave diving nail-biters and an exploration on Chuck Norris.
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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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GuideFive Must-See Shows at the Melbourne Cabaret Festival 2016
For two weeks, life really is a cabaret.
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NewsNGV International Has Just Unveiled Its Stunning New Mirrored Installation
Warping your perception of reality.
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NewsA Massive Modernist MoMA Exhibition Is Coming to NGV
Dalí, Duchamp, Koons, Matisse, Mondrian, Picasso, Pollock. Gang's all here.
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NewsThe Lost Lands Is Melbourne's New Three-Day Festival from the Founders of Falls
And it's not just music — this festival promises All The Activities.
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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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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival Reveals First Lineup for 2016
Start making your shortlist.
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GALLERY: See All the Bright Lights at Vivid Sydney 2016
From cathedrals of light to interactive installations that change colour when you scream 'I love you'.
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Five Films From Cannes We Really Want to Come to Australia
From the Palm d'Or winner that made Cannes cry to a violent LA fashion world thriller from Drive's director.
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NewsAirbnb's Latest Listing? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Secret Lair
If this was a true TMNT experience, it'd be located in a sewer.
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NewsThe Rewriters: How Barry Patenaude Became One of Australia's Most Kickass Illustrators
Meet the Brisbane artist whose illustrations have everyone from the Biennale of Sydney to Concrete Playground lining up.
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NewsHunt For The Wilderpeople's Taika Waititi Talks Buddy Comedies and Taking On Thor
"The one thing that everyone relates to the most? Family dynamics. I don't relate to bank robbers."
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NewsWin Tickets to an Exclusive Harts Gig in Melbourne
Spend an evening with the Melburnian personally invited by Prince to Paisley Park.
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NewsFive Pieces of Homework to Do Before ACMI's SCORSESE Exhibition
Get watching, reading and cooking his mother's meatballs.
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NewsThe BFG Is Leaving Giant Dream Jars at Landmarks Around London
See the dreams of famous artists brought to life in front of your schnozzles.
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NewsWhat the Government Doesn't Want You to See: Director Eva Orner Talks Chasing Asylum
Meet the Oscar-winning filmmaker responsible for one of the most confronting documentaries you'll see all year.
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NewsAlice Springs Is Getting an Incredible Indigenous Festival of Light
Parrtyeme will light up the outback.
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NewsHow Long Does It Take to Become an Overnight Success in Australia?
Take notes from some of Sydney's most innovative new entrepreneurs: Wine Island, PS40 and Bodypass.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival 2016 to Open With Aussie Sci-Fi
Investigate The Death and Life of Otto Bloom.
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NewsGrim News for the Arts as Australia Council Announces Brutal Funding Cuts
Big players have missed out.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Hunt for the Wilderpeople
See the delightful newbie from the brains behind Boy and What We Do in the Shadows.
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NewsFive Films to See at Australia's New American Indie Film Festival
There's no blockbusters or sequels to be seen at Essential Independents: American Cinema, Now.
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NewsAn Interactive 'Fake Food Park' Is Coming to Melbourne
Martí Guixé, the brains behind edible stamps and 3D printed food, is coming to NGV International.
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NewsSydney Film Festival's Entire Amazing 2016 Program Is Here
If you need us during June, we'll be holed up in a dark room.
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NewsYayoi Kusama Is Transforming an Airbnb Into a Work of Art
Imagine living in a polka dot paradise.
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NewsHot Docs Film Festival Has Announced Its First Ever Australian Program
Get your documentary fix at this brand new Canadian import.
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NewsThe Melbourne Cabaret Festival Returns for 2016
It might be getting chilly outside, but this festival looks set to heat things up.
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NewsMelbourne's New Immersive Heist Game Lets You Casually Rob a Bank
Live out your Ocean's fantasies over two whole floors. Just don't get caught.
