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GuideFive Events to Experience at the Festival of Live Art 2016
Two weeks of interactive, experimental and pretty damn exciting art.
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NewsSee the Incredible Winning Pictures from the 2016 World Press Photo Contest
See the heartbreaking year that was through the lenses of the world's best photojournalists.
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NewsThis Saw Mill in the Macedon Ranges Is Hosting a Pop-Up Street Art Exhibition
Featuring work by some of Victoria's most prominent graffiti artists.
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NewsA Martin Scorsese Exhibition Is Coming to Australia
Revisit the taxi drivers, goodfellas and wolf-like stockbrokers of the movie master's 60-year career.
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NewsCanada's Hot Docs Film Festival Is Coming to Australia
Factual film fanatics, here's another festival to feed on.
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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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NewsThe 15 Best Films of 2024 So Far
The best movies from 2024's first half include a meditative trip to Tokyo, a scorching neo-noir thriller, multiple Oscar-winners and a stunning robot story.
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NewsThe 15 Best New TV Shows of 2024 So Far
From gloriously surreal comedies and unforgettable true tales to stunning remakes and savvy sci-fi mysteries, 2024 has been filled with new small-screen highlights.
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NewsWin Tickets to a Special Preview Screening of Triple 9
Join a huge Hollywood cast for a cops and robbers crime thriller by Australian director John Hillcoat.
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NewsLocal Theatre Is Coming to a Cinema Near You Thanks to Australian National Theatre Live
Australia's best theatre companies light up the silver screen.
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NewsAmerican Rape on Campus Documentary to be Shown In Australian Universities
One of the most confronting films you'll see all year.
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NewsThe Filmmakers Behind Making a Murderer Are Coming to Australia
All your questions about the case of Steven Avery are about to be answered.
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NewsThese Are the Best Films of the Last Year According to Australian Film Critics
The Australian Film Critics Association have announced their 2016 award winners.
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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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NewsCourtney Barnett's Live Blog Was the Best Thing About the Grammys
Apart from Kendrick. Because Kendrick.
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NewsWin Tickets to Hail, Caesar!
The latest film from the Coen Brothers combines crime, comedy and a ridiculous cast.
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NewsTen Kickass Australian Films You Need to See in 2016
With everything from stories of Aussie cults to giant bloody spiders — it's easy to support local film this year.
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NewsRose Quartz Is Tasmania's Intimate New Music Festival
Held on the remnants of a pink crystal beach.
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NewsTropfest Founder John Polson Speaks Out on Why the Festival Almost Went Under
The Tropfest founder got real on triple j's Hack.
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EventTogether for Lebanon Fundraiser
Sun, 8 Dec, 2024
Abla's, Carlton
Abla’s, A1 Bakery, Alimentari, Larderfresh and Linden Cook are joining forces to raise money for people in Lebanon.
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EventRhys Darby: The Legend Returns
Tue, 8 Apr - Sun, 13 Apr 2025
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
The New Zealand comedian is bringing his first stand-up show in almost a decade to Melbourne.
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EventThe Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale
Sat, 26 Apr - Fri, 30 May 2025
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
The musical version of JRR Tolkien's classic is taking the hobbits to Melbourne's Comedy Theatre.
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EventLego 'Star Wars': The Exhibition
Sun, 4 May 2025 - Mon, 26 Jan 2026
Melbourne Museum, Carlton
Australia's world-first Lego 'Star Wars' exhibition is soaring into Melbourne in 2025 — from May the fourth, of course.
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EventThis Never Happened Presents
Fri, 17 Jan, 2025
170 Russell, Melbourne
Dance Music record label This Never Happened is back for another Melbourne party that won't allow phones.
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EventThe Rose Street Market
Sat, 23 Nov - Sun, 24 Nov 2024
Rose Street Artist's Market, Fitzroy
Fitzroy's weekly artisan design and art market is a must-hit if you're up for some weekend shopping and wandering.
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EventThe Fitzroy Mills Market
Mon, 25 Nov, 2024
The Fitzroy Mills, Fitzroy
This much-loved Fitzroy market showcases a top selection of local food producers an makers each Saturday.
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EventEtta's Summer Seafood Towers
Fri, 22 Nov - Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Etta, Brunswick East
This incredible wine bar and restaurant is serving decadent seafood towers for just $75 per person every Friday and Saturday afternoon.
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EventPortsea Hotel's Summer Music Series
Multiple single dates
Portsea Hotel, Portsea
The Presets, Jake Webb, Darley and DJ Levi will be playing waterfront gigs this summer at Portsea Hotel.
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EventLong Live Longnecks at BANG
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025
BANG at The StandardX, Fitzroy
You can get two-for-one Melbourne Bitter Longnecks and $1 homemade dumplings during this happy hour deal.
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NewsVan Gogh Has Listed His 'Bedroom' on Airbnb, and You Can Stay in It
Spend a night in a replica of the post-impressionist's The Bedroom.
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NewsJK Rowling Is Releasing an Eighth Harry Potter Book Because All Is Well
We're damn well stupefied.
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GuideThe Best Things to See, Do and Taste at Melbourne Chinese New Year 2016
Ring in the Year of the Monkey with lunar markets, classical music, and adorable monkey buns.
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NewsTropfest Announces 2016 Judges and Live Music Lineup
Try and impress the director of one of 2015's best Aussie films.
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NewsACMI Is Launching a Collaborative Workspace Called ACMI X
Share an office with filmmakers, designers and retro arcade games.
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NewsThis Website Is the Airbnb for Matching Musicians with Recording Studios
Forget booking a holiday — book in some studio time instead.
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GuideFive Fierce February Exhibitions You Really Shouldn't Miss
Get lost in the surreal, the hallucinogenic and the reimagined this month.
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NewsHidden Hometown Gems from Laneway Festival's Unearthed Lineup
Find the best local fried chicken, coffee and Ethiopian nosh with Australian music's newbies.
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NewsGroovin the Moo Announce 2016 Lineup
GTM returns with Danny Brown, Odesza and a whole lotta local talent.
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NewsKanye Will Premiere His New Album with Screenings in Sydney and Melbourne
Watch Kanye debut Waves live from Madison Square Garden.
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NewsYou Can't Swim in Artist Leandro Erlich's Pool (But You Can Walk Along the Bottom)
One of our favourite, most Instagrammable optical illusions to date.
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NewsMelbourne Is Getting a Brand New Jazz Club
It's set to kick off with a mini residency from American saxophonist Ravi Coltrane.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Useful Guide to the 2016 Oscar Race
Who will win, who should win and who got snubbed.
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NewsBenjamin Law Talks Facebook, Family and the Lack of Diversity on Australian TV
Mad chats with the brains behind the new SBS comedy The Family Law.
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NewsReviving the Best Bits of Cinema with Quentin Tarantino
The Hateful Eight director talks bringing back westerns, 70mm film and good old cinema-going.
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NewsWin Tickets to Sugar Mountain and the Official Bacardi Friends and Family Afterparty
With complimentary drinks at both events. Both.
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NewsMiranda July and Richard Dawkins to Kick Off an Epic Year for the Wheeler Centre
The first part of the 2016 program is out — and it's looking very satisfactory indeed.
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NewsBuy an Original Banksy and Get This Free House Thrown in
Three bedrooms, a patio and a mural by the world's most famous street artist.
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