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NewsBehind the One-Man Comedy Industry That Is Dylan Moran
And no, he's not at all like his drunken, curmudgeonly Bernard Black.
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NewsConcrete Playground's 2015-16 Summer Reading List
Ten books to get stuck into by the pool, the beach or on the couch with an Icy Pole in hand.
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NewsFive Late-Night Art Adventures Happening in Sydney This Summer
Take advantage of Sydney's balmy summer evenings at these special after-hours events.
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NewsNick Offerman and Megan Mullally Are Coming to Australia
The dream on- and off-screen couple are touring their show, 'Summer of 69: No Apostrophe'.
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NewsJohn Cleese and Eric Idle Are Bringing Their Live Show to Australia
Two parts of the Python crew are together again at last... for the very first time.
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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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NewsAn Epic Degas Exhibition Is Coming to Australia
The French Impressionist who took us into bars, saloons and backstage.
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NewsNew Artworks by Banksy Focus on the Plight of Syrian Refugees
Artwork depicting Steve Jobs, son of a Syrian migrant, to be preserved by city of Calais.
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NewsAi Weiwei Gifts His Lego Installation to the National Gallery of Victoria
The work pays tribute to Australia's most outspoken human rights activists.
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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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NewsShadow Electric Announces 2016 Outdoor Film Program
Yet another outdoor cinema returns just in time for summer.
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NewsRatatat Unpack Their New Album Ahead of Meredith
Five years since their last album, the Brooklyn duo are back in Australia this week.
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NewsThe Ten Best Movies Hardly Anyone Saw in 2015
Do yourself a favour and add these to your must-see movie list.
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NewsFive Must-See Works At The NGV's Epic Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei Exhibition
Two of the most significant artists of the last two centuries, one extraordinary exhibition.
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NewsTropfest Back from the Dead After Last Minute Sponsorship Deal
The festival will take place on Valentine's Day 2016.
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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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NewsMidsumma Announces Their 2016 Program
Melbourne's largest queer arts and culture festival is back.
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NewsHotham Street Ladies Have Created an Entire Christmas Dinner Out of Icing
Hotham Street Ladies like their ham made out of sugar.
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NewsAnnie Leibovitz's Powerful 2016 Pirelli Calendar Is One Big 'Yassss Queen'
Featuring a whole year of kickass women, from Amy Schumer to Patti Smith.
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NewsAustralia's Got a New American Indie Film Festival
The closest you can get to a Park City/Austin vibe without actually heading overseas.
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NewsLondon's Abandoned Tunnels Will Play Host to an Immersive Goosebumps Theatre Experience
Reader beware, you're in for an actual, real life scare.
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NewsCate Blanchett Stars in Julian Rosefeldt's Upcoming Australian-Commissioned Artwork
See the many faces of the Academy Award winner at ACMI and AGNSW.
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NewsTurnbull Government to Restructure Troubled Arts Funding Scheme
But dont start planning your celebratory interpretive dance show just yet.
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Ai Weiwei Has Started Instagramming the Portraits Lego Didn't Want to Fund
Flys in the face of fiddly little brick manufacturer.
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NewsMoonlight Cinema Reveals Huge Summer Program for 2015/16
Start designating who'll bring the hummus and who's on wine.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do During Melbourne Music Week 2015
Easily one of our favourite weeks of the year.
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NewsLido Cinemas Have Revealed Their First Ever Rooftop Program
The Hawthorn cinema's rooftop instalment will see more new releases than its openair competitors.
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NewsMelbourne's Rooftop Cinema Announces 2015-16 Program
Iranian vampire westerns, dinosaurs and All The Space Films.
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NewsHowler Are Hosting an All-Star Comedy Night in Support of Children in Detention
"A funny fundraiser for an unfunny cause."
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NewsAustralia's Very First Music Festival Cruise Has Been Cancelled
Looks like we're staying put, landlubbers.
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NewsAustralia's First Horror Movie Campout Is Coming to a Creepy Forest Near You
Peace, serenity and the soothing sound of screaming.
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NewsMeet Ozflix, Australia's New Streaming Service Showing Only Aussie Films
Like Netflix or Stan, but only for homegrown movies.
