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NewsJess Scully’s Guide to Getting into Winter in Sydney
The Vivid Ideas festival director embraces winter with open arms and some hot tips.
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NewsThe New Experimental Cocktail Bar to End All Experimental Cocktail Bars
An ever changing bar is mixing unlikely themes.
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NewsNYC Street Artist Aakash Nihalani Plays with Plain Old Tape
Amazing what you can do with a little stationery.
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NewsListen Out Festival Announces Dates for Spring
Australian dance music fans have a date to lock in.
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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch Right Now 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 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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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch in June That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with the Sydney-shot action antics of 'The Fall Guy', a heartbreaking Oscar-nominated animated gem and the love-triangle games of 'Challengers'.
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GuideTwelve of the Best RISING 2024 Events That Will Help You Get Out of the House This Winter
RISING 2024's most-exciting events include an absurdist dinner party, a massive festival within the festival and a heap of different one-off parties.
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NewsTwelve Movies to Put on Your Must-See List at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival
Whether you're keen on a dose of weirdness with your SFF sessions, to embrace a Sydney icon or to see award-winning flicks, there's something for you among these titles.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson, an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller and the new season of an Aussie rom-com sitcom.
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Thirteen New Movies You Can Watch in May That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Kirsten Dunst as a war photographer in a divided America, Dev Patel directing himself in an action-packed revenge thriller and Kristen Stewart turning heartthrob.
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NewsWin Tickets to Concrete Playground’s Preview Screening of Galore
Catch an early screening of Australia's answer to Skins.
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NewsPozible Launches Hyper-Local Project Edition: The Sydney Edit
Sydney's crowdfunding projects all in one handy place.
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NewsThousands More Tickets Released for Splendour in the Grass
Your end of July plans just changed back.
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NewsNational Gallery of Victoria Lets Kids Scribble All Over their White Cube Walls
Drawing on the walls is no longer punishable by grounding.
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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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NewsThe Eames Explainer: How One Family Left a Legacy on Furniture, Film and Steve Jobs
We know them for their chairs, but Charles and Ray Eames had their fingers in many random pies.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Good Vibrations
A scrappily loveable ode to the energy and abandon of punk rock.
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NewsGame of Thrones Exhibition to Open in Sydney
Just two days after winter has officially landed, HBO has gone and announced something totally off The Wall.
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NewsAerial Photographer Captures Our Undying Love for Playgrounds
Guess you could say there's a bunch of concrete... playgrounds... out there.
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NewsThe Woman Behind Times Square Sets Her Sights on Australian Cities
Janette Sadik-Khan says our streets should be more like living rooms.
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NewsRIP Palace Theatre: A Eulogy From Five Melbourne Musos
Fake IDs, flannelette shirts and backstage debauchery — the Palace remembered by some of Melbourne's finest.
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EventAperitivo Nights at Lollo
Tue, 30 Jul - Thu, 28 Nov 2024
Lollo at W Melbourne, Melbourne
You can score $2 oysters on Tuesdays, cheap margarita cocktails and margherita pizzas on Wednesdays, and discounted hot wings and beers on Thursdays.
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EventCollectFest Melbourne
Sat, 5 Jul - Sun, 6 Jul 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Marvel at some epic collections (or add to your own) at this huge convention.
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EventParis Olympics Pop-Ups at Melbourne Quarter
Wed, 7 Aug 2024
Melbourne Quarter, Docklands
Celebrate the 2024 Paris Olympics with live broadcasts and delicious pop-ups.
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EventHigh Cheese at The Westin Melbourne
Wed, 19 Jun - Sat, 21 Sep 2024
The Westin Melbourne, Melbourne
This cheese-filled take on a classic afternoon tea is only running until September.
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EventNow or Never
Thu, 22 Aug - Sat, 31 Aug 2024
Various Melbourne locations, Melbourne
Back for its second year, this huge arts festival is closing out winter in Melbourne with more than 100 events.
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EventSkewsdays at Mr Miyagi
Multiple single dates
Mr. Miyagi, Prahran
Head down to this Chapel Street haunt on a Tuesday night to score charcoal-grilled yakitori for just $5 a pop.
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EventDeadpool & Wolverine
Thu, 25 Jul - Wed, 14 Aug 2024
Various cinemas in Melbourne
If there’s a Marvel messiah in the MCU's 34th film — and the first to feature either Deadpool or Wolverine — it's Hugh Jackman back in the claws as Logan.
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EventMystery Parma Nights at Skinny Dog Hotel
Multiple single dates
Skinny Dog Hotel, Kew
Every Thursday night, Skinny Dog Hotel in Kew is creating a new parma flavour combo that's been dreamt up by one of you.
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EventFriends of Young Hearts: Sunday Service
Multiple single dates
Young Hearts, Windsor
A rotating roster of Melbourne chefs are taking over the Young Hearts kitchen — and playlist — across the next few months.
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EventHonk! Untitled Goose Exhibition
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 - Sun, 16 Feb 2025
ACMI, Melbourne
Start honking: this free world-premiere 'Untitled Goose Game' celebration at ACMI showcases everyone's favourite horrible goose.
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NewsNew Yorkers are Wading into the East River to Play a Broken Piano
It's time for our favourite guessing game: art, rubbish or marketing stunt?
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NewsMelbourne to Close CBD Streets in Favour of an Innovative New Walking Plan
Melbourne: the city where pedestrian is king and every street is basically a hip laneway.
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NewsThese Dreamy Gold Coast Landscapes Are Actually Finicky Dioramas
The Gold Coast, LA and Las Vegas reimagined.
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NewsDune Rats Talk Pub Crawling, World Touring and Recording at Brett’s Mum’s House
"Mum would always be like, play as long as you fuckin' want, as loud as you fuckin' want, fuck everybody."
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NewsThe Preatures Announce New Single, Debut Album and National Tour
Sydney's seriously bubbling fivesome have unleashed some big ol' news.
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NewsCards Against Humanity Need Your Help to Launch an Australian Edition
'In M. Night Shymalan's new movie, Bruce Willis discovers that Sarah Palin had really been a passable transvestite after all'
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NewsYou’ll Be Able to Jump Into Tracey Emin’s Bed (For $2 Million)
One of modern art's most argued-about works is going under the hammer.
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NewsSeekae Announce Third Album and 2014 National Tour
Sydney's ambient electro darlings have dropped All The News.
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NewsVictorian Government Opens Can of Worms for Music Venues with Noise Surveys
There are few types of resident more thrilled to have reason to rant than a live music venue neighbour.
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NewsWin Tickets to Wagons’ Acid Rain and Sugar Cane Tour
Frontmen rarely come as charismatic as Melbourne's Henry Wagons.
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NewsPenny Penny Talks South Africa, Yothu Yindi and Finally Kissing Australian Soil
From a poverty-stricken childhood to international stardom, cult South African musician Penny Penny has been dubbed "the next Rodriguez".
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NewsFive Unexpected Things We Learnt From Cannes Film Festival 2014
Tarantino says cinema is dead, and your boyfriend Ryan Gosling sucks at directing.
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NewsBob Dylan Announces 2014 Tour of Australia and New Zealand
The legendary musician is gifting us with a month-long tour for his 73rd birthday.
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NewsSt Vincent Talks Parallel Lives, Interpersonal Travel and Reading Up on Freud
Annie Clark talks transcending the conscious brain, overcoming self-delusion and resisting domestication.
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NewsNPR’s New Database of Commencement Speeches is Guaranteed to Make Your Day
Because uni grads aren't the only ones in need of a little inspiration.
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NewsLook Out, Melbourne Taxis Have Just Raised Their Fares
Your cab home tonight will be at least $6 more expensive.
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NewsMan Drowns in Darling Harbour at Opening Night of Vivid Sydney
Sad news from the festival of light.
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NewsAustralia Gets Its First Annual Scandinavian Film Festival
Experience the cool cinema of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
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NewsJonti Buries Himself Under an Avalanche of Tunes for Vivid LIVE
Ahead of his Vivid performance at the Opera House, Jonti took time out to discuss his love for The Avalanches and what to expect from the future.
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NewsGrow Your Indoor Garden Haven with New Plant Warehouse Loose Leaf
The Loose Leaf team chat about reconnecting with nature, your home's microclimates and the one plant that thrives on neglect.
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NewsBirthday Stats Show Australians Love to Stream Flume and Lorde on Spotify
Celebrating its second birthday in Australia, Spotify has released a bucketload of stats in one super scrollworthy infographic.
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NewsSiberia Records’ Top Five Jams To Psych You Up For Vivid LIVE
To psych you up for their Vivid LIVE Studio party, the dudes at Siberia have put together a playlist of weird and wonderful offerings
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NewsKeith Haring’s Johnston Street Mural Has Been Tagged Again
The question remains — should the piece be restored or left to gloriously decay?
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NewsMelbourne Heads Back to the Trailer Park
Perhaps the only place where you can down a fried catfish po' boy for dinner and salted caramel creme brulee for dessert.
