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NewsMelbourne Streets Just Got a Little More Intelligent #discuss
A twitter project by The Wheeler Centre is taking over the city. Thankfully the tweets go a little deeper than #QandA.
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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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GuideSpectacular Autumn Events For Culture Vultures Seeking Their Next Fix
Make sure you add these must-do events to your Sydney culture calendar.
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NewsFrom the 'Mona Lisa' to 'Codex Atlanticus': A Look Inside The Lume's Multi-Sensory Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition
The only 360-degree exact replica of the world's most-famous enigmatic portrait, da Vinci's notebook pages, 40 of his machine inventions brought to life: they're all on display.
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GuideSix Spectacular Art Exhibitions Hitting Sydney in 2023
Famous Modern masters and significant contemporary artists from Australia and abroad are being celebrated in these unmissable exhibitions.
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GuideEight Unmissable Exhibitions to See in Melbourne This Winter
Chilly winter weather is the perfect excuse to explore a few (or many) of Melbourne's world-class art exhibitions.
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GuideSeven Vivid Sydney Highlights You Need to Add to Your Winter Calendar
With pop-up cabaret bars, thought-provoking conversations and free live music, the 2022 run of Vivid Sydney is set to shine bright.
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GuideImmersive and Impressive Blockbuster Exhibitions to Look Forward to Around Australia in 2022
Plan trips to dive into all things Disney, peer at Yayoi Kusama's finest in two different cities, scope out Picasso's best and fall in love with Elvis paraphernalia.
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GuideHow to Get Your Arts and Culture Fix in Tropical North Queensland
Explore beachfront markets, local art galleries and a tropical gin distillery.
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GuideTen Dazzling Melbourne Exhibitions to Look Forward to This Summer
From international art and iconic fashion to design commissions and immersive installations, here are the exhibitions serving up your summer cultural fix.
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GuideFive of the Best RISING Festival Events That You Can Still Get Tickets To
Prepare your diary now for supernatural winter forests and once-off food pop-ups.
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GuideSeven Immersive and Impressive Art Exhibitions to Visit Around Australia This Autumn
Plan trips to walk over giant Monet artworks, visit Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' and explore decaying rooms filled with street art.
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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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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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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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EventMinistry of Sound: Testament
Sat, 12 Apr 2025
The Timber Yard, Port Melbourne
Ministry of Sound's massive 90s and 00s parties are returning to Melbourne with Roger Sanchez, Felix Da Housecat, Utah Saints and more.
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EventState Rose and Garden Show
Sat, 9 Nov - Sun, 10 Nov 2024
Victoria State Rose Garden, Werribee South
Wander through 5000 blooming roses, stock up on new plants (and tips) and sip prosecco among the flowers.
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EventVillage Feast
Sun, 10 Nov, 2024
East Brunswick Village, Brunswick East
Expect DJ sets from Triple R’s Small Fry as well as food and drinks from Rumi, The Rocket Society, Bride Road Brewers and FoMo Cinemas.
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EventWoodford Reserve Old Fashioned Week
Fri, 1 Nov - Sat, 30 Nov 2024
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
Snag a sip of a cocktail classic without spending a cent this November at these participating bars.
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EventInto The Vines: Gulp Fiction
Thu, 28 Nov, 2024
The Rochester Hotel, Fitzroy
Consider this mini wine festival the ultimate Thursday night knock-off, preparing you for the slow descent into silly season.
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EventUpstairs @ The Rochey
Multiple single dates
The Rochester Hotel, Fitzroy
The Rochey is hosting intimate electronic gigs every Saturday night in its upstairs bandroom.
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EventVan Gogh at The Lume
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 - Mon, 31 Mar 2025
THE LUME Melbourne, South Wharf
Sunflowers, stars and a sublime multi-sensory experience: you'll find them all at this immersive and stunning exhibition.
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EventFrench Impressionism
Fri, 6 Jun - Sun, 5 Oct 2025
NGV International, Melbourne
After its 2021 season was cut short due to the pandemic, this stunning exhibition is returning to NGV International with 100-plus iconic paintings.
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EventApéritif v Aperitivo Arvos at Molly Rose Brewery
Wed, 16 Oct 2024 - Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Molly Rose Brewery, Collingwood
Sample Molly Rose's new small-batch gins, pastis, vodkas and vermouths at its aperitivo sessions and masterclasses.
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EventMelbourne Queer Film Festival
Thu, 14 Nov - Sun, 24 Nov 2024
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
This year's MQFF boasts a 42-feature lineup stacked with LGBTQIA+ must-sees — and a celebration of music videos.
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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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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?
