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Buy a Piece of the Opera House and Help Build Its Future

Own a tile for $100 - and you'll even get to play with it.

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Hipster Santa Takes Selfie with You

Santa Claus is coming to town, but he's not how you remembered him.

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Inaugural Festival of Live Art Announced for 2014

Gameshows, manicures, secrets, tweens and the Yarra river — live art takes the stage in 2014.

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Raise the Stakes in Your Pretentious Convos with New Metagame

A game that asks the eternal question, 'Which feels like first love: Pride and Prejudice or Hungry Hungry Hippos?'

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Perfect your Christmas with Victor Churchill’s ham glaze

Take advantage of this mouth-watering offer courtesy of MasterCard.

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Big Day Out Announces Three Blur Replacements

Blur replacements come in threes.

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White Night Returns With More Round-the-Clock Art Partying

A night like no other, Melbourne's city streets get set to party from dusk till dawn.

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Lorde Rules the World in Moody New Video for ‘Team’

And she crashed Vevo while doing it.

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World’s First Exclusively Online Writers’ Festival Announced for 2014

The inaugural Digital Writers' Festival has been announced for 2014. We got the twitterview.

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See Mia Wasikowska Walk Across the Outback in the First Trailer for Tracks

Mia Wasikowska enters an entirely different (and far dustier) wonderland.

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Concrete Playground’s Summer Reading Guide 2013

Read books this summer. Read these books.

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Slap Some Art on Your Face with Beastman x Colab Sunglasses

We got the scoop from Sydney artist Beastman on taking art from paper to plastic.

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Yourfork Wants to Let You Order Home-Cooked Food from Your Neighbours

Hooking up the home cooks and the take-out fiends.

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Artist Presents 99 Lifelike Animals in Scenes You’re Unlikely to See in Nature

Cai Guo-Qiang's first solo exhibition in Australia is a cross between The Lion King and Noah's Ark.

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Stock Up on Sriracha Sauce as Factory Goes Into Shutdown

Fans of the spicy sauce might want to stalk up, or risk battling it out in the aisles.

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Mystical Mirror House Appears in the Mojave Desert

Is it a mirage, a vision, a portal to another world?

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Win Tickets to the Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinema Launch

Friends, beach, movies, ice-cream, free tickets. All the happy things.

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The Brits will embark on their biggest down under tour to date.

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The Art of Artisan Gelato with Messina

The Sydney cult has made it to Melbourne. Gelato Messina talk us through the art of artisan gelato.

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Lily Allen Sublimely Attacks Entire Pop Industry in New Video

Lily Allen has a not-so-subtle message regarding our views on pretty much everything.

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The Skywhale is Coming to Melbourne

An important community service announcement that giant boobs in the sky are funny.

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Buy Your Favourite Band’s Artwork and Raise Funds for FBi Radio

The FBi Radio art collection goes under the hammer.

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Win Tickets to the British Film Festival

The British Film Festival hits the colonies for the first time ever.

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NGV Announces Winter Exhibition of Italian Masterpieces

That's right - you no longer need to be jealous of your friends' Instagram feeds while they're in Europe.

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