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News20,000 Days on Earth: Truth, Fiction and Never Asking Nick Cave to Do Things Twice
How much of the impossible doco-fiction epic was scripted? The answer may surprise you.
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NewsFive Life Lessons We Can Learn from Dance Movies
You learn more than just the running man when you watch All The Dance Movies.
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News‘Eat Like You Give a Fuck’ With the New Thug Kitchen Cookbook
All other cookbooks are now irrelevant.
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NewsAC/DC Lane Is Officially Getting Its Lightning Bolt This Week
Cherry Bar are throwing it a big housewarming party.
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NewsSecurity Guard Injured by Gatecrashers at Listen Out Sydney
Police are asking for anyone with information to come forward.
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GuideThe Ten Best Places to Find Live Comedy in Melbourne All Year Round
Head to these Melbourne pubs, fringe theatres and dedicated comedy clubs just about any day of the week for a night full of deep belly laughs.
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GuideYour Guide to NSW's Regional Events and Festivals
From floral-filled fields to fabulous festivals, it's time to escape the hustle and bustle of Sydney and discover greater NSW.
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GuideFive Spectacular Musicals Hitting Sydney Stages in 2023
From returning classics to anticipated premieres, you won't want to miss a beat of these shows.
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GuideExpress Yourself: The Top Events To Celebrate Who You Are This June In Melbourne
We're all beautifully different and that's worth celebrating — so here's five Melbourne events that do just that.
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GuideSix Live Music Events in Regional NSW Worthy of a Weekend Road Trip This Autumn
From a giant outback festival to a five-day tribute to The King, these are the music events worth hitting the road for this April.
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NewsSeven Ways to Score Cheap and Discounted Theatre Tickets in Melbourne
Yes, it is possible to see a show for less than 30 bucks — you just need to get in at the right time.
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GuideThe Best Shows, Installations and Parties to Get Amongst at Melbourne Fringe 2018
Contemplate the issue of meat consumption through dance, then dance it out a banger-filled recreation of your year 10 formal (complete with Passion Pop)
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GuideNine Weird and Wondrously Funny Shows to See at 2018's Melbourne International Comedy Festival
As always, the MICF program is a monster — so we've whittled it down to the shows you have to see.
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GuideEight Uproariously Entertaining Shows to See at the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Laugh about euthanasia, sex while wearing a backpack and how nothing you do means anything at all.
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GuideFive Must-See Shows at the Melbourne Cabaret Festival 2016
For two weeks, life really is a cabaret.
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NewsThom Yorke Just Dropped a Sneaky Surprise Album
In true Yorke style, it's about to give the music industry a serious shake-up.
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NewsWin Tickets to The Sound of Waves at fortyfivedownstairs
The sea is no place for a human girl, even one who's a little more fish-like than normal.
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NewsLena Dunham is Your New Agony Aunt in This 12-Part Web Series
Some free advice: screaming 'vagina' in a chocolate shop is apparently a bad thing.
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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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NewsKirsten Dunst’s New Short Film Flips Selfies the Bird
Dunst wants you to put your bloody phones away.
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NewsJohn Malkovich Becomes Hitchock, Warhol and Monroe in Restagings of Iconic Portraits
Being John Malkovich being Dali.
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NewsWould You Cruise Around in This Stained Glass Car?
The car of the future: less about function, more about art.
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EventRooftop Racquet Club at QT Melbourne
Thu, 8 Jan - Sun, 1 Mar 2026
QT Melbourne, Melbourne
Keep an ace up your sleeve this summer, as this glamorous hotel serves up a rooftop pickleball court, signature cocktails and late-night DJs.
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EventSummer Under The Roof: Quealy Winemakers and D.O.C Gastronomia Mornington
Sat, 27 Dec 2025 - Sun, 25 Jan 2026
Quealy Winemakers, Balnarring
Fill your weekends with award-winning wine and top-quality pizza, as this vine-side collaboration takes over summer with culinary goodness.
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EventDome Under Fulldome Festival
Fri, 30 Jan - Sun, 1 Feb 2026
Scienceworks, Spotswood
Head to Melbourne Planetarium to see 39 films from around the world at Australia's only fulldome film festival.
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EventLibrary on the Lawn: Kids Festival at State Library Victoria
Multiple single dates
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Add more reading time and kid-friendly entertainment to your summer holidays schedule, from storytime sessions to scavenger hunts.
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EventChristmas Sculpture and Qris Qringle at QV Melbourne
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 - Tue, 6 Jan 2026
QV Melbourne, Melbourne
Christmas has arrived at QV Melbourne, featuring a towering festive sculpture and mystery Qris Qringle giveaway loaded with daily prizes.
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EventThe Royal Family Dance Crew Presents 'Defend the Throne'
Wed, 27 May - Sun, 7 Jun 2026
Hamer Hall, Southbank
Global street-dance icons The Royal Family Dance Crew will headline RISING 2026 with 'Defend the Throne,' a high-energy showcase blending 14 years of their most iconic choreography with brand-new work ...
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EventSummer Music Series at Mr Mills
Multiple single dates
Mr Mills, Melbourne
Step into this chic late-night basement bar, where high-energy DJs will groove through the early hours all summer long.
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EventMidsumma Festival 2026
Sun, 18 Jan 2026 - Tue, 30 Dec 2025
Various Melbourne locations, Melbourne
Victoria's major LGBTQIA+ arts and cultural celebration is back, delivering over 250 events that champion queer creativity and community.
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EventLu-Niverse: Countess Luann at Melbourne Recital Centre
Mon, 23 Feb, 2026
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
Be cool, as this reality TV star brings her infectious energy to Melbourne for a tea-spilling deep dive into a slew of wild moments.
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EventCarlsberg Beach Club
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 - Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Frankston Waterfront, Frankston
Get ready for European holiday vibes, sunset sessions, and free live music just 45 minutes from Melbourne.
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NewsSurreal Photos of People Squishing Themselves Into Improbable City Spaces
Highly unusual behaviour. Must be an art.
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NewsCycling and Drinking Finally Combine in Melbourne’s First Bier Bike
But there's a very big non-alcoholic catch.
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NewsThe Good Guys: Five Melbourne Social Enterprises Helping You Help Others
Your dollars do double when you buy booze, pyjamas or toilet paper from these entrepreneurs.
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NewsThis Dancing Red Light Man Could Stop Pedestrians Walking into Traffic
Wait, did that red light man just dance?
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NewsWin Tickets to the Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2014
Fall in love with movies Italian style, including a breathtaking restoration of one of the country's all-time classics.
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NewsThese Photographs of Underwater Puppies Will Explode Your Heart
Underwater. Puppies. Underwater puppies.
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NewsGet Your Gold Coins Ready, Newtown Festival’s 2014 Lineup is Out
Deep Sea Arcade, Straight Arrows and Astronomy Class — all still for a gold coin donation.
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NewsClient Liaison to Tour with Flight Facilities in the Slickest Double Header Around
Team ups don't come better dressed than this.
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NewsNick Cave Has Created an Online Museum of Important Shit
Nick Cave thinks your drawerfuls of memories are important.
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NewsFive Things We Learnt at Oz Comic Con
William Shatner believes in UFOs and Khal Drogo goes for Port Power. Go figure.
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NewsWin Tickets to See The Infinite Man
The intricacies of time travel are nothing compared to the mysteries of the heart.
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NewsSarah Blasko, Dan Sultan and The Bamboos to Headline Riverboats Music Festival 2015
The Murray River's favourite roots festival returns for its fourth year of riverside tomfoolery.
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NewsGrant Street Announces its Second Program of Excellent Free Music
Fridays at Grant Street are definitely the place to be.
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NewsThe Ten Best Things to See at the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2014
From a symphony of forks to a night of yelling at Joe Hockey, take charge of the unwieldy Fringe program with these must-see events.
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NewsThe Southern Lights Could Be Brightening Our Skies This Week
This is one of those rare times where Tasmania is 100% the place to be.
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NewsThe Ten Best First Date Spots in Melbourne
Because no one should have to suffer through a bad Tinder date.
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NewsThe Long-Awaited Shortstop Coffee and Donuts Is Finally Open
They do donuts and they do coffee. And they promise to revolutionise our perceptions of both.
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NewsMelbourne Music Week Is About to Take Over Queen Vic Market
As always, MMW deliver some stellar local produce.
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NewsFriday Nights at NGV Going Next Level for Jean Paul Gaultier
Le Tigre's JD Samson and Chicks on Speed lead a lineup of perfect art pop.
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NewsGrammy-Nominated Comedian Tig Notaro Is Heading to Australia
One of the US's biggest and bravest stand-up comedians returns.
