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NewsGiant Rubber Duck Explodes
Yet another chapter in the misadventures of Hofman's oversized plaything.
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NewsJapan’s Sky Sofas Make for a Cosy View
Love seats in the Japanese countryside wouldn’t be a bad place to spend an afternoon.
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NewsLondon to See World’s First Edible Firework Display This NYE
Could this inspire Australia's first ever case of firework envy?
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NewsThe Boxing Day Movie Smackdown 2013
Who dares to go up against the might of The Hobbit trilogy? These guys.
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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, Aussie westerns and expressive dance flicks.
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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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NewsSecret Garden Festival Lineup Announced
The sold-out event starts revealing some of its secrets.
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NewsMelbourne’s Eight Best Summer Cocktails
The best cocktails for those warm summer days and balmy nights.
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NewsThe Ten Best Summer Festivals in 2013-14
Harvest may be gone, but festivals are anything but dead.
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NewsUbiquitous Sriracha Sauce Now Has Its Own Documentary Film
Your favourite condiment is now a movie star.
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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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NewsConcrete Playground’s Guide to New Year’s Eve in Melbourne 2013-14
10 places to ring in your New Year — whether you're a foodie or a fireworks lover.
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NewsSimon Harsent Explores the Effect of the ‘White Cube’ In Playful Photos
Photographer Simon Harsent offers up sparse objects for evaluation.
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NewsNetflix to Produce Its First Adult Animation, BoJack Horseman
We aren't horsing around, Netflix has a new animated series that's darkly humorous.
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NewsImbibe Wine and Knowledge at the Vinomofo Pop-Up Shop
A group dedicated to getting you well jolly this Christmas.
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NewsPretty Shady Cares For Your Skin with Free, Well-Designed Sun Protection
Slip on a Lister tee and slap yourself down beneath a Basil Bangs shade.
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EventSection 8 Birthday Beach Party
Mon, 24 Feb - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
Section 8, Melbourne
The return of a cult classic Melbourne laneway party to celebrate a very special occasion.
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EventTesselaar KaBloom Festival of Flowers
Sat, 29 Mar - Sun, 27 Apr 2025
Tesselaar Tulip Farm, Silvan
Give your autumn a blooming boost with this floral event, featuring flower displays, acrobats, food trucks and, for the first time, a soaring ferris wheel.
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EventSingaMalaya Festival
Sun, 23 Feb, 2025
EziStreat, North Melbourne
Bringing a hawker-style night market to the heart of North Melbourne, this one-day event celebrates the best of cuisine, culture and community.
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EventCorteo — Cirque du Soleil
Fri, 22 Aug - Sun, 24 Aug 2025
John Cain Arena, Melbourne
Focusing on a clown imagining his funeral procession, this dazzling hit filled with acrobatic wonders features the Montreal-based company's first-ever central stage setup.
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EventWine & Cheese Fest 2025
Sat, 1 Mar, 2025
The Timber Yard, Port Melbourne
The best days out are ones packed with dreamy local cheese, vino and grape stomping.
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EventHans Zimmer Live
Tue, 29 Apr - Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Hear 'Dune', 'Gladiator', 'Interstellar' 'The Lion King' and more performed by a live orchestra and a full band.
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EventYounghusband Market
Multiple single dates
Younghusband Precinct, Kensington
Once a month until July, you can drop by this newly developed precinct in Kensington to shop all sorts of local artisan wares.
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EventHerb & Chilli Festival
Sat, 15 Mar - Sun, 16 Mar 2025
125 Quayle Road, Wandin, Wandin
Spice up your life at this Yarra Valley food fest, featuring live music, chilli-eating contests, cooking demos and hot sauce aplenty.
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EventEA Presents 'The Sims 25' Pop-Up
Fri, 21 Feb - Sun, 23 Feb 2025
ACMI, Melbourne
This Y2K-inspired 'The Sims' pop-up is hitting ACMI to celebrate 25 years of the beloved life simulation game.
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NewsThe Strangely Wonderful Worlds of JeeYoung Lee
The artist painstakingly transforms a little studio into the setting for her extraordinary photography.
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NewsMila Kunis Is a Janitor/Queen in the Wachowskis’ New Jupiter Ascending
Check out the next future the Matrix makers have in store for us.
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NewsConcrete Playground’s Summer Movie Guide 2013/14
Whether at an outdoor cinema or in the cool black of an airconditioned theatre, these are the movies to watch.
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NewsYour First Look at the 2014 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Oh good, Wil Anderson has made another pun about his name!
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NewsFive Films to Watch in World Movies’ Summer of Sin
A romp for every night of the week (Christmas included).
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NewsBuy 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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NewsHipster Santa Takes Selfie with You
Santa Claus is coming to town, but he's not how you remembered him.
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NewsInaugural 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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NewsRaise 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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NewsPerfect your Christmas with Victor Churchill’s ham glaze
Take advantage of this mouth-watering offer courtesy of MasterCard.
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NewsWhite 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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NewsWorld’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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NewsSee 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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NewsSlap 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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NewsYourfork 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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NewsArtist 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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NewsStock 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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NewsMystical Mirror House Appears in the Mojave Desert
Is it a mirage, a vision, a portal to another world?
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NewsWin Tickets to the Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinema Launch
Friends, beach, movies, ice-cream, free tickets. All the happy things.
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NewsArctic Monkeys Announce 2014 Australia and New Zealand Tour
The Brits will embark on their biggest down under tour to date.
