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The Ten Best Things to See at the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2013

The upside of an uncurated festival is access to the unlimited scope, diversity, and imagination of the independent scene, but the sheer number of artworks on offer can make it tricky to navigate. Here's our top ten picks.

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The Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend

Farewell office, farewell pants being necessary and hello soundtracked weekend.

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Boozing Now Acceptable at Breakfast Thanks to Spreadable Beer

An Italian duo have done their bit to make the world a better place, engineering a chocolate-flavoured beer spread.

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Luxury Hotels in Weird and Wonderful Places Around the World

Here are 10 of Smith’s most interesting places to pass a night, picked just for Concrete Playground.

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H&M to Launch First Australian Store

High-end trends on a low-end budget.

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Artist Joins Forces with Four-Year-Old Daughter to Create Whimsical Portraits

Hollywood slug people brought to you by an artist and her genius four-year-old

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Win Tickets to See Blue Jasmine

Cate Blanchett's compelling work lights up one of Woody Allen's darkest films.

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Relax and Restock at the lululemon athletica Warehouse Sale

It’s really more about the party.

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Oil Paint Engineered Out of Toxic Waste

An engineer and an artist transform toxic waste into oil paints and wondrous works of art.

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The Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend

Five delicious servings of ear candy weighing kilograms of fun with zero calories.

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Porn Trumped by Art at Super-Sophisticated Oslo hotel

No nookie for you.

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The Bluffer’s Guide to Oysters

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The Lifted Brow Goes Subcompact on Your Ass

The Lifted Brow brings this lightweight publishing style to Australia.

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The Russian Army Channels Their Inner Adele

From Russia with love.

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Win a Stoker Prize Pack

Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Jacki Weaver unexpectedly star in a violent neo-gothic Bildungsroman from a master of style.

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3D Print Your Own Art Masterpiece Forgery

Here is a story to both perturb and titillate the sensitive art-lovers among us.

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Kickstarter Coming to Australia and New Zealand

Nothing has quite transformed the 'crowd funding' story like Kickstarter.

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Win Tickets to See Jobs

Ashton Kutcher is Steve Jobs. Accept it already.

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World’s Most Instagrammable Hotel Opens in Sydney

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Scale a Stairway of Lights and Blossoms in Sicily

The ingenious festival decorations of Sicily's most magnificent staircase.

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Eccentric Doctor’s Manmade Mountain Outlawed in Beijing

Beijing architect Zhang Biqing's illegal mountain is forced to crumble.

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Jafflechutes Will Deliver Your Jaffle via Parachute

It's raining jafflechutes, hallelujah.

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Lorde Announces Australian Tour Dates

All hail the new Lorde of music.

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Ten Places to Get an Early Taste of Summer

Feeling wind-blown, frost-bitten and winter-weary? It's never too late to hatch a getaway plan.

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Free Beer for Doing Absolutely Nothing

Stand still for three minutes and you'll be rewarded with a cold one.

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Sydney Businessmen Successfully Crowdfund Booze Startup

Mr Black takes two of Sydney's favourite vices and combines them in one delicious, stylishly packaged drink.

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Melbourne Festival Is After Your Heart with 2013 Program

A ten-hour theatre show, a concert in the dark and a giant Welcome to Country mark Melbourne Festival 2013.

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Falls Festival 2013/14 Lineup Announced

The lineup for everyone's favourite New Year's Eve party has just landed, and it's a doozy.

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World Movies Presents Films That Shocked the World

Be shocked, horrified, stunned and controversified with this week of films in August.

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First FBI-Curated Art Show Puts Forgeries on Display

Warhol, Chagall, de Kooning, Gauguin, Matisse, Rembrandt, Renoir - what a bunch of big fat fakes.

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Win Tickets to See Frances Ha

Greta Gerwig plays one of the most loveable characters you'll meet this year.

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Your Guide to a Spring Weekend in the Hunter Valley

The perfect weekender, whether you're with friends, your lover or your mum.

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The Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend

Pack your party pants and these five songs because it's time for the weekend dance.

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Uncarriable Carrier Bags Shaming Us Into Environment Protection

The plastic bag fashion statement that may just save the environment.

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