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NewsArcade Fire’s Mesmerising Smartphone-Interactive Video for ‘Reflektor’
A short film whose visuals you can affect, just so long as you have three basics of the modern tech era.
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NewsMalthouse Theatre Draws Together Diverse 2014 Program
Original Australian work, international direction and an injection of energy from some of the city’s unique independent collectives.
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NewsSee Julia Gillard Live in Conversation with Anne Summers
Julia Gillard's first public appearance since her June farewell speech.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Stories We Tell
We all have a family story to tell, but we can't all tell it like Sarah Polley.
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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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NewsThe Unexpected Poetry of Google Autocomplete
Autocomplete results are often unintentionally hilarious and weirdly sad - but are they also art?
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NewsThe 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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NewsThe Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend
Farewell office, farewell pants being necessary and hello soundtracked weekend.
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NewsBoozing 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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NewsLuxury 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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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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NewsArtist 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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NewsWin Tickets to See Blue Jasmine
Cate Blanchett's compelling work lights up one of Woody Allen's darkest films.
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NewsOil 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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NewsThe Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend
Five delicious servings of ear candy weighing kilograms of fun with zero calories.
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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 Bluffer’s Guide to Oysters
Everything oyster is illuminated in conversation with chef Sean Connolly.
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NewsThe Lifted Brow Goes Subcompact on Your Ass
The Lifted Brow brings this lightweight publishing style to Australia.
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NewsWin 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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News3D 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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NewsKickstarter Coming to Australia and New Zealand
Nothing has quite transformed the 'crowd funding' story like Kickstarter.
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NewsThe 12 Best Things to See at the Melbourne Festival 2013
105 events in 45 venues in just 17 days. If you get your head around 12 of them, your Melbourne Festival will have been a success.
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NewsAvocado Beer Is a Possibly Delicious Invention
An LA brewery has created a guacamole-inspired beer to celebrate the beginning of avocado season in California.
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NewsThe National Return to Australia in February
New York-based indie rockers The National are set to tour Australia in February 2014.
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NewsUnlikely Objects from the Bizarre Imagination of an Italian Artist
Unlikely objects invite the doublest of double-takes.
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NewsThe Secrets of the Abbotsford Quadfecta
The the Abbotsford Convent's food precinct is about as far away as you can get from bain-maries and plastic cutlery.
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NewsThe Discerning Lego-Builder Now Has Minimalist, All-White Bricks
Lego launches a versatile set for would-be architects.
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NewsSocks Infused with Coffee Cure Smelly Feet
For feet so sweet you can wear the same pair of socks for days.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Kick-Ass 2
Because you know you want to see how Hit Girl is handling high school.
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NewsWorld’s Most Instagrammable Hotel Opens in Sydney
1888 Hotel has built in special features to inspire photographers of all stripes.
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NewsScale a Stairway of Lights and Blossoms in Sicily
The ingenious festival decorations of Sicily's most magnificent staircase.
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NewsEccentric Doctor’s Manmade Mountain Outlawed in Beijing
Beijing architect Zhang Biqing's illegal mountain is forced to crumble.
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NewsTen 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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NewsFree Beer for Doing Absolutely Nothing
Stand still for three minutes and you'll be rewarded with a cold one.
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NewsSydney Businessmen Successfully Crowdfund Booze Startup
Mr Black takes two of Sydney's favourite vices and combines them in one delicious, stylishly packaged drink.
