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NewsThe Best Women’s Fashion Boutiques In Melbourne
The local womenswear boutiques you won't find in every Hidden Laneways of Melbourne tour.
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NewsThe Beauty of Decaying Theatres
Photographer Julia Solis brings us 100+ images of the hub of mid 20th-century popular culture.
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NewsHow the Internet, Marina Abramovic and Dachshunds Made Performance Art Cool
What is it? Why is it? Huh?
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NewsDaft Punk Are Winning the Internet
The excitement builds in in anticipation of the album launch in Wee Waa.
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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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GuideTwelve of the Best RISING 2024 Events That Will Help You Get Out of the House This Winter
RISING 2024's most-exciting events include an absurdist dinner party, a massive festival within the festival and a heap of different one-off parties.
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NewsSix Spooky Indie Games to Get You in the Mood for Halloween
If your favourite facet of Halloween is getting into some spine-tingling horror, we've assemble a list of spooky indie games guaranteed to give you goosebumps.
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NewsSix Ways to Get Your Gaming Fix at the First-Ever SXSW Sydney
SXSW is loading up a whole week of gaming events — here are our top picks, from a celebration of crab games to a chance to flex your voice-acting skills.
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NewsTen of Our Most-Anticipated Games to Check Out at SXSW Sydney's Gaming Festival
With over 150 games to check out at SXSW Sydney, we're taking out the stress of choosing with 10 recommendations.
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NewsTen Must-Catch Talks and Panels That You Don't Want to Miss at the Inaugural SXSW Sydney
What does the executive producer of 'Bluey' think of horror movies? What's the future of Chinatown? How do you communicate the magic of music? All these and more will be answered at SXSW Sydney.
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NewsFive of the Best Australian Video Games That You Should Play Right Now
From mischievous geese to intergalactic rock stars, here's five standout homegrown video games to have a crack at.
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GuideGroup Dining: The Best International Restaurants for Celebrating the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023™
Get the gang together to fully embrace this footy season with a culinary journey throughout Sydney.
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NewsCP Picks: How to Have the Weirdest and Wildest Dark Mofo 2023 If You're a Last-Minute Planner
If ever there's an arts festival that's all about embracing the unexpected, revelling in the moment and making last-minute plans, it's this one.
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GuideEmbrace the Indoors: Ten Activities in Melbourne's Inner South for When the Weather Isn't Cooperating
Rug up and be entertained this winter whether you're looking for ideal coffee spots in Albert Park or hot yoga in St Kilda.
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NewsMonocle Does Coffee Now
The magazine-gone-global brand synonymous with cool is now serving designer lattes to savvy Londoners.
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NewsDon’t Just Mourn for Oxford Street’s Rainbow Crossing – DIY One
Prepare for a serious rainbow chalk shortage in Sydney.
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NewsTop Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend
Playlist for the weekend: check. Aural satisfaction: check.
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NewsSydney Writers’ Festival 2013 Boasts More Storytelling Events and Molly Ringwald
The thinker's answer to Glastonbury launches a dynamic program of events that celebrates the pleasure of a good old-fashioned story.
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NewsMartha Wainwright Tours Come Home to Mama
Rejoice the return of Martha Wainwright to Australia for a massive, 12-date national tour.
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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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NewsBoost Your Fitness with These Ten Weird Workout Trends
Because sometimes you can't bear to run, Powerplate or Zumba a day longer.
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NewsWorld Movies Secret Cinema Sneaks into Melbourne
The awesome immersive cinema experience finally makes it to Melbourne.
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NewsFood Is Artist Hong Yi’s Latest Paintbrush
Hong Yi creates delicate artworks from everyday victuals.
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NewsBourke St Bakery Launches Social Enterprise Training Refugees in Baking
A new social enterprise taking refugees from outer Sydney and skilling them in sourdough baking.
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NewsCapture a Moment of Purity and Win $10,000
All that Instagramming could finally be your pay day.
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EventMinistry of Sound: Testament
Sat, 12 Apr 2025
The Timber Yard, Port Melbourne
Ministry of Sound's massive 90s and 00s parties are returning to Melbourne with Roger Sanchez, Felix Da Housecat, Utah Saints and more.
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EventState Rose and Garden Show
Sat, 9 Nov - Sun, 10 Nov 2024
Victoria State Rose Garden, Werribee South
Wander through 5000 blooming roses, stock up on new plants (and tips) and sip prosecco among the flowers.
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EventVillage Feast
Sun, 10 Nov, 2024
East Brunswick Village, Brunswick East
Expect DJ sets from Triple R’s Small Fry as well as food and drinks from Rumi, The Rocket Society, Bride Road Brewers and FoMo Cinemas.
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EventWoodford Reserve Old Fashioned Week
Fri, 1 Nov - Sat, 30 Nov 2024
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
Snag a sip of a cocktail classic without spending a cent this November at these participating bars.
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EventInto The Vines: Gulp Fiction
Thu, 28 Nov, 2024
The Rochester Hotel, Fitzroy
Consider this mini wine festival the ultimate Thursday night knock-off, preparing you for the slow descent into silly season.
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EventUpstairs @ The Rochey
Multiple single dates
The Rochester Hotel, Fitzroy
The Rochey is hosting intimate electronic gigs every Saturday night in its upstairs bandroom.
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EventVan Gogh at The Lume
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 - Mon, 31 Mar 2025
THE LUME Melbourne, South Wharf
Sunflowers, stars and a sublime multi-sensory experience: you'll find them all at this immersive and stunning exhibition.
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EventFrench Impressionism
Fri, 6 Jun - Sun, 5 Oct 2025
NGV International, Melbourne
After its 2021 season was cut short due to the pandemic, this stunning exhibition is returning to NGV International with 100-plus iconic paintings.
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EventApéritif v Aperitivo Arvos at Molly Rose Brewery
Wed, 16 Oct 2024 - Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Molly Rose Brewery, Collingwood
Sample Molly Rose's new small-batch gins, pastis, vodkas and vermouths at its aperitivo sessions and masterclasses.
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EventMelbourne Queer Film Festival
Thu, 14 Nov - Sun, 24 Nov 2024
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
This year's MQFF boasts a 42-feature lineup stacked with LGBTQIA+ must-sees — and a celebration of music videos.
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NewsYou Too Can Look Out the Rear Window Window, at the Sydney Film Festival
Artist Jeff Desom immerses you in Hitchcock's paranoid world.
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NewsEight Genre-Defining Beards of Modern Music
The Beards aren't the only band with facial hair that says a lot about their music.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Ira Glass of This American Life
We speak to Ira Glass, god of radio, ahead of This American Life's foray into film.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Rust and Bone
What helps a despairing person keep on living? It's not usually a brute like Ali.
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NewsTime Travel via Phone Box Is Possible Thanks to NYC’s New Museum
The pay phone finds new life as an auditory time machine letting New Yorkers escape reality.
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NewsArtist Jay Shells Swaps Street Signs with Rap Lyrics
Meet you on the corner of 'Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a Benz'.
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NewsBook Spine Poetry That Speaks Volumes
A lifelong book fetish becomes fun and quirky poetic art.
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NewsArtist Bradley Hart Finds Unusual Use for Bubble Wrap
Bradley Hart would not like it if you popped his bubble wrap.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Danny Boyle and the Cast of Trance
What film did you expect Danny Boyle to make next? Odds are it wasn't Trance, a hypno-heist thriller.
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NewsTen Inspiring and Insightful TED Talks by Musicians
Amanda Palmer isn't the only industry luminary with a penchant for both lyrics and discourse.
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NewsFriendly Fire Becomes More Literal as Thumbs Replace Guns
Our favourite bullet-firing heroes and villains have laid down their arms.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Road Trip Essentials
Road trips are an idealised summertime activity, but when the heats eases in autumn there's really no better time to be in the car for extended periods of time.
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NewsVivid Sydney Announces 2013 Lineup
The festival turns five this year, and is celebrating with its most dazzling lineup yet.
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NewsTry a Truly Sustainable Diet at Pestival
The Noma chefs pitch in to help tune your tastebuds to the appreciation of bugs.
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NewsFour Interesting Ideas in the New Australian Cultural Policy
The Gillard Government announced their long-awaited cultural policy which look set to have some unexpectedly awesome consequences
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NewsA Wallflower’s Guide to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2013
Concrete Playground brings you the best of the Melbourne International Comedy festival, sans awkward silences.
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NewsIndie Theatre in the Spotlight for MTC’s NEON Season
Leading Melbourne indies The Hayloft Project, THE RABBLE, Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Fraught Outfit and Sisters Grimm storm the big stage.
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NewsWin Tickets to See The Loneliest Planet
A backpacking couple find their world turned upside down when they venture into the Georgian wilderness.
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NewsSeven Forward-Thinking Foodies Create Meals from the Future
Good news for people who like needles, kelp and insects.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Simon Griffiths from Shebeen Non-Profit Bar
Australia gets its first non-for-profit bar and we learn how it all came together.
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NewsWin a DVD of Savages
Oliver Stone's brutal, ferocious and sexy look into the lives of two marijuana growers.
