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NewsSand Hill Road’s Secrets to Making the Perfect Pub
Matt Mullins shares the blueprint for what makes redesigned pubs like The Prahran Hotel work.
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NewsPoet and Hacker Bravo Child Shows What Artists Can Do at a Hackfest
The host of Memebrain explains why he wants artists to turn up to his hackfest.
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NewsReimagining How to Build Cities on a Human Scale
Andreas Dalsgaard, director of The Human Scale, explains how we address the contradictions of contemporary cities.
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NewsWhat If Game of Thrones Happened in the 1990s?
Ever wondered what Game of Thrones would be like if the claimants of Westeros were fighting to sit atop a beanbag?
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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 15 Best Returning TV Shows of 2024 So Far
These are the beloved small-screen favourites to say "yes chef!" to, sleuth along with and giggle with — and get catchy songs stuck in your head from, too.
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NewsGet Your Art on a Tram (Legally)
Melbourne Art Trams will gussy up eight trams with bold works.
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NewsWin Tickets to the Premiere of The Internship
Step inside the world of Google, alongside two tech noobs.
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NewsThe Top Five Tracks To Hear This Weekend
Happy almost the weekend day. Here is a musical gift for this momentous occasion.
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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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NewsFive Reasons We’d Believe Anything About Tilda Swinton
She lives on another planet, and it's one we're dying to visit.
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NewsForever Now Will Launch Your Ideas Into Outer Space, Really
And digital democracy will determine the message we send to our alien buddies.
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NewsLululemon Launches Highpoint Store with Yoga to the Beat
High-energy workouts, DJ beats and drumming in the urban underground.
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EventGABS Craft Beer Fest
Fri, 4 Apr, 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Where can you get a drink from a 120-tap bar? At 2025's Great Australasian Beer Spectapular.
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EventWhat's on in Frankston: 2025 Events
Multiple single dates
Various Frankston venues
From European beach clubs to street art and sand sculpting, here's everything hitting Frankston in early 2025.
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EventBiggest Best IMAX Film Festival
Sat, 11 Jan - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
IMAX Melbourne, Carlton
This IMAX Melbourne film festival is filled with the best and biggest flicks to see on its huge 32-metre-wide by 23-metre-tall screen.
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EventEuropa! Europa Film Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Wed, 12 Mar 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Celebrate European cinema with a packed film festival lineup featuring 44 movies from 26 countries.
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EventThe Glam Slam
Fri, 24 Jan - Sun, 26 Jan 2025
Melbourne Park, Melbourne
Beyond the official Glam Slam tennis matches, you'll also find roaming drag queens and kings, glam stations, DJ sets, and plenty of rainbow flags.
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EventDrake: 'Anita Max Win' Tour
Multiple single dates
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
The 'Hotline Bling' performer 'The Degrassi: The Next Generation' star is returning Down Under for the first time in eight years.
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EventThe Play That Goes Wrong
Wed, 3 Sep - Sun, 21 Sep 2025
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
This comedic production about a chaotic play focuses on The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society's efforts to stage a murder-mystery.
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EventPickleball Pop-Up at Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya
Thu, 9 Jan - Thu, 6 Feb 2025
Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya, Fitzroy
Drop by this Japanese restaurant to pair your sushi and cocktails with a few rounds of pickleball.
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Event$15 Cacio e Pepe at Marameo
Tue, 7 Jan - Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Marameo, Melbourne
The team is slashing the price of its most-popular pasta to celebrate its fifth birthday — but only until the end of January.
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EventAn Evening with David Sedaris
Thu, 6 Feb - Fri, 7 Feb 2025
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
David Sedaris is bringing his latest tour to Hamer Hall in Melbourne in February to delight NPR obsessives.
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NewsSingles to Get Train Carriage for Flirting on Prague Metro
One way to spice up your workday commute.
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NewsSpotify Australia Celebrates Its First Birthday (With an Infographic)
It's hard to imagine life before the little bundle of joy.
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NewsWeb Success Vive Cool City Moves to TV
The current affairs show not safe for work. Or most of the day.
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NewsBabyshambles Announce Splendour Sideshows
Lock up your bowler hats and crack pipes, Babyshambles are coming to town!
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NewsWee Waa Was Perfect for Daft Punk – Even Minus the Crowd
We learned why Wee Waa was an oddly perfect fit for Daft Punk.
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NewsDrinking Pays for Public Transport with the Beer Turnstile
Don't drink and drive; drink and catch the train
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NewsInstagram Goes Deep with iAfghanistan Photojournalism
Ben Lowy's mesmerising wartime photos show iPhoneography's full potential.
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NewsHelen Bird: The Making of a Modern Craftswoman
We talk to Helen Bird, the recently announced winner of Ketel One’s Modern Craft Project, about transforming the humble food bicycle-cart into a literal vehicle for empowering migrants from disadvantaged backgrounds and how she plans to establish a lasting legacy with the $100,000 prize money.
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NewsIs Hip Hop the 21st Century’s Answer to Jazz?
Jay-Z might just be the modern day equivalent of Jay Gatsby
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NewsDaft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’ Leaked Online
Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' has been leaked in full on iTunes. Listen to it now.
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News2013: A Space Oddity as Astronaut Sings Bowie in Space
Social media darling and astronaut Chris Hadfield takes David Bowie to new, dizzying heights.
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NewsCaravan of Courage Pulls Into Melbourne
Next Generation Hunter Valley's third annual pop-up wine bar goes on tour.
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NewsSurprisingly Beautiful Photographs from the Secret Underworld of Drains
There's suffering for your art, and then there's fighting off cockroach armies to take a photo.
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NewsWin Tickets For Ten People to Daft Punk’s Album Launch Party in Wee Waa
That's right, one lucky reader will get to take 9 of their friends along to the most hyped album launch OF ALL TIME.
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NewsGun Control Laws Have an Unexpected Critic: Hollywood
Whatever will New York's film industry if they can't use real guns? Get creative, that's what.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Playwright, Feminist and Twitterer Van Badham
Her new play injects smarts into the rom-com genre.
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NewsWin Tickets to the Audi Festival of German Film
See the bizarrest and the best of German cinema, on the house.
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NewsWorld’s 50 Best Restaurants Have an Australian Flavour
Melbourne's Attica is best in Australasia, and Peter Gilmore's usual suspect makes an appearance.
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NewsWin Tickets To The Indian Film Festival Melbourne 2013
Win tickets to see your choice of a rich, lively program showcasing India's finest films.
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NewsHappy Monday, Here’s Some Good News from Happy Mondays
One of the most influential bands of their generation finally tours Down Under.
