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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Charlie Murphy
Charlie Murphy deserves some serious credit. Trying to forge a career as a professional comedian is pretty tough at the best of times, let alone when your brother is none other than Eddie Murphy.
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NewsMoss Poetry Appears in Sydney’s Paddington Reservoir Gardens
The walls of Sydney's historic reservoir are currently playing host to obscurely profound pieces of moss poetry.
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NewsIndie India: Aspiring Musicians Outsource Film Clips to the Subcontinent
With music videos becoming ever more complex and expensive, entrepreneurs in India are providing aspiring musicians with film clips at a reduced cost.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to see the Academy Award-Winning ‘A Separation’
Critics have praised the film for its fast pace, weaving complexity and bravery for commenting on themes which have been kept hidden to much of the Western world.
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NewsRadiohead Announce Tour to Australia and New Zealand in 2012
This will be Radiohead's first Australian tour in eight years, and the band's first to New Zealand since 1998.
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NewsGorillaz team up with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Andre 3000 from Outkast
Converse bring together three artists on the creation of one song.
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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 standout shows that you need to see.
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GuideSpectacular Autumn Events For Culture Vultures Seeking Their Next Fix
Make sure you add these must-do events to your Sydney culture calendar.
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NewsEurovision Alert: Here's When and Where 2024's Song Contest Is Unleashing Its Europop Marvels
Electric Fields are representing Australia with 'One Milkali (One Blood)', which features the language Yankunytjatjara from the Anangu peoples.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
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NewsSeven New Movies You Can Watch Right Now That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Sydney Sweeney as a nun, Timothée Chalamet's return to Arrakis and a Bob Marley biopic.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in March
Spend your couch time watching Adam Sandler in space, a stunning Oscar-winning documentary, girl group-fuelled sitcom hilarity and Noel Fielding's latest show.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsTwelve New Movies You Can Watch in March That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with a haunting Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal romance, Sofia Coppola's take on Priscilla Presley and stunning Oscar-winner 'Anatomy of a Fall'.
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NewsFrom the 'Mona Lisa' to 'Codex Atlanticus': A Look Inside The Lume's Multi-Sensory Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition
The only 360-degree exact replica of the world's most-famous enigmatic portrait, da Vinci's notebook pages, 40 of his machine inventions brought to life: they're all on display.
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NewsNine 2024 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
'Oppenheimer', an astonishing Ukraine-set documentary, a Wes Anderson short, Emma Stone's most-spectacular performance yet: they each won 2024 Oscars, and you can check them all out now.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Photographer Dean Sewell
Dean recently sat down with Concrete Playground to talk about the Lonely Station, photography and the usefulness of good rope skills.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to see Like Crazy
Enter to win tickets to see the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to Playground Weekender 2012
A four-day extravaganza in arguably the most gorgeous festival location near Sydney, Del Rio's Riverside Resort on the Hawkesbury.
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NewsEvery World Press Photo Winner From 1955 to 2011
They say a picture tells a thousand words, and this old statement is strikingly appropriate for what's displayed here.
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NewsWhat Music Looks Like as an Object
German artist Martin Klimas endeavours to answer the question: 'what does music look like?'
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NewsWin a Double Pass to see The Grey
John Ottoway (Liam Neeson) is forced to lead a group of roughneck men in their fight for survival when the men come under attack by a pack of vicous, aggressive wolves.
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NewsHotel Offers Champagne Baths for Valentine’s Day
In what resembles a scene from a high-end gangster rap video, guests at London's Cadogan Hotel will be able to bathe in 122 hand-poured bottles of Dom Pérignon.
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NewsMichael Cera Takes the Stage at the Sydney Opera House
Theatrical masterpiece 'This Is Our Youth' will undergo another celebrity makeover when the play hits the Sydney Opera House this March.
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NewsGallery /// Concrete Playground at St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2012
Concrete Playground heads along to check out St. Jerome's Laneway Festival in Sydney.
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NewsThe Best Ads From Super Bowl 2012
It's usually the off field antics and advertising that captures the imaginations of those outside of the 50 US states.
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NewsWes Anderson From Above
All of the auteur's beautifully crafted overhead shots compiled into one stylish montage.
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NewsThe Global Mail: Not-For-Profit News Site Launches
Launched today, the not-for-profit news and features website will offer its readers public interest stories both locally and from around the globe.
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NewsStuart Ringholt’s Naked Art Tours Come to Sydney
An art tour where all participants must turn up in the flesh, literally.
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NewsWin a Summer’s Supply of C Coconut Water
Show us a plant that you can use to make medicine, soap, a mean green curry, alcohol (and a requisite hangover cure), and bikinis from, and we'll show you a coconut.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets The Drums
Being The Drums means being one of the most hardworking bands around at the moment – since they skyrocketed in hype in 2009, The Drums haven’t slowed down, incessantly touring and releasing two LPs in that time. They’ve visited antipodean shores before, working the festival circuit and are about to do it for the third time – this time around for St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival.
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NewsMatthew McConaughey Returns as Wooderson from ‘Dazed and Confused’
In a flashback for stoners and film fanatics, Matthew McConaughey has reclaimed his trademark role as Wooderson from the cult film Dazed and Confused.
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NewsFood Trucks to Hit Sydney in 2012
This is one government initiative that all Sydneysiders will welcome with open arms and open mouths.
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NewsOnline Community Rallies Against the SOPA & PIPA Proposals
Here are some of our favourite online reactions to the world's most controversial bills.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets The Kooks
We spoke with band member, Hugh Harris, about bringing in the New Year at Falls, cooking spag bol and retracing his roots in his spiritual homeland, Sydney.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to See Martha Marcy May Marlene
A dark and magnetic exploration of human consciousness, Martha Marcy May Marlene exposes the unturned side of humanity that we fear to recognise.
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NewsThe Song Map
This is what the world would look like if you could build a city from your iTunes library.
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NewsCoachella Line-Up Lands for 2012
The highly-anticipated line-up for the colossal Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has just emerged.
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NewsLCD Soundsystem Documentary to Launch at Sundance
Almost one year after their break-up, a film documenting the final chapters of alternative powerhouse LCD Soundsystem will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
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NewsPeats Ridge Festival 2011 Review
It’s one-seventh the travel time to Woodford, one-fifth the number of Southern Cross tats at Field Day, as picturesque as Falls, and the local line up is without parallel.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets The Arctic Monkeys
The band's perfectly coiffed and sonorous toned lead singer, Alex Turner, takes time out to chat to Concrete Playground.
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NewsMake Food Not War
Stage a war in the kitchen and attempt to replicate these deliciously evil masterpieces.
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NewsStanley Kubrick’s Photos of New York
Before he was a filmmaker, Kubrick was a photojournalist for Look Magazine, for whom he captured the street life and subjects of New York City.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to See Young Adult
Director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, who previously collaborated on the Academy Award-winning Juno.
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NewsHow Happy is Your City?
A giant emoticon erected above this Bavarian city is set to measure the general mood of the people below.
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NewsFireworks by Day
A Chinese artist takes modern art to the sky with his daytime fireworks exhibition.
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NewsA-List Actors Become Evil Villains
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and others appear in vignettes as nefarious villains in this online video exhibition by Alex Prager.
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NewsCultural Disappearing Acts
UNESCO has added 'intangible' cultural traditions to the list of the world's endangered phenomena.
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NewsPlease, Steal Our Banksy
A Melbourne hotel issues an open invitation to steal their artwork straight off the walls.
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NewsConcrete Playground Talks to Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Lozano-Hemmer is famous for art that lurks in public spaces, galleries and even beaches, amplifying passers-by into new creatures with a city-sized will.
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NewsGourmet Food Hampers for a Good Cause
The Philanthropic Foodie is a demiurgic thinktank that come up with ideas that marry Sydney’s love of fine food and worthwhile charities.
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NewsWin a Double Club Stolen VIP Pass to Rhythm and Vines in New Zealand
Courtesy of our friends at Stolen Rum, Concrete Playground has a double-pass three-day Club Stolen VIP Package up for grabs.
