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NewsStephen Hawking to Deliver His First Ever Australian Lecture
An evening with one of the greatest minds of the modern age.
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NewsNine Incredible Things You're Missing at SXSW This Year
From Tinder robots to Kwik-E-Mart food trucks and virtual reality SNL, SXSW 2015 has truly opened with a bang.
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NewsVivid Sydney Announces Huge 2015 Program
Giant Rococo pigs, interactive games of duck, duck, goose, Sufjan Stevens and TV on the Radio.
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NewsAll the Life Advice You Need from Terry Pratchett
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to See and Do During Mardi Gras 2015
The parade is just the cherry on top.
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NewsNew Web Comedy 'The Katering Show' Skewers Foodie Culture
"The journey of a food intolerant, and an intolerable foodie."
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GuideMany of the Best Seats at Sydney Festival 2025's Headline Shows Are on Sale for Just $49 — Here's Why
As NSW's flagship arts fest prepares to celebrate its 49th birthday, affordability has been very much front of mind for Festival Director Olivia Ansell.
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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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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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NewsThe 15 Best Films of 2024 So Far
The best movies from 2024's first half include a meditative trip to Tokyo, a scorching neo-noir thriller, multiple Oscar-winners and a stunning robot story.
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NewsThe 15 Best New TV Shows of 2024 So Far
From gloriously surreal comedies and unforgettable true tales to stunning remakes and savvy sci-fi mysteries, 2024 has been filled with new small-screen highlights.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to See, Do and Taste at Sydney Chinese New Year 2015
From food markets to lantern warriors, the Year of the Sheep is bringing quite a bounty.
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NewsNYC Bar Marie's Crisis to Pop Up for First Spectrum Now Festival
This festival bar is no passive drinking spot.
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GuideConcrete Playground Does Sydney Festival 2015
Everything we're watching, eating, dancing to, swinging on and Instagramming this festival.
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NewsGo Backstage Before the Show with the Opera House's Summerhouse Program
Sydney's most iconic venue has gone troppo.
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NewsJurassic Lounge Heads Back to the Australian Museum
Your favourite after-hours museum party is back.
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NewsShould One of Sydney's Main Museums Move to Parramatta?
Premier Mike Baird wants to pick up the Powerhouse Museum and plonk it down in Western Sydney, but a Questacon-like offshoot could be the better option.
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NewsAfter Hours Circus Extravaganza to Launch at the Powerhouse Museum
Run away to the circus, without fully committing.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Summer Reading List
Ten books from this year that no bibliophile should miss.
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NewsAnita Sarkeesian Heads Lineup for All About Women 2015
She explained #Gamergate to Stephen Colbert. Now Sydney.
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NewsA Pedestrian-Friendly CBD May Have to Make Way For More Cars
Plans include narrowing CBD footpaths. Actually narrowing them.
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EventEnchanted Christmas Markets at Westfield Bondi
Thu, 28 Nov - Sun, 22 Dec 2024
Westfield Bondi Junction, Bondi Junction
Pick up a one-of-a-kind gift at this festive market.
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EventDouble Bay Christmas Festival
Sat, 30 Nov, 2024
Steyne Park, Double Bay
Bring the whole family along for 100-plus stalls, live music, carnival rides and fireworks by the water.
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EventPaddo Collective Walking Tour
Sun, 12 Jan, 2025
Paddington, Paddington
Uncover the vibrant cultural heritage of this Sydney suburb through local sites and thrilling unsolved mysteries.
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EventWoollahra Hotel Christmas Market
Thu, 28 Nov, 2024
Woollahra Hotel, Woollahra
Celebrate the holiday season at this popular pop-up market that's sure to be a merry night to remember.
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EventChristmas Actually — The Little Red Company
Sat, 21 Dec, 2024
Sydney Coliseum Theatre, Rooty Hill
An end-of-year favourite, this supremely festive cabaret show sings through all the hits from 'Love Actually'.
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EventJulie Mehrtu: 'A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory' at MCA Australia
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 - Sun, 27 Apr 2025
MCA, Sydney
The first exhibition dedicated to Julie Mehretu to be shown in the Southern Hemisphere is coming to the MCA in November.
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EventThe Sydney Good Food & Wine Show Christmas Markets
Fri, 22 Nov - Sun, 24 Nov 2024
Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Stock up on Christmas gifts for all the foodies in your life at this massive seasonal market featuring stalls from more than 150 different local producers.
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EventMachu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru
Travel back in time with this exhibit at the Australian Museum in Sydney.
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EventCambridge Christmas Markets
Sat, 16 Nov - Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Various Sydney venues, Sydney
Get your wishlists ready, Santa's coming to town thanks to markets all over Sydney.
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EventMultiple Bad Things
Wed, 8 Jan - Sun, 12 Jan 2025
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
This dynamic work of groundbreaking theatre explores the intersection between the physical and intellectual via a show that raises more questions than it answers.
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NewsMessina to Return to Sydney Festival Village in Hyde Park
What in the world will top the Messinawiener?
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NewsSydney Gets Pedestrian Countdown Timers, Finally
Now running into intersections is something you can make an educated decision about.
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NewsTequila Sunsets Will Get You Back into the Australian Museum After Hours
Party with the peoples who introduced the world to chocolate.
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NewsConstruction Crews Demolish Interior of Palace Theatre Before Heritage Decision
"[It's] sheer vandalism."
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NewsEscapism: The Night We Valiantly Tried to Escape from a Butcher's Burrow
Melbourne's escape room craze has arrived in Sydney.
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NewsSecret Garden 2015 Tickets Are On Sale
Prep those page-refreshing muscles. Perhaps it's the appeal of the enigmatic, but predictions are these won't last long.
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NewsMoonlight Cinema’s Summer Program Launch Puts the Picnic in Your CBD Lunch Break
Your Martin Place lunchtime just got astro turf, an LA-style food truck, and a big screen.
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NewsFive Lessons in Sustainable Fashion with Hessian Magazine
Editor-in-chief Siggi McCarthy lets us into the world beyond the buzzwords.
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NewsCarriageworks Announces Epic 2015 Program
Burning Buddhas, giant plesiosaurs, robot operas, Samoan Viennese Waltzes and ten thousand tigers.
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NewsWin Tickets to So Frenchy So Chic in the Park
Don your best-floral-headband-and-sundress-combo and gear up for un merveilleux après-midi.
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NewsTex Perkins is Running For Victorian State Parliament to Save the Palais
"It's just not good enough."
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NewsTeenager Dies of Suspected Overdose at Sydney’s Harbourlife
Friends say she took one-and-a-half pills during the day.
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NewsNew Legislation Could Force Sydney Bars to Keep Kitchens Open All Night
Another blow for Sydney city bars?
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NewsFive Barossa Valley Events That Are Worth the Road Trip
Apparently there's more to the Barossa than wineries.
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NewsWin Tickets to the Sydney Theatre Co’s Cyrano de Bergerac
Wordplay, swordplay and panache trump brainless beauty any day.
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NewsIt Looks Like Channel Nine’s New Streaming Service Actually Won’t Suck
Can't say the same about its name.
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NewsWes Anderson is Planning His Own Theme Park with Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh
What the cuss? Stop everything.
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NewsThe Ten Best Things to See at the Sydney Festival 2015
Make it a summer to remember, with two Spiegeltents, two labyrinths and twice the music program.
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NewsWin Tickets to See The Way Things Work at Bondi Pavilion
All-too-familiar characters enter a web of corruption.
