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    "I’m not worried about being up early, I’ll just have to take a break from the clubs for 20 minutes."

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    Giant Dwarf to Launch New Event Where Pollies Present Their Own Slide Night

    Kristina Keneally and Julian Morrow invite Australian politicians to bring along their own personal photos — and explain themselves.

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    Humans of New York's Brandon Stanton Photographed the 2015 Met Gala

    Ordinary people as celebrities, celebrities as ordinary people.

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    Dark Mofo Announces Huge 2015 Program

    British jellymongers Bompas and Parr are just the tip of this dark and delicious Tasmanian iceberg.

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    Sydney Writers' Festival Announces 2015 Lineup

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    Stephen Hawking to Deliver His First Ever Australian Lecture

    An evening with one of the greatest minds of the modern age.

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    Nine 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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    Vivid 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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    All the Life Advice You Need from Terry Pratchett

    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

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    New Web Comedy 'The Katering Show' Skewers Foodie Culture

    "The journey of a food intolerant, and an intolerable foodie."

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    The 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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    NYC Bar Marie's Crisis to Pop Up for First Spectrum Now Festival

    This festival bar is no passive drinking spot.

  • Guide

    Concrete Playground Does Sydney Festival 2015

    Everything we're watching, eating, dancing to, swinging on and Instagramming this festival.

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    Jurassic Lounge Heads Back to the Australian Museum

    Your favourite after-hours museum party is back.

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    Should 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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    After Hours Circus Extravaganza to Launch at the Powerhouse Museum

    Run away to the circus, without fully committing.

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    Concrete Playground's Summer Reading List

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    Anita Sarkeesian Heads Lineup for All About Women 2015

    She explained #Gamergate to Stephen Colbert. Now Sydney.

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    A Pedestrian-Friendly CBD May Have to Make Way For More Cars

    Plans include narrowing CBD footpaths. Actually narrowing them.

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    Messina to Return to Sydney Festival Village in Hyde Park

    What in the world will top the Messinawiener?

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    Six Sydney Festival 2015 Hot Dates

    There's no excuse for a boring date night during January.

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    Sydney Gets Pedestrian Countdown Timers, Finally

    Now running into intersections is something you can make an educated decision about.

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    Tequila 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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    Secret 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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    Moonlight 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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    Five Lessons in Sustainable Fashion with Hessian Magazine

    Editor-in-chief Siggi McCarthy lets us into the world beyond the buzzwords.

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    Carriageworks Announces Epic 2015 Program

    Burning Buddhas, giant plesiosaurs, robot operas, Samoan Viennese Waltzes and ten thousand tigers.

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    Win 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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    Teenager Dies of Suspected Overdose at Sydney’s Harbourlife

    Friends say she took one-and-a-half pills during the day.

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    There’s a Giant Pink Condom on the Hyde Park Obelisk

    This one's been a schlong time coming.

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    Five Barossa Valley Events That Are Worth the Road Trip

    Apparently there's more to the Barossa than wineries.

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    Win Tickets to the Sydney Theatre Co’s Cyrano de Bergerac

    Wordplay, swordplay and panache trump brainless beauty any day.

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