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NewsPatti Smith's 'Just Kids' Memoir Is Being Made Into a Miniseries
Step aside, Gossip Girl. This is real NYC love.
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GuideThe Twelve Best Things Happening in Sydney This Weekend
Fun runs, neon-coloured exhibitions and meatfests ahoy.
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NewsThe Onion Is Launching a New Web Series Parodying Vice Media
Throwing acid in the face of ignorance.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things Happening in Sydney This Weekend
Whether it's gourmet coffee, old-school hamburgers, indie flicks or the very best Splendour in the Grass sideshows, Concrete Playground has you covered.
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NewsTake a Delicious, Delicious Tour of Nick Offerman's Pizza Farm
“If it’s on a plant, it’s good for you, who cares how it got there.”
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NewsConcrete Playground's Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015 Reading List
Put this wintry weather to good use and get clued in for FODI.
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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these potent westerns, horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, and expressive dance flicks.
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NewsA List of All of the Wes Anderson Films, Ranked
No one makes movies quite like Wes Anderson, so we've revisited and ranked them all — even though every single one is a gem.
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NewsIt's Eurovision Time: Here's When You Can Watch 2025's Song Contest (with Tony Armstrong and Courtney Act Hosting Australia's Coverage)
This year's Australian entry: Go-Jo with the song 'Milkshake Man', which is being performed with a four-metre-tall blender as part of the set.
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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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NewsTen 2025 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
Your newly Oscars-approved viewing list includes movies about determined architects, whirlwind romances, catty cardinals, sandworms and more.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 33 of 2025's Oscar-Nominated Movies in Australia Right Now
Massive musicals, monumental dramas, stunning animated gems, heartbreaking documentaries, two Timothée Chalamet movies: they're all Oscar contenders, and you can watch them all.
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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 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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GuideThe Best Free Events to Catch During Sydney Festival 2025
Sydney Festival is saving your wallet this summer with a cost-of-living defying program of free events throughout January.
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NewsFestival of Dangerous Ideas Announces Huge 2015 Lineup
With Jon Ronson, Naomi Klein and Peter Greste all bringing their soapboxes to the Opera House.
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NewsThe State of Fun in Australia
Gelato Messina, The Festivalists, Giant Dwarf and Secret Garden discuss active play, festival culture and whether red tape is killing creativity.
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NewsSydney Fringe 2015 Has a Brand New Festival Village
Expect prohibition-style gin bars, masquerade horror installations and a huge focus on Erko.
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NewsLee Lin Chin Announced as Australia's Official Eurovision Spokesperson Because All Is Well
"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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NewsGiant 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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NewsHumans of New York's Brandon Stanton Photographed the 2015 Met Gala
Ordinary people as celebrities, celebrities as ordinary people.
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NewsDark 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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NewsSydney Writers' Festival Announces 2015 Lineup
Learn 'how to live' with Mohsin Hamid, Helen Macdonald, Alan Cumming and David Walliams.
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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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EventUncontained Arts Festival 2026
Fri, 26 Jun - Sun, 28 Jun 2026
Belgrave Street, Kogarah
From inflatable creatures to LED drum shows, this kaleidoscopic after-dark experience returns with creativity and wonder inspired by nature and sustainability.
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EventSouth African Film Festival
Sun, 21 Jun - Sun, 26 Jul 2026
Various cinemas across Australia
The eighth run of SAFF will see 33 films direct from South Africa come to cinemas across Australia and New Zealand.
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EventHSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival
Wed, 10 Jun - Sun, 12 Jul 2026
Various Palace Cinemas around Australia, Moore Park
The annual showcase of Spanish and Latin American filmmaking returns to Australian screens this winter.
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EventThe Music of the Lord of the Rings
Thu, 16 Jul - Sat, 18 Jul 2026
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Explore the music of The Lord of the Rings like never before, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Art of the Score.
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EventAvatar: Forms of Vishnu
Sat, 20 Jun - Mon, 5 Oct 2026
Naala Badu Building, AGNSW, Sydney
This massive exhibition explores the many forms of the Hindu deity Vishnu, as depicted in 200 works that span 1500 years.
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EventBastille Festival
Thu, 16 Jul - Sun, 19 Jul 2026
Circular Quay, Sydney
Warm up this winter — this four-day soirée is taking over Circular Quay and The Rocks with French food, wine and entertainment.
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EventSheltering at the Sydney Opera House
Wed, 3 Jun - Sat, 13 Jun 2026
Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney
Bangarra Dance Theatre returns to the Sydney Opera House this June with Sheltering, a powerful triple bill exploring First Nations stories and connection to Country.
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EventTwo Door Cinema Club at Hordern Pavilion
Sun, 22 Nov, 2026
Hordern Pavilion, Moore Park
Having just announced a second Sydney show, this era-defining indie-dance band will perform their acclaimed debut album in full.
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EventSydney Symphony Presents Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone In Concert
Wed, 2 Dec - Sat, 5 Dec 2026
Concert Hall, Sydney
Step back in time to the beginning of an iconic franchise, brought to life by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
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EventHayu FanFest
Sat, 15 Aug, 2026
Secret Location in Sydney, Sydney
Bringing reality TV into the real world, this streaming platform's landmark event is headed to Sydney for the first time.
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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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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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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.
