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NewsThe Seven Best Alternative Comedy Rooms in Sydney
Funny comes in all different shapes and sizes. Exercise your laugh muscles with a new routine.
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NewsAvocado Beer Is a Possibly Delicious Invention
An LA brewery has created a guacamole-inspired beer to celebrate the beginning of avocado season in California.
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NewsSocks Infused with Coffee Cure Smelly Feet
For feet so sweet you can wear the same pair of socks for days.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Kick-Ass 2
Because you know you want to see how Hit Girl is handling high school.
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News13 Best Book Releases to Read This October
This month's fiction haul includes Soviet nepo babies and a starving spectacle inspired by a real 20th-century sideshow act. Plus, the return of a 2010s-famous author.
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GuideUnconventional Outings to Round Up the Crew for Something Different
Hands-on outings across Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne for the group chat that's already bored of brunch, bar-hopping and the same old dinner booking.
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GuideTheatre and Live Performances to Build a Whole Night Out Around
Theatres, cabaret rooms and live-music stages across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, from new Australian drama to West End-scale musicals — plus where to eat before curtain.
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GuideRoad Trips Just Outside of Town to Fill an Entire Day Out
Nine day trips close enough to squeeze in before dinner, from high tea in a 1904 hydropathic retreat to a solar-powered treetop park in the Otways.
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GuideLate-Night Cocktail Bars Made for Just One More Round Before Ubers
Twelve bars built for the hour when "one more round" turns into three, spanning a Godfather-themed basement, a moon-lit Shanghai den and a bar that distills its own fernet.
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GuideKid-Friendly Spots Where the Whole Family Will Love Spending Time Together
Nine family-friendly venues where a pig named Kevin Bacon, a cubby house inside a brewery, and gluten-free doughnuts do the heavy lifting of keeping everyone happy.
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GuideJazz Bars to Settle Into and Lose Track of the Whole Night In
The jazz bars across Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney drawing crowds with world-class acts, great drinks and a distinct lack of signage out the front.
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GuideIndependent Cinemas with Interesting and Unexpected Screenings
Characterful independent cinemas across Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne where the room, the bar and the backstory matter just as much as the film.
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GuideGalleries to Spend a Rainy Afternoon Wandering Around
Twelve galleries across Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne that earn a proper look, not just a walk-by — made for filling a slow, rainy afternoon.
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NewsThe Best New Australian Books to Curl Up With This August
A time-travelling news agency, fables about digital dystopias, the grief of losing a best friend and more.
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NewsWorld’s Most Instagrammable Hotel Opens in Sydney
1888 Hotel has built in special features to inspire photographers of all stripes.
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NewsEccentric Doctor’s Manmade Mountain Outlawed in Beijing
Beijing architect Zhang Biqing's illegal mountain is forced to crumble.
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NewsCleveland’s Cutting Hair in Boardwalk Empire Style
Get a 1920s haircut else Nucky Thompson gon' getcha.
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NewsBerkelouw Books Newtown Closing Down (with a Sale)
As hard as this news is to swallow for bibliophiles, you can pay your final respects at the 'relocation sale'.
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NewsTen Places to Get an Early Taste of Summer
Feeling wind-blown, frost-bitten and winter-weary? It's never too late to hatch a getaway plan.
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NewsFree Beer for Doing Absolutely Nothing
Stand still for three minutes and you'll be rewarded with a cold one.
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NewsSydney Businessmen Successfully Crowdfund Booze Startup
Mr Black takes two of Sydney's favourite vices and combines them in one delicious, stylishly packaged drink.
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NewsThe Ten Best Chinese Restaurants in Sydney
Get your diaries out and organise a fascinating feast for the senses with some awesome Chinese food.
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NewsThe Taste of Orange Comes to Sydney
Taste Orange will provide a rare opportunity to taste and buy produce straight from the makers themselves.
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NewsMelbourne Festival Is After Your Heart with 2013 Program
A ten-hour theatre show, a concert in the dark and a giant Welcome to Country mark Melbourne Festival 2013.
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NewsWorld Movies Presents Films That Shocked the World
Be shocked, horrified, stunned and controversified with this week of films in August.
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EventAn Evening with Kevin McCloud and Tim Ross
Sat, 27 Feb - Sun, 14 Mar 2027
Various locations, Sydney
Kevin McCloud and Tim Ross are hitting the road again, bringing their design-fuelled banter to stages across Australia and New Zealand.
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EventTuro Cheat Codes at Campbells Cove
Sat, 14 Nov, 2026
Campbells Cove, The Rocks
Crack a code and you could spend a week in your dream car, as this free Turo gaming challenge takes over The Rocks for one day only.
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EventCarriageworks Summer
Sun, 1 Nov 2026 - Sun, 31 Jan 2027
Carriageworks, Eveleigh
An Australian premiere from David Hockney, warehouse sets from Overmono and Armand Van Helden, and a solo performance of Wake in Fright are among the highlights of Carriageworks Summer.
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EventField Day 2027
Fri, 1 Jan, 2027
The Domain, Sydney
Field Day is kicking off its 25th year with a bang, adding Australian dance export Mall Grab to its already massive NYD lineup.
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EventGolden Hour 2027, Featuring Amyl and the Sniffers
Thu, 4 Mar, 2027
Bondi Beach, Sydney
Three of Australia's most exciting acts are heading to Bondi Beach for a sun-soaked summer send-off with plenty of punk-rock bite.
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EventClub Amalfi at Watsons Bay Hotel
Multiple single dates
Watsons Bay Hotel, Watsons Bay
Make Sundays feel a little more European, as this monthly Amalfi-inspired session returns to the harbourfront.
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EventMeadow X ABSOLUT TABASCO Hottest Brunch
Sun, 1 Nov - Sun, 29 Nov 2026
Meadow Music Room, Cronulla
Meadow Music Room is hosting a 90-minute bottomless brunch throughout November, with two-course dining, spicy cocktails and live music from its resident artists.
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EventBenson Boone Wanted Man Tour Australia 2026
Fri, 6 Nov - Thu, 19 Nov 2026
Various locations, Sydney
After demand prompted venue upgrades on his last Australian tour, Benson Boone is coming back for nine arena shows across Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
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EventBoyz II Men Australia and New Zealand Tour
Thu, 26 Nov - Sun, 6 Dec 2026
Various locations, Sydney
Prepare for a crash course in 90s music history as Boyz II Men, Salt-N-Pepa and Bell Biv DeVoe tour Australia and New Zealand.
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EventCassian: Day-to-Night Australia Tour 2026
Sat, 31 Oct and
Various locations, Sydney
This Grammy Award-winning producer is headed home this spring, transforming parks and club grounds into euphoric openair dance parties.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Frances Ha
Greta Gerwig plays one of the most loveable characters you'll meet this year.
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NewsYour Guide to a Spring Weekend in the Hunter Valley
The perfect weekender, whether you're with friends, your lover or your mum.
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NewsRolling Stone Pop Up Bar to Hit Darlinghurst
The Rolling Stone Live Lodge will create an experience of the legendary magazine in bar form.
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NewsMasterCard’s Locally Famous Taps Sydney’s Finest
Get rewards based around a beautifully curated knowledge of our city's many experiential treasures.
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NewsA Bluffer’s Guide to Oysters
Everything oyster is illuminated in conversation with chef Sean Connolly.
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NewsRevisit a Time When Street Photography Meant More Than Fashion
See how the legends cross social boundaries to capture iconic images of their milieu.
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NewsWin Tickets to the Israeli Film Festival
Celebrating ten years of assumption-shattering documentaries and controversial features.
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NewsThe Secrets of Regent Place
Grey city block on the outside; fantastic wonderland of Asian culture inside.
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NewsLolly Bag Cake Plus Five More Courses at Asian Dessert Degustation
Bernard Yu and Yen Yee of Melbourne's LuxBite and Anna Polyviou of the Sydney Shangri-La combine delicious forces.
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NewsJurassic Lounge Nears Extinction
Organisers have announced the iconic event's next season will be its last.
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NewsWin a Papillionaire Bicycle and Tickets to What Maisie Knew
Want to experience your own child-like wonder? A new bicycle from Papillionaire and What Maisie Knew ought to do it.
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NewsArt Spiegelman, Grant Morrison and More Announced for GRAPHIC Festival
GRAPHIC is like arty Comic-Con, and you don't need to be an uber-fan to feel part of the party.
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NewsWin Tickets to See The World’s End
The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy culminates in the pub crawl to end all pub crawls.
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NewsPlating Up: The Bespoke Tableware Inspired by Chefs
Chefs lend a hand in creating unique tablewares, fit for their food.
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NewsThe Eight Best Greek Restaurants in Sydney
From the ancients to the imaginative contemporaries, Sydney's got great Greek going on.
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NewsWin Tickets to The Morrison’s Oyster Shucking Class
Learn how to shuck oysters with The Morrison's Vio Pramano.
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NewsWin Tickets to See The Way, Way Back
See one of the most beautiful comedies of the year for free.
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NewsWin Tickets to a Special Screening of The Crash Reel
Ride the inspirational slopes of this hard-hitting documentary.
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NewsDrink ‘n’ Dine to turn the Oxford Tavern into an American BBQ Beerhouse
Drink 'n' Dine are stripping Petersham's Oxford Tavern of its risque reputation.
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NewsConcrete Playground Runs the City2Surf
We give our food writer Jack Arthur Smith a really good way to burn off his 'research'.
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NewsGet Gelato Messina Delivered to Your Door For One Day Only
The ice cream gods have answered our delicious and lazy prayers all at once.
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NewsWin Tickets to At First Sight Record Fair and Gig
Celebrate music in all its retro and modern glory, and fall in love with a brand-new find.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Before Midnight
Walking and talking is an art form for one of cinema's best known couples.
