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    The Best of Sydney Craft Beer Week

    A week-long beer extravaganza for brewing aficionados, foodies and the curious alike.

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    Concrete Playground meets Culinary God Heinz Beck

    Culinary god, chef Heinz Beck, is about to land in Sydney.

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    Food Truck Locator App Launches

    Just then you thought your smartphone did everything, it now makes gourmet food on the go one step easier.

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    Ten Helpful Cooking Tips You May Not Know

    Some unorthodox but incredibly helpful kitchen and cooking tips.

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    Steve Aoki and Flight Facilities Rock the You+1 Boat

    Durex treated 400 lucky Facebookers to a series of floating DJ sets that showed those on board that boats, too, are more than capable of hitting turbulence.

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    Ten Scathing Reviews of Classic Books

    Reviews really are a matter of taste. Here are ten books we now consider sacred, which - at the time of publication - received at least one scathing review.

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    The Ten Best Cooking Schools in Sydney

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    Win Tickets to Searching for Sugar Man

    Win tickets to see the incredible, heart-warming documentary about the mysterious disappearance of cult musician.

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    Perrier Cocktail Masterclass: The Roosevelt Fizz

    Learn from The Roosevelt’s award-winning bartender, Philip Gandevia, in our cocktail-making masterclass.

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    Ten Weird but Wonderful Spas

    Whether you use them for cleansing, decompressing or just some well-earned R 'n' R, spas have been a ubiquitous part of the tourism industry.

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    Concrete Playground meets Actor/Writer Ian Meadows and his Climate-Change Rom-Com

    Meadows explores the funny and terrifying ways an uncertain future can affect Gen X and Y's family planning.

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    Win Tickets to See Killing Them Softly

    Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta and Ben Mendelsohn show us just how complicated it is to be a crim in modern America.

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    Discover a Pop-Up Cellar Door in the City

    A pop-up wine bar is about to hit the tail end of George Street.

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    Win a Double VIP Pass to Parklife

    Do you like music, burgers and free stuff?

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    Ten Images That Stopped The World

    In the wake of the 11th anniversary of 9/11 here are ten more images that have stopped the world and ten stories that have shaped the course of history

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    How to Get Out of Your Internet Ghetto

    Often we end up in a little media bubble, never challenged by new information or opinions. Unless we go looking for it.

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    Sydney’s Best Dinner & Drinks Dates

    Concrete Playground's best dinner and drinks date combos in Sydney.

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    The Ten Best Spring Breakfast Joints in Sydney

    The perfect was to add extra freshness to your spring mornings? A decent brekkie. Here's Concrete Playground's ten best spring breakfasts in Sydney.

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    Paddo Night Out

    Thu, 21 Nov, 2024

    Paddington, Paddington

    This community-focused event will save your wallet with a bunch of generous deals, specials and free events while supporting local hospitality businesses at the same time.

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    Light Up the Cross

    Fri, 1 Nov - Sat, 30 Nov 2024

    Various Sydney venues, Sydney

    Throughout November, Kings Cross is bringing back its glory days with a series of special deals, late-night events and novelty cocktails.

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    Lane Cove Food and Wine by the River

    Sun, 3 Nov, 2024

    Burns Bay Reserve, Riverview

    Taste the very best the Mudgee wine region has to offer at this annual festival of gourmet treats and top drops.

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    Cambridge Night Markets

    Sat, 2 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025

    Various Sydney venues, Sydney

    Enjoy longer evenings with local flavours and summery vibes across Sydney.

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    Woodford Reserve Old Fashioned Week

    Fri, 1 Nov - Sat, 30 Nov 2024

    Bennelong, Sydney

    Snag a sip of a cocktail classic without spending a cent this November at these participating bars nationwide.

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    The Story of Christmas Menu at NEL

    Tue, 12 Nov - Sun, 22 Dec 2024

    Nel Restaurant, Sydney

    Experience a meticulously crafted Christmas feast like no other, summing the flavours of the season with an Aussie twist.

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    Suntory Bar Takeover

    Wed, 13 Nov - Sun, 17 Nov 2024

    Ito Restaurant, Surry Hills

    Check out this week-long takeover at Itō Japanese Restaurant in Surry Hills to grab yourself a signature Suntory highball.

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    Maroubra Beach Markets

    Multiple single dates

    Broadarrow Reserve, Maroubra

    Head down to Maroubra Beach on the first Saturday of every month to peruse the beach markets.

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    Magritte

    Sat, 26 Oct 2024 - Sun, 9 Feb 2025

    Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

    Thanks to the 2024–25 Sydney International Art Series, you can explore a huge exhibition dedicated to Belgian surrealist René Magritte at AGNSW.

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    MCA Artbar: Romance

    Fri, 8 Nov, 2024

    MCA, Sydney

    The late-night takeover of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia returns in November.

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    Sydney’s Best Spring Cocktails

    Flamboyantly fruity and devilishly alcoholic, these spring cocktails are some of Sydney's best.

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    Downtown Drive-In Comes to Sydney

    The classic drive-in movie theatre lands in central Sydney with a contemporary, creative and challenging twist.

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    Win Tickets to see On The Road

    Win tickets to see Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund head up a stellar cast in the adaptation of cult novel On The Road.

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    Belvoir Lifts the Lid on 2013 Season

    Adventures in Neverland and a seven-hour sitting feature at Belvoir in 2013.

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    Bird’s Eye View of TV Show Apartments

    Artist Inaki Aliste Lizarralde has transformed her TV fixation into beautiful hand-drawn blueprints of some of television's most beloved apartments.

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    A Surprising Infographic of the Ten Smartest People Alive

    And the nature versus nurture debate rages on.

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    Win Tickets to Sydney Bar Week

    Do you wish you could mix up an Old Fashioned like Don Draper?

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    The Ten Best Patisseries in Sydney

    Bona fide sweet tooths rejoice. Here's Sydney ten best patisseries.

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    Sydney’s Best Ladies Lunch Spots

    Get the girls together for a long-overdue luncheon at Sydney's best ladies' lunch spots.

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    Win Tickets to see Ruby Sparks

    Win tickets to see Ruby Sparks, a cute fantasy-romance starring Paul Dano and real-life girlfriend Zoe Kazan.

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    Vertigo-Inducing Views From One World Trade Center

    Tour Manhattan from the 103rd floor of 1 WTC.

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    Covert Cocktails: A Perrier Tea Break

    Presenting Concrete Playground's first covert cocktail, brought to you from Wendy's Secret Garden.

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    Ten Helpful Hangover Cures

    Rather than just waiting out the torture of the self-inflicted pain you have forced upon yourself, try some natural hangover cures...

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    Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton reveal final Sydney Theatre Company season together

    An elegant and ambitious year of theatre awaits the company in 2013.

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    The Best Photos From Bilbao’s Annual ‘Ugly Face Contest’

    Stuffing fingers into eye sockets proves an effective distraction from the Basque County's economic woes.

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    A Bluffer’s Guide to Hosting the Perfect Dinner Party

    Let us present to you our tips for the time poor and culinary challenged.

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    Griffin Theatre Company unveils 2013 season

    The incubator for new work in Sydney has a thrilling year in store.

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    Win Tickets to see Beasts of the Southern Wild

    Win a double pass to see one of the most talked about films of the year.

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    Psychedelic Photographs From Burning Man 2012

    Radical, revolutionary and just downright ridiculous, this is the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

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    You+1 Floating Festival with Steve Aoki, Rudimental and Flight Facilities

    Sound waves meet ocean waves at Sydney's brand new floating festival.

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    Sichuan Gourmet Festival

    The first Sichuan Gourmet Festival celebrates the culinary excellence of Cabramatta's rich cultural fabric.

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    The Ten Best Things to See and Do at Art and About 2012

    Secret lunchtime gigs, light projections on Hyde Park canopies, a house that rains on the inside, and more art in unconventional places.

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    Win Tickets to see Hit & Run

    Win a double pass to see Dax Shepard's new movie starring Bradley Cooper.

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