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NewsLaneway Festival Is Going Back to Basics by Adding a 'Block Party' to Its 2018 Lineup
The street party aims to recreate the vibe of the festival that launched it all back in 2004.
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NewsThis App Will Search More Than a Thousand Museums and Galleries For Your Artistic Doppelganger
Always thought that your selfies look like art? Maybe they do.
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NewsSydney's Mardi Gras Film Festival Unveils Packed 2018 Lineup
Celebrating the festival's 25th year with 55 features and 69 short films across 71 sessions.
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NewsSecret Garden Festival Has Unveiled Its Huge Tenth Birthday Music Bill
Acts like DZ Deathrays, Ecca Vandal and The Harpoons will be helping the beloved forest festival celebrate a decade of parties.
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NewsSBS Viceland Is Airing a Very Extended 17-Hour Doco on the Journey of The Ghan
It'll feature the entire 2979 kilometres of the train's trip from Adelaide to Darwin (well, minus the sections at night).
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NewsTen Golden Globe Winners to Add to Your 2018 Must-Watch List
If you're going to binge watch something this year, make sure it's the highest possible quality.
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NewsTen 2025 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
Your newly Oscars-approved viewing list includes films 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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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, Aussie westerns and expressive dance flicks.
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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 a 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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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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NewsWhat We Do in the Shadows Is Getting Remade for US Television
Jemaine Clement is writing the pilot script, and expects it to shoot this year.
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NewsUluru's Incredible Field of Light Installation Has Been Extended Until 2020
Bruce Munro’s immersive installation will keep lighting up the Red Centre.
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NewsNew York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Will Start Charging Tourists Entry Fees
Headed to NY this year? Prepare to pay to get into this iconic site.
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NewsThis Swirling Design Has Been Chosen as Burning Man's 2018 Temple
It'll preside over the festival for nine days before being set alight.
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NewsSydney Festival Is Hosting a Huge Wedding Reception to Celebrate Australia's First Same-Sex Marriages
The Love Is Love Wedding Reception will feature a pink swimming pool, Karaoke Carousel, and plenty of cake and Champagne.
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NewsVillage Cinemas Has Cancelled Its Surge Pricing Trial
Unsurprisingly, charging more during peak times wasn't a popular move.
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NewsIceland Becomes First Country in the World to Legalise Equal Pay
Companies employing 25 people or more must prove their equal pay policies through government certification or face hefty fines.
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NewsVillage Cinemas Is Trialling Surge-Priced Movie Tickets Over Summer
At selected Victorian sites, prices will increase after 5pm on Friday and Saturday nights — including for candy bar items.
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NewsThis Japanese Art Project Collects Origami Sculptures Made From Chopstick Wrappers
Turning rubbish into art.
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NewsSeinfeld Might Be Getting the Point-and-Click Video Game Treatment
It'll be the ultimate game about nothing, obviously.
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EventSydney Writers' Festival
Mon, 19 May - Tue, 27 May 2025
Various Sydney venues, Sydney
With 200-plus events and more than 140 guests, this year's Sydney Writers' Festival program is absolutely packed.
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EventThe Heritage Experience at The Fullerton Hotel Sydney
Mon, 3 Mar - Sat, 31 May 2025
The Fullerton Hotel Sydney, Sydney
The perfect outing for history enthusiasts.
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EventVivid Sydney
Fri, 23 May - Sat, 14 Jun 2025
Various locations across Sydney
This year's lineup includes lights galore, eating on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Nigella Lawson curating dinners in the Muru Giligu pedestrian tunnel, Tangerine Dream, Anohni and the Johnsons, an immer ...
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EventAffordable Art Fair Sydney
Thu, 6 Nov - Sun, 9 Nov 2025
Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Bargain alert: this global event is making is returning to Sydney across four November days, with artworks for sale from $100.
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EventIngenia Holiday Parks Sydney Family Show 2025
Sat, 12 Apr - Sun, 27 Apr 2025
The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park
The best thing about Easter isn't always the chocolate.
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EventWaterfall High Tea and Edible Garden at Eternity Cafe
Get down for a bubbly catchup with your besties, featuring a secret indoor waterfall, a jam-packed high tea and an edible garden.
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EventEuropean Easter Market
Sun, 13 Apr, 2025
Polish Club, Ashfield
Get to know how the Polish celebrate Easter, with traditional cuisine and culture at Polish Club Ashfield.
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EventThe Unbound Art Show 2025: 'Horizons of Hope'
Thu, 20 Mar, 2025
Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Darlinghurst
Buy a local artwork for a good cause at this one-night-only charity art show.
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EventTraveller Whiskey Launch at Jolene's Sydney
Thu, 27 Feb - Thu, 27 Mar 2025
Jolene's Sydney, Sydney
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EventLakemba Nights
Thu, 27 Feb - Sun, 30 Mar 2025
Haldon Street, Lakemba
Break your fast in the best way possible, with a sprawling street-food festival held throughout Ramadan.
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NewsSummer Reading List 2017-18
Find a shady spot on the beach and make your way through these seven books.
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GuideConcrete Playground's Most-Read Stories of 2017
From tiny houses to bars guilty of cultural appropriation, here are the stories that resonated most with you this year.
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NewsTen Australian TV Shows You Should Stream This Summer
Hit pause on your fifth run of 'Seinfeld' — there's plenty of hilarious, relatable and completely bingeworthy local television to get into.
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NewsA Major Contemporary Aboriginal Artwork Will Grace Sydney Airport's International Terminal From 2018
The installation by Kamilaroi artist Archie Moore will be seen by 15 million passengers each year.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Top Ten Films of 2017
If you didn't catch these in cinemas, make it your mission to seek them out before the year's end.
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NewsEight Bluesfest Sydney Sideshows You Need to See in 2018
The shows to catch even if you can't make it to Byron this year.
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NewsConcrete Playground's 2017 Boxing Day Movie Smackdown
Get maximum bang for your Kris Kringle gift voucher buck.
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NewsThe Ten Best Films Hardly Anyone Saw in 2017
Forget lightsabers, caped crusaders, fast cars and fairy tales and catch up on these under-seen gems over summer.
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GuideTen Epic Art Exhibitions to See Across Australia This Summer
From Yayoi Kusama to Pipilotti Rist to the NGV's huge new Triennial, this might be the country's best summer of art yet.
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Gallery: A Look Inside the NGV's Hugely Ambitious New Exhibition, the NGV Triennial
The gallery is now filled with 100 giants resin skulls, a Yayoi Kusama flower room and a 15.8-metre-long buddha until April 2018.
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NewsMelbourne's All-Night Arts Festival White Night Will Feature Two Burning Man Installations in 2018
Plus, a shimmering 'liquid sky' will hover over Fed Square, a laneway will be filled with virtual dogs and drag queens will sing from CBD balconies.
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A Guide to Australia's Best Summer Festivals in 2017–18
The best camping festivals, one-day dance parties and multi-day arts meets hitting the country this year.
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NewsAi Weiwei to Install a 60-Metre Inflatable Boat on Sydney's Cockatoo Island
It's part of 2018's 21st Biennale of Sydney.
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NewsYouTube Is Set to Launch Its Own Music Subscription Service
Called Remix, it's slated to be up and running by March 2018.
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NewsA Bluffer's Guide to the Belvoir's Latest Play Featuring a Live Band On Stage
'Barbara and the Camp Dogs' is a wild, confronting and hopeful story backed by a series of original rock songs.
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NewsFive Artworks Not to Miss at AGNSW's 'Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age' Exhibition
Step out of Sydney summer and into 17th century Dutch society.
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NewsFive Great Date Night Ideas at American Express Openair Cinemas in Sydney
Plus win a double pass to go see any film of your choosing.
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NewsIt's Finally Happened: The Marriage Equality Bill Has Passed Through Australian Parliament
Same-sex marriage will be made legal — potentially within the month.
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GuideTen Sensational Summer Exhibitions to See in Sydney This December
Featuring pioneering female artists, emerging photographers, quirky crochet and more.
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NewsThis Year's Sydney Harbour NYE Fireworks Will Feature a Giant Rainbow Waterfall
It's a celebration of marriage equality and the 40th anniversary of Mardi Gras.
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NewsWynyard Station Has an Epic New Hovering Concertina-Like Installation
Chris Fox's 'Interloop' sits above the escalators between York Street and the main concourse.
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NewsNew York's Madison Square Park Has Been Turned Into a Glowing Field of Light
Hundreds of LED-filled globes will be swaying over the public space until March.
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NewsThe Latest Intriguingly Bleak Trailers for 'Black Mirror' Season Four Are Here
Get a sneak peek at the new six-episode season.
