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NewsWin Tickets To See The Grates
Brisbane's favourite garage pop trio crushed it at Splendour, now they're hitting the road.
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NewsFalls Festival Announces 2015 Lineup
Plenty of British love for NYE this year at Lorne, Marion Bay and Byron.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things Happening in Sydney This Weekend
Everything that’s fit to see and do in Sydney this weekend.
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NewsSydney Art Week Reveals Epic Inaugural Program
Toast Sydney's latest art initiative with a cocktail by an Archibald Prize winner.
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NewsBehind Australian Record Label Room40 with The Necks' Chris Abrahams
Sydney's experimental genius takes us behind the legendary Aussie label ahead of their Carriageworks birthday.
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NewsPerfect Match Brings Collaborative Street Art to the Inner West
Street artists get a blank canvas, inner west residents get their very own mural. Everyone wins.
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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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NewsSplendour in the Grass 2015 in a Muddy, Muddy Nutshell
From Florence to Ronson, we're still chipping the sludge from our boots.
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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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NewsSeven Treasures from the State Library's Inspiration by Design Exhibition
From Blinky Bill's beginnings to art deco QANTAS ads and Beatrix Potter's early Peter Rabbit drawings.
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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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NewsFive Things You're Allowed to Do at Underbelly Arts Festival This Year
Visit a bar that only serves air, stuff your face with Mary's and throw shapes at an art party.
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NewsFive Ways to Out-Bowie Everyone at ACMI's David Bowie Exhibition
Know more about Bowie than the guy wearing a Diamond Dogs tee in front of you in line.
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GuideNine Splendour Sideshows You Can Still Buy Tickets For
Not heading up to Splendour? Just bring the festival to you.
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NewsNigel Milsom's Haunting Portrait Wins the 2015 Archibald Prize
For his Edgar Allan Poe-like portrait of Australian barrister Charles Waterstreet.
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NewsFight Club as a Rock Opera? It's Actually Happening
Chuck Palahniuk, David Fincher and Trent Reznor are apparently all on board.
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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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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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EventSouth Eveleigh Holi Hai Festival
Thu, 13 Mar, 2025
Innovation Plaza, Eveleigh
Get immersed in this Hindu festival, where visitors get covered in colours, dance to Bollywood tunes and dine on tantalising bites.
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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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EventMoncur Cellars Wine Tasting Series
Multiple single dates
Bistro Moncur, Woollahra
Sip the best chardonnays in the land, with the first event in this wine lovers' tasting series featuring 80 renowned bottles.
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EventDarling Harbour's Culture Alive Festival
Sat, 22 Feb - Sun, 4 May 2025
Tumbalong Park, Sydney
Find your inner zen, bathe yourself in coloured powder and eat your body weight in souvlaki at these three festivals at Tumbalong Park.
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EventThe Music of Joe Hisaishi: Presented by the Sydney Symphony with Art of the Score
Thu, 25 Sep - Sat, 27 Sep 2025
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Immerse yourself in the work of the legendary Japanese composer at these live concerts.
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NewsWin Tickets to See French Baroque with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Circa
One of the most romantic date ideas we've seen all winter.
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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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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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NewsArchibald Prize 2015 Finalists and Packing Room Prize Announced
The Australian faces everyone will be talking about for the next few months.
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NewsYoung Henrys Small World Festival 2015 Lineup Announced
The Newtonian brewers return with a second year of inner west bands, food and craft beer.
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NewsThis NYC Rapper Made an Entire Album in an Apple Store
When Prince Harvey's laptop was stolen, he came up with a Genius solution.
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NewsThis Massive Ball Pit 'Beach' Is Made for Art-Loving Kidults
An ocean of 750,000 recyclable plastic balls has taken over the entire atrium of DC's National Building Museum.
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GuideFive Out-of-the-Ordinary New Art Exhibitions to See in July
Bye bye Marina, hello robot attempting to eat a chicken nugget.
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NewsAndy Warhol and Ai Weiwei Double-Billed for NGV's Summer Exhibition
Two of the most groundbreaking artists and craziest cat ladies of our time, in one epic show.
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NewsOutsideIn Festival Drops First Half of 2015 Lineup
Sydney's most unpindownable festival is back.
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NewsUnderstanding the Work of Marina Abramovic in Five Phases
How the performance artist got from bodily extremes to quiet introspection — and with it, superstardom.
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NewsThe Best, Worst and Weirdest Movies of the Sydney Film Festival 2015
Here's what left our mouths agape, for one reason or another.
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NewsVolumes Is Sydney's Brand New Multi-Venue Music Festival
Four stages, three Sydney venues, one day.
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NewsThe Beach Boys to Headline Bondi Beach's New Music Festival
The Beach Boys, on Bondi Beach. Let it sink in.
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NewsYoko Ono's One-Off Morning-Inspired Art Event Is Coming to MCA
Meet us on the lawn for free early morning yoga, giant mandala-making and New York-themed brekkie.
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NewsWatch Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the First Macbeth Trailer
Australian director Justin Kurzel's highly anticipated follow-up to Snowtown.
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GuideFive New Art Exhibitions Shaking Up June
Visit '70s California, the strip club and the protest barricades.
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NewsElizabeth Rose's New Single Is an Anthem for Marriage Equality
With sale proceeds being used to help fight discrimination. What a legend.
