Hakawati is a Sydney Festival show that allows you to be swept away to an Arabian night in Western Sydney. The show is a celebration of food and stories and is inspired by an Arabic tradition where storytelling is combined with breaking bread. This event will have its world premiere at the El- Phoenician restaurant…
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Millington – remember the name. While 2016 is beginning to wind down, this songwriter is only getting started. Today, we share his latest single “Spark in the Dust”, taken from his debut EP Being, due out on January 21st. The introduction leads into a vibrant and enveloping body of feel good folk; Millington wraps the listener up…
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“Already Home” has become a recent favourite of ours, we’re pitting Alex The Astronaut to have a promising year now 2017 is coming knocking. The single, recorded in Melbourne earlier this year, now also has a music video – the landscape has been swapped for that of upstate New York, directed by Roland Ellis. Following Alex and…
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Lazertits, possibly one of the best band names we’ve heard, are going to be wasting no time once January gets underway, revealing their first dates for 2017. Kicking off with a date at The Old Bar in Melbourne, the band heads to Sydney for the first time ever in Jan, hitting Vic On The Park…
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Bluesfest takes another hit with Barry Gibb becoming the latest artist to cancel his trip to Australia for the festival. Following on after Neil Young‘s cancellation, the iconic Bee Gee has today announced that due to ‘international commitments’, he has had to cancel his entire Australian and New Zealand tour. Rescheduling of the tour isn’t possible at the moment, so…
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Dominant sister duo Krewella have been making their mark on the EDM scene for years now, pumping out hit after hit while stil maintaining a distinctive enough style to keep them in high demand for festivals and headline shows across the globe. Coming off one of their busiest years yet, and a completely sold out…
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Conspiracy theories. The fuel behind many a late-night Wikipedia trawls. We’ve all been caught up by the mystery and the oftentimes unexplainable; whether it’s the Illuminati, the existence of aliens, various assassinations or the incredibly far-fetched (Avril Lavigne is actually dead and a doppelgänger is in her place, Beyonce was never actually pregnant…), we love a…
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Scrubs star Zach Braff newest film on the other side of the camera is a humorous heist romp starring some veterans in the acting game. When friends Willy (Morgan Freeman), Joe (Michael Caine) and Albert (Alan Arkin) have their pensions cut, the trio put in motion a plan to rob a bank. The film is a…
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Just in time for the holidays, the announcement trailer for the sequel of the 1982 classic Blade Runner has been released. Titled Blade Runner 2049, the next installment is set 30 years after the original film and will see Harrison Ford reprise one of his defying roles as Rick Decard, with Ryan Gosling join the series as a police officer…
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The Travelling Film Festival (the longest one of its kind) showcases Australian and international features, documentaries and short films which screen in areas that have limited theatrical screening opportunities. With a number of destinations already confirmed, TFF have now added Darwin, Alice Springs and Katherine to their list of stops in February. First up Darwin…
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Going into Sydney’s inaugural Bingefest, Christopher Borelli wasn’t exactly the fan-favorite. He’s not attached to a hugely-popular TV series, podcast or website. “My thing is to not have a thing. I’ve never really had a beat,” he says. Still, a lot of people came out of his talk, “When TV Got High“, pretty excited. At the ‘When TV…
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Watching Steven Spielberg’s magical little masterpiece The BFG was something, I admit, I tried to avoid for longer than I should have. I had so many fond memories of reading Roald Dahl’s The BFG growing up as well as Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James & The Giant Peach and so many more. I…
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Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) is the spirited daughter of a Polynesian chief, Chief Tui (Temuera Morrison). She’s loveable and affable and Chief Tui is pretty much training her up to be the next big kahuna in her village. Her father has warned her that their village and island paradise is the only safe place for her,…
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Another mint slice from Jay Watson aka GUM today, this time in the form of a music video for his tune, “Gemini”. Taking influence from classic favourites like The Never Ending Story, the clip was shot in Los Angeles under the directorial and editorial eye of Sam Kristofski. Featuring Teresa Oman and Stephen Engstrom, the “Gemini” film clip is slick and well…
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We’ve been rocking with Hazel English for a little while now – the Sydney native, now based in California, has been making music that not only opened the eyes of many to a new and exciting songwriting talent (we’re talking over three million streams online), but she’s also been generating that heavy industry buzz. Next month,…
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Ahead of their January Australian tour, we catch up with American group The Front Bottoms to chat specially crafted beers, their friendship with The Smith Street Band and returning to Australia for their own headline tour. It’s been two years since you last toured here with The Smith Street band, what are your expectations for the upcoming…
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In case you missed it ahead of the weekend, the longlist for the 12th Australian Music Prize is now complete and being shown off in all its glory. 364 albums were listened to during the initial process by the judging panel – the most ever submitted in the history of the competition. For its 12th…
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“There is an unreasonable amount of TV” was exactly the right declaration to open The AV Club‘s “All The TV You Should Have Watched By Now” panel at Sydney’s inaugural BingeFest. Over the course of the following session, the three representatives from the popular online TV criticism website pitched a member of the audience on why…
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On paper, Bingefest’s Writers’ Room handily emerged as parhaps the most uncertain-yet-unmissable event on the weekend’s lineup (that doesn’t involve Shia LeBouf). Bringing together Community-creator Dan Harmon, Please Like Me’s Josh Thomas and Rosehaven co-creators Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola under the guidance of Gretel Killeen to develop a concept for a TV show sounds…
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Arriving into Australian cinemas on Boxing Day is Disney’s brand new animated feature Moana and this will be the first time the studio is exploring the culture and myths of the South Pacific region, particularly that of the Polynesian people. In the film an ancient curse that is causing the crops to fail and fish…
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The American West is a factual docudrama that recently aired on Foxtel’s History Channel, which catapults you into a violent world of cowboys, Native Americans, outlaws and gunslingers. The ground runs red with the blood of their stories, from Jesse James to Billy the Kid. These men were the first to live the American dream,…
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In cinemas now is the first of the Star Wars standalone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an all-new epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in…
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The kind of film that benefits from its titular character being portrayed as less of an impression and more as a fully realised character, Barry is at once thoughtful, intelligent and particularly entertaining. Though he is introduced to us as Barry, we’re all aware of the Barack Obama he ultimately will become (so to speak),…
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Following the ever-expanding DC Extended Universe, the feature film debut of Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones, Stargate: Atlantis) is set to be directed by our own James Wan (The Conjuring, Saw, Furious 7) and will be filmed on the Gold Coast. AusFilm reports Aquaman will be filmed at the Village Roadshow Studios during the first…
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When we went to put our Game of the Year list together for 2016, the thing that became immediately apparent was that 2016 was a crazy good year for games. The list of titles we were tasked with whittling down to a Top 10 was sixteen shades of chocolate bonkers. As a result, there were many that, regrettably, did…
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Earlier this year, one of the most highly regarded boutique hotel brands in the country, Art Series Hotel Groups, finally opened the doors to their long-awaited Queensland debut, The Johnson, followed an extensive three-year renovation of the heritage listed Main Roads Building. Like its sister hotels, the property pushes light-hearted luxury with a link to…
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Tour operators need to change and evolve with the times, constantly looking at what young travelers actually want in order to curate their various itineraries and offer as much value as they can. Of course, one of the best known for Australians, Topdeck, is no exception here, evidenced by several new programs which will offer…
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As the city of Sydney approaches the holiday season and its famously crisp summer, the very approachable Vibe Hotel Rushcutters Bay has unveiled a substantial makeover as well as their brand new bar-eatery Storehouse on the Park, bringing the property into the same league as Vibe Hotel Canberra Airport and Vibe Hotel Marysville, all of…
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Newly appointed Head Chef George Fowler ha brought a sharp focus on seasonal and sustainably sourced produce to make some changes at Potts Point favourite The Butler. Now with a team that also includes Danish-born Executive Chef Kasper Christensen (ex-Quay) and regular foraging sessions with forager and chef Elijah Holland (who worked with Kasper at…
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Revealed just a few weeks out, Kingsford favourite The Regent has thrown open their doors to the public following an extensive makeover that has seen changes to both the interior and the pub’s food and bev offerings. The popular student haunt now sports a restored heritage ceiling and a design that has gone street-level with…
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