Month: October 2017

Messina are doing dessert katsu sandwiches at Night Noodle Markets (Sydney)

Not content on letting anyone else steal the spotlight at this year’s Night Noodle Markets in Sydney, Messina have went and flipped some classic Japanese dishes into masterful dessert creations. It’s no surprise of course, Messina are always pumping out these new and exclusive desserts for huge events like NNM, but this year is on…

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Win a double pass to board the Chandon S Chic Easy tram in Sydney or Perth

Chandon has unveiled a uniquely chic experience that will tour Australia this Spring, transporting guests into the world of Chandon S. A modern take on the traditional speakeasy, the Chandon S Chic Easy celebrates the re-imagination of the classic champagne cocktail in a stylish French setting at iconic locations around the country. Paying homage to…

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Peter Kuruvita hooks up with Novotel Manly for one-off sustainable seafood feast (Sydney)

Celebrity Chef Peter Kuruvita has linked up with beachside property Novotel Sydney Manly Pacific to offer guests a special seafood feast this month. The event, dubbed Seafood from the Heart, will feature five courses of dishes making use of a range of fresh seafood including wild scallop sashimi, salmon pearls, local tuna, BBQ southern calamari,…

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Watch Tash Sultana make her US TV debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Continuing on her path to Stateside domination, Tash Sultana broke another lil career milestone in performing on US television, making her debut on Late Night with Seth Myers. Performing her hit single “Jungle”, Sultana threw back to her breakthrough era with the song, as her new tune “Mystik” has surfaced back here in Australia. Check out the…

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Exclusive Single Premiere: Alana Jagt “Somehow, Sometime” (2017)

Adelaide songwriter Alana Jagt is gearing up for the release of her much anticipated debut studio EP Wilderness and in continuing to build the excitement, this South Australian fave is giving us a sneak peek with her new single, “Somehow, Sometime”. Her vocals are gorgeous, layered with a delicate raspiness that makes her sound feel pulled from…

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Music Video of the Day: Vic Mensa “Rollin’ Like a Stoner” (2017)

With his acclaimed debut album The Autobiography still landing with fresh ears, Vic Mensa has continued to show the public he’s not about doing things the conventional way. His output shining with eccentricities and recklessness, Mensa has now produced the visuals for album track “Rollin’ Like a Stoner” – directed by Mensa himself, he describes the music…

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Australian Box Office Report: Kingsman: The Golden Circle tops the ladder for the second week

School holiday cinema viewing has been kind to Kingsman: The Golden Circle, where it sat at no. 1 for the second straight week, following its strong debut last week.  This weekend, it made $3.60m, and has already made $12.08m to date nationally.   Another strong school holiday performer was The Emoji Movie.  This week it made $2.18m, bumping it up from…

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Film Review: Blade Runner 2049 (USA, 2017) is an instant classic

When the original Blade Runner was first released in cinemas in 1982, it made waves for its stunning cinematography and special effects, moody and now iconic soundtrack from Vangelis, and its truly innovative adaptation of a short story from sci-fi writer Philip K Dick; the rare instance where a film has outdone its source material….

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Look at these killer tees that came out of that Nintendo & Uniqlo collab

Popular Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo is bringing their range of Nintendo-themed tees to Australian shores this week. The designs are pulled from the UTGP2017  global t-shirt design competition, were handpicked by Nintendo and video game royalty Shigeru Miyamoto and now you can get them if you want them.

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Turtle Beach’s new Stealth series headsets actually pretty easy to find in the wild

Gaming peripheral manufacturer Turtle Beach launched a new series of wireless headsets this week. The Stealth 600 and Stealth 700 are bit of a funny combo, aiming to please those who value style and cord cutting ease of use and the high-end customer looking for excellent positional sound.

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Games Review: Forza Motorsport 7 (Xbox One, 2017) changes the formula, but still finishes first

Given that it was built from the ground up to be a showcase for the Xbox One X console launching in November, it feels a bit weird to be reviewing Forza Motorsport 7 on my Day One launch edition Xbox One. Racing games have been enlisted as gorgeous tech demo for fresh hardware, don’t go in thinking the…

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Review: Have fun taking time out at Time Out Hotel in Barbados

When I checked into my original Barbados hotel, in the Carribean, I was sorely disappointed. The bed was uncomfortable, bathroom dirty, and, because of the open plan of the building, was barely private. The next morning I trawled Booking.com for a better hotel nearby and found a deal at Time Out Hotel, only a ten…

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Book Review: Alicia Inez Guzmán’s Georgia O’Keeffe At Home explores the oeuvre of an American art icon

Famed American artist Georgia O’Keeffe is the focus of Alicia Inez Guzmán’s latest work, Georgia O’Keeffe At Home. Exploring the relationship between O’Keeffe’s location and the work she produced, Guzmán takes readers from Texas, to New York, to New Mexico, in a book that is part beautiful coffee table literature, part in depth art historical…

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Here’s where you can find SZA & Post Malone on the east coast in January!

Some of hip hop and R&B’s finest breakthrough stars are Australia bound next January for the FOMO tour – easily one of the festival’s biggest line ups yet. For fans looking for that one on one headline experience from Post Malone and SZA in particular, they’ve got some brand new headline dates confirmed, and here’s where you can be catching…

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Single of the Day: Digitalism “Spektrum” (2017)

German producers Digitalism have come storming back through with a new single in “Spektrum” – a combination of the refined electro production style they’ve made their own over the last few years, as well as some fun melodies and bass warps in play to take things up that extra level. Taken from Digitalism’s newly announced EP 5KY11GHT,…

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Win a double pass to the Richard Cuthbert-curated ‘In The Round’ event in Sydney!

Inspired by the legendary Bluebird Cafe sessions in Nashville, Sydney’s Leadbelly venue has been flourishing with their In The Round series of events. The brief is simple – music fans can get to see four singer/songwriters together for a night of candid performance; they perform their own songs, each other’s and some covers in between. The…

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WA’s Small Town Heroes debut new name, announce new music with Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus & Twenty One Pilots’ Josh Dun

It has been a huge year for the band formerly known as Small Town Heroes – the WA band has been in studio with Pete Wentz, Travis Barker and more recently but as they approach the end of 2017, they’re already well into the next phase of their career. Rebranding themselves as The Faim, the rockers out of Perth have…

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Review: Bryson Tiller shakes up the Sydney Opera House on his Australian tour

Bryson Tiller’s stock is skyrocketing in the music industry right now. It was only a matter of time really; anyone that caught onto his 2015 debut Trapsoul (or the “still finding his voice” Killer Instinct for the early birds) would have seen this success coming from a mile away, Tiller representing a new wave in…

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Film Review: Stanley Tucci’s Final Portrait (USA, 2017) is filled with effortless charm

We meet Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) in a state of supreme boredom – another day, another exhibition. With his hair sticking up, and a cigarette hanging eternally from his lips, he looks like a crumpled echidna whose snout is on fire, but who cares. It’s James Lord (Armie Hammer) who bothers to bring us this…

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Melbourne’s three-day Chinese lantern festival returns this weekend

Melbourne’s annual Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival by Crown Melbourne is set to return this weekend, stretching over three days for its fifth year in bringing tens of thousands of locals and visitors together for food, family and entertainment along the Crown Riverwalk. With various Asian eats offered from stalls which line the walk, as well as…

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Gravy Mashies: KFC bring back fried potato balls with a twist after huge demand

After almost a decade of online pressure and oddly passionate fan outrage KFC Australia have finally put something back on the menu that has been sorely missed: Gravy Mashies. For those who may not remember the fast food classic, they are basically deep-fried golden potato balls, and now they come oozing with gravy inside. Australians…

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Stoneleigh to transform empty Melbourne warehouse into immersive wine sanctuary

Last year Stoneleigh shaped up an abandoned Sydney warehouse with a super immersive wine project, defined by creeping vines and teeming with fresh New Zealand drops. It’s time for that conceptual wine event to head on down to Melbourne now, with the leading New Zealand wine brand taking over an empty warehouse on Flinders Street…

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Single of the Day: Kimbra “Everybody Knows” (2017)

Kimbra has returned with a hot new slice of electronic, melodic gold in “Everybody Knows”. As a hint of what is to come from the New Zealander’s highly anticipated third studio album, “Everybody Knows” is a great example of the new sonic playground Kimbra has been exploring. The ethereal pop princess has moved into breathy yet…

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Album Review: Pearl Jam – Let’s Play Two (2017 LP)

“Good evening, Wrigley Field,” Eddie Vedder welcomes as the opening guitar to 1998’s “Low Light” begins behind him. The live album was recorded over two nights in August 2016 in Vedder’s hometown of Chicago before the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians World Series and accompanies a documentary directed by Danny Clinch who previously worked with the band…

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The Xbox Onesie is back and we will do whatever it takes to get one

Love it or hate it, the single most important Australian contribution to the Xbox family this side of Forza Horizon 3, the Xbox Onesie, is coming back. The new garment, with an updated design, is set to drop just days after the release of Forza Motorsport 7.

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Five Things We Learned From Doctor Who‘s Jenna Coleman at Oz Comic Con Sydney

Over the weekend the ICC Sydney Convention Centre at Darling Harbour played host to Oz Comic Con Sydney. This would be the first time the pop culture event would be held in the brand new convention centre so it seemed only fitting that for this event we’d be graced by a very special guest in…

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Interview: Catrin Stewart talks Doctor Who and pushing diversity representation boundaries and meeting fans at Oz Comic Con

Australian television fans would probably recognise Catrin Stewart from her most notable role as Jenny Flint on Doctor Who. The character of Flint began as a maid to Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), a Silurian lizard woman who also is a bit of a Sherlock Holmes-type, along with her trusty Sontaran assistant Strax (Dan Starkey). However…

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Film Review: Wakefield (USA, 2016) is a dull character study about a mad man

Wakefield is a long, drawn-out rendering of a short story. It shows one man’s descent into madness and how he becomes a voyeur of his own family. The film is a dramatic one and while the central idea seems original enough, it’s something that was better in the written format than in a full-length, feature…

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