Day: 1 October 2024

The Rions have your summer playlist sorted with new EP Happiness in a Place it Shouldn’t Be

This past week, Australian indie-pop/rock sensations The Rions dropped their much-anticipated second EP, Happiness in a Place It Shouldn’t Be. The six-track offering arrives just in time for summer, destined to carry on the breeze and dominate airwaves all season long. It’s an energetic, heart-filled collection of groovers, set to become the soundtrack of festivals…

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Let’s meet at Southern Junction: The Buffalo, New York BBQ fusion restaurant that’s worth the trip

Last month I was lucky enough to visit Buffalo, New York for the first time since 2019. A lot has changed in this city since my last visit, but today I want to talk about a restaurant that opened up in August 2023 – Southern Junction. From the outside it looks like a typical Texan…

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Green Day and AFI are returning to Australia for the first time in 8 years – here’s what tickets are left

After almost eight long years, punk pioneers Green Day are finally coming back to Australia, and the excitement is real. 2020 saw the cancellation of their highly anticipated “Hella Mega Tour” due to COVID, leaving Aussie fans hanging. But now, with their “Saviors Tour” set to hit Australia early next year, Green Day are more than…

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Interview: Charlotte George and Miriam Glaser on their dark comedy short series Buried; “It’s challenging that idea of “the perfect mother” and really flipping it on its head.”

A five-part short form black comedy series presented by Screen Australia, Buried is a mum-noir comedy thriller created and written by Miriam Glaser & Charlotte George, directed by George, produced by Fran Derham and starring Glaser as Abi, a single mum who accidentally kills a stranger on her morning school run.  With this violent incident,…

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Fasano New York is a throwback to the grand Italian restaurants of 90s Manhattan

If you’re going to have a restaurant in one of the most highly contested areas of Manhattan, you’re going to need a strong offering. Thankfully, Fasano Restaurant is well up-to-task with spritely, classic service and a sense of grandeur that’s a little bit of Rome and 90s New York rolled into one. The thing you’ll…

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Most Bizarre Crimes

Book Review: Peter Coleman’s Australia’s Most Bizarre Crimes is no ordinary true crime book

If you’ve been an Australian for more than about five minutes, you know some of the wild things we can get up to –  legal and illegal. It’s the latter that Australia’s Most Bizarre Crimes author Dr Peter Coleman takes a deep-dive into – the weirdest and wackiest crimes that Aussies have committed over the…

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