Good Things 2025 Sydney bucks the dying festival trend

Good Things Festival

While an official line-up is still weeks away, Good Things Festival have announced venues for this year’s touring festival, showing significant growth for the event. It’s rare to see good news for big-ticket music festivals in Australia as of late. Yet, despite some headline events like Splendour in the Grass and Groovin’ The Moo facing

Inner West gloats as North Sydney plans $50 fee for NYE fireworks

The New Year's Eve fireworks in Sydney

North Sydney’s iconic Blues Points Reserve has been one of the best places to view our city’s class-leading New Year’s Eve fireworks for decades. And it’s always been, like all public spaces in Sydney, completely free. Yet, for the first time in history, North Sydney council plans to charge for the privilege of watching the

Cheeseburger jaffles, butter chicken burgers: North Sydney gets a food festival in August

Cheeseburger jaffle

North Sydney’s newest food festival, VicX’s “The X Series”, has been created to showcase the buzzing foodie precinct hanging above the eponymous metro station. It’s been a year since the new Sydney Metro stations popped up around Sydney, each distinguished with their own art installations or unique features designed to make the transit experience feel

Australian Native Food Festival to debut at Carriageworks

Australian Native Food Festival

The Australian Native Food Festival, a new two-day event dedicated entirely to native ingredients and First Nations culture is headed for Carriageworks in September. Mudgee-based, Aboriginal-owned food business Indigiearth has partnered with the arts institution to prop up a more focused, in-depth exploration of Aboriginal culture through food, music, art and storytelling, turning Carriageworks into

Vivid Parramatta? Plans for major new Western Sydney festival announced

Parramatta Lanes festival in Sydney

The NSW Labor government is committing $5 million to growing a western Sydney’s creative scene as part of a new three-year plan for the rapidly developing region. And this will include a brand new, western Sydney-centric lifestyle festival, pitched to be in the same league as the city’s biggest events, including SXSW Sydney, Sydney Festival

The 5 best burgers in Western Sydney right now

One of the most unique burger shops in Sydney

Where are the best burgers in Western Sydney? They aren’t where you’d expect. If you would have asked me five years ago where the best burgers in Western Sydney are, the below food guide would have looked a lot different. Back then, the Michelin-powered Burger Head was dominating the scene in Penrith, hitting so hard

Over 500 singers to perform historic choir at Sydney Opera House

Sydney Opera House's Concert Hall stage

One of the most significant and enduring compositions of our time is about to make a rare appearance at Sydney Opera House, with British composer Sir Michal Tippett’s profound “A Child of Our Time” filling the Concert Hall on the afternoon of Saturday, September 13โ€”courtesy of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. The powerful oratorio first premiered during

Does Western Sydney have the city’s most unique pubs?

Western Sydney pubs

Google “the best pubs in Sydney” and you’ll see plenty of pop-ins from Woollahra, Paddington, Surry Hills and Marrickville. You might even see the Albion Hotel in Parramatta randomly swimming in a sea of geographical bias. If you’re new to Sydney and took this as your scope of the city’s strong and definitive pub culture,