Chris Singh 
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 13—courtesy of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. The powerful oratorio first premiered during
The conversation around Sydney’s best burgers may have slowed in the past decade (it was ferocious in the early 2010s), but there’s no mistaking one of the world’s most recognisable culinary creations is still very much in perpetual demand. I’ve eaten some incredible burgers in my travels. The Angry Angry, served at the back of
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,
Here’s a name many of you mightn’t have heard for awhile. While Australia’s rock scene has seen incredible shifts over the past few decades, it’s hard for any local to forget the earth-shattering impact that smashed through Melbourne streets in the 90s and went on to put the local music industry in a chokehold. Also
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