Chris Singh 
It’s official: Sydney Fringe Festival 2025 was one for the record books, posting the highest ticket sales and largest number of participating artist’s in the festival’s 15-year history. Across September, the Sydney Fringe’s $15 flash sale accounted for more than 6,000 tickets sold in a single day. But Fringe’s success was a month-long affair, breaking
The Sydney Opera House sails have become a year-round canvas to celebrate the city’s multiculturalism, and just this week they’ve gone gold in honour of our large South Asian community. It’s part of the NSW Government’s annual Diwali event, which dates back to 2011 and joins the world in celebrating colour, culture and connection. Diwali,
SXSW Sydney was sold as an international cultural event making Sydney a regional leader. The jury is very much out on its success.
The beaches were packed, the city felt alive with shoppers, brunchers and tourists milling about, and Sydney Harbour was teeming with all sorts of boat life. Saturday, October 11, 2025 was a very good day to be in Sydney. There’s nowhere in the world that feels like Sydney on a perfect day, and this was
After months of experimentation, Billy Hannigan, Executive Chef at the CBD’s big and beautiful The Charles Brasserie & Bar, has nailed the beef wellington with a unique recipe that refines the notoriously hard-to-cook classic. Just weeks ago, the chef posted a video on his Instagram of a beef wellington that was shaped to look a
Halloween is no longer an afterthought in Sydney. While the traditionally American holiday has always been a bit flat in Australia, the Harbour City is waving the gas lantern high for freakier, more immersive parties to celebrate the spookiest day of the year. Expect Sydney to turn into a playground of fresh bodies, resurrected corpses,
SXSW Sydney takes place from October 13 to 19 this year, setting the city up for a major burst of live music, cutting-edge art, food pop-ups, tech playgrounds and a boatload of free programs.
Labour Day is on Monday, October 6, 2025, giving us the yearly October long weekend to head on outdoors and soak up more of this beautiful springtime weather. But what is open?
‘Mike Hewson’s Tank exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, The Keys Under The Mat is certainly unusual. His very first institutional exhibition takes over the entirety of The Nelson Packer Tank for a world-first. The Keys Under The Mat is a ferociously inclusive, surreal art and sculptural park that has turned this brutal 2,200-square-metre
The USA has key lime pie, New York cheesecake and bananas foster. Europe has French and Roman pastries, baklava and many more regional specialties. Australia? We’ve got lamingtons, tim tams and the greatest dessert of them all: the pavlova. We think we’ve found the best in Sydney.
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