Chris Singh 
You certainly won’t be left without variety at the second annual Sydney Spirits Festival, which returns to the Overseas Passenger Terminal after a successful sold-out debut in 2024. The taste for a large-scale local spirits festival is obviously there, and organisers have done plenty to ensure this showcase of Australia’s robust spirits industry is as … Read more
Vivid Sydney’s food lineup has been dominated by news of Nigella Lawson’s dinners, but it seems the initial announcement was only the tip of a delicious iceberg. Revealed this week. Vivid Food will present its largest program to date, from a luminescent 1950s diner pop-up staged in Darling Harbour to vibrant laneway parties set to … Read more
Tickets to see Titanic: The Human Story in Sydney are on sale today as the immersive exhibition sails into Walsh Bay Arts Precinct from Wednesday, May 30. The 1.5-hour experience uses modern technology and an impressive collection of historical objects to wrap guests in a tragic story that has prodded at people’s imaginations for decades. … Read more
Sydney institution Cafe Freda’s broke many hearts in December when the beloved team called last drink’s on their Darlinghurst home. But such sorrow was short-lived when it was revealed Freda’s would just be relocated back to its spiritual home of Chippendale, with Bar Freda’s popping up just down the road from the warehouse dance bar … Read more
Lady Gaga will bring her Mayhem Ball tour to Australia’s east coast this year, with stops in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Announced today, the pioneer of new-age avant garde pop is packing in some stadium shows her “Down Under Monsters,” scheduling a visit as part of her wider world tour starting in Las Vegas this … Read more
The 2025 Sydney Comedy Festival is shaping up for its most exciting outing to date with plenty of new creative twists to the traditional format. The latest, however, is the event’s most exciting yet. Celebrating 20 years of hilarity in the Harbour City, the parade of big-name international and local comedians is clearly rethinking what … Read more
London hospitality guns Studio Paskin will open a trio of new Paddington restaurants at the base of Accor’s forthcoming 25Hours Hotel The Olympia once it opens later this year. This week’s announcement sheds some much needed light on the project, which has been years in the making and will transform Paddington’s former Grand Pacific Blue … Read more
Are we in the midst of an accommodation revolution in Sydney? The Grand National Hotel in Paddington has already impressed with Josh and Julie Niland’s boutique accommodation offering of 14 heritage hotel rooms above one of the world’s best restaurants, Saint Peter. Now another culinary-driven hotel has opened up, this time over on Newtown’s Australia … Read more
As Sydney’s musical palate continues to diversify, the Art Gallery of NSW is stepping to the forefront by bringing back its popular experimental music series, Volume, which last year brought the likes of OutKast’s Andre 3000 and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon to our part of the world. Now it’s evolved. Volume Presents: Fixtures is a … Read more
Looking for the best Easter showbags? Well, they’re an expensive bunch and often add up to more than the actual cost of entry. Given we’re in the midst of a cost of living crisis, you may want to know where the affordable Easter showbags are so you can steer your kids in that direction. The … Read more
