Year: 2016

Here’s something to raise your glass to: Bars March, a month-long event that will make any bar aficionado happy, is back in 2016, and it’s all for raising money for animal charities. More than just a celebration of bar culture, Bars March brings together over 50 venues across the city, helping to raise money for the Animal Welfare League…

The current March Into Merivale festival continued throughout this past week, with the strongest event being Wok On, one of the signature events of Merivale’s massive food and wine festival, and once again amongst the most wildly popular of the extensive program. Establishment was packed out early for the three-hour event, which called upon the…

The latest season of House of Cards was launched on Netflix on Friday. It’s been a long, cold year waiting for this season so if you need a quick recap read on. If not, skip ahead to the next paragraph. Simplified: Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), who after knocking out Walker had a tough time with…

Tina Fey and Margot Robbie are doing a lot of promotional interviews for the upcoming Whiskey Tango Foxtrot this week but in a new video released by Paramount they turn the tables on the journalists by conducting their own interviews. It’s a pretty fantastic clip, check it out below: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot hits Australian cinemas 12 May 2016. ———-…

Five movies to see after Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – P&P&Z is coming out quite soon and a feature pulling together recommendations of similar adaptions blur the lines between fantasy, horror and historical fiction Van Helsing This Hugh Jackman-led horror-action flick blends together the stories of horror-fiction’s greatest monsters from Dracula to Frankenstein’s monster. It’s a little…

Cirque du Soleil returns to Australia for its eighth Big Top tour with a sparkling homage to the traditions of circus in KOOZA. The show takes us back to the fundamental human elements of circus combining thrilling acrobatic performance with the art of clowning. In a comic kingdom of eccentric characters, electrifying thrills and out-of-the-box…

The inaugural Rock & Roll Writers Festival takes over Brisbane’s Brightside on the first weekend of April. With events staggered across the two days, you won’t have to miss a single moment of the action, but just in case you need a beer break in between all the sex, drugs, and rock and roll, here’s our…

There has been an explosion of chicken in Sydney as of late; see newbies Butter and Thirsty Bird, established favourites like Chicken and Sons and The Chicken Institute, and now Juicy Lucy, the second venue from the crew behind highly reputable, Thai-inspired restaurant Sugarcane. Things are a bit different here though; rather than ride the…

Australian owned and operated small business The Art of Whole Food have been around for two years now, founded by Nutritionist Samantha Beard who, after years of studying nutrition and herbal medicine, drew on her passion for cooking to start speaking to those who were wanting healthier alternatives to palatable foods. Beard went on to…

In one of the year’s most exciting Whisky events, Glenfiddich will be bringing back their popular “Glenfiddich Culinary Challenge” in the lavish dining room of Centennial Parklands Dining this month, calling on chefs all across Australia to offer up dishes, each using a different expression of Glenfiddich as a main ingredient for recipes inspired by…

In This Issue: The month of March is bursting with releases and this is just the first Friday of many! There are a dozen wicked records available today including Aussie hip hop darling Urthboy right on down to the return of The Violent Femmes. We’ve even included an Honourable Mentions section to fit in the…

Like a viscous drop bear pouncing on an unsuspecting swagman, a new album from hip-hop throne occupant Kendrick Lamar has sent shockwaves throughout the internet, following a surprise announcement that we’ll be getting new material from the masterful emcee earlier today. Dubbed untitled unmastered, the surprise release seems to be a collection of the intense,…

Ahead of Madonna gracing our shores for the first time in 23 years for her Rebel Heart tour, an intimate club show, Tears Of A Clown has also now been announced. The show will be an exclusive fan club show that will combine music, art and comedy, and will be taking place at the Forum…

Nico Ghost is out on the road with G-Eazy  at the moment and man, are we feeling his new single, “Night Terrors”. The latest release from the Melbourne MC is another example of the potential he’s demonstrating, only really entering the wider scene last year. Still, his debut EP Kaishi made its impact and made it quickly and…

Larry Heath sat down with Cub Sport earlier today, the day their debut record “This is Our Vice” is finally released internationally. We talk about making the record their album, the three music videos already released – “Only Friend”, “Stay” and “I Can’t Save You” – and look to the year ahead. Tim and the band…

Many well-known Australian figures have faced a tirade of online abuse in response to naming and shaming those who think it’s appropriate to don blackface to a party. Recently, a photo of two young Victorian men dressed up as Indigenous Australians, complete with blackface, surfaced on Facebook. The post, which was shared by Victorian woman Sis…

Following the death of one of the world’s most celebrated music legends, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will be paying tribute to David Bowie at the Sydney Opera House. David Bowie: Nothing Has Changed will unfold over two nights only, May 19 and 21 at 8pm, with the likes of iOTA, Tim Rogers, Steve Kilbey, Deborah…

Rock n’ roll frontman Max Savage and his band The False Idols will be hitting the road in April to celebrate the release of True Believers, which comes out on April 9. Leaving their Americana influences behind, True Believers delivers a rock sound unique to the Aussie band, evoking sounds from the Go-Betweens, Noiseworks, Paul Kelly and The Church….

This week in the music industry, Communications Minister Mitch Fifield is pushing for deregulation in the media industry, the Queensland Government is putting money into the arts in search of talent to showcase at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the Chinese Government is introducing strict online publishing laws tying the hands of foreign competition. Government…

Parquet Courts are like that crush you had in high school – they’re smarter, cooler, funnier and more interesting than you and all you can really do is bow down to them and hope their cred will rub off on you. They’ve had a career that would make any discerning punk rock fan blush and…

Big news for American Horror Story fans this morning with Lady Gaga confirming in an interview with New York City radio station Z100 that she’d return to Ryan Murphy‘s horror anthology in 2016. Gaga joined the series to headline last year’s American Horror Story: Hotel as the enigmatic Countess to fill the void left by Jessica…

Nintendo of Japan had an extra announcement to make during their version of yesterday’s Nintendo Direct broadcast that wasn’t included in the US/European version we saw – a limited edition New Nintendo 3DS console with a Super Nintendo theme.

Nintendo unleashed the latest in their Direct series of news/company update broadcasts yesterday, filled with new information on Monster Hunter, Pokken Tournament, Hyrule Warriors Legends, Star Fox Zero and more. If you missed it, fear not, you can watch the whole 40 minute broadcast after the jump.

Start saying goodbye to your friends and family now. The long-awaited space adventure title No Man’s Sky will finally be delivered into your anxious paws on June 22, 2016.

Twitter has launched its Moments feature in Australia on Wednesday, offering users a dedicated feed of the latest breaking and trending news. On Twitter’s website, iOS and Android apps, the Moments button shows up as a lightning bolt in the top menu bar, between the ‘Home and Notifications’ tabs. Using a narrative format with a…

New Zealand has a hidden gem for movie lovers around the world. The Wellington-based Weta Workshop‘s filmmaking facilities has been listed as one of the top 10 film studio tours worldwide. They have  proven to be extremely popular with over 100,000 people attending the workshop since the beginning of April last year. The Guardian ranked the…

My Tanzanian journey begins in Zanzibar, a small island that sits off the east coast of the Tanzanian mainland. The Zanzibar you see in photos is predominantly of beach resorts and blue waters. So with this mental image, driving into Stone Town is immediately confronting. It’s vastly different from this mental image – small, unsigned…

Most who went to primary school in Australia will vaguely remember their sixth grade trip down to the nation’s capital; a trip that had the unintentional consequence of coating our perceptions of Canberra with a dull, dry colour, by focusing on the layers of Australian society which many kids just don’t find engaging at such…

The Art Series Hotel Group’s The Schaller Studio has partnered with the award-winning restaurant Masons’ of Bendigo to create the authentic From Market to Paddock to Plate food and wine experience in central Victoria. Mason’s international chef Sonia Anthony takes guests in groups of up to eight people on a personalised tour of the community’s…

AccorHotels, which currently manages 16 hotels across Southern Thailand, will now manage three properties in Phuket after signing an agreement with Avista Resort and Spa Patong Company Limited. The resort to be rebranded as Novotel Phuket Kata Avista Resort and Spa offers 143 rooms, one restaurant, two bars, two meeting rooms, a business centre, a…