Day: 16 February 2026

Hilton New York Fashion District is one of the last affordable Manhattan hotels worth a damn

There really isn’t much to Hilton New York Fashion District. It’s a simple, unfussy hotel that happens to hide one of the “best-kept secret” rooftops in the area. Rooms are comfortable but undorned, and the lobby is so distinctly lacking in any notable features that the nighttime journey from door to room is barely noticeable….

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Faithless

Faithless is coming to Australia next month (and tickets are moving fast)

Throw that immortal “Insomnia” drop at any 90s kid and you’ll know how cherished this track is to those who have found it all across the dancefloors of the world. When UK electronica trio Faithless released that song in the mid-90s, they forever stamped their name on the history books of rave culture. The song’s…

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Rockefeller

Pablo Picasso’s hidden treasure is buried beneath this New York State mansion

Nelson, the third of six children, was the most intellectually ambitious of the Rockefeller family, whose staggering influence was best put to use as patrons of the arts. Although his legacy isn’t without its spots, the former US Vice President was less concerned with expanding industrial wealth than he was with using it to shape…

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Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi bid farewell to Wuthering Heights with Queensland homecoming

There’s something undeniably poetic about two Queensland kids coming home with a windswept romance in tow. After months of globe-trotting premieres, red carpets and breathless international press stops, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi quietly returned to where it all began, surprising Valentine’s Day audiences with unannounced appearances at multiple Brisbane screenings of “Wuthering Heights”. And…

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Super Hotel release new single “Driving at Dusk

Following the release of breakout singles “Shaq Attack” and “Rory Calhouns”, Magandjin/Brisbane outfit Super Hotel returned last Friday with their third single, “Driving at Dusk”. Earning a #14 spot in 4ZZZ’s Hot 100 for “Shaq Attack” and national spins across ABC Country and triple j with “Rory Calhouns”, “Driving at Dusk” is the final preview…

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Book Review: The Mushroom Tapes offers the reader insight but also unsettles

Three of Australia’s greatest literary journalists walk into a court. It almost sounds like a lead-in to a joke except that these three women are award-winners, and no strangers to the true crime genre. They want to make a podcast but settle on writing a book. The result is something that offers insight into what…

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Photo Gallery: St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne (13.02.26)

The 2026 instalment of Laneway Festival in Melbourne had both bark and bite. In its 21st year, the premier date on the Australian festival calendar shows no signs of slowing down. It was sun-drenched, shoulder-to-shoulder and humming from gates to close. The heat lifted the whole site as Chappell Roan drew one of the day’s…

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Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties is a decent package that appeals more to long-time fans of the franchise

I’m a sucker for the Yakuza/ Like a Dragon franchise, and feel that as of lately, they’ve been offering an awesome blend of variety for different types of gamers to latch onto, or invest in for the very first time. You’ve got the newer, more nuanced RPG approach from Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, or…

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Hilton lion king rooms

Hilton New York Times Square struts into a stylish new era of Manhattan glamour

When I first reviewed the Hilton New York Times Square for another publication in 2023, I noted that space and height were the hotel’s biggest selling points. Having stayed again in 2025, following a multi-million-dollar refurbishment that mainly brightened the hotel’s street-level entry and recast the sky lobby with a cleaner, more modern design, that…

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