Macquarie Ice Rink will be demolished to make way for a new shopping centre
You’ve got one year left to skate around longstanding Sydney attraction, Macquarie Ice Rink, to Top 40 hits because the 39-year-old ice rink is closing...
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Bennelong will serve the world's fanciest neenish tart
Last year Bennelong got into the spirit of nostalgic Australiana snacking when they started offering their famous lamington at the bar. This year they're...
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Amrita Hepi's new exhibition is all about dance – and its unspoken politics
The arts industry has a funny need to categorise every artist: Australian painter, Spanish choreographer, Aboriginal playwright, Asian-Australian novelist....
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Sydney Festival’s experimental, underwater concert was meditative, unsettling and otherworldly
It’s an eerie experience to enter a cold, dark swimming pool late at night. It’s stranger still to do it to the gentle lullaby of plucked strings on a giant...
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Neneh Cherry's Sydney Festival performance is humble and pleasantly disorienting
Say the name Neneh Cherry to most people and they’ll recall her explosively thrilling debut single, ‘Buffalo Stance,’ or perhaps her collaboration with...
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Download Festival announces five-star chefs on the food line-up
There was a time, not so long ago, when music festivals announced food line-ups like they were headliners, boasting a snack smorgasbord to keep you fuelled...
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The 38 moments that give every Sydneysider anxiety
It’s not that we’re uptight, but us Sydneysiders can get a little flustered when we feel the pressure to get to our seat on time, buy a bottle of wine before...
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This 28-metre sculpture is looming over Sydney Harbour this month
If a major arts festival is about making you look at your city in different ways, then Jacob Nash’s ‘Always’ sculpture is sure to be a defining component of...
