Day: 4 January 2019

Photo Gallery: Beyond The Valley Day Four – Lardner Park, VIC (31.12.18)

The final day of Beyond The Valley brought the fun with PNAU, English powerhouses The Kook’s, Ball Park Music and Remi all there to celebrate the chiming of the new year!

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Film Review: Eighth Grade (USA, 2018) is an empathetic, uncompromising & honest piece of work

Teenage films have been quite a huge staple for me in the past decade. Whether they would be quality films (like Heathers, Stand By Me), plain fun (Mean Girls, Easy A, Say Anything etc.) or just plain silliness (Porky’s, American Pie), this reviewer has always found some enjoyment for entertainment reasons as well as nostalgic…

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Photo Gallery: The Vaccines + Vacations – Croxton Bandroom, Melbourne (03.01.19)

The Vaccines played their first Falls Festival sideshow at the Croxton Bandroom with support from Vacations to a huge crowd, playing hit after hit song. Photos by Rebecca Houlden.

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Opera Review: La Bohéme is all at once decadent and tragic at the Sydney Opera House

A world of starving artists, love at first sight, decadence and jealousy – so sets the scene for Puccini’s formidable La Bohéme. The performance begins with four friends, each a poor artist, struggling to survive another winter. By the end of the first act Rodolfo, a poet, has fallen in love with Mimí, a seamstress,…

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Travel Deals: Flights around Europe are going for as low as £5 right now

Every so often European budget carrier Ryanair drop their places to ridiculously low prices, opening up the continent to eagle-eyed budget-minded travellers quick enough to take advantage of the flash sales. It happened a few times last year, and these flashes are seemingly getting more and more common. There’s actually one happening right now. And…

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