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With September’s Surry Hills Festival celebrating all that there is to love about the inner city suburb, applications are open until July 3 for vendors, bands, DJs, artistic performers and local businesses to get invol...

At some point in my earliest years of existence, I became a logophile. I fell in love with words and felt the need to collect them, to care for them and get to know them. I read every single word that I could possibly ge...

Welcome to the final part of my five-part series on the Young Guns of Wine Awards (younggunsofwine.com), which highlights some of the best young winemakers coming through the ranks in the Aussie wine industry. Andrew Mar...

Who cares about the environment? A fair whack of the population does. Polls show it’s upwards of 80%. And it’s not about being a greenie or tree hugger (not that there’s anything wrong with that, and I ...

Nothing gets my blood pressure boiling more than the sight of a Porsche Cayenne: those ugly, omnipresent, aesthetically displeasing vehicles which bear down on the narrow streets of the Eastern Suburbs; the oxygen thieve...

When I first heard the name Chalk Espresso I was curious; what is it referring to? Something to do with coffee? The location? The owner’s name? Intrigued, my companions and I headed down to Maroubra Beach for a late br...

Age | 2 years Sex | Male Breed | Chihuahua x Weight | 4.5kg Gene is a sweet natured, gentle little boy, but he is still getting the hang of walking and being out and about. He walks reasonably well on loose lead but is a...

As the only beach in Australia to provide a real ice rink, Bondi Beach has proven the place to be for both winter and summer. The ice rink in front of the iconic Bondi Pavilion is back again this year, and for an extra w...