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Your guide to the Vivid Festival

As the nights turn chillier, the city turns brighter with the always anticipated return of Vivid Sydney. This year sees a stronger focus on free events, with 80 per cent of the program costing nothing, and in a festival first, daytime events will also be scheduled alongside the night-time action. Stretching across i…

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How an unusual restoration and its ‘bleak’ history stopped Anthony Burke in his tracks

There’s a project this season of Restoration Australia that’s unlike any seen on the series before. Its overhaul is not especially difficult. It doesn’t require hours of painstaking artisan craftsmanship to salvage its crumbling period features. Even host Anthony Burke admits it is a “fairly straightforward restorat…

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Eye of the storm: Delta poised to set the Eurovision stage on fire

Vienna: When Australian singer Delta Goodrem walks onto the Eurovision stage in Vienna this morning, she will be walking into what could be a unique moment in Australian history. We have fielded Eurovision competitors for more than a decade, but never before has the national momentum reached a fever pitch quite like…

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The incredible, gravity-defying pizza putting Sydney’s Little Italy back on the map

You don’t have to look far to find good pizza in Sydney. Whether you prefer thin and blistered Neapolitan pies, something light and leopard-spotted, or doughier and enriched by olive oil, there is a decent version in almost every direction. There isn’t anything quite like this pizza, though, and you’ll need to make …

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