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10 Years at the Top
10 years ago this month, a brand new little what's-on guide to the Top End was launched kicking and grinning into the world. By Rosa Ellen. In the tradition of...
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Comics' Corner – Fringe Festival Forecast – A Jovial July
July sees Darwin electrified by some dynamic comic talent. If Adelaide has Mad March, Darwin now has Jovial and Juvenile July. Maybe it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue but...
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Growing Up Troppo – July
Pack away the iPad and put Pokémon on hold – school holidays are here. By Libby Larsen. It's the time of year when Top Enders are itching to get out...
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Assault Your Ears – July Podcast Review
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. If there’s one thing you need to wrap your ears around, it’s Ear Hustle – a...
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Territory Day – signature events
There’s no avoiding the artillery of crackers – and howling of canines – but Territory Day also brings the liveliest Mindil Beach Sunset Market of the year. Singer-songwriter Pete Murray...
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Off The Leash – 10 Year Anniversary Cover Comp
In celebration of Off The Leash’s 10-year anniversary we put the call out for a fab, fun cover that celebrated our vibrant Top End home. We could have designed our...
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Tactile Arts Dragonfly Craft Fair
The dragonflies are well and truly out now and so emerge Darwin's buzzing art and crafters to the grassy outdoors. Drifting up to a new site on the Esplanade, Tactile...
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Royal Darwin Show
It's showtime in Darwin. From sugar to show bags, squealing and shrieking, there's a focus on the down-to-earth, on agriculture and the handmade. If you love the whiff and competitive...
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Flora
There's a thriving community of artists working and living on the Cox Peninsula, but you mightn't know it if you only stick to one side of the harbour. This year’s...
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Walking With Spirits
David Bridie and Papuan music star George Telek have been working together for decades, ever since they made their hit album Tabaran, with Bridie’s band Not Drowning Waving. Now the...
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Darwin Fringe Festival
Brilliant, hilarious, lo-fi, surreal, or green as an unripe mango, Darwin Fringe is your chance to experience the best new theatre, art, music and dance as it explodes into the...
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Coranderrk
In 1881 the Kulin clans, facing the imminent loss of their land and freedoms, brought about a Parliamentary Inquiry to continue living on the Victorian Aboriginal reserve of Coranderrk as...
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Terror Australis
Leah Shelton was performing in a glitzy variety show in Las Vegas when she had the idea for Terror Australis, an anti-burlesque cabaret show exploring Australian culture’s dark undercurrent. Off...
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The Sound of Waiting
"The power of empathy is greater than the power of death," says playwright Mary Anne Butler as she premieres her powerful new play The Sound of Waiting. Butler wrote the...
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Shirley Valentine
Trapped in a domestic rut with an ungrateful, boorish family, middle-aged Liverpudlian housewife Shirley Valentine is going to waste in suburban drudgery. But you can’t exactly call her downtrodden. When...
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Rapid Creek Market – Green Jackfruit
Jackfruit is so prevalent in Darwin and so versatile it’s surprising it’s not more widely used, especially in its unripe form when it has the tasty, meaty texture of an...
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Eat my Words – Taste and Tales of Tropical Cooks
Food combined with storytelling is an inviting concept (perhaps best not done at exactly the same time) but eating good food while being part of the story is better yet...
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App Making 101
Like many of us, Katherine Shaw and Mrinalini ('Merru') Padmanabhan grew up in the era of smartphones. Shaw, who’s just completed her law degree and Padmanabhan, a software engineering student...
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Zandro Lagman – Year 12 Student
Seventeen-year-old Zandro Lagman’s love of cooking has seen him come up trumps in the Dishing Up Darwin competition, show tourists how to cook bitter gourd and now, tell his own...
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Transitions Film Festival
The environmentally friendly Transitions Film Festival returns, this year as part of Darwin Fringe Festival, to inform, shock and importantly galvanise us into action. In a rapidly industrialised and globalised...