With just three words, you’ve got everything you need to leave the traffic behind: low, loose and long. The experienced guides at Sydney Harbour Kayaks are explaining how to get the best out of the Eco Tour for novice paddlers – keep your hands low near the kayak, your grip loose and use long strokes...
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a platter of cheddar and cardinal sin
An evening of teachings on a Cardinal Sin, Stinking Bishop and Saint-Marcellin may at first seem of little appeal. But if you’re a lover of fine food and not playing truant, you’ll discover that these are all cheeses, and there are cheese tasting classes not worth skipping. The GPO Cheese and Wine Room is tucked underneath...
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a week to make waves
It’s going to be a wet and wild week. Kicking off with the prestigious Audi Sydney Harbour Regatta this Saturday, you’ll be spoilt for choice for what to do in and out of the water during Sydney Harbour Week (1-9 March). Spectators: get to a vantage point along our iconic foreshore. Cheer on competitors and watch...
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get your limited edition T
T-shirts. Their simplicity, arresting; their comfort, endless. Especially the one you’ve worn since high school, faded with mouse-bitten like holes and fraying edges, and has somehow escaped from being binned by your mother (then) and partner (now). They just don’t understand. Another monumental win for the humble T-shirt happens today. Japanese label graniph opens its Sydney...
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pole position
Imagine walking down a city street when, suddenly, a six-inch stiletto falls from the heavens, landing with a clatter at your feet. The forecast was for hot and steamy weather, no mention of shoe showers. Four storeys above, a pole dancer yelps because now she’s whirling through her routine, minus one stiletto. Take a peek...
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fight club now taking members
There aren’t a whole lot of gym work outs to get you too excited. But Total Body Conditioning, newly located in Moore Park has found a way to view your fitness regime in a different light. This boutique fitness club, with a capped membership of 2000, is designed and purpose-built. It has spared little expense to attract...
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to scooter or not to scooter?
With comical petrol prices and traffic congestion that only drives you to frustration, this debate is alive and kicking. And despite being in our modern age and all, there are some guys that are still facing a masculinity crisis – to scooter or not to scooter? There are, the numbers show, people buying these two (and...
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killing me softly
It seems like a good idea at the time. You, a microphone, and Jolene. Or Bon Jovi. Or possibly even Frank. The office end-of-week lunch becomes drinking and slowly morphs into something vaguely resembling, karaoke? Forget the core competencies, you need a tone-deaf boss. Note nowadays there’s so much more to Karaoke than public humiliation. You...
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bondi beach and a bowl pro skate event
Skater pro does a 360-degree ollie with a few kick-flips. Spectators: Ooh. Skater pro pulls off a melon and a one-foot Japan. Spectators: Aah. So you’re never going to be one of those skateboarders…or quite get the lingo. At least you can still appreciate the talent. And you can do so as one of the thousands descending on Bondi...
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csi meets contemporary art
At some stage you’ll have a loved one or friend to buy a present for. You know, that person with impeccable taste, a generous nature, has everything (high tech gadgets, a wardrobe to pine over and accessories to match). So here’s an ideal one-of-a-kind gift. DNA 11 offers unique, personalised digital art. Personalised because you...