CityMag

09/11/2025

Managing the thousands-strong flock of tiny birds bound for Adelaide’s CBD this roosting season could cost about $150,000. Ideas to deter them, without causing “bird tornadoes” are flying around town hall as they try to avoid a “repeat of last year’s horrors” when birds died in numbers.

Managing the large flock of tiny birds bound for the CBD could cost about $150,000. Ideas to deter them are flying around town hall.

09/11/2025

InReview is no stranger to emerging and established local artists. This week, to get his take on the South Australian creative scene, Kultar Ahluwalia reflects on Adelaide’s early 2000s hip-hop scene and the fundamental human need to tell stories.

In our new Q&A column, InReview speaks to emerging and established local artists to get their take on the South Australian creative scene and their place within it. This week, Kultar Ahluwalia reflects on Adelaide's early 2000s hip-hop scene and the fundamental human need to tell stories.

08/11/2025

As Adelaide’s hospitality scene overcomes the post-Covid lull, CityMag checks in on what hospo icons think the future will look like.

06/11/2025

We’ve rounded up Adelaide’s best new music released in October, including Maybe Hugo, Sunsick Daisy and Gratts.

06/11/2025

The local favourite dance party returns to the park lands this January, with a diverse lineup of international heavyweights and genre-defying Aussie talent. See the full lineup below.

The local favourite dance party returns to the park lands this January, with a lineup of genre-defying talent.

06/11/2025

“The dream is for me to be old, fat and irrelevant and young black, fat q***r people to be like, ‘yeah girl, we’ve seen it before’. Performer Milo Hartill talks to CityMag about her Feast Festival debut this weekend.

Performer Milo Hartill debuts at Feast Festival this weekend, a festival she says is important but will hopefully one day be unnecessary.

05/11/2025

More than 15 local artists are playing across three venues – including an iconic East End pub – this weekend to raise funds to help Palestinians rebuild in Gaza.

More than 15 local artists are playing across three venues – including an iconic East End pub - this weekend to raise funds to help Palestinians rebuild.

02/11/2025

CityMag checked out South Australia’s only independent higher education visual art school

Here, small classes are taught by practicing artists, supporting students with making, creating, and experimenting with materials.

Applications are now open for 2026!

Head to for upcoming campus tour dates and other updates.

31/10/2025

Heavy rain may have derailed festivities on Saturday afternoon of Harvest Rock 2025, but it did little to dampen spirits as the two-day music festival transformed into a dance party in the mud. See the gallery below.

Heavy rain may have derailed festivities on Saturday afternoon of Harvest Rock, but it didn't dampen spirits at the two-day music festival.

30/10/2025

WOMADelaide Festival organisers have released details of first acts for 2026, including iconic Australian band Yothu Yindi – who will celebrate 35 years of their ARIA-award winning album Tribal Voice.

WOMADelaide Festival organisers have released details of the first acts for 2026, including iconic Australian band Yothu Yindi.

29/10/2025

The City of Adelaide hopes to more than double its population by 2036 – just in time for the capital’s 200th birthday. It’ll require a serious construction effort, improved infrastructure to satisfy the numbers, and will undoubtedly change the city’s skyline.

What do we have to gain by pursuing this target, and what might we lose in the process? David Simmons investigates.

The City of Adelaide hopes to more than double its population by 2036 – just in time for the capital’s 200th birthday.