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29/07/2025

This year marks 20 years of Romance Was Born 💃

Romance Was Born is an Australian fashion house founded by Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales in 2005. To celebrate their 20th year, National Portrait Gallery commissioned artist Samuel Hodge to create a work that captures the creative force that is Romance Was Born 🤩

The piece is an intricately layered photographic collage using photos Hodge has taken of Romance Was Born - in official campaigns, backstage during fashion shows and in candid moments.

You can view the portrait now at National Portrait Gallery

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29/07/2025

Rainbow Toasties, Labubu Dumplings and 'dupes' of popular brands: this festival is for TikTok tragics and Insta fanatics. Food Writer Lucy Ridge isn't sure how she feels about it.

There’s a viral food festival coming to Canberra, and I’m not sure how to feel about it. Viral Food Fest…

28/07/2025

A local food and farming co-op has put together a three-day program of events celebrating the best of Canberra's produce - kicking off with a bonfire night. Here's what you need to know.

Local food and farming co-operative Southern Harvest is encouraging Canberrans to embrace the season with a three-day Winter Festival of…

27/07/2025

Today marks the start of DonateLife week. Are you an organ donor?

4 in 5 Australians say they support organ and tissue donation but only 1 in 3 are registered to be a donor on the Australian Organ Donor Register. In the ACT, only 28% of the eligible population are registered, which is below the national average.

From 27 July to 3 August, it’s DonateLife week. This year holds special significance in the ACT as we commemorate 50 years since Annette Taylor (aged 11) became the Territory’s first organ donor in 1975.

This week, DonateLife are calling all Australians to register as organ and tissue donors and be the reason someone else gets a second chance at life.

27/07/2025

A newly opened cafe in Kingston's Kingsborough precinct wants residents to think of it as an extension of their own home. Food writer Lucy Ridge wishes all lounge rooms came with pizza this good!

Residents of the Kingsborough precinct in Kingston just got an extension to their apartments with Lounge Room - a newly…

27/07/2025

Local chef Dean Han has cooked up a menu of brunch classics with a Korean fusion twist. It's all flavour, all fun and no worries at Zero Complex in Braddon.

Chef Dean Han has had a long culinary journey through European, Modern Australian, Malaysian, Chinese and Japanese cuisines. But people…

26/07/2025

Duking it out for the last five years with their best crafts brews, Canberra's Bentspoke Brewing Co. and Katoomba's Mountain Culture Brewing Co. have joined forces for a one-off winter beer promised to take you to the dark side. 🍺

Two of Australia’s most accomplished craft breweries, Canberra’s Bentspoke Brewery Co. and Katoomba’s Mountain Culture Beer Co., have joined forces…

26/07/2025

Housed in one of Queanbeyan's oldest buildings, the Mill House Cafe brings new life and some damn good pizzas to the dining scene. Lucy Ridges digs in.

Built in 1883 as the manager’s residence for the Byrne flour mill, the imposingly robust building located on Queanbeyan’s Collett…

25/07/2025

Once a bustling country pub, Braidwood's The Albion has a new lease on life. Its owners hope a dinner menu will encourage Canberrans to stop and enjoy a meal.

Like many country pubs still standing in towns with more than enough pubs, Braidwood's Albion Hotel has been making its…

24/07/2025

Spend Five Minutes with self-described family man Chef Hem, who owns three pizza businesses - even though his family doesn't really like pizza! 🍕

Who are you? Thapa Magar Hemnath, but everyone knows me as Chef Hem. I’m a pizza chef and the owner…

23/07/2025

Spanish-Mexican fusion anyone? Try illuka in Narrabundah where you can start with gnocchi for breakfast and finish with prawns, salsa and smoked trout for dinner.

I love researching restaurant menus before I go out to eat, my eyes always drawn to dishes I wouldn’t cook…

22/07/2025

A strong exhibition of confessional drawings and prints opens at Megalo in Kingston. Art critic Sasha Grishin explores the complexity of art that conceals a suppressed scream.

Some artists use their art to illustrate what they see and observe, others communicate whole philosophies of being, while Zoya…