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Elegantly Wasted Review: Queensland Ballet's INXS Collaboration Is a Gutsy, Full-Throated Triumph
Arts & Entertainment

Elegantly Wasted Review: Queensland Ballet's INXS Collaboration Is a Gutsy, Full-Throated Triumph

Phillipe Blake·11 September 2026·2 min read
Inside GOMA's Make, Believe, Magic: Brisbane's Biggest Exhibition of the Year Is Finally Open
Arts & Entertainment

Inside GOMA's Make, Believe, Magic: Brisbane's Biggest Exhibition of the Year Is Finally Open

11 September 2026
K2 Brisbane's New Three-Storey Mural Brings Native Wildlife to Spring Hill
Arts & Entertainment9 September 2026
Behind Brisbane's Cosmetic Injectables Boom — And the New Rules Reshaping It
Style14 September 2026
Brisbane's Three Poshest Tables Right Now
Food & Drink14 September 2026
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Why We Do This — Brisbane, Two Magazines, and What Your Membership Actually Supports
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Why We Do This — Brisbane, Two Magazines, and What Your Membership Actually Supports

Most people who read The Urbanite never think about how it gets made. Since you're an Urbanite Member, you've earned the version of the stor

The Urbanite14 September 2026·2 min read
Spring Is Here — The Best Bushwalks Around Brisbane to Do With Friends
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Spring Is Here — The Best Bushwalks Around Brisbane to Do With Friends

September is when Brisbane's bushland actually earns its keep. Here's where to walk this spring, sorted by who you're bringing, plus what's

Phillipe Blake13 September 2026·2 min read
Why Brisbane Built Its Own Festival — And What It Takes to Keep It Running
Culture

Why Brisbane Built Its Own Festival — And What It Takes to Keep It Running

Brisbane Festival is running right now — 700-plus performances, 2,600 artists, three weeks across the city. Here's where it actually came fr

Phillipe Blake13 September 2026·2 min read
The Brisbane Woman Bringing Back the Joy of Handwritten Letters
People

The Brisbane Woman Bringing Back the Joy of Handwritten Letters

Steph Rowe's Dear Diary Letter Club sends a hand-wrapped Parcel of Joy to subscribers every month — a personal letter, poetry and an origina

Phillipe Blake13 September 2026·2 min read
THRIVE Festival Blasts Off in Toowoomba These Spring School Holidays
Events

THRIVE Festival Blasts Off in Toowoomba These Spring School Holidays

The Empire's beloved school holiday festival returns to Toowoomba from 24-27 September with an intergalactic program of circus, planetarium

Phillipe Blake11 September 2026·2 min read
Bob Evans Brings Suburban Songbook Home for a 20th Anniversary Tour — Playing Brisbane This October
Culture

Bob Evans Brings Suburban Songbook Home for a 20th Anniversary Tour — Playing Brisbane This October

Twenty years on from its original release, Bob Evans' beloved solo album Suburban Songbook is back in a remastered 20th Anniversary Edition

Phillipe Blake9 September 2026·2 min read
James Blunt Announces New Album Airplane Mode, Drops Second Single "Weight Of It All"
Culture

James Blunt Announces New Album Airplane Mode, Drops Second Single "Weight Of It All"

James Blunt has announced his new album Airplane Mode, out 6 November on Atlantic Records, releasing second single "Weight Of It All" alongs

Phillipe Blake8 September 2026·2 min read
52 Years On, Brisbane's Most Authentic Oktoberfest Is Still the Real Thing
Food

52 Years On, Brisbane's Most Authentic Oktoberfest Is Still the Real Thing

The Brisbane German Club's Oktoberfest returns for a 52nd year this October — five weekends of imported Munich beer, one-kilogram pork knuck

Phillipe Blake8 September 2026·2 min read
Nineteen Years With Her, Nineteen Years Without: Inside Jenna Catchpole's Conversation With Clay
Culture

Nineteen Years With Her, Nineteen Years Without: Inside Jenna Catchpole's Conversation With Clay

In the gallery at West End's Vacant Assembly, Brisbane potter Jenna Catchpole talks us through Her Flame, My Hands — an annual exhibition bu

Phillipe Blake8 September 2026·2 min read
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