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Jill Hickson on Austria, Adelaide and Dame Joan

First Class Magazine’s Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan sits down with 2MBS Fine Music Sydney’s Jill Hickson to talk all things music and travel.

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Wicked offers an enchanted evening

Wicked the musical offers a spell-binding back story about Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. Sheridan Adams plays Elphaba in the new rendition of Wicked now showing at Sydney’s Lyric theatre.

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St Siandra: Blessed with a Middle Harbour location

St Siandra has launched on middle harbour. At first thought one might think that Siandra might be the patron saint of Seven Spice Calamari or Spring Bay Mussels with green pepper salsa verde but no.

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France v England: Who popularised the cufflink?

The fight over the popularising of cufflinks is akin to who invented the Pavlova? Australia or New Zealand. (Of course it was Australia BTW.) But just who popularised the cufflink? Was it King Charles II in the 17th century or was it during King Louis XIV’s reign also in the 17th century?

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Ramses and the gold of the pharaohs in Sydney

The Australian Museum, in cooperation with Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and World Heritage Exhibitions/Neon Global, is proud to present the blockbuster Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs, which will be the largest cultural exhibition to visit Australia in over a decade when it opens in Sydney on 18 November this year.

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Film Review – Past Lives, starring Greta Lee

Past Lives is a deep, meditative study tracking the lives of two childhood friends from Seoul and the junctures where they reunite, to unexpected results. 

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Jeff Koons’ Puppy and Mussels in Tobermory with Tom Forrester-Paton

First Class Magazine’s Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan sits down with 2MBS Fine Music Sydney’s Tom Forrester-Paton to talk all things music and travel.

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Washable vintage rugs for your holiday home

If only we had known about Miss Amara’s fabulous collection of Washable Weaves earlier. We have one now and it fits in perfectly to our beachy space. It’s part of the distressed vintage styles that are oh so chic with their pastels, beiges and neturals.

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Bhutan’s Royal Highland Festival

Bhutan’s Royal Highland Festival , which is held at 4,000m above sea level, aims to celebrate, promote and preserve the life and culture of the nomadic highland people of Bhutan, support their economy, exhibit the beauty and wonders of the highlands, and laud their resilience.

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Pelorus Private island joins Northern Escape Collection

Pelorus Private Island is the latest jewel in the Northern Escape Collection crown, offering travellers an utterly secluded and indulgent hideaway amongst the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.

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Banyan Tree Group Expands Sustainable Food Journey

Banyan Tree Group  has long been committed to its ethos of “Embracing the Environment, Empowering People” and actively implementing sustainability practices ever since its founding. 

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Modernist, Private Members’ Club at Four Seasons Mumbai

Evolved from the property’s popular membership hub, – ‘The Club’, Modernist is Four Seasons Mumbai’s future-forward playground of a coveted network of influential individuals.