Lifestyle & Culture

Welcome to Flickspin's Lifestyle & Culture section. From restaurant and cafe reviews to winery tours and globetrotting travel, we're covering the finer things in life, the places you want to visit and eat if you have a spare five minutes (or five months!)

Been to a great cafe recently? Visited a terrible tourist trap? Let the rest of our community and the world know by reviewing your favourite (or least favourite) places, events, and restaurants right here at Flickspin.

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Latest Articles

Clementine EP by Washington

JULIE CHRISTINE

Though it's not latest offering from Australia's Washington, the Clementine EP is five tracks full of sweet melodies and honest lyrics and it was and is an accurate indicator of the good things to come from the band.

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Phoenix Plays Sold Out Show in Vancouver

JULIE CHRISTINE

At the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, during one of the greatest encores I've ever seen, the French band Phoenix played their smash hit 1901 to a crowd and stage full of energized fans.

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Forgotten Australians are Now Remembered Australians

BARBARA LANE

In the Northern Rivers, some who were previously called Forgotten Australians are Now-Remembered Australians!

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Qld to Apologise to State Wards in Adult Mental Health

BARBARA LANE

Children under state care orders who were inappropriately placed in adult mental health facilities in Queensland during the last century will finally receive the apology they have lobbied for.

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Master of the Art

JULIE CHRISTINE

Amy Millan, of Stars and Broken Social Scene, has compiled eleven charming songs for her second solo effort, Masters of the Burial.

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Latest Blog Posts

The screamer

SAIDEE BROWN

If we pay attention there are pieces of ourselves represented in the people we encounter throughout our communities. This is a homage to the screamer and how she is my scream too.

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RAINBOW OR RAIN

CHARLOTTE TALLEY

This is my description between rainbow and rain.

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Latest Fact Files

Hula Hoop Australia

BAY OLIVER

Can't find a website selling Australian Hula Hoops online? Well, there's a good reason for that...

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10 Places to Chow Down in Kitsilano, Vancouver

JESSICA ROBERTS

Where to fend of those hunger pangs or coffee cravings in Kitsilano, Vancouver

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10 Things to do in Vancouver on a Rainy Weekend

JESSICA ROBERTS

What to do when the weather has turned grey and rainy.

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