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Jul 24, 2024
Adelaide's Best

Adelaide’s best hot chocolate

Winter has struck. The pilled old coats have been dusted off and removed from the hibernation locale in the closet, set for wear in the CityMag office – orange and navy tartan is this reporter's jacket of choice.

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Aug 31, 2023
Material Culture
Jenna O'Dell Gathered Hahndorf Store

Gathering in store for Hahndorf

With the opening of a permanent bricks-and-mortar store in Hahndorf, Gathered Design Market fans no longer need to wait for the next market to discover their new favourite South Australian maker.

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Jan 23, 2023
Material Culture

Robo-battle royale

Take a peek inside the Adelaide community that meets monthly to obliterate each other’s lovingly created robots.

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Sep 30, 2022
Material Culture

Material world

With movie nights, a reading corner, refreshments and the owners doubling as photographers, browsing and buying from vintage fashion store A Flat Shop is best done offline.

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Jul 26, 2022
Material Culture

Digital intimacy

The sex industry always interested Kiki Isobel, but it took a pandemic for her to start her own OnlyFans page.

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Jul 5, 2022
Material Culture

Film flukes

Award-nominated photographer Jack Fenby has a predilection for stretching his artistic limits. He has a habit of throwing himself into chaos – from Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing to Russian punk group Pussy Riot – and his new photobook 'Mistakes' is a billet-doux to shots gone wrong in the process.

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Jan 6, 2022
Material Culture

Fool’s gold

Hundreds of carefully crafted props line the shelves at State Theatre’s suburban warehouse and workshop. Carpenter, actor and maker Patrick Duggin, who has made 100 of these objects over 24 years with the theatre company, explains the magic and mania of creating imagined worlds.

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Aug 31, 2021
Material Culture

The green ark

Inside the SA Seed Bank seed biologist Daniel Duval is storing embryonic forms of Australian flora to safeguard against a dystopian future that, in some cases, has already arrived.

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Apr 5, 2019
Material Culture

Finders keepers

A mismatched trove of abandoned keepsakes, Scammells Auctions is the embodiment of the adage that one person's trash is another person's treasure.

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Jan 8, 2019
Material Culture

Scuffed

People of every age and gender have stood and sailed through this city on seven-or-so sheets of Canadian maple. Some have made money off them, most spend money on them, and all have spent time seeking a skateboard's reward.

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