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Bangkok stopover | take me to the river | klongs on song

Groucho
Brainy and cheeky. Witty and inventive. Always smoking hot.

A longtail boat ride along the canals of Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River is a reward for the culturally curious The experience travellers have in Bangkok is very much determined by where they stay. Sky bars, glitzy malls, floating markets, royal palaces, ornate temples, sitting or reclining buddhas, award-winning restaurants – chances are you’ll go places…

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Collectable indigenous art | welcome to country | Australian canvas

Groucho
Brainy and cheeky. Witty and inventive. Always smoking hot.

Indigenous Australian artists have forged one of the most globally significant art movements. So, asks Susan Skelly, where does a collector start? At Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art this past spring, the work of Kuninjku artist John Mawurndjul had viewers criss-crossing its galleries as each new wall spied diverted attention from the last. The artist from…

Susan Skelly road tests the new Ferrari Portofino V8 GT in 2018
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What’s hot about the new Ferrari | luxury on wheels | Portofino playground

Groucho
Brainy and cheeky. Witty and inventive. Always smoking hot.

Hey, hit the highway in a sporty car with both muscle and manners The new Ferrari is named after Excess All Area’s favourite playground: Portofino, near Genoa, in Italy. And there’s synchronicity – both of them hot, cliff-hugging and heaven on a stick. And, like a Paraggi Beach concierge, so good looking! The curvy Old…

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Why Koko pops | a new Fijian paradise | Lang Walker’s home away from home

Groucho
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A passion project of billionaire Australian property developer Lang Walker, Fiji’s newest luxury resort epitomises barefoot luxury. Susan Skelly dips a toe in the water… Christopher Kenyon’s beachfront studio might be pumping with Prince’s Little Red Corvette but the canvasses surrounding him reflect every blue of a Derwent pencil set – ultramarine, teal, turquoise, aqua,…

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Driven by design | shape of things to come | award winners

Groucho
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Electric violins, bioreactors, stethoscopes, and chairs that weigh less than a chihuahua  …  just some of the designs winning gold at this year’s iF Design Awards. Design, what it is and who does it? Is a designer an artist, architect, engineer, technologist, psychologist, or avant-garde stylist…? Is the point of design to make things look…

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Food’s ugly ducklings | who dares, wins | An outing with offal |

Groucho
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  Offal is possibly one of the food world’s most divisive menu items. Most people either love it or loathe it.  If it’s the latter, there’s a harbourside dining dock that might change your mind…   Offal is never going to be the gourmet world’s red carpet glamourpuss. Not for brains, tripe or liver the…

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Hanging out in Hamburg | new music landmark | G20 leaders “at leisure”?

Groucho
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  Naughty nightlife, a unique hangover cure, a new downtown quarter, and culture at 20 paces … Sunday morning coming down in Hamburg As G20 leaders gather this weekend for their 2017 summit, all eyes are on the port city of Hamburg, home to the new landmark Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall, expected to boost annual visitations of…

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foraging in flinders lane | melbourne calling | laneway browsing

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From gourmet fuel to new wardrobe staples, painted laneways to lessons from history … Melbourne’s Flinders Lane is a cultural mixed tape for the day-tripper, dedicated browser or business boffin playing hooky. These are Excess All Areas’ evergreens…. Grain Store We’ve high-tailed it down to the “wrong” end of town, where the queue for takeaway coffee…

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New York pain relief | Culture pill in NYC | manhattan pitstop 

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Art, Central Park, jazz, Cate Blanchett, and great soup. Even in the midst of political turmoil and protest, New York delivers. Excess All Areas went looking for some cultural respite care A New York pitstop smack bang in the middle of a week of bad politics (the inauguration and all it unleashed)…? Let culture be…

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Ferrari’s firebrand | Luxury car design | Speed date

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Sixties shapes, the Sydney Opera House, 3D printing, music … these are some of the things that inspire Flavio Manzoni, Ferrari’s design director. Susan Skelly reports Roped off outside the three-hat Sydney harbourside restaurant, Quay, the LaFerrari looks like it’s landed on the wrong planet. Futuristic, fabulous – and so shiny it looks ready to spontaneously combust…

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