Tag: CityMag
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CityMag wins top national design award
CityMag‘s 2025 Festival edition magazine cover, published in February, took home the national gong at the award show in Sydney last night, beating finalists including Better Homes & Gardens magazine and publications from Woolworths and Coles . The judges praised the originality of the food truck line-up concept for the magazine cover including its striking…
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Our winter edition is on streets now
CityMag’s winter edition launches our annual 40 Under 40, which is the culmination of months of hard work from our journalists, photographers, designers and events team. This year, we launched the mag at a very well-lit Adelaide Oval celebrating our state’s brightest young minds. Although you can see who made the cut online right now,…
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Camera shops can’t keep up with the image economy
Disposable cameras and expired rolls of film line the upper shelf skirting Hutt Street Photos’ tiny inner perimeter. Some of the cameras are plain Kodaks – disposable black boxes wrapped in yellow jackets – while others are personalised, bedazzled with silver rhinestones and kitten stickers. Hutt Street Photos 186 Hutt St, Adelaide 5000 Mon—Fri: 9am…
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The many loves of Adelaide Afro-pop Casanova WaiKid
When WaiKid tells us over the phone he’s a hopeless romantic, we’re not surprised. What does surprise us is that his raunchy, RnB-flavoured sound is directly connected to his spirituality. WaiKid is performing at WOMADelaide 2023 on Friday, 10 March. For the full lineup and more information, visit the WOMAD website. Connect with WaiKid: Instagram Facebook…
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Sparks fly over New Year’s Eve fireworks returning to Elder Park
The Adelaide City Council overwhelmingly supported a bid to bring the New Year’s Eve party back to Elder Park this year and to allocate $400,000 from the 2023-24 Business Plan and Budget for its delivery. The locational throwback, spearheaded by Deputy Lord Mayor Phillip Martin, will require the administration to present plans to revive the…
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The art of painting pictures with a thousand words
Meg Riley has a history of finding new ways for Adelaide audiences to experience arts and culture. She was the South Australian Museum’s community programs coordinator from 2016 to 2022, and in 2019, under the guidance of Lara Torr, she helped the institution develop a series of sensory-friendly experiences. These were ticketed events, during which…
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Janet Giles’ Unified City Plan Theory
The way the design of the city’s economy has been conceptualised is askew, says area councillor Janet Giles. “There’s been a priority of business over residents, and it’s based on a theory that the way we build the city is through business,” she says. “I just fundamentally disagree with that.” To create lively places, you…
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Punk, proud and loud
In a studio upstairs at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, there are bits of bleached, fraying fabric scattered across the floor. The room is otherwise spare, featuring a large workbench toward the back, on top of which sits a plastic container of pineapple cookies. Truc Truong’s ‘macro-stuffed-supper’ is showing now ’til 4 March. Post Office Projects 175…
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Bystander intervention training tipped for bartenders, glassies
Elected members last week supported the city council’s submission for the government’s review of the Late night Trading Code of Practice — a 10-year-old policy aimed at minimising harm in the city’s late-night ecosystem. This article discusses sexual assault. If this story raises issues for you, call LifeLine on 13 11 14. — If you…
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Adelaide’s best new music
WaiKid — ‘Down Low’ It’s the cocktail of warbling steel drums, falsetto vocals and lascivious lyrics that makes ‘Down Low’ by WaiKid a heater. The Sierra Leone-born musician WaiKid, real name Francis Murana Wai, may be one of the best musicians making Afro-pop and RnB in metropolitan Adelaide right now, and seems to be unstoppable.…