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Director Paul C Kininmonth and actor Ebony Halliday will stage The Merchant of Venice in August after deciding to postpone the production.

Sydney actors halt performances of controversial play after Bondi massacre

A Sydney theatre company was set to stage The Merchant of Venice in January. The production has been postponed because of concerns about its antisemitic themes.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo

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Noi takes an adventurous approach to Italian cooking.
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Noi

Cosy trattoria with local roots.

A silky pudim de leite.
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Lunas

Modern Portuguese cafe-restaurant for a quick lunch or long family meal.

Cornish pasties date back to the 17th century as a portable meal for miners and field workers in Cornwall.

‘Superbly stout’: This inner-west spot will satisfy your Cornish pasty cravings

From pork pies to breakfasts that’ll evaporate a hangover, Petersham’s Kentish Chef brings a taste of England’s south-east to Sydney.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Sydney’s boulevards of broken dreams.

Hellscapes, eyesores and housing hopes: These are Sydney’s boulevards of broken dreams

They are the roadways that most Sydneysiders try to avoid – but locals are hopeful of change in Sydney’s once grand boulevards.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Ellie Busby
Fish sandwich.

Splash

This venue is a finalist for best family-friendly cafes in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

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Ollie Parker and his wife Gemma have put their three-bedroom home in Petersham, in the inner west, on the market.

‘Started to see a slowdown’: Where Sydney home owners are selling now

In some areas home owners are holding back from selling their homes, but in other areas listings have been sitting on the market.

  • Kristy Johnson
The Bungalow, Petersham

This Petersham hotspot is not afraid to switch things up

The Bungalow transforms from serene brunch spot in the day to a place of white tablecloths, brass table-lamps and cocktails in the evening.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Flight paths and housing.

The Sydney suburbs excluded from ‘missing middle’ housing plan

The “missing middle” reform was supposed to increase density in inner-city suburbs. Now the government will exclude most of the inner west and parts of other areas.

  • Max Maddison
Petersham’s The Gateway Club

‘Doing a tester’: The man who gave a sex worker fentanyl thinking it was cocaine

Shadi Salameh told a court that he was less “morally blameworthy” because he didn’t realise the drug was the synthetic opiate.

  • Sally Rawsthorne