Other entertainment in Adelaide
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Distill
Super-sassy Rundle St bar with a tight dress code (to the nines) and a kickin’ organic cocktail list. Sustainable snacks (sourced within 100 miles) are creatively paired with wines: Limestone Coast cloth cheddar with juicy, ‘wet dog Shiraz’; organic basil pesto with ‘herbaceous, greasy Riesling’.
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Mojo West
A relaxed club around town (dress code and atmosphere), Mojo West has freaky blue light emanating from under the pool table cushions and quasi–Easter Island graffiti art – it certainly looks the part! Thursday university nights attract pretty young things to the lights.
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Crown & Sceptre
An urbane boozer drawing all-comers, from legal-eagles on adjournment from trial to ditch diggers in their boots. Ambient tunes, DJs most nights, sidewalk tables, a cool little beer garden and better-than-average pub food (mains $15 to $28).
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Lotus Lounge
We like the signage here – a very minimal fluoro martini glass with a flashing olive. Inside it’s a glam lounge with cocktails, quality beers and Adelaide dolls cuttin’ the rug. Expect queues around the corner on Saturday nights.
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Universal Wine Bar
A hip crowd clocks-in to this stalwart bar to select from 200-plus South Australian and international wines, and a menu (mains $22 to $36) packed with SA produce. ‘The scene is very Italian’, says the barman.
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HQ Complex
Adelaide’s biggest club occupies the bad-old Heaven complex, filling five big rooms with shimmering sound and light. Night time is the right time on Saturdays – the biggest (and trashiest) club night in town.
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Jive
In a converted theatre, Jive caters to an off-beat crowd of student types who like their tunes funky, left-field and removed from the mainstream. A sunken dance floor = great views from the bar!
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Supermild
A down-sized basement bar that stays and stays while other West End bars come and go. Hip staff, retro-lounge interior, funky tunes – arguably the best bar in town (if you can get in!).
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Dan O’connell
An Irish pub without a whiff of kitsch Celtic cash-in! Just great Guinness, open fires, acoustic music and a house-sized pepper tree in the beer garden (161 years old and counting).
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Wheatsheaf
A hidden gem under the flight path in industrial Thebarton, with an artsy crowd of students, jazz musos, lesbians, punks and rockers. Tidy beer garden; live music Friday to Monday.
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Pier One Bar
A cavernous sports bar with voyeuristic beach views and fold-back windows for when the sea breeze drops. As many screens as staff (a lot of each), and raucous Sunday sessions.
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Belgian Beer Café
Shiny brass, sexy staff, much pre-sluicing of glasses and somewhere upwards of 26 imported Belgian superbrews (we lost count…); off Rundle St.
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Mars Bar
The lynchpin of Adelaide’s nocturnal G&L scene, always-busy Mars Bar features glitzy decor, flashy clientele and OTT drag shows.
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Apothecary 1878
Classy coffee and wine at this gorgeous chemist- turned-bar. Medicine cabinets, bentwood chairs and Parisian marble-topped tables.
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Moonlight Cinema
In summer, pack a picnic and mosquito repellent, and spread out on the lawn to watch old and new classics under the stars.
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Fowlers Live
Inside the former Fowler Flour Factory, this 500-capacity venue is a temple of hard rock, metal and sweaty mayhem.
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Zhivago
Zhivago’s DJs pump out everything from reggae and dub to quality house. Popular with the 18 to 25 dawn patrol.
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Glenelg Cinema Centre
Mainstream films in an old art deco theatre, plus movie-and-meal deals with local restaurants.
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Ticketek
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State Theatre Company
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Palace Eastend Cinemas
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National Basketball League
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Moshtix
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