Time Out Sydney magazine this month

Dear South America: love your work. Your coffee beans get me going in the morning and your Caipirinhas and Pisco Sours help me relax at night. Your tasty Argentine grills satisfy my meat tooth, your soccer stars perform miracles on the pitch, and your infectious rhythms get my Anglo hips gyrating like Ricky Martin’s. You’re high on my list of favourite continents, South America, and I just can’t wait to visit you. Alas, my Time Out editing duties are keeping me confined to Sydney for now. So I’m pretty glad that you’ve made the effort to come to me... Find out more about Sydney’s vibrant Latin American community and all the fun they’re bringing us in our special South American Sydney feature, beginning on page 20. From asado to Zumba, from salsa to Spanish classes, it’s a veritable Latin fiesta.

Nick Dent Editor

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South American Sydney

The South American spirit thrives in Sydney, as this glorious celebratory feature demonstrates

The Time Out interview

Essie Davis smokes up the small screen again with Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - only in print!

Baxter Inn vs Tio's

Which new small bar is best? We make the definitive call without the need to resort to fisticuffs 

Love on the run

Time Out's singles road-test the city's speed dating nights. Which nights fizzle, and which ones sizzle? 

CSI: Marie Bashir

We cast an affectionate eye over the life and career of NSW'S beloved governor 

Around Town - Retro bowling at Manhattan Superbowl + Outdoor events + Pop-up shops + Jurassic Lounge roars into action at the Australian Museum

Art - Renaissance + Lego masterpieces + Interactive art in Rafael Lozano - Hemmer: Recorders

Bars - The Mayor + The Little Guy

Cafés - Meet the barista at Grind Espresso + Bell Jar Coffee & Madame Frou Frou reviewed

Classical & Jazz - Britain's Touring choirs are coming

Comedy - We welcome the extended season of Judith Lucy: Nothing Fancy + Frank Woodley explains his new ABC1 sitcom Woodley

Film - Steve McQueen talks sex and Shame + Man on a Ledge + Mardi Gras Film Festival

Kids - White at the Sydney Opera House

Museums - The Science of Sex Appeal

Nightlife - SBTRKT + Strange Fruit

Performing Arts - Pygmalion + Midsummer + Britney Spears: The Cabaret

Pop & Rock - Indie darling Laura Marling + EMA come for Laneway + Soundwave + Roxette + The Fauves

Queer Sydney - Top ten Mardi Gras 2012 events + The Year of Magical Wanking

Restaurants - Neild Avenue + Petit Four from Arras + Flour and Stone + Top five sweet spots

Time In - Danger 5 + The People vs George Lucas + Lost Memory of Skin

Travel - Secrets of Singapore + Yarra Valley + Lord Howe Island