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The original Porky strip club on Darlinghurst Road turned off its famous neon lights five years ago after 30 years. The attention to detail on the Kings Cross set includes everything down to the graffiti. Credit: Media Mode Before lockdown laws restricted late-night trading, John “King of the Cross” Ibrahim was often seen standing outside strip clubs with guards in tow. The actual club is also featured in Nine’s Lower belly: The Golden Mile and one graphic scene shows Ibrahim – played by Firass Dirani – was taken away by guards after being stabbed. It’s over: Firass Dirani comes to grief in Underbelly: The Golden Mile. But even when the series was remade in 2009, producers had to look beyond Kings Cross to shoot scenes. Most of the show is shot at Longueville Road Lane Cove, which is converted into the famous Golden Mile on the leafy north coast. Longueville stores became The Love Machine, Porky’s and Pink Pussycat. Longueville Road is a no-go zone and even Sydney buses are diverted

Deep in an old gold mine, in a vat of molten xenon, a new hunt has begun for dark matter — the mysterious thing that makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe. No one knows what dark matter actually is. Scientists know it exists because they can measure how its gravity affects distant galaxies, but they have never detected it directly. That’s the goal of a new experiment buried deep beneath Lead, South Dakota: to capture dark matter as it interacts with other particles. This experiment is called LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ for short. This is a 10-ton vat of pure liquid xenon, equipped with a detector to capture the very faint energy flashes that will come from dark matter particles colliding with xenon atoms. The researchers announced Thursday that it was online and ready to search for new particles. “Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries of particle physics today,” said Hugh Lippincott, spokesman for the LZ team of 250 scientists, in a live announcement.