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The Madness That is The American Express Queenstown Winter Festival

Hot tub cinemas, night-time skiing, parties and more.

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Pay $20,000 for George R.R. Martin to Kill You in His Next Game of Thrones Novel

Killing in the name of wolf conservation.

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Banksy Print ‘I Can’t Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit’ is Being Sold for Thousands

No one seems to care about the irony.

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France is Paying Commuters to Ride to Work

Want to be paid to pedal? Move to Paris.

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Some Ponsonby Favourites Get a Winter Makeover

The Bird and The Cav is back and better than ever.

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The Ten Best Vintage Stores in Auckland

Here are CP’s top ten true vintage stores in Auckland.

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Ten Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month

Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson and an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller.
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Must-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far

Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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Eleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in April

Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
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Eleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in March

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Say Cheers to Hollywood's Night of Nights: Concrete Playground's Oscars 2024 Drinking Game

Whether you're hoping that 'Oppenheimer', 'Barbie', 'Poor Things', 'Past Lives' or something else picks up Academy Awards, here's how to sip along.
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Predicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2024 Academy Awards

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Here's Where You Can Watch 32 of 2024's Oscar-Nominated Movies in New Zealand Right Now

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Pozible Launches Hyper-Local Project Edition: The Sydney Edit

Sydney's crowdfunding projects all in one handy place.

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The Ten Most Social Bands in New Zealand

Surprisingly surprising

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Game of Thrones Exhibition to Open in Sydney

Just two days after winter has officially landed, HBO has gone and announced something totally off The Wall.

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New Yorkers are Wading into the East River to Play a Broken Piano

It's time for our favourite guessing game: art, rubbish or marketing stunt?

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The Ten Best Bars and Eateries of Remuera

We look into the hometown village of the late Sir Edmund Hillary and Bruce Mclaren.

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Red Bull Sound Select Block Party Announced

Get excited

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Five Unexpected Things We Learnt From Cannes Film Festival 2014

Tarantino says cinema is dead, and your boyfriend Ryan Gosling sucks at directing.

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NPR’s New Database of Commencement Speeches is Guaranteed to Make Your Day

Because uni grads aren't the only ones in need of a little inspiration.

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An Insider’s Tips on How to Do Radelaide

Cam Knight shares a few of his favourite Adelaidean things.

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Something to smile about.

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The Eight Best Films to See at the Architecture and Design Film Festival

The festival tackles all the grittier issues of design: screening informative, challenging and visually beautiful films.

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Concrete Playground’s Picks for the Auckland Writers Festival

You love to read but the books by your bed are building a dusty tower of guilt.

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Michelangelo’s David Is at Risk of Falling Over

A biblical hero and flawless Renaissance man brought down by his Achilles heel.

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The World’s Smallest Postal Service Has Arrived

Can our love of adorably small things save a dying industry?

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These Artists are Painting an Entire Town in Mexico

'Painting the town red' gets a whole new meaning.

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World’s Remotest Film Festival Marks Its 11th Anniversary

The festival takes place in the Sahara desert, 170 kilometres away from the nearest village.

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The Ten Best Bars and Eateries of Karangahape Road

The best our most colourful road has to offer.

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London Might Become a Friendlier City with Project Talk to Me

An end to lonely tube commutes on dark, frosty mornings?

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This Guy is Trying to Collect Every Copy of Speed on VHS

Like the bus in Speed, we collectively cannot - and will not - stop.

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Aaron Sorkin Has Apologised for The Newsroom

"I wish that I could go back to the beginning of The Newsroom and start again."

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Rent Joss Whedon’s Brand New Tribeca Film ‘In Your Eyes’ For Just Five Clams

The Avengers director high-fived his fans worldwide by releasing the film online.

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Win Ten Nights on the Town in Auckland with Concrete Playground

Win ten classic nights out.

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Your Guide to the 10th Semi-Permanent Design Conference

A creative platform spreading art and design inspiration.

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You Can Now Enrol in Hogwarts Thanks to a New MOOC

Listen up, muggles. Your letter has arrived.

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