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NewsThe Six Best Whitsundays Hotels with Ocean Views
All the spas, infinity pools and panoramic views you can get your hands on.
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NewsFive Reasons to Head to the Whitsundays
At the risk of sounding like your mum, going to the Whitsundays would be for your own good.
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NewsA Town in NSW Yarn Bombed a Submarine in Honour of The Beatles
No prizes for guessing what colour wool they chose.
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NewsJeff Koons Gets Naked in the Latest Vanity Fair
Like all of Koons' art, this is understandably NSFW.
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NewsThe Dark Horse to Open New Zealand International Film Festival
Local films about double lives, speed chess champions, Israeli politics and climate change have made the cut for this year's New Zealand International Film Festival. Thirteen Kiwi films being showcased, including The Dark Horse which will kick off the two-and-a-half week event.
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NewsThe Top Winter Essentials to Pack for a Snow Trip
From Cards Against Humanity to Dumb and Dumber, here's the ultimate list of what to pack when entering the realms of the White Walkers.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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NewsTen 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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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson and an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller.
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GuideMust-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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NewsEleven 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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NewsEleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in March
Spend your couch time watching Adam Sandler in space, a stunning Oscar-winning documentary, girl group-fuelled sitcom hilarity and Noel Fielding's latest show.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsNine 2024 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
'Oppenheimer', an astonishing Ukraine-set documentary, a Wes Anderson short, Emma Stone's most-spectacular performance yet: they each won 2024 Oscars, and you can check them them all now.
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NewsSay 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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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2024 Academy Awards
Will 'Oppenheimer' sweep the Oscars? What else will win? What should but won't? Here are our predictions.
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NewsFive Tasty Cocktails to Enjoy on World Gin Day
There’s more to a good gin mixer than just tonic or juice.
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NewsTaxi Drivers Protest Uber for Taking Fares
Cabbies have finally had enough of having their grass cut.
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NewsGoogle Catalogues Graffiti Around the World with New Street Art Project
Google's creepy Big Brother vibes are finally paying off.
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NewsRed Bull Flying Bach Coming to Auckland
Head spins driven by the keys of a piano and windmills following an obbligato.
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NewsThe Madness That is The American Express Queenstown Winter Festival
Hot tub cinemas, night-time skiing, parties and more.
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NewsPay $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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BarScarlett Slimms & Lucky
476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland
Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.
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BarCassette Nine
Vulcan Lane, Auckland
Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.
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RestaurantMiss Clawdy
12 Jellicoe Street, Auckland
There is a sassy new lady in town ready to serve you some good ol' fashioned soul food. Introducing Miss Clawdy, the newest feather in Wynyard Quarter's culinary cap.
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NewsBanksy 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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NewsSome Ponsonby Favourites Get a Winter Makeover
The Bird and The Cav is back and better than ever.
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NewsPozible Launches Hyper-Local Project Edition: The Sydney Edit
Sydney's crowdfunding projects all in one handy place.
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NewsGame 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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NewsNew 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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NewsThe 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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NewsFive 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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NewsNPR’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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NewsTen Online Stores That Are Definitely Worth a Browse
A list for those who crave the sheer exaltation of a successful online purchase.
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NewsOver 80 Writers and Editors Slam Arts Cuts in Open Letter to the Abbott Government
Christos Tsiolkas, JM Coetzee, Anna Funder and 85 others protest against the 2014 Budget's cuts to arts funding.
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NewsAn Insider’s Tips on How to Do Radelaide
Cam Knight shares a few of his favourite Adelaidean things.
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NewsUniversal’s Harry Potter Theme Park is After Your Galleons With Their Latest Gringotts Ride
It features a 60-foot dragon. Enough said.
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NewsDiners To Pay With Instagrammed Food Pics at World’s Most Infuriating Pop-Up
Do you tweet before you eat?
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NewsFive Restaurants Leading the Burger Revolution in Auckland
Lock up your gherkins, the burgers are coming in hot.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets the Kubb Brothers
After having a toss myself, I must say it's quite addictive
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NewsThe Walking Dead Pop-Up Store Requires You Pay with Your Blood
That T-shirt'll cost you about 335ml.
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NewsThe 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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NewsConcrete 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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NewsMichelangelo’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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NewsThe World’s Smallest Postal Service Has Arrived
Can our love of adorably small things save a dying industry?
