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NewsA Guide to Earning Brownie Points this Mother’s Day
We hunt out some brownie point gaining options for you to spoil your Mum on Mother's Day.
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NewsFive Places to Enjoy New Zealand Music this May
We search out five venues doing their thing for New Zealand Music Month.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Tom Green
We sat down with Comedian Tom Green and basically talked Chicken Burgers for the entire 5 minutes.
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NewsTen Gourmet Winter Getaways
These hotel dining rooms draw food critics like thirsty wildebeest to a watering hole.
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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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NewsObama Plays Daniel Day-Lewis Playing Obama in Spoof Video
Obama adds comedian and method actor to his already dazzling resume.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Marlon Wayans
We catch up via phone with american funny man Marlon Wayans.
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NewsUS Gun Lobbyist Makes John Howard Look Progressive
Two Johns team up to bamboozle US gun lobbyist and general loose cannon Philip van Cleave.
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NewsWin Tickets to Broken
Skunk is a happy-go-lucky 11 year old but her innocence is fast disintegrating as the happy certainties of childhood give way to a complex, seemingly broken world. A bittersweet and beautiful coming-of-age story.
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NewsMacklemore and Netsky featuring New Zealand
The latest string of international music videos promoting New Zealand.
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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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NewsDaft Punk Two-Day Afterparty Weekend Vines Announced
Inspired by Daft Punk, Wee Waa is throwing a festival of camping and dancing.
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NewsGrow It Local Is Out to Map Sydney’s Urban Gardens
The City of Sydney gives Grow It Local two green thumbs-up.
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NewsTen Auckland Comedy Festival Acts to Look Forward To
We round of ten of best acts at the upcoming International Comedy Festival 2013.
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NewsMonocle Does Coffee Now
The magazine-gone-global brand synonymous with cool is now serving designer lattes to savvy Londoners.
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NewsAmnesty International Trial by Timeline
Amnesty International turned to where kiwis spend a lot of their spare time to spread the word of human right abuses occurring around the world.
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NewsWin Breakfast at COOL FOOD for You and Your Mum
Win yourself a brunch with Mum at COOL FOOD cafe.
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Win Tickets to Mother’s Day High Tea
One of the most traditional ways to celebrate Mother's Day is with a decadent high tea indulging in the sweetest of treats.
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NewsWin a Mother’s Day Feast at The Grill by Sean Connolly
The Grill by Sean Connolly is hosting a special shared lunch as a way to honour the mother of all celebrations.
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NewsA New Wave of Music Inspired Art + Win Beck’s Beer
Beck's Beer collaborates with indie-pop band Ghost Wave on their latest campaign.
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NewsSupport Local Comedy, Vote and Win in the TV3 People’s Choice Award
Support local comedy and VOTE for your favourite comedian... plus win the ultimate overseas comedy experience by doing so!
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NewsEight Genre-Defining Beards of Modern Music
The Beards aren't the only band with facial hair that says a lot about their music.
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NewsThe Top Ten Fashion Trends of 2013
We've teamed up with Mercedes Benz to present our picks for the top trends of 2013 to celebrate the launch of the fashionable new A-Class.
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NewsTen Up and Coming New Zealand Musicians
Corona Extra presents ten of the best up and coming New Zealand musicians.
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NewsTime Travel via Phone Box Is Possible Thanks to NYC’s New Museum
The pay phone finds new life as an auditory time machine letting New Yorkers escape reality.
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NewsTen Inspiring and Insightful TED Talks by Musicians
Amanda Palmer isn't the only industry luminary with a penchant for both lyrics and discourse.
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NewsA Bluffer’s Guide To Yoga in Auckland
lululemon has launched in New Zealand, and what better excuse to pull on our tights and bluff our way through a few stretchy sessions for your reading pleasure.
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NewsVivid Sydney Announces 2013 Lineup
The festival turns five this year, and is celebrating with its most dazzling lineup yet.
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NewsTry a Truly Sustainable Diet at Pestival
The Noma chefs pitch in to help tune your tastebuds to the appreciation of bugs.
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NewsWin $1000 Worth of Clothing on Fallenfront.co.nz
Fallenfront are offering all new subscribers the chance to win $1000 worth of clothing.
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NewsWin Tickets to No
Win tickets to No, the compelling and controversial docu-drama which delves into the murky waters of Chilean political history.
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NewsThe Five Best New Summer Drinking Spots in Auckland
Where we quenched our thirst in Auckland's summer of 2012/2013.
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NewsSix Unbelievable Things You’re Missing at SXSW 2013
From a talking show courtesy of Google to a vending machine that lets you choose the party beats, SXSW 2013 opened with a bang.
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NewsBe Jealous, Bikers: London Goes Dutch with $1.4 Billion Cycle Highway
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announces cycle-friendly plans to inspire city planners everywhere.
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NewsSpace Odyssey: Ten Futuristic Hotels Around the World
When only futuristic chic will do, check out these ten space-age stays around the world.
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NewsWin Tickets to Rust and Bone
Concrete Playground has five double passes to give away to Rust and Bone, an utterly absorbing and powerful French love story.
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NewsTen Inspiring Surf Getaways Across the Globe
Surf traveller and Editor/Founder of Stab Magazine, Derek Rielly, offers his insights into ten dreamboat waves across the globe.
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NewsBerlin Wall Is Being Torn Down…Again
For the second time in a matter of only a few years, a chunk of the Berlin Wall, and the striking art that covers it, is set to be torn down
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NewsA Lego Hogwarts Exists That Is Almost Big Enough to Enter
This Hogwarts castle made out of 400,000 Lego blocks is possibly more stupefying than the real Hogwarts.
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NewsGet Jazzy in the Bay this Easter
Perfect excuse to get some culture in the mighty bay of plenty.
