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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Kittens Of The Internet
New music, Channel Orange and beating the shit out of your inner critic.
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NewsThe Top Five Finalists For The 2016 APRA Silver Scroll Have Been Announced
The most prestigious prize in New Zealand songwriting.
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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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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 32 of 2024's Oscar-Nominated Movies in New Zealand Right Now
From 'Barbenheimer' and twists on 'Frankenstein' to animated 'Spider-Man' antics and devastating documentaries, here's where to watch 2024's Oscar contenders.
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NewsInfluential Label Stones Throw Records is Coming Down Under For Its 20th Birthday
And tickets are only $3.
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NewsA Sit Down With Finn Andrews of The Veils
Songwriting, spirituality and the love of making an ungodly racket.
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NewsThe Six Best Dates In Auckland This September
Some bonding activity ideas for you and your other half this month.
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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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Wynyard Quarter is Celebrating Its Fifth Birthday With a Day-Long Blowout
The loveable community space is all grown up.
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NewsThe Five Best Dates in Auckland This August
Take a friend, take your S/O, take that person with who you have a thing but you're not putting any labels on it.
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NewsThe First Lineup Has Been Announced For The Others Way Festival
New Zealand's answer to SXSW is back.
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NewsAnnouncing the Twenty Best New Zealand Songs of the Past Year
Regardless of sales figures and chart success.
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EventChristmas Lights at MOTAT 2024
Tue, 10 Dec - Mon, 23 Dec 2024
MOTAT, Western Springs
MOTAT is bringing nights of festive fun and dazzling lights back for another year.
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EventFat Daddy's Bottomless
Sat, 7 Dec, 2024
The Elephant Wrestler, Takapuna
How many burgers and beers can you down in 90 minutes? Find out at The Elephant Wrestler.
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EventCasa Bacardi in Auckland Viaduct
Thu, 5 Dec, 2024
Viaduct Harbour, Auckland
Casa Bacardi has popped up on Auckland's Viaduct, but a warning to rum-lovers: its here for a good time, not a long time.
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EventTwilight Tuesdays
Tue, 3 Dec, 2024
Auckland War Memorial Museum, Parnell
Wander through Auckland Museum's beautifully-lit galleries after dark.
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EventBritomart Saturday Farmer's Market
Sat, 7 Dec, 2024
Takutai Square, Britomart., Auckland
This weekly inner-city farmer's market sells everything from fresh produce and flowers to coffee, vegan foods, pastries, sweet buns, crepes, juices and savoury snacks.
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EventPasta and Peroni Nights at The Grounds
Sun, 8 Dec, 2024
The Grounds at Whoa! Studios, Auckland
See out the last sunny evenings of autumn with fresh pasta handmade by an ex-Baduzzi chef and ice-cold beers on tap.
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EventYoga in the Sky
Multiple single dates
SkyCity Auckland, Auckland
Take your yoga practice to a whole new level — level 51, that is.
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EventSmales Farmers Market
Mon, 9 Dec, 2024
Smales Farm, North Shore
Auckland's newest farmers market arrives across the harbour.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Indie-Pop Purveyor Lawrence Arabia
Musical inspiration, sound evolution and the origin of names.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Brother-Sister Electro-Duo Broods
Plus, score a Broods prize package.
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NewsBitTorrent Is Launching a New (and Legal) Music Streaming Service
Not just the platform that helps you sneakily pirate TV shows.
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NewsWin a Four-Course Degustation With Matched Wine at Harbourside
Plus, musical accompaniment from lauded jazz muso Nathan Haines.
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NewsAuckland Museum Announce Their First Major Exhibition Dedicated to New Zealand Music
From the Dunedin Sound to barbecue reggae.
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NewsYour Guide to Record Store Day 2016 in Auckland
Forget the hype and the Justin Bieber single on "piss yellow vinyl" and help out the little guys this Record Store Day.
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Finalists Announced For the 2016 MMF Music Managers Awards
Recognising the individuals behind some of the nation's most successful musicians.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass Announces Killer 2016 Lineup
And tickets go on sale at 9am on Thursday, April 21.
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NewsScore Tickets to L'orchestre d'Hommes-Orchestres Performs Tom Waits
A wacky, unimaginable interpretation of the gravel-voiced raconteur.
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NewsAuckland City Limits Have Dropped Their Artist Schedule and Site Map
Main Stage #1, 9.30pm, be there.
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GuideBrilliant Things to Do in Auckland This March
The third month of the year welcomes a bumper selection of activities.
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NewsFinalists Announced for the 2016 Taite Music Prize
Otherworldly folk, space-pop, alt-country, offbeat indie-pop and psychedelic electronica.
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NewsAuckland City Limits Reveals Festival Artwork Program
Bringing a sense of playfulness and practical adventure to the one-day music festival.
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NewsCourtney Barnett's Live Blog Was the Best Thing About the Grammys
Apart from Kendrick. Because Kendrick.
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NewsWin a Booking at The Lost Society Cocktail Bar at Splore 2016
A secret cocktail destination for you and three friends.
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