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NewsWhy La La Land Shouldn't Win Best Original Score at This Year's Academy Awards
And why you should care about the oft-forgotten Oscars category.
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NewsLondon Could Be Getting a Permanent Public David Bowie Memorial
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched for a three-storey monument to the entertainment icon.
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NewsA Shortland Street Musical is Coming to Auckland Arts Festival
The most exciting development for the soap since 'penis-gate'.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Australian Multi-Instrumentalists Hermitude
Get acquainted with some Blue Mountains electronica and score a double pass to the group's show this Friday.
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NewsTen Brilliant Things to See and Do at the Auckland Fringe Festival
Look beyond your average night out at the movies.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Sydney Electronic Producer What So Not
The allure of making beats, how 'High You Are' came to life, his progress as a musician and plans for the future.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do Around Auckland in January
Take advantage of the quiet city and long summer days to enjoy events, exhibitions, theatre, markets and some great films.
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GuideSeven Immersive and Impressive Art Exhibitions to Visit Around New Zealand This Autumn
From immersive moving Van Gogh artworks to two-storey labyrinths of black wool, here's where you can get your art fix around the country.
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GuideSeven Exciting and Powerful Auckland Art Exhibitions to Step Into This Spring
From tumultuous and unsettling photography to immersive moving image projects, here's where you can get your art fix around the city.
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GuideTen Must-See Events at Auckland Arts Festival 2019
Auckland Arts Festival launches into its 11th year with multidimensional dance, critically acclaimed dream pop and a free sing-along waiata.
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GuideTen Shows, Installations and Parties to Get Amongst at Auckland Fringe Festival 2019
Auckland's favourite independent open-access arts festival is back for another year.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to do This Labour Weekend
A much-adored folk songwriter, the largest screening of Russian films outside of the motherland, an annual geek-gathering, a Sunday session to rule them all, and the man responsible for 2013’s most ...
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NewsYour Guide to Splore 2017
It's all about nurturing your soul with the perfect mix of art, music, performance, food and good vibes.
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Guide15 Brilliant Things to do This Auckland Anniversary Weekend
You're spoilt for choice this year, folks.
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NewsMikey Havoc on the Return of Kiwi Band Push Push
Havoc gets the band back together for a reunion tour with British hard rockers The Darkness.
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NewsA Conversation With Car Seat Headrest Frontman Will Toledo
The journey to a record deal, finding motivation as an artist and the makings of a 'classic rock show'.
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GuideThe Best Free Things to Do in Auckland This Week
Dancing in the park, openair cinema and a belated Christmas shindig.
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NewsLaneway Folk Artist Julia Jacklin on the Enduring Influence of Britney Spears, Post-Lockout Laws Sydney and Finding Your People
The gloomy yet dreamy folk singer-songwriter began making music after she was prematurely struck by existential crisis as a 10-year-old child.
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NewsAuckland Museum Has Launched a Series of Sunday Sessions
Covering everything from modern jazz to psychedelic pop, otherworldly hip hop and indie fuzz.
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NewsNine Things You Probably Didn't Know About Drax Project
Insight into the story behind the band, their goals, sound and why we should head along to their upcoming gig.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Diaz Grimm
Off the back of releasing his second album, 2077, we talk the importance of community, Trump, and living in the future with the eternally optimistic Cambridge rapper.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Tycho
Plus, win an up-close-and-personal experience with the band at Laneway Festival.
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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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NewsThe Nine Best Free Things You Can Do This Week in Auckland
A drawing club, a particularly lit outdoor theatre show, outdoor yoga and bingo are all yours to enjoy - for free.
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NewsEat, Drink and Dance Under the Stars At Flamingo Pier 2017
The event touted as the perfect summer party is back for its third innings.
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NewsAuckland Council's Open-Air Entertainment Series Returns For 2017
Music and motion under the stars of Tamaki Makaurau.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to Tiny Ruins
See the dreamy New Zealand artist who's casually worked with David Lynch, and toured with Neil Finn, Sharon van Etten and Calexico.
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NewsBasement Jaxx to play exclusive DJ Set in Westhaven
They were last here in 2000 for an infamous set at the Big Day Out.
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GuideYour Socialiser Guide to the Weekend in Auckland
Weekends are precious. Just over two and a quarter glorious days devoid of responsibility and overflowing with possibility.
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NewsAuckland City Limits Reschedules for March 2018
Not even Kendrick could save the festival from hitting a roadblock in 2017.
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NewsA Massive LEGO Christmas Tree is Coming to Auckland
The tree will stand over 10 metres tall and weigh 3.5 tonnes.
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Wellington's Eyegum Collective Have Launched a New Music Festival
Championing a 'do-it-together' spirit and first-rate underground music.
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NewsSplore Festival Unveil Their Second Artist Lineup
More entertainment for the country's greatest dress up party.
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NewsThe Second Lineup Has Been Announced For Rhythm and Vines
Over 100 acts are now scheduled to perform at the country's longest running New Year's festival.
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NewsHilarious Dance Party Crap Music Rave Is Returning to New Zealand
Helping us laugh at the musical hiccups of others.
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NewsWatch Glen Hansard Sing Inside the Sails of the Sydney Opera House
Experience a completely new angle of this iconic performance venue.
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NewsAn Intercontinental Lineup Has Been Announced For WOMAD
For fans of ska-punk, laidback bossa nova, New Orleans brass, dubstep and everything in between.
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NewsThe Finalists Have Been Announced For the 2016 NZ Music Awards
All vying for the prestigious golden bottle opener.
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NewsAgainst the Grain: How Geneva Alexander-Marsters Conveys Her Culture and Ideas Through Music
Follow the journey of Auckland's fearless creatives doing things on their own terms.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Electric Wire Hustle
Defying genres and reaching for a higher state of being.
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NewsThe Winners of 2016 APRA Silver Scroll Awards Have Been Announced
"A light-hearted song about taking someone to Mars and lying in the dirt, drinking Cognac and listening to records."
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NewsIconic Music Venue The Kings Arms Tavern is Up For Sale
What the industry would call a 'bum note'.
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NewsThe First Artist Lineup Has Been Announced For Splore 2017
If beachside dancing and mid-ocean listening weren't already enough.
