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NewsKendrick Lamar's DAMN. Pop-Up Shop Is Coming to Auckland
The pop-up will be selling limited-edition 'DAMN.' merch — and Lamar himself may also make surprise appearances.
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NewsThe 20 Best New Zealand Songs From the Past Year Have Been Announced
Including a pop earworm, a breakup ballad and peppy psychedelic funk.
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NewsThe First Lineup Has Been Announced for Bay Dreams 2019
Carry your NYE shenanigans into 2019 with London electronica, New Orleans rap and reggae fusion.
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NewsInternational Filmmakers Announced to Speak at NZIFF 2018
Featuring an Academy Award nominated filmmaker, the makers of a 'counter-narrative to Australian mythology' and a documentary maker exploring the relationship between roller-skating rinks, hip hop culture and property developers.
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NewsThe Cast of 'Twin Peaks' Is Coming to New Zealand
Five of the series' stars head down under to chat doppelgängers, David Lynch and life inside the Black Lodge.
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NewsA New Music Festival Will Land in Auckland This September
Electronica meets hip hop at this new festival.
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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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GuideThe Eight Best Things to Do for Matariki Festival in Auckland
Celebrate the Māori New Year with street parties, gourmet hangi and illuminated dance-theatre on wheels.
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NewsThe Trailer for 'What We Do in the Shadows' TV Spinoff 'Wellington Paranormal' Is Here
"Think Mulder & Scully but in a country where nothing happens."
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NewsTen Things We Learned Chatting with Greg Sestero About 'The Room', Tommy Wiseau and 'Best F(r)iends'
The new film is based on the time Tommy Wiseau thought Sestero was going to kill him.
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NewsNew Zealand International Film Festival's Jam-Packed 2018 Program Is Here
Featuring winners from Cannes, New Zealand-made features and a series of retrospective screenings, the 50th edition of NZIFF is shaping up to be a big one.
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NewsDaria Is Heading Back to Your TV Screen Courtesy of an All-New Reboot
La la la la la — everyone's favourite sardonic 90s teen is heading back to the small screen.
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NewsThis Colourful Forest Installation Is Entirely Made Out of Discarded Plastics
Danish artist Thomas Dambo worked with hundreds of volunteers to turn three tonnes of plastic waste into art.
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RestaurantThis That
57 Lorne St , Auckland City
A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.
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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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NewsYou'll Soon Be Able to Visit a James Bond Museum Built Into an Austrian Mountain
Explore the world of Britain's most famous fictional spy on one of the mountains seen in Spectre.
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NewsWellington Council Has Voted Through a Proposal to Become a te reo Maori City
It aims to make te reo a core part of Wellington’s identity through ensuring it is widely seen, heard and spoken.
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NewsTen Auckland Galleries Where You Can See Exceptional Art for Free
Where to see fresh art for zero dollars.
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NewsBehind the Scenes of 2018's Scariest Film with 'Hereditary' Director Ari Aster
We talk to Aster about the catharsis of horror, casting Toni Collette and what makes the film so terrifying.
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News
A Huge Program Has Been Announced for Matariki Festival 2018
Mark the arrival of Māori New Year with a massive street party, gourmet hāngi and an illuminated parade.
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NewsLike Winter, a Game of Thrones Prequel Series Is Coming
HBO has ordered a pilot for a potential spin-off, set thousands of years before the current series.
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EventSmales Farmers Market
Wed, 9 Oct, 2024
Smales Farm, North Shore
Auckland's newest farmers market arrives across the harbour.
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NewsA Live Aid-Style Concert Will Be Held at Eden Park Next Year
In an effort to save one million premature babies.
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NewsFive Films from Cannes 2018 We Can't Wait to See in New Zealand
Some of them may already be on their way to our cinemas; others we'll have to cross our fingers for.
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NewsEight Homegrown Films Have Been Announced for NZIFF
Including five world premieres and the return of live cinema with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
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NewsArtist Mike Parr Will Spend 72 Hours Buried Under a Hobart Road During Dark Mofo
He'll descend into a box measuring just 4.5 metres by 1.7 metres by 2.2 metres for three days, with traffic driving over the top.
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NewsA New HBO Documentary Series Will Revisit the Case Against Serial's Adnan Syed
It's being made by the director of true crime doco 'West of Memphis' and will have a score by Nick Cave.
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NewsFive Picks for Auckland Writers Festival 2018
More than 230 of the planet's best writers have been booked for this year's literary feast — here are five essential events to pencil in your diary.
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NewsBob Dylan Will Return to New Zealand to Play Two Stadium Shows
The living legend will return to our shores for two shows that will showcase six decades of songs.
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NewsJapan's Kaleidoscopic New Digital-Only Art Museum Is Your Next Reason to Visit Tokyo
Featuring a forest filled with lamps that respond to human interaction and a virtual tea party that pairs your hot beverage with digital blooming flowers.
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NewsThe New Zealand International Film Festival Teases Its 2018 Program with Nine Features
Including the story of a show-stopping Chinese designer, a haunting new film from the director of 'Winter’s Bone' and a Cannes award winner.
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NewsNewmarket's Huge Italian Street Party Is Back for 2018
The grand finale to a month-long partito.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Picks for The Documentary Edge International Film Festival 2018
Screening 74 docos from across the globe, this year's Doc Edge has something for everybody.
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NewsThe US TV Remake of 'What We Do in the Shadows' Is Officially Happening
Ten episodes will air in early-to-mid 2019.
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NewsStudio Ghibli's Magical Theme Park Will Now Open in 2022
The park will spirit visitors away into the Ghibli universe, featuring attractions from 'My Neighbour Totoro', 'Kiki's Delivery Service' and 'Howl's Moving Castle'.
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NewsFive Pieces of Homework to Do Before 'The Handmaid's Tale' Drops Its Second Season
The second season will premiere on Lightbox this week — if it's been a while since you binged the first, here's what you can do to catch up.
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NewsNetflix Might Be Getting Into the Cinema Game With Its Own Chain of Theatres
It's the potential next step for the streaming giant, which will spend up to $8 billion on original content this year.
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NewsTen Picks for the 2018 New Zealand International Comedy Festival
Not your average roll call of comedians.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass Announces 2018 Lineup Led by Kendrick and Lorde
Dust off your gumboots — it's a big one.
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NewsFive Enchantingly Essential Studio Ghibli Gems From Co-Founder and Director Isao Takahata
Before the director passed away this week aged 82, he was responsible for some of Ghibli's best flicks.
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NewsEmpire Records Is Being Adapted Into a Stage Musical
Shock me, shock me, shock me with some '90s comedy fun.
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NewsDark Mofo Has Unveiled Its Massive 2018 Lineup
Returning to MONA in June, it’s chock full of old favourites, powerhouse female artists and the festival's take on Twin Peaks' Bang Bang Bar.
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NewsDocumentary Edge Festival Announces Packed 2018 Program
This year's lineup includes more than 80 thought-provoking documentaries and pint-sized flicks.
