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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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NewsEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Is Being Turned Into A TV Show
A small screen remake of the film no one can forget — even if your memory has been erased.
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NewsLive Stream Intimate Rehearsals at the World's Best Ballet Companies Today
World Ballet Day is here.
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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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NewsConcrete Playground's Picks For Auckland Artweek
Nine straight days of gallery hopping, innovative live performances, pop-up stalls and much more.
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NewsWhy Westworld Will Be Your Next Addiction
Make no mistake: this is one series that looks like it could be dangerous to those with an addictive personality, and here are just some of the elements why.
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NewsWhat We Do in the Shadows Is Getting A TV Spinoff
"Think Mulder & Scully but in a country where nothing happens."
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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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News20 Things to do in Auckland This October for Under $20
Pull out the calendar and pencil in some seriously awesome ways to enjoy our beautiful Tāmaki Makaurau.
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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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NewsIconic Music Venue The Kings Arms Tavern is Up For Sale
What the industry would call a 'bum note'.
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NewsYour Guide to the Auckland Underground Film Festival
Peer into the brilliantly twisted minds of some of the world's most talented short film makers.
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NewsThe Eight Best Nuggets of Wisdom From Festival for the Future 2016
Baby steps to a desirable future for all.
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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.
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NewsMeet the Artists Behind Immersive Light Sculpture Affinity
A bold and colourful installation shining a literal light on the effects of Alzheimer's.
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NewsSomeone Has Finally Invented Noise-Free Movie Munchies
They're called Silent Snacks, of course.
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NewsAuckland's Getting a Korean Festival
Celebrating the best food, music, art and film from the far east nation.
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NewsAuckland Live Reveals Its 2016 International Cabaret Season
The more fabulous sibling of boring old theatre comes alive.
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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 Eight Best Places to See Art for Free in Auckland
Satisfy your creative itch on the daily commute or a weekend on the cheap.
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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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NewsInfluential Label Stones Throw Records is Coming Down Under For Its 20th Birthday
And tickets are only $3.
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NewsSex, Lies and Tickling: Behind the Scenes of the Year's Strangest Documentary
'Tickled' all started with a very strange online ad and prompted legal threats within a week of pre-production.
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NewsLondon's Latest Interactive Art Exhibition Is Designed Entirely for Dogs
With a dog bowl-shaped ball pit and a meat-scented car window simulator.
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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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NewsConcrete Playground Meets The Offensive Nipple Show
Watercooler vaginas, why being naked is empowering and what's next for the raucous physical comedy.
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NewsSuicide Squad Fans Are Actually Trying to Shut Down Rotten Tomatoes
At the time of writing, this petition has 17,614 signatures protesting against the site.
