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NewsBrilliant Things to do in Auckland This August
Everything from an environmental singles event on an island, a talk about intense animal encounters, sardonic observation comedy, and some ballet from across the ditch.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to National Geographic Presents My Nine Lives
Photographer Steve Winter takes you on a behind-the-scenes of tour of getting photos worthy of the National Geographic.
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NewsMajor Lazer, Duke Dumont, DJ Snake, Oliver Heldens and Galantis to Headline OUR:HOUSE
Featuring genre-spanning banger-makers and the person responsible for a viral crunk sensation.
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NewsThe Others Way Festival Unveil An Indie Line-up to Rule Them All
None of that mainstream trash.
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NewsWin Tickets to The Guest
We take a look at five other cult films that would bring something special to your front door via the big screen.
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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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NewsTim Flower on Shooting New Zealand with Camouflage Detection Film
Using camouflage detection film to reinterpret the New Zealand landscape.
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NewsNational Geographic Photographer Steve Winter on Competing with Pictures of Cute, Fluffy Kittens on the Internet
Steve Winter spends six or so months get the shot that you spend six or so seconds looking at.
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NewsFight Club as a Rock Opera? It's Actually Happening
Chuck Palahniuk, David Fincher and Trent Reznor are apparently all on board.
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NewsThe Ten Must-See Movies of the New Zealand International Film Festival
The NZIFF is basically Christmas, but in July.
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NewsTake a Delicious, Delicious Tour of Nick Offerman's Pizza Farm
“If it’s on a plant, it’s good for you, who cares how it got there.”
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NewsSee Localised Listening Trends of Cities Around the World
Roots/rock/reggae is more popular than you think.
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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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NewsNew Music Festival to Launch in Bay of Plenty
A genre-bending artist line-up in an other-worldly setting.
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NewsThis NYC Rapper Made an Entire Album in an Apple Store
When Prince Harvey's laptop was stolen, he came up with a Genius solution.
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NewsThis Massive Ball Pit 'Beach' Is Made for Art-Loving Kidults
An ocean of 750,000 recyclable plastic balls has taken over the entire atrium of DC's National Building Museum.
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NewsThe Best Advice and Observations to Come Out of Semi-Permanent 2015
"Nothing I know belongs to me, I'm really just a product of all the people I've met and been exposed to."
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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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NewsUnderstanding the Work of Marina Abramovic in Five Phases
How the performance artist got from bodily extremes to quiet introspection — and with it, superstardom.
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NewsMusic Producer Kamandi on Turning a Washed Up Middle Aged Man into a Martyr
We also talk about the pressure of saying yes, the feelings behind a song and the value of just making a lot of music.
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NewsBrilliant Things to Do in Auckland this July
A photo exhibition that encapsulates 2014, the best local tour of the year, unprofessional professional EDM artists and a live music and film crossbreed are just some of the things that make July a brilliant time to explore this fine city of ours.
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NewsGoogle 'Bad Ass Mother Fucker' to Find Artist and Hacker Evan Roth
He builds fake Google street cars to wreck havoc on the streets, collabs with Jay Z and has a permanent art installation at MoMA.
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NewsFive Things You May Not Know About Hermitude + Win Tickets to Their New Zealand Shows
Fresh from the New York’s Governor’s Ball and SXSW, the Aussie genre-benders are now touring New Zealand.
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NewsTiny Ruins On Creating Good Art Out of Banality
"It’s that kind of sense of fobbing away a part of yourself – the more that I felt that, the more I scrambled to make the most of my songwriting."
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NewsNZIFF Has Made a Foray into Cannes
NZIFF will screen seventeen films from the prestigious festival - including the winners of the Best Director, Jury Prize and Best Actor categories.
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NewsThe Ten Best Boutique Cinemas in Auckland
The following list includes mainstream, light art-house and hardcore art-house cinema.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Contemporary Artist Joe Helmore
Like his paintings, Joe Helmore is a bit of a pick and mix.
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NewsYour Winter Film Guide
The Hollywood blockbuster formula meets hard-to-tackle issues like mental health and the role of women.
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NewsConcrete Playground Wants You
We are looking for an additional freelance cultural connoisseur based in either Wellington or Auckland.
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NewsWatch Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the First Macbeth Trailer
Australian director Justin Kurzel's highly anticipated follow-up to Snowtown.
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NewsAmerican Football is Coming to New Zealand Next Year
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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NewsElizabeth Rose's New Single Is an Anthem for Marriage Equality
With sale proceeds being used to help fight discrimination. What a legend.
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NewsOstro's Josh Emett Is Bringing You a Side of Live Music with Your Mains
Matter-of-factly named 'Dinner and a Show', you will be treated to exactly that.
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