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    Win This Tiger Beer x Joe Helmore Painting Valued at $3000

    Joe Helmore is a bold, intriguing new contemporary artist on the New Zealand art scene.

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    A Brief History of New Zealand Fashion Week

    We take a retrospective look at NZFW - including the times we saw a severed boar head, a $33,000 crystal embellished tuxe and people not wearing much.

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    Corona Presents The Peacekeepers for a Series of Free Mountainside Sunset Parties

    Corona takes The Peacekeepers to the slopes in a series of live DJ parties.

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    The Finalists for the 2015 APRA Silver Scroll Award Have Been Announced

    Recognising creative excellence in the craft of songwriting.

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    Reasons to Go to McLaren Falls Festival Include a Waterfall, Disclosure, a Glow Worm Forest and Kurt Vile

    Expect everything from indie rock slackers to a psychedelic hip-hop electro boy band.

Latest Guides
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    A Giant, Inflatable Quasi-Cathedral is Coming to New Zealand

    Enter into an inflated space that looks kind of like the set from a deleted scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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    Here's Rhythm and Vines' First Lineup Release

    A bit of nostalgia, a little bit of trap and some music to swoon to.

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    FKA Twigs Drops Surprise 16-Minute Film and New EP

    You'd better believe M3LL155X is trippy as blazes.

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    Patti Smith's 'Just Kids' Memoir Is Being Made Into a Miniseries

    Step aside, Gossip Girl. This is real NYC love.

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    Laneway Festival is Homeless

    And no one really knows where it's going to go next.

Latest Places
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    This That

    57 Lorne St , Auckland City

    A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.

  • Bar

    Scarlett Slimms & Lucky

    476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland

    Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.

  • Bar

    Cassette Nine

    Vulcan Lane, Auckland

    Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.

  • Restaurant

    Miss 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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    BMD Thinks Safety is a Place Where Creativity Goes to Die

    "There are big challenges with working large scale outdoors, opposed to the fine artist who can sit inside, work in peace on his work with a cup of tea and the heater on. But how boring is that?"

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    Brilliant 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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    Win 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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    Major 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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    Northern Bass Announce Their 2015 Lineup

    All about that bass, about that bass.

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    Win 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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    Tim Flower on Shooting New Zealand with Camouflage Detection Film

    Using camouflage detection film to reinterpret the New Zealand landscape.

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    National 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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    Fight 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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    Take 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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    See Localised Listening Trends of Cities Around the World

    Roots/rock/reggae is more popular than you think.

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    New Music Festival to Launch in Bay of Plenty

    A genre-bending artist line-up in an other-worldly setting.

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    This 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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    This 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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    The 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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    Understanding 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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    Music 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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    Brilliant 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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    Google '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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    Five 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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    Win a Double Pass to Semi-Permanent

    Take a creative health weekend.

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    Tiny 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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    New York Is Getting a Pop-Up Seinfeld Museum

    Open for five days only. Get. Out.

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    NZIFF 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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    The Ten Best Boutique Cinemas in Auckland

    The following list includes mainstream, light art-house and hardcore art-house cinema.

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