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NewsSBS Announces First Ever Asia-Pacific Eurovision Song Contest
And Australia is up for hosting the first one.
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NewsThis New Streaming Service Wants to Bring New Release Movies to Your Living Room
Watch Hollywood blockbusters from the comfort of your couch the same day they hit cinemas.
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NewsLove Stories, Classics and Invasion Tactics Are on the Menu for the NZIFF Autumn Events
To help ease the transition into the winter season, the NZIFF Autumn Events will host a selection of classic as well as a handful of premiere films.
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NewsScore Tickets to L'orchestre d'Hommes-Orchestres Performs Tom Waits
A wacky, unimaginable interpretation of the gravel-voiced raconteur.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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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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NewsTen Films from SXSW We're Hoping Will Come to New Zealand
Richard Linklater's latest, the awaited Slenderman doco, and the Farsi answer to The Babadook.
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NewsComedy-Pizza Pop-up Montecristo Comedy is Back For Another Season
Combining two of life’s greatest pleasures.
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NewsAuckland City Limits Have Dropped Their Artist Schedule and Site Map
Main Stage #1, 9.30pm, be there.
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NewsBerlin's Disused Telephone Booths Are Being Turned Into Mini Nightclubs
A relic of telecommunications becomes the ultimate rave cave.
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NewsYour Guide to the Auckland Arts Festival 2016
Whether you have a thing for comedy, theatre, ballet, or maybe even a slightly concerning obsession with fire, this year's festival will have something to tickle your fancy.
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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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GuideBrilliant Things to Do in Auckland This March
The third month of the year welcomes a bumper selection of activities.
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NewsSee the Incredible Winning Pictures from the 2016 World Press Photo Contest
See the heartbreaking year that was through the lenses of the world's best photojournalists.
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News125 Acts Have Been Announced for This Year's NZ International Comedy Festival
Wisecracks from award-winning internationals, popular locals and returning festival favourites.
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NewsFinalists Announced for the 2016 Taite Music Prize
Otherworldly folk, space-pop, alt-country, offbeat indie-pop and psychedelic electronica.
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NewsAuckland City Limits Reveals Festival Artwork Program
Bringing a sense of playfulness and practical adventure to the one-day music festival.
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NewsCourtney Barnett's Live Blog Was the Best Thing About the Grammys
Apart from Kendrick. Because Kendrick.
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NewsVan Gogh Has Listed His 'Bedroom' on Airbnb, and You Can Stay in It
Spend a night in a replica of the post-impressionist's The Bedroom.
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NewsJK Rowling Is Releasing an Eighth Harry Potter Book Because All Is Well
We're damn well stupefied.
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NewsWin a Booking at The Lost Society Cocktail Bar at Splore 2016
A secret cocktail destination for you and three friends.
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NewsScore a Lonesome Beast Native Print by Shelton Woolright
Plus exhibition entry for you and your friends.
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NewsLaneway Tracks To Send You Into the Weekend
Relive Auckland Anniversary Day throughout the rest of the glorious summer.
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NewsAuckland City Limits Complete Their 2016 Lineup
Featuring a genre-mashing sampling genius and a stage curated by the city's most forward-thinking entertainment hub.
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NewsBrilliant Things to Do in Auckland This February
There's more to the shortest month than V-Day.
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NewsSix Brilliant Things to Do This Auckland Anniversary Weekend
An indie-centric music festival, a celebration of our rich Maori heritage, a quintessential Kiwi dub band, and lots of seafood.
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NewsShoot the Shit with Edgar Mahon from Midnight Gallery
Edgar Mahon tests the waters with his solo exhibition EP First World Problem.
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NewsYou Can't Swim in Artist Leandro Erlich's Pool (But You Can Walk Along the Bottom)
One of our favourite, most Instagrammable optical illusions to date.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Useful Guide to the 2016 Oscar Race
Who will win, who should win and who got snubbed.
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NewsBen & Jerry's Openair Cinema is Coming to Auckland
More important, there will be free ice cream* for all.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Nightmares On Wax
Talking Serato, Ibiza, sampling and the current state of hip hop.
