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NewsTinder Founders Launch Music Discovery App
Bringing the swipe-if-you-like concept to the world of music.
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NewsGiant Floating Duck Artwork Could Generate Green Energy for Copenhagen
Seems we can't get enough of giant floating ducks. But this one could power an entire city.
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NewsStreet Artist Invader Has Launched New Worldwide Art Hunt App
The master of the 8-bit video game critter has launched his own game.
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NewsMarina Abramovic, Sia and Pussy Riot Back New Online School For Girls
With Rodarte and Kim Gordon as teachers. Sign us up.
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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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NewsCliff Curtis on Playing a Man with Bi-Polar Disorder
The Hollywood actor and lead role in New Zealand chess drama The Dark Horse.
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NewsWin a Street Art Experience with Co-Founder of Cut Collective Ross Liew
The opportunity to win a ins and outs of creating a wall piece experience; from concept to watching the paint dry.
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NewsPerfume Collection Captures Smells That Could Be Destroyed by Climate Change
A reminder to stop and smell the wine, coffee, coasts and ice.
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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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NewsNo Cameras Allowed Doco Shows One Guy Sneaking Into 50 Music Festivals
Recording your own misdeeds never looked so good.
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NewsMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Crash Claims Delegates to Melbourne AIDS Conference
Some of the world's top medical researchers are thought to be among 298 dead.
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NewsUBER To Deliver Giapo Gelato Ice Cream to New Users for Free
Ice scream, you scream, we all love ice cream.
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NewsCalifornia’s First Electronic Sriracha Festival Fuses EDM with Hot Sauce
Water stations undeniably necessary.
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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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NewsJenny Lewis Drags Up with Famous Friends in New, Instantly Viral Video
Lewis celebrates the end of a six year solo hiatus with Kristen Stewart, Anne Hathway and an instantly viral video.
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NewsRhythm and Alps 2014 Line up Announced
Blowing the cobwebs out of the hill flanked region once again.
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NewsMr and Mrs Smith’s Ten Best Winter Warmer Retreats in Australia and NZ
The boutique hotel experts have some special offers to help you make the most of winter.
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NewsThe Eight Best French Restaurants in Auckland
Concrete Playground invites you to take stock of Auckland’s thriving French dining scene.
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NewsOh Hi Mark! Greg Sestero of The Room Sheds Light on the Worst Film Ever Made
James Franco and Seth Rogen are planning to adapt his memoirs, so life's looking pretty good for the star of the worst movie ever.
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NewsConcrete Playground meets Glass Owls
The musicians behind an honest collection of tunes that ignite an unexplainable kind of joy at every tap of the play button.
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NewsYou’ll Be Able to Toast Season Five with Game of Thrones Wine
"12 houses. 12 temptations. Where does your loyalty lie?"
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NewsMarina Abramovic’s Faux Pharmacy Commercials
The performance artist has now had a commercial makeover thanks to Photoshopper par excellence Vladimir Maislin.
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NewsTomorrowland’s Festival Bracelets Send Friend Requests
Making festival friendship as easy as the press of a heart-shaped button.
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NewsTracey Emin’s Bed Sold for a Small Eyebrow-Raising Fortune at Auction
The classic "is this really art?" debate-sparker has cleaned up at auction.
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NewsThis Photographer Is Documenting the Art of Coffee Cups Around the World
Take a moment to appreciate the little objets d'art you carry around each day.
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NewsThe Ten Best Yum Cha Restaurants in Auckland
Much like a Hayao Miyazaki film captures your inner child, so to does these restaurants.
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NewsTen Must-See Films at the NZ International Film Festival 2014
Buy a ticket and you can learn how Hollywood celebs really live, visit a little-known Gisborne chessmaster, take a road trip to Southern Spain with a couple of misfits and a Beatles-mad teacher and get to know Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and 90s hip hop star Nas.
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NewsAngus and Julia Stone Announce First Australian/NZ Dates in Three Years
Australia's ARIA-dominating folksters are back.
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NewsThe Digioxide Sniffs Out Pollution and Turns It Into Art
From the creator of the self-playing Russian folk bot.
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NewsKurt Vile’s ‘Waking On a Pretty Daze’ Mural Painted Over
This Philadelphian should have Googled before he painted.
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NewsThis Abandoned Underground Mine Is Now a Trampoline Wonderland
This is the stuff dreams (and nightmares) are made of.
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NewsBedford Soda’s Jason Clark Defends National World Class Cocktail Title
Ponsonby Central’s Bedford Soda and Liquor is top of the list of cocktail places you need to be at.
