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NewsPizzas and Laughs are on the Menu at the Montecristo and Bacco Room
Italian eatery Toto’s will also be serving up their famous metre-long pizza and three bars will be in operation.
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GuideTen Must See Acts of the NZ International Comedy Festival 2015
How do you make concrete laugh? You tickle it's crack.
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NewsWin One of Ten Nights of Laughs at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival
Go on, have a laugh.
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The STD Ghost, Pubertal Werewolves and the History of Sex in Horror Movies
Worth your time: the new movie whose protagonist is haunted by an anthropomorphised STD.
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NewsThe Five Best Stores to Visit This Record Store Day
Hone those crate digging techniques, Record Store Day is this Saturday.
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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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NewsSt James Theatre to Return for a Weird Night Out
Pay some respect to NZ rave history this NZ Music Month.
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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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NewsFor $10,000 a Night You Too Can Stay in New Zealand's Most Expensive Hotel Suite
Better start saving.
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NewsJay Z Announces First Ever Artist-Owned Streaming Service
"People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water."
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NewsAlison Wonderland Is Bringing Back Her Secret Warehouse Parties
Bringing electronica out of the clubs and into Australia and New Zealand's industrial spaces.
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NewsWin a MINI x FLY Screen Print Plus Six Tickets to Urbis Design Day Worth $450
Enjoy art which balances aesthetic beauty with functionality.
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NewsJimmy Kimmel Pranks SXSW Punters with the Ol' Fake Band Stunt
"What do you think of DJ Gluten... hard to tolerate?"
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NewsNine Incredible Things You're Missing at SXSW This Year
From Tinder robots to Kwik-E-Mart food trucks and virtual reality SNL, SXSW 2015 has truly opened with a bang.
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NewsSee the Eye-Opening Pictures from the 2015 World Press Photo Contest
The world's best photojournalism.
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NewsBrazilian Vinyl Record Collector Looking to Make His Five Million Strong Collection Public
Nothing on repeat, ever.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to See iTMOi
A modern reinterpretation of Stravinsky's ballet which caused a near riot when it was first performed.
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NewsFood Artists Bompas & Parr Make Bespoke Cocktails Based on Your DNA
These cocktails could not be more biologically bespoke.
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NewsAll the Life Advice You Need from Terry Pratchett
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
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NewsThe Instrument to Rule All Instruments Is Almost a Reality
It's a guitar, it's a saxophone, it's a violin, it's a piano; it's all of those things.
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NewsThe Eight Best First Date Destinations in Auckland
Our resident wine and diner takes you on a first date tour of Auckland.
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GuideThe Autumn Arts & Entertainment Guide
All work and no play are a recipe for a regretful autumn.
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NewsTim Burton to Direct Live Action Dumbo Remake
Dancing pink elephants and creepy circuses — classic Burton.
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NewsWin One of Five Double Passes to See Kidnapping Mr Heineken
The story behind the kidnapping of one of the world's richest men.
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NewsYour Guide to the Auckland Arts Festival 2015
Pyrotechnics, Macbeth set in Congo, contemporary ballet from New York, an Indian cooking performance and art by David Shrigley.
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NewsSome Jerks Are Trying to Control the Outbreak of a Fairy Epidemic in an Enchanted Forest in England
"We’re not anti-fairy. But we’ve got little doors everywhere. It’s in danger of getting out of control."
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NewsThe Very Best's New Music Video Uses Beads as 8-Bit Pixels
Mario should've tried more dance-offs to beat the bosses.
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NewsSpark Lab Launches Technology Month
One for those with technological aspirations, or even just an above average interest in this ever changing industry.
