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Artist Joins Forces with Four-Year-Old Daughter to Create Whimsical Portraits

Hollywood slug people brought to you by an artist and her genius four-year-old

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First line-up announced for Northern Bass

Bass in ya face Mangawhai

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Wiz Khalifa Added to Rhythm and Vines Line Up

The latest unveiling of artists may well be enough to whet your festival palete

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News
Win Tickets to Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song

Concrete Playground has five double passes to give away to Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song, which opens in cinemas on September 12 2013

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Win One of Five $20 Vouchers to Spend at Pie Face

Pie Face has landed in New Zealand.

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News
Oil Paint Engineered Out of Toxic Waste

An engineer and an artist transform toxic waste into oil paints and wondrous works of art.

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Latest Guides

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Ten 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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Ten 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.
Guide
Must-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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Eleven 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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Eleven 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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Hop 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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Nine 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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Say 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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Predicting 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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Here'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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The Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend

Five delicious servings of ear candy weighing kilograms of fun with zero calories.

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Porn Trumped by Art at Super-Sophisticated Oslo hotel

No nookie for you.

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Tiki Taane at the La Casa Artist Residency

Take a intimate look into the songwriting process of well-respected New Zealand musician Tiki Taane.

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The Russian Army Channels Their Inner Adele

From Russia with love.

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The Ten Best Karaoke Spots in Auckland

The best spots for belting out renditions of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'I Will Survive' in Auckland.

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News
Win One of Four Andy Warhol x Perrier Water 12 Packs

As part of its 150th anniversary this year, Perrier has released limited edition bottles inspired by pop artist Andy Warhol.

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Latest Places

Cafe
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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Harlem’s A$AP Rocky Headlines La De Da 2013

US rapper A$AP Rocky will be a world away from the streets of Harlem to ring in the New Year this December.

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News
3D Print Your Own Art Masterpiece Forgery

Here is a story to both perturb and titillate the sensitive art-lovers among us.

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Kickstarter Coming to Australia and New Zealand

Nothing has quite transformed the 'crowd funding' story like Kickstarter.

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The National to Return Down Under in February

The National return to our shores come February 2014.

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News
Win Tickets to What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew is a lovely little film which gives you a sense of what it might look, feel and sound like to be that little girl.

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News
Avocado Beer Is a Possibly Delicious Invention

An LA brewery has created a guacamole-inspired beer to celebrate the beginning of avocado season in California.

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Latest Events

Event
Christmas Lights at MOTAT 2024

Tue, 10 Dec - Mon, 23 Dec 2024
MOTAT, Western Springs

MOTAT is bringing nights of festive fun and dazzling lights back for another year.

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Event
Fat Daddy's Bottomless

Sat, 7 Dec, 2024
The Elephant Wrestler, Takapuna

How many burgers and beers can you down in 90 minutes? Find out at The Elephant Wrestler.

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Casa Bacardi in Auckland Viaduct

Thu, 5 Dec, 2024
Viaduct Harbour, Auckland

Casa Bacardi has popped up on Auckland's Viaduct, but a warning to rum-lovers: its here for a good time, not a long time.
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Britomart Saturday Farmer's Market

Sat, 7 Dec, 2024
Takutai Square, Britomart., Auckland

This weekly inner-city farmer's market sells everything from fresh produce and flowers to coffee, vegan foods, pastries, sweet buns, crepes, juices and savoury snacks.
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Pasta and Peroni Nights at The Grounds

Sun, 8 Dec, 2024
The Grounds at Whoa! Studios, Auckland

See out the last sunny evenings of autumn with fresh pasta handmade by an ex-Baduzzi chef and ice-cold beers on tap.
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Yoga in the Sky

Multiple single dates
SkyCity Auckland, Auckland

Take your yoga practice to a whole new level — level 51, that is.

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Smales Farmers Market

Mon, 9 Dec, 2024
Smales Farm, North Shore

Auckland's newest farmers market arrives across the harbour.

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The Top Five Tracks to Hear this Weekend

Some music for the best two days of the week.

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Unlikely Objects from the Bizarre Imagination of an Italian Artist

Unlikely objects invite the doublest of double-takes.

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Nike Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Just Do It

Nike have come out with their latest campaign "Possibilities" to celebrate 25 years of just doing it.

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The Discerning Lego-Builder Now Has Minimalist, All-White Bricks

Lego launches a versatile set for would-be architects.

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Socks Infused with Coffee Cure Smelly Feet

For feet so sweet you can wear the same pair of socks for days.

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Win Tickets to Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare's classic comedy is given a contemporary spin.

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World’s Most Instagrammable Hotel Opens in Sydney

1888 Hotel has built in special features to inspire photographers of all stripes.

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Scale a Stairway of Lights and Blossoms in Sicily

The ingenious festival decorations of Sicily's most magnificent staircase.

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Eccentric Doctor’s Manmade Mountain Outlawed in Beijing

Beijing architect Zhang Biqing's illegal mountain is forced to crumble.

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Jafflechutes Will Deliver Your Jaffle via Parachute

It's raining jafflechutes, hallelujah.

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New Venue and New Line-up Announced for Rhythm and Alps

Rhythm and Vines' sister festival Rhythm and Alps has announced its first artist line-up for the 2013 event.

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Free Beer for Doing Absolutely Nothing

Stand still for three minutes and you'll be rewarded with a cold one.

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Sydney Businessmen Successfully Crowdfund Booze Startup

Mr Black takes two of Sydney's favourite vices and combines them in one delicious, stylishly packaged drink.

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Concrete Playground meets David Wenham

Best known for his role as Faramir in Lord of the Rings, and voted as Australia's Sexiest Man Alive, Concrete Playground talks to to one of Australia's best creative exports.

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First FBI-Curated Art Show Puts Forgeries on Display

Warhol, Chagall, de Kooning, Gauguin, Matisse, Rembrandt, Renoir - what a bunch of big fat fakes.

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The Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend

Pack your party pants and these five songs because it's time for the weekend dance.

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Uncarriable Carrier Bags Shaming Us Into Environment Protection

The plastic bag fashion statement that may just save the environment.

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The Ultimate Book of Book Art

A picture repaints a thousand words anew.

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Concrete Playground meets Auckland Art Fair Director Jennifer Buckley

Concrete Playground catches up with Auckland Art Fair director Jennifer Buckley for the low down on New Zealand's one and only art fair.

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Rudimental and Empire of the Sun to headline Rhythm and Vines

You new years plans are sorted.

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Revisit a Time When Street Photography Meant More Than Fashion

See how the legends cross social boundaries to capture iconic images of their milieu.

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Ten Reasons to Visit the Auckland Art Fair 2013

From monkeys painting to glamorous opening parties, Concrete Playground chats with Jana Beer, publications editor for Auckland Art Fair 2013, for the ten best reasons to visit the 2013 Auckland Art Fair.

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Concrete Playground Meets Flume

We talked cereal, samples, waterslides and freaking kids out with Harley, aka FLUME.

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Mumford & Sons, As You’ve Never Seen Them Before

There's something slightly different about the new Mumford & Sons clip. Try to spot it.

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