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NewsThe Top Five Tracks To Hear This Weekend
Happy almost the weekend day. Here is a musical gift for this momentous occasion.
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NewsWorld Class National Bartender Winner Announced
Wellingtonian, soon to be an Aucklander, Jason Clark, who won the inaugural Diageo Reserve World Class National final at 1885.
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NewsCafe Soundtracks Across Auckland
We've taken a sound safari to some of the best and different cafes across Auckland to see what they're playing while making that all important brew.
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NewsRhythm and Vines Tickets On Sale
New Zealand's premier music festival releases tickets seven months out from the New Years extravaganza.
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NewsFive Reasons We’d Believe Anything About Tilda Swinton
She lives on another planet, and it's one we're dying to visit.
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NewsForever Now Will Launch Your Ideas Into Outer Space, Really
And digital democracy will determine the message we send to our alien buddies.
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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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NewsWin Tickets to The Crown Opening
Crown's coming to town and to celebrate we've got ten double passes to give away.
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NewsLululemon launches in New Zealand with Aotearoa Asana
Yoga and running gear brand Lululemon lands on New Zealand shores.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Film Director Mark Albiston
Mark Albiston (left) and Louis Sutherland are film makers and long time mates who have based their first feature film Shopping on Louis' experiences growing up as a half Samoan half Pakeha. Concrete Playground caught up with Mark Albiston to find out more.
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NewsSingles to Get Train Carriage for Flirting on Prague Metro
One way to spice up your workday commute.
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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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NewsWin Tickets to The Reluctant Fundamentalist
An intelligent and poignant story by acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair
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NewsWee Waa Was Perfect for Daft Punk – Even Minus the Crowd
We learned why Wee Waa was an oddly perfect fit for Daft Punk.
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NewsFashion News
From I Love Ugly Suits, G_Shock watches, Ruby, Glassons through to Peroni collaborations, we wrap up the latest in Fashion News.
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NewsDrinking Pays for Public Transport with the Beer Turnstile
Don't drink and drive; drink and catch the train
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EventChristmas 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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EventFat 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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EventCasa 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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EventBritomart 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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EventPasta 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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EventYoga 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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EventSmales Farmers Market
Mon, 9 Dec, 2024
Smales Farm, North Shore
Auckland's newest farmers market arrives across the harbour.
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NewsRhythm and Vines Documentary Teaser
The teaser has been released for the upcoming Rhythm and Vines documentary.
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NewsInstagram Goes Deep with iAfghanistan Photojournalism
Ben Lowy's mesmerising wartime photos show iPhoneography's full potential.
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NewsThe Ten Best Coffices in Auckland
Make your own work space with the new HTC One and a perfect Auckland cafe-office.
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NewsHelen Bird: The Making of a Modern Craftswoman
We talk to Helen Bird, the recently announced winner of Ketel One’s Modern Craft Project, about transforming the humble food bicycle-cart into a literal vehicle for empowering migrants from disadvantaged backgrounds and how she plans to establish a lasting legacy with the $100,000 prize money.
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NewsIs Hip Hop the 21st Century’s Answer to Jazz?
Jay-Z might just be the modern day equivalent of Jay Gatsby
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NewsWin One of Three Copies of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories
Get your hands on Random Access Memories.
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News2013: A Space Oddity as Astronaut Sings Bowie in Space
Social media darling and astronaut Chris Hadfield takes David Bowie to new, dizzying heights.
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NewsSurprisingly Beautiful Photographs from the Secret Underworld of Drains
There's suffering for your art, and then there's fighting off cockroach armies to take a photo.
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NewsWin Ten Nights on the Town with Concrete Playground
Concrete Playground has partnered up with some of Auckland's best bars, restaurants and venues to offer up the ultimate Ten night experience on offer.
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NewsWin One of Two VIP Double Passes to Semi-Permanent
There's a tidal wave of creative talent heading to Auckland.
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NewsA Guide to Earning Brownie Points this Mother’s Day
We hunt out some brownie point gaining options for you to spoil your Mum on Mother's Day.
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NewsGun Control Laws Have an Unexpected Critic: Hollywood
Whatever will New York's film industry if they can't use real guns? Get creative, that's what.
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NewsFive Places to Enjoy New Zealand Music this May
We search out five venues doing their thing for New Zealand Music Month.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Tom Green
We sat down with Comedian Tom Green and basically talked Chicken Burgers for the entire 5 minutes.
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NewsTen Gourmet Winter Getaways
These hotel dining rooms draw food critics like thirsty wildebeest to a watering hole.
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NewsObama Plays Daniel Day-Lewis Playing Obama in Spoof Video
Obama adds comedian and method actor to his already dazzling resume.
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NewsLes Bains, Paris: The Best Street Art Collection No-one Can See
Derelict Parisian nightclub Les Bains plays host to the world's most respected street artists - but alas, you're still not on the guestlist.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Marlon Wayans
We catch up via phone with american funny man Marlon Wayans.
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NewsNew Interactive Music Video Puts Viewers on the Line
Connect with humankind via the humble cursor.
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