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The Five Best Places to Shop Vintage in Auckland

Concrete Playground lists five of the best when shopping vintage in Auckland.

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Pitchfork’s Top Five Albums Of 2012

2012 saw the release of some truly awesome and at times groundbreaking new music

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Cake Icing Graffiti

Montreal-based artist Shelley Miller's tasty artform.

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The Summer Movie Smackdown

Some of 2012's biggest titles duke it out on this special day of the year.

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Amazing Bars Around the World

When it comes to mind-boggling designs, wacky themes and unique going-out experiences then these ten bars are a cut above the rest.

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Goodreads’ Best Books Of 2012

Goodreads Choice Awards offers readers the closest thing the literary world has to a People's Choice Award.

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This That

57 Lorne St , Auckland City

A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.
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Scarlett Slimms & Lucky

476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland

Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.
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Cassette Nine

Vulcan Lane, Auckland

Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.
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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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David Nemcsik’s Magical and Mysterious Levitation Project

This photographer's exam entry leaves you flying.

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Concrete Playground’s Summer Reading Guide

Concrete Playground duly presents our suggestions for the best books to read over your summer.

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Eight Boutique Online Stores for Beautiful Gifts

Quirky, inspiring, and fun boutiques are only a click away.

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Nude Dancers in Whirls and Swirls

Shinichi Maruyama has gracefully encapsulated the swaying of legs, swinging of hips and twirling of arms...

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The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows

The website "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" are doing their little bit to make the inexpressible more expressible

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Win Moet and Chandon Pink Rose

Subscribe to Concrete Playground to go in the draw to win a bottle of Moet and Chandon Rose Imperial.

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The Promised Land

Thursday, June 13 - Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

More than a decade after 'A Royal Affair', Mads Mikkelsen and filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel have made another grand and gripping drama set in Denmark's past.
Event
Inside Out 2

Thursday, June 27 - Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Amy Poehler still brings joy in this nine-years-later sequel to one of Pixar's best films, which proves as emotionally intelligent as its predecessor.
Event
The Watchers

Thursday, June 6 - Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

With this intriguing gothic-tinged horror film, Ishana Night Shyamalan makes her feature directorial debut and lives up to her surname.
Event
The Taste of Things

Thursday, June 27 - Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

This Oscar-shortlisted, Cannes Best Director-winning French delight simmers up a 19th-century romance between a cook and a gourmand.

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Five Must See Acts at St Jerome’s Laneway 2013

Five must see acts for Laneways 2013.

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Win a Remix Magazine Summer Edition

Win yourself a free Remix Magazine.

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Win One of Four $50 Bar Tabs to Cider Co-Op

Win you and your friends a $50 bar tab to Cider Co-Op at Sale St.

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Gravity-Defying Land Art

Cornelia Konrads 'land-art' seems to defy gravity.

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Ten Free Movies to Watch Legally Online Tonight

Get some legit celluloid action.

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Make Your Own Perrier Summer Berry Mojito

Mixologist Tomas Vikario shows Concrete Playground how to make a Perrier Summer Berry Mojito in the comfort of your very own herb garden.

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Rare Colour Photographs of Paris in 1914

These photographs of Paris in 1914 are particularly enchanting not only because they go back to the denouement of the peaceful and reformatory Belle Epoque...

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Funny Pictures of Serious Musicians

The music industry often takes itself too seriously. Funny photos of serious musicians are scarce, but hilarious.

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IMDB’s Top 250 Films in 2 1/2 Minutes

If you like your pop culture in bite size pieces then check out this awesome video "IMDB Top 250 in 2 1/2 Minutes"

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The Most Magnificent Moustaches Throughout History

In the spirit of Movember here are thirteen of history's most magnificent mo's

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The Silent History Reinvents Storytelling

One of the first applications to expand the unchartered boundaries of e-book storytelling.

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Famous Artists’ Studios

Take a behind the scenes peek into famous artists' studios.

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The Autark Home Floating Houseboat

The Autark Home brings a whole new meaning to living on the water.

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Beautiful Frozen Waterfalls

It's one of the most spectacular visuals of something frozen in time, quite literally.

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Concrete Playground meets Female Company

Drama students Haemia Foote and Amie Bentall chatted to Concrete Playground about being part of new theatre group Female Company and their debut play Agnes of God.

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Concrete Playground meets Dead Europe director Tony Krawitz

The filmmaker seeks out the ghosts of Europe with his new Christos Tsiolkas adaptation.

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Concrete Playground talks to Rohan Anderson (Whole Larder Love)

We preview the new book and talk about cities without supermarkets.

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Striking Animal Portraits

Tim Flach has captured wild animals in a way you may never have seen before.

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Concrete Playground Meets The Temper Trap

We caught up with Jonny and Lorenzo from The Temper Trap and talked Melbourne, Halloween and Sir Edmund Hillary lookalikes.

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50 Years of Iconic James Bond Cars

Since his introduction into the world in 1953, audiences have fallen in love with 007, and his cars.

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Win with Corona Extra – On Mexico Time

Watch this inspiring video and win some Corona while you are at it.

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Concrete Playground Meets Food and People

We talk to Hamish Pinkham and Jay Reeve prior to their guest appearance at the weekly Food & People.

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What Your Favourite TV Show Says About Your Politics [Infographic]

If this infographic is anything to go by it seems that our TV habits can be a useful barometer for understanding our politics.

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Win Tickets to Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel

Concrete Playground are giving three lucky readers the chance to win double passes to Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, being released in New Zealand from November 15.

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