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NewsConcrete 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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NewsConcrete 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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NewsConcrete Playground talks to Rohan Anderson (Whole Larder Love)
We preview the new book and talk about cities without supermarkets.
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NewsStriking Animal Portraits
Tim Flach has captured wild animals in a way you may never have seen before.
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NewsConcrete 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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News50 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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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 with Corona Extra – On Mexico Time
Watch this inspiring video and win some Corona while you are at it.
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NewsConcrete 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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NewsWhat 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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NewsWin 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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NewsAuckland Arts Festival 2013 is Revealed
The Auckland Arts Festival bursts to life in across the city and into the suburbs
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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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NewsAndy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe Reproduced Using Resene Testpots
Resene have reproduced a giant version of Andy Warhol's pink and yellow Marilyn Munroe painting in Auckland City.
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NewsVintage Halloween Costume Ideas
Perhaps the only thing scarier than your fake blood and broomstick are these vintage Halloween get-ups.
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NewsPhotographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People
Ten photos that prove that sometimes what the spin media show us about famous people is not exactly the whole story.
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NewsTen Film-Inspired Luxury Getaways
We've reviewed the new releases and flipped through the DVD cabinet to bring you ten jaw-dropping locations.
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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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EventTwilight Tuesdays
Tue, 3 Dec, 2024
Auckland War Memorial Museum, Parnell
Wander through Auckland Museum's beautifully-lit galleries after dark.
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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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NewsConcrete Playground Meets ‘How To Meet Girls From A Distance’
Director Dean Hewison and actor Richard Falkner wrote, shot and edited their upcoming debut film 'How to Meet Girls From a Distance' all within six months. Concrete Playground had a chat with these long time friends to find out how they pulled it off.
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NewsHistory’s Most Famous Photo Hoaxes
Long before Photoshop became widely available photo hoaxes were much more noteworthy and had larger repercussions for contriving fake events.
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NewsTen Musicians On Why They Make Music
These ten quotes from ten songwriting legends provide a fascinating insight into what drives these musicians to be musicians
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NewsGiveaways /// Little Brother 'Wish You Were Here'
Renowned New Zealand blogger, Isaac Hindin-Miller joins forces with Little Brother brand founder, Murray Crane for the latest Spring/ Summer 2012 collection.
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NewsReview /// Mary Poppins at The Civic
A simply delightful rendition of the childhood classic. Keen for a dose of nostalgia? Look no further than the London sky line, aka The Civic Theatre.
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NewsTen Helpful Cooking Tips You May Not Know
Some unorthodox but incredibly helpful kitchen and cooking tips.
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NewsBehind-the-Scenes Footage From Seminal Films
Uncut, unreleased and unseen movie footage provide fans with a unique and fascinating insight into the creative process of cinema's great artists.
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NewsSoundtrack to Auckland
Three of New Zealand’s top pop artists have joined Auckland’s leading performing arts organisation to record a soundtrack for contemporary Auckland.
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NewsThe Yolanda Be Cool Product Recall
Yolanda Be Cool recall their overly infectious hit single We Speak No Americano to promote their debut album Ladies and Mentalman.
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NewsTen Scathing Reviews of Classic Books
Reviews really are a matter of taste. Here are ten books we now consider sacred, which - at the time of publication - received at least one scathing review.
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NewsGiveaways /// Win Moet Ice Imperial
Win yourself two bottles of Moet Ice Imperial to enjoy at the upcoming Moet Ice Imperial White Sundays at Soul Bar and Bistro.
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NewsIncredible Maps Depicting Human Activity
Modern digital technology allows us to produce and manipulate visual representations of geography in simply astounding ways.
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NewsVintage Postcards Using Google Maps
Resembling vintage photos from a bygone era, these time-aged Postcards from Above are actually aerial images taken from Google Maps.
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NewsTen Weird but Wonderful Spas
Whether you use them for cleansing, decompressing or just some well-earned R 'n' R, spas have been a ubiquitous part of the tourism industry.
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NewsAwesome Underwater Photographs
A Canadian artist shows that the world is at its most bizarre and beautiful when viewed through water.
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NewsFive Entertaining Reasons to go to R&V Soundcheck
We caught up with Hamish Pinkham, and after a coffee and some mushrooms at Dizengoff , he gave us five reasons why we should go to R&V Soundcheck. I'm sold.
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NewsThe Nike Run for Val – Gold Watch Presentation
And not only did everyone in the room get to personally meet the national hero, but also got to hold on to one of the world's most elusive Gold Medals.
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NewsTen Images That Stopped The World
In the wake of the 11th anniversary of 9/11 here are ten more images that have stopped the world and ten stories that have shaped the course of history
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NewsHow to Get Out of Your Internet Ghetto
Often we end up in a little media bubble, never challenged by new information or opinions. Unless we go looking for it.
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