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NewsGiveaways /// Win a VIP Malt Bar experience
This is a great way to meet new people, talk shop, exchange words, and who knows, cut a deal that will save the nation. You just never know.
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NewsGiveaways /// Win Scallop Festival Tickets
One of the most popular excuses to head out of the Concrete Playground and up the Coromandel to enjoy some of New Zealand's finest Scallops, Wine and Food.
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NewsPost-it Note Wars Erupt in Paris
French corporate types are unleashing their creative sides in the French capital.
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NewsThe Web Wants to Know Your Secrets
As part of London's Ignite Festival, people are anonymously confessing their deepest, darkest secrets online.
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NewsGiveaways /// Win Ringmaster Access to Carnival42
Carnival42 is here as your escape portal to a more magical place, assuring us if you ask for anything “all black” you’ll get a cocktail without milk.
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NewsReview /// Billy T: Te Movie
With just 90 minutes to spend on this journey, there’s still time to include the best Billy T moments.
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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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NewsThe First Photojournalist in Fukushima’s Power Plant
Photojournalist Kazuma Obara has taken some of the first pictures of the inside of the Fukushima Power Plant and the daily lives of the people who work there.
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NewsReview /// The Only Child
The Only Child is acutely honest, each character unfolding to expose a selfishness; they are all as awful as each other. And who is the real only child?
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NewsReview /// Dylan Moran – Yeah Yeah
The audience relished every minute of his performance and the detail of his wit. As the older man who sat next to me succinctly put it, “he’s funny because everything he says rings true.”
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NewsWin Double Passes to The Only Child and Mt Eden Dubstep
If you get nostalgic over New Kids on the Block and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, traded Garbage Pail Kids or owned a chatter ring, this one’s for you.
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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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NewsInterview /// Concrete Playground Meets Rhythm and Vines
Concrete Playground catches up with Hamish Pinkham, the Creative Director and Founder of New Zealand's premier 3 Day Music Festival Rhythm and Vines.
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NewsBanksy Takes On TV
While most people think of a concept before a title is given to the project, graffiti artist and satire king Banksy does the opposite.
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NewsDesign Similarities That Will Have you Seeing Double
Bob Caruther's collection of images will leaving you wondering just how 'new' a new idea really is.
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NewsThe London Riots: The Impact on Creative Communities
While London was engaged in a process of repeatedly kicking itself in the face, some of those hardest hit have been independent artists and small businesses.
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NewsTom Ballard to Miranda Devine: ‘What the F**k are You Talking About?’
Tom Ballard responds to columnist Miranda Devine's article connecting Senator Penny Wong's pregnancy to the London riots.
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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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NewsResponses to the London Riots
As London takes stocks of last week's riots, its people are quick to respond with a varied and unique online initiatives.
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News2020 Vision: A Clear Picture of Conservation
A UK multi-media conservation project brings together 20 of the UK's best wildlife photographers.
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NewsAustralian Artist Creates Perfume You Can Swallow
A scent that is not applied but taken as a pill.
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NewsNZ Police Graffiti – If you can’t beat em, join em!
the work cleverly utilises street, online and PR which would offer a unique channel to promote the recruitment of new members for NZ Police. Well done NZ Police.
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NewsMove, Learn, Eat: Take in Eleven Countries in Three Minutes
Three shorts films by independent filmmaker Rick Mereki remind of the joys of travel.
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NewsMelbourne Street Artist Creates Australia’s Largest Paste-Up
A Melbourne street artist has transformed the exterior of a product design company.
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NewsInterview /// A Conversation with Mike Mills
Tom Melick meets him in a beige-smothered hotel room. He wears a suit, looks overworked and speaks with a casual generosity.
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NewsNYC Garbage Sold As Art
Justin Gignac's success in selling garbage as art is proof you can sell anything that is packaged nicely.
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NewsInterview /// Concrete Playground meets webuyyourkids
Kirstie Sequitin talks to Sonny Day head of their appearance at Semi-Permanent.
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NewsAuckland’s Top 5 Sunday Roosts
Concrete Playground has assembled the top five establishments that make a drink on any given Sunday so sweet.
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NewsReview /// The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Product placement, neuro-marketing, sponsorship and gay quips – but what’s the common theme?
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NewsKeep The Harry Potter Dream Alive With Quidditch
If you find life a little empty without Hogwarts perhaps you should give quidditch a try.
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NewsThree Ideas Shaping the Future of Music
Technology is changing the way music is made and consumed.
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NewsImprov Everywhere Causes a Scene in New York
Their eighth mp3 experiment proves we've come a long way since the Napster debacle of the early noughties.
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NewsChris Jordan’s Rubbish Photography
Artist Chris Jordan takes everyday items and scary statistics to make some thought-provoking digital photographs.
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NewsText-Me-Up! The Art of Text Messages
British artist Tracey Moberley works in the medium of texts.
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NewsReview /// NZ Film Festival Opening Night
The Auckland leg of the New Zealand international Film Festival kicked off on a typically squally July evening
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NewsOne Day On Earth Brings the World’s Filmmakers Together
Filmmakers across the globe participated in the One Day On Earth project to capture the images and stories of 10/10/10.
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NewsUrban Explorers Shed Light on London’s Underground
An emerging sub culture of urban explorers is finding there is still much to be explored in our tired old towns
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NewsInterview /// Concrete Playground meets Catcall
Yearning to create pop music that has a little more depth than your standard dancefloor anthem is Sydney’s Catcall.
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NewsThe 100 Best Australian Albums of All Time
After the 47,000 votes were counted, the top gong went to Powderfinger's Odyssey Number 5.
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NewsWatch Radiohead ‘Live From The Basement’
The band premiered a broadcast of The King of Limbs 'Live From The Basement' on Spanish TV over the weekend. Watch it in full here.
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NewsA Brief Gastronomic Guide to New Zealand’s South Island
Here are some of Concrete Playground's best gastronomic reasons to head across the ditch.
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News21 of the World’s Most Stunning Holiday Destinations
Some of the places that truly capture the imagination around the globe.
