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Mr & Mrs Smith’s Ten Hottest Hotel Bars

If you're a jetsetting barfly, get ready to spread your wings and drool over the world's top ten hotel bars.

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Raise the Stakes in Your Pretentious Convos with New Metagame

A game that asks the eternal question, 'Which feels like first love: Pride and Prejudice or Hungry Hungry Hippos?'

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Stay in Africa’s First Underwater Hotel Room

Sleep in subaquatic comfort.

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Win Tickets to Big Boys Toys

Win one of five double pass to the car event of the year.

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Concrete Playground visits Vudu Cafe and Larder in Queenstown

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Your Guide to Auckland Art Week 2013

Eat your heART out at Auckland's most expansive art festival

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‘Jane Fonda House’ Is Powered by Your Exercise

You become the guinea pigs in this exercise powered house-of-the-future

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Ten Gourmet Winter Getaways

These hotel dining rooms draw food critics like thirsty wildebeest to a watering hole.

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The Ten Best Swings Ever

Things have come a long way since your ma or pa tied a threadbare rope to a used tyre.

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Tourist in my Own Country /// Raglan

We loaded up the surfboards and took the brand new VW Golf for a spin to New Zealand's surf mecca township of Raglan.

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Try a Truly Sustainable Diet at Pestival

The Noma chefs pitch in to help tune your tastebuds to the appreciation of bugs.

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Ten Incredible New Zealand Road Trips

List off ten of the best road trips in New Zealand.

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The Fall Guy

Wednesday, April 24 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

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Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
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Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
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Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
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Thursday, April 25 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

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Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

'Selma' and 'A Wrinkle in Time; filmmaker Ava DuVernay returns with a sensitive, sincere and supremely smart biopic that's also an exploration of caste systems.
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Lovers and Castaways

Wednesday, March 6 - Sunday, June 9, 2024
The Pah Homestead, Auckland

This exhibition allows visitors to experience 1980s Aotearoa through the eyes of some of New Zealand's most treasured artists.
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The Effect — Auckland Theatre Company

Tuesday, April 16 - Saturday, May 11, 2024
ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland

This ethically ambiguous, toxic love story is the work of Lucy Prebble, one of the brains behind HBO’s ‘Succession’.

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Aotearoa High Tea in The Libraries at The Hotel Britomart

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The Hotel Britomart, Auckland

Enjoy some of Aotearoa's best food in the elegant, heritage spaces of The Libraries.

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Ten Inspiring Surf Getaways Across the Globe

Surf traveller and Editor/Founder of Stab Magazine, Derek Rielly, offers his insights into ten dreamboat waves across the globe.

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Photographer Gets Led Around the World by His Girlfriend

Osmann's photographic journey takes viewers on a trip which is stunning in more ways than one.

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South American Dreaming

Regular contributor to Concrete Playground Kristy Mayo offers up her advice and experience of South America.

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Nosh Food Market’s Top 5 Picnic Spots in Auckland

Nosh Food Market put together five of their favourite picnic spots in Auckland for you to enjoy.

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Tourist in my Own Country /// Cape Town

Thinking of hitting up Cape Town for a holiday?

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Contiki’s Ten Best Travel Destinations for 2013

Contiki offers their Top Ten Holiday destinations for 2013.

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The World’s Most Beautiful Public Swimming Pools

Natural and human-made beauty combine in these stunning locales that are open to all.

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Eat and Drink Hong Kong Style

Concrete Playground offers some advice for eating and drinking in one of the world's most expensive cities.

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Trippin on the Pacific Coast Highway

Guest contributor Sam Mickell loses his soul along the Big Sur.

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Bruce Myren’s Inspired 40th Parallel Photo Series

The 40th parallel is much more than simply a line of latitude spanning the distance of America from East to West.

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The Kombi Trail: Nine Students and VW Van

A tale of nine students fresh out of university who embark on the journey of a lifetime with the Cold War as a backdrop and a VW Kombi as means of transportation.

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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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Aerial Views of Australian Beaches

Shot from doorless helicopters, American photographer Gray Malin has captured your weekend days on the beach, from above.

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Remarkable Aerial Photographs of Iceland’s Volcanic Systems

Andre Armolaev has captured incredible aerial images of Iceland's twisting rivers meandering across black, ashy volcanic land.

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Ten 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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Ten 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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Tourist In My Own Country /// Hokianga Harbour

The first in a series of travel inspired travels around God's own.

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The Ten Best Picnic Parks in Auckland

It's important to know the 'it' spots to picnic - we have it covered with this Top Ten Picnic Parks in Auckland guide.

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Contiki Send Vloggers Around Europe

Contiki utilise vloggers in their latest global campaign.

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The Best Photos of Oktoberfest 2012

A little peak into the thrills and spills of the first week of Oktoberfest 2012.

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Eight International Festivals New Zealand Could Learn From

Here are a few overseas festivals that manage to combine brazen antics, booze and grannies in souped-up shopping carts with more cultivated offerings.

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The Five Best Winter Golf Courses in Auckland

Reece Witters from Mr Bo Jumbles, one of the finalists in The Bloggers 2011, rounds up his picks of best winter golf courses in Auckland.

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A Glamping Guide for Music Festivals

Gear up for all of winter's festivals with 10 glamping necessities.

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The Ten Best Luxury Getaways from Auckland

If you fancy a glam getaway close to home, you’re in luck.

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