Melbourne Festival Reveals Massive 30th Anniversary Program

Clear your calendar.

Concrete Playground’s Melbourne Writers Festival 2015 Reading List

Put this wintry weather to good use and get clued in for MWF.

Brilliant Things to do in Auckland This August

Everything from an environmental singles event on an island, a talk about intense animal encounters, sardonic observation comedy, and some ballet from across the ditch.

Brilliant Things to Do in Wellington This August

The forecast for a Wellingtonian's social calendar this month is brilliant with a high chance of busy.

Brisbane Writers Festival Announces 2015 Program

Those with a penchant for prose will feel well and truly pampered.

The Onion Is Launching a New Web Series Parodying Vice Media

Throwing acid in the face of ignorance.

The Ten Best Things Happening in Sydney This Weekend

Whether it's gourmet coffee, old-school hamburgers, indie flicks or the very best Splendour in the Grass sideshows, Concrete Playground has you covered.

National Geographic Photographer Steve Winter on Competing with Pictures of Cute, Fluffy Kittens on the Internet

Steve Winter spends six or so months get the shot that you spend six or so seconds looking at.

Take a Delicious, Delicious Tour of Nick Offerman's Pizza Farm

“If it’s on a plant, it’s good for you, who cares how it got there.”

When It Began In Wellington

A short piece by Annabel Hawkins.

Concrete Playground's Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015 Reading List

Put this wintry weather to good use and get clued in for FODI.

Festival of Dangerous Ideas Announces Huge 2015 Lineup

With Jon Ronson, Naomi Klein and Peter Greste all bringing their soapboxes to the Opera House.

Understanding the Work of Marina Abramovic in Five Phases

How the performance artist got from bodily extremes to quiet introspection — and with it, superstardom.

Brilliant Things to Do in Auckland this July

A photo exhibition that encapsulates 2014, the best local tour of the year, unprofessional professional EDM artists and a live music and film crossbreed are just some of the things that make July a brilliant time to explore this fine city of ours.

Brilliant Things to Do in Wellington This July

Play with Lego under the guise of participating in interactive art, see the best local tour of the year, experience the unprofessional professional EDM artists and get your popcorn ready for the annual NZIFF.

Brisbane Festival Reveals Complete 2015 Lineup

Backyard cinema, an all-male Importance of Being Earnest and a brand new festival village.

New York Is Getting a Pop-Up Seinfeld Museum

Open for five days only. Get. Out.

Grey Gardens Projects Exhibition Space to Open in Fitzroy

With a gallery and performance space, coffee bar and a brand new permanent home for Speakeasy Cinema.

GALLERY: Dark Mofo 2015

Demon purging, fire organs and wallaby burritos at the end of the world.

Concrete Playground Wants You

We are looking for an additional freelance cultural connoisseur based in either Wellington or Auckland.

American Football is Coming to New Zealand Next Year

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The State of Fun in Australia

Gelato Messina, The Festivalists, Giant Dwarf and Secret Garden discuss active play, festival culture and whether red tape is killing creativity.

Five Semi-Permanent Speakers We're Excited to See

Only a month to go.

Brilliant Things to Do in Auckland this June

Leave your hot water bottle at home.

Aotea Square Set For a Wintry Makeover

Skating in a winter wonderland.

The Seven Best Cinemas in Wellington

A museum cinema hybrid, Wellington's oldest cinema and a theatre stacked with comfy armchairs.

Sydney Fringe 2015 Has a Brand New Festival Village

Expect prohibition-style gin bars, masquerade horror installations and a huge focus on Erko.

Brilliant Advice, Lessons and Revelations from the Auckland Writers Festival

Lee Lin Chin Announced as Australia's Official Eurovision Spokesperson Because All Is Well

"I’m not worried about being up early, I’ll just have to take a break from the clubs for 20 minutes."

Giant Dwarf to Launch New Event Where Pollies Present Their Own Slide Night

Kristina Keneally and Julian Morrow invite Australian politicians to bring along their own personal photos — and explain themselves.

The Eight Best Bookstores in Wellington

Because books are a whole lot more than just a few hundred printed pages that smell really great.

Your Guide to the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival

From pure entertainment to die-hard intellectual debates, the Auckland Writers Festival is back to help us through the mid-year blues with an injection of literary culture.

Humans of New York's Brandon Stanton Photographed the 2015 Met Gala

Ordinary people as celebrities, celebrities as ordinary people.

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Set to Pop Up in Auckland

Next April, it will be 400 years since one of the greatest playwrights and poets known to man passed away.

Palace Theatre to Hold a Huge Garage Sale This Weekend

Take home a piece of the Palace, however bittersweet it may feel.

Emerging Writers' Festival Announce 2015 Program

This year, EWF tackles the F word — in more ways than one.

Dark Mofo Announces Huge 2015 Program

British jellymongers Bompas and Parr are just the tip of this dark and delicious Tasmanian iceberg.

New Store Junky Comics Is a Space for More Than Just Buying Books

Vintage superheroes, introspective indie titles and art exhibitions all meet at West End's brand new bookshop.

For $10,000 a Night You Too Can Stay in New Zealand's Most Expensive Hotel Suite

Better start saving.

Brilliant Free Things to Do in Wellington This April

Luckily, life doesn't have to be stingy just because you are.

Sydney Writers' Festival Announces 2015 Lineup

Learn 'how to live' with Mohsin Hamid, Helen Macdonald, Alan Cumming and David Walliams.

The Ten Best First Date Destinations in Wellington

Places to let your Tinder matches kindle into romance.