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NewsThe Chaser Team Are Crowdfunding a New Print Magazine
Help fund the printing, distribution and "tax effective offshore corporate structure" they need.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to See at the Brisbane Festival 2015
Where the Wild West meets Willy Wonka, and plenty more besides.
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NewsA Brief History of New Zealand Fashion Week
We take a retrospective look at NZFW - including the times we saw a severed boar head, a $33,000 crystal embellished tuxe and people not wearing much.
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NewsPatti Smith's 'Just Kids' Memoir Is Being Made Into a Miniseries
Step aside, Gossip Girl. This is real NYC love.
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GuideThe Twelve Best Things Happening in Sydney This Weekend
Fun runs, neon-coloured exhibitions and meatfests ahoy.
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NewsConcrete Playground’s Melbourne Writers Festival 2015 Reading List
Put this wintry weather to good use and get clued in for MWF.
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NewsBrilliant 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.
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NewsBrilliant 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.
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NewsBrisbane Writers Festival Announces 2015 Program
Those with a penchant for prose will feel well and truly pampered.
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NewsThe Onion Is Launching a New Web Series Parodying Vice Media
Throwing acid in the face of ignorance.
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GuideThe 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.
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NewsNational 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.
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NewsTake 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.”
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NewsConcrete Playground's Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015 Reading List
Put this wintry weather to good use and get clued in for FODI.
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NewsFestival of Dangerous Ideas Announces Huge 2015 Lineup
With Jon Ronson, Naomi Klein and Peter Greste all bringing their soapboxes to the Opera House.
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NewsUnderstanding the Work of Marina Abramovic in Five Phases
How the performance artist got from bodily extremes to quiet introspection — and with it, superstardom.
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NewsBrilliant 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.
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NewsBrilliant 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.
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NewsBrisbane Festival Reveals Complete 2015 Lineup
Backyard cinema, an all-male Importance of Being Earnest and a brand new festival village.
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NewsGrey 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.
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NewsConcrete Playground Wants You
We are looking for an additional freelance cultural connoisseur based in either Wellington or Auckland.
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NewsAmerican Football is Coming to New Zealand Next Year
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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NewsThe 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.
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NewsThe Seven Best Cinemas in Wellington
A museum cinema hybrid, Wellington's oldest cinema and a theatre stacked with comfy armchairs.
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NewsSydney Fringe 2015 Has a Brand New Festival Village
Expect prohibition-style gin bars, masquerade horror installations and a huge focus on Erko.
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NewsLee 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."
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NewsGiant 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.
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GuideThe Eight Best Bookstores in Wellington
Because books are a whole lot more than just a few hundred printed pages that smell really great.
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GuideYour 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.
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NewsHumans of New York's Brandon Stanton Photographed the 2015 Met Gala
Ordinary people as celebrities, celebrities as ordinary people.
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NewsShakespeare'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.
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NewsPalace Theatre to Hold a Huge Garage Sale This Weekend
Take home a piece of the Palace, however bittersweet it may feel.
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NewsEmerging Writers' Festival Announce 2015 Program
This year, EWF tackles the F word — in more ways than one.
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NewsDark Mofo Announces Huge 2015 Program
British jellymongers Bompas and Parr are just the tip of this dark and delicious Tasmanian iceberg.
