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Score Tickets to L'orchestre d'Hommes-Orchestres Performs Tom Waits

A wacky, unimaginable interpretation of the gravel-voiced raconteur.

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Ten Films from SXSW We're Hoping Will Come to New Zealand

Richard Linklater's latest, the awaited Slenderman doco, and the Farsi answer to The Babadook.

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Tiger Beer presents Streets of Singapore

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Berlin's Disused Telephone Booths Are Being Turned Into Mini Nightclubs

A relic of telecommunications becomes the ultimate rave cave.

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Your Guide to the Auckland Arts Festival 2016

Whether you have a thing for comedy, theatre, ballet, or maybe even a slightly concerning obsession with fire, this year's festival will have something to tickle your fancy.

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Brilliant Things to Do in Auckland This March

The third month of the year welcomes a bumper selection of activities.

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125 Acts Have Been Announced for This Year's NZ International Comedy Festival

Wisecracks from award-winning internationals, popular locals and returning festival favourites.

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Auckland City Limits Reveals Festival Artwork Program

Bringing a sense of playfulness and practical adventure to the one-day music festival.

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Win a One Month Yoga Pass at Power Living

Power Living's newly opened Wellington location is my idea of a yoga studio, realised.

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Your Guide to Splore 2016

All the best bits of one of New Zealand's best festivals.

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JK Rowling Is Releasing an Eighth Harry Potter Book Because All Is Well

We're damn well stupefied.

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Concrete Playground Meets Andrew J. Steel

Changing the way we think about street art.

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Auckland City Limits Complete Their 2016 Lineup

Featuring a genre-mashing sampling genius and a stage curated by the city's most forward-thinking entertainment hub.

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Brilliant Things to Do This Waitangi Weekend

Commemorating New Zealand's founding document.

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Six Brilliant Things to Do This Auckland Anniversary Weekend

An indie-centric music festival, a celebration of our rich Maori heritage, a quintessential Kiwi dub band, and lots of seafood.

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The ASB Classic Unveils an Enhanced Entertainment Program

Game, set, match, wine, music, fashion, court-side degustation et al.

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Serial Have Dropped the First Episode of Season Two

The Internet can barely keep a lid on it.

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Summer Pop-up Flamingo Pier Returns to Waiheke Island

This competition has expired.

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Auckland Gets a Brand New Maori Culture Festival

Joining the ranks of Matariki, Diwali, Pasifika, and the Auckland Lantern Festival.

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Silo Theatre's 2016 Programme Announced

A celebration of the anarchic, the wild and the beautiful fight in us all to survive in a troubling world.

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Brilliant Things To Do in Auckland This December

A Christmas musical satire, a dose of Fryish delight, the Auckland Fair, some pampering options and some high quality musical offerings.

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Silo Cinema Unveils December Programme

Getting you in the mood for the holiday season.

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Auckland Arts Festival Announces Diverse 2016 Lineup

A creative feast of theatre, dance, music, circus and cabaret that won't fail to satisfy.

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The Five Best Things to Do at Taste of Auckland

Eat your way through Auckland's finest.

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Amazon Just Opened Its First Physical Bookstore, Surprised Everyone

We'll be damned.

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Brilliant Things to Do in Auckland This November

The country’s largest culinary festival, the latest offering from Cirque du Soleil, a music prize recognising up-and-coming Kiwi artists, a multi-genre film festival showcasing work from here and across the Pacific, and one of the greatest bands of all time.

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McLaren Falls Festival Moves To Auckland, Changes its Name and Drops Second Lineup

Goodbye lakeside camping, waterfall and glow-worm forest. Hello Jamie XX, Mac DeMarco and Elliphant.

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The Ten Best Things to do This Labour Weekend

A much-adored folk songwriter, the largest screening of Russian films outside of the motherland, an annual geek-gathering, a Sunday session to rule them all, and the man responsible for 2013’s most popular internet dance craze.

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New Zealand Festival is Bringing Us Sufjan Stevens And Many More Magical Acts

Including a reinterpretation of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Miranda July, Calexico and a Salvador Dali-inspired theatre piece.

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The Royal New Zealand Ballet Unveil Their 2016 Programme

The debut season under the guidance of Italian choreographer and Artistic Director Francesco Ventriglia.

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Win Tickets to Whips n Spurs

Put your best hoof forward.

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The Finalists For The 2016 Billy T James Award Have Been Unveiled

The brightest talent in local comedy and their quest for the prestigious Yellow Towel.

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A Replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Is Coming to Auckland

To be, that is the answer.

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Rhythm and Vines Introduce a New Comedy Component

R&V are having a laugh.

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Brilliant Things to do in Auckland This October

Brilliant activities to distract you from the imminent presence of all things Christmas.

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Auckland City Limits Music Festival Announced For 2016

Music lovers rejoice.

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The Hits and Misses of the 67th Emmy Awards

Juice cleanses, fake gold statues and excessive sweating. It's awards season again.

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Brilliant Things To Do in Wellington this September

A plethora of pursuits from the capital's galleries, bars and stages.

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Brilliant Things to Do in Auckland this September

A pop-up inflatable alien-like structure, one of the longest running feline musicals in history, a street-wide homegrown alternative music festival, a celebration of the country’s most enthusiastic do-gooders, a marriage of food and fashion and a Shakespearian classic.

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A 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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Patti Smith's 'Just Kids' Memoir Is Being Made Into a Miniseries

Step aside, Gossip Girl. This is real NYC love.

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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.

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