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NewsInterview /// Concrete Playground Meets Tahuna Breaks
Tahuna Breaks' trumpet and keys player, Tim Baker, tells us what has been going on with the boys and what exciting projects are in the pipelines.
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NewsDesigns That Let You Sleep Anywhere, Anytime
Our society seems to be developing an obsession for sleeping in places that are not our beds.
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NewsJapan Tourism to Offer 10,000 Free Flights to Bloggers
At last, there may be a way to put your otherwise life-crippling Facebook addiction to good use.
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NewsBoozy Bears Emerge in South Dakota
Maybe confectionery giants should start selling candy in brown paper bags from now on.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Norwegian Wood Director, Tran Anh Hung
We catch up with the acclaimed director ahead of the film's Australia/New Zealand release.
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NewsSt Jerome’s Laneway New Zealand Lineup Announced
So roll up your sleeves and dress yourself ironically. Laneway is going to be more than ok (although you don't need to publicly admit it).
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NewsBrakay Art Installations in Italy
I once came across a quote that summed up modernity quite nicely. It went: Modern Art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.
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NewsOccupy Wall Street Protests Start to Spread Around the World
How the American Dream has turned into a nightmare for a large proportion of U.S. citizens.
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NewsUntappd App Combines Social Networking and Beer
The perfect excuse to drink more beer and check your iPhone.
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NewsMessage in a Bottle: The Unusual Social Network
Harold Hackett has been sending messages all over the world, but unlike most of us he hasn’t been using a phone or a computer.
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NewsUnload Your Emotional Baggage and Get a Free Song in Return
This new site lets you unload your worries to a perfect stranger, who will in turn read it and send you a song they think will make you feel better.
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NewsIPhone Bike Speaker Lets You Listen While You Ride
Play sweet music and use your iPhone as a GPS while riding through the town on your bike.
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NewsSlavery Footprint: Calculating How Many Forced Labourers Work For You
Cue the bright-eyed, pigtailed offspring of ethical consumerism and social media, Slavery Footprint.
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NewsTop 5 Events at Basement Fest 2011
Basement Fest 2011 brings together a strong line up of theatre, comedy, dance, art, spoken word and music for three weeks in both the main stage of The Basement theatre and upstairs in The Basement studio.
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NewsSemi-Fictional Audio Guides Narrate New York’s Museum Mile
A conceptual sound collective and the French join forces to take you for a merry and blissfully confusing journey down Manhattan's Museum Mile.
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NewsMicro-Hotel Sleepbox Makes Being In Transit Appealing
The pod with bed and drop-down desk may mean the days of sleeping in airport food courts are well behind us.
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NewsGiveaways /// Win Exclusive Cloudy Bay Tasting for you and 3 Friends
To celebrate the release of their 2011 Sauvignon Blanc on October 1st, Cloudy Bay is bringing the first of the season together at an exclusive tasting event.
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NewsInterview /// Concrete Playground meets Fern Sutherland
A couple of gins down, I sat down with my beautiful friend Fern Sutherland to talk about her latest role in Auckland Theatre Company's The End Of the Golden Weather.
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NewsSubscribe to Win a $100 Bar Tab at 1885
We were thinking of adding in a clause that a percentage of this bar tab needs to be used on shouting the CP news team, but legal made it too complicated. So it is all yours, if you win*.
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NewsThe Ten Best Festivals in Sydney
Get ready to dance kids, because summer’s coming. Here is Concrete Playground's shortlist of Sydney’s best festival experiences.
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NewsNike Release Back to The Future Sneakers
Nike has released a near-exact replica of the shoes worn by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future 2.
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NewsReview /// The Wizard of Oz
Whether you have been living in a cave and don’t know the story or it’s an old favourite of yours, this show is wonderfully uplifting and well worth seeing.
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NewsNYC Artist Brings Subway Etiquette to Life
NYC artist Jay Shells' Subway Etiquette Posters pokes fun at commuter pet peeves.
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NewsSwiss Artist Injects Order Into the Everyday
Ursus Wehrli wants to put some order into your life.
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NewsHighlights of New Zealand Fashion Week
Fashion Week has been and gone. Here are some of the highlights that stood out.
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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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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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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.
