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NewsThe Guggenheim Has Just Unveiled Its Stunning Synthetic Desert Installation
Visitors step into a sea of sound-suppressing foam pyramids in an artwork designed to "heighten our understanding of perceptual experience."
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NewsDance Beneath a Forest Canopy at New Music Festival ORO'17
The day-long event is modelled on music festivals and raves of the '90s.
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NewsHow To Shoe: A Rookie's Guide to Sneaker Culture with Ben Bay
Plus, win tickets to the exclusive Air Max Day party on March 26.
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NewsThis Art Project Wants to Make Auckland the Safest City in the World For Bees
Exploring what's possible when an entire city is given a framework over a specific period of time.
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NewsTen Films from SXSW 2017 Required in New Zealand Cinemas Immediately
They're making waves in Austin, let's hope the tide brings them to our shores.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets the Designers Behind Minimalist Label Wayward St
Debunking the rules of design with a by-product of New Zealand's dairy industry.
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NewsA Bumper Program Has Been Announced For The 2017 Auckland Writers Festival
This year's literary feast promises a master of satire, feminist icons, a 99-year-old theologian, and a Masterchef judge.
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NewsLarge Groups are Freaking Out SXSW Attendees to Promote 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Red-clad ladies are popping up around the Austin festival to plug Hulu's new Elisabeth Moss-starring show.
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NewsFour Films Have Been Announced For NZIFF Autumn Events
The pocket-sized film series welcomes a 40-year epic, a seminal concert film, one of cinema's great follies, and a Woody Allen classic.
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GuideThe Ten Best Events to Check Out at the 2017 Auckland Arts Festival
From multi-sensory installations, an off-beat cabaret with flapping appendages, and a Shortland Street musical.
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NewsIMDB Adds New 'F for Female' Rating to Highlight Women in Film
This well-timed new feature lets you search by female director or female protagonist.
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NewsSix Must-See Films at the 2017 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival
See Audrey Tautou on a boat, Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp in pre-war Europe and France's equivalent of an Amy Schumer movie.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Autumn Reading List
From hilarious local poetry to photography dissection and the war on drugs, this list seeks to satisfy every type of literary appetite.
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NewsThe Full Lineup Has Been Announced For The 2017 NZ International Comedy Festival
Expect half-naked solo shows, stream-of-consciousness rants and kitsch comedy.
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NewsYouTube is Bringing Live TV Streaming to All of Your Devices
The US service will allow viewers to watch live TV wherever they happen to be and enjoy unlimited recording.
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NewsBanksy Opens Walled Off Hotel in the West Bank
Set up in secret over the last 14 months and set to open on March 11, the Bethlehem guesthouse is expected to run for a year.
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NewsThe Best of Berlinale 2017: Ten New Films We Can't Wait to Hit New Zealand Cinemas
We hopped over to the Berlin International Film Festival to get the jump on what's coming soon to cinemas.
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NewsWhy La La Land Shouldn't Win Best Original Score at This Year's Academy Awards
And why you should care about the oft-forgotten Oscars category.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Annual Oscars Drinking Game: The 2017 Edition
The only way to get through the 89th Academy Awards in one piece.
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NewsBatman v Superman Cleans Up at the 37th Annual Razzie Awards
The superhero showdown took home four awards, but missed out on worst film of the year.
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NewsLondon Could Be Getting a Permanent Public David Bowie Memorial
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched for a three-storey monument to the entertainment icon.
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NewsStudio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Is Officially Coming Out of Retirement
The acclaimed animator is currently preparing to make his next full-length film.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Helpful Guide to the 2017 Oscar Race
Who will win, who should win, and who got snubbed at the 89th Academy Awards.
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NewsHilarious Erotic Novel Podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno Announces Live New Zealand Show
The hysterical smut is coming Auckland in August.
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NewsA Shortland Street Musical is Coming to Auckland Arts Festival
The most exciting development for the soap since 'penis-gate'.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Australian Multi-Instrumentalists Hermitude
Get acquainted with some Blue Mountains electronica and score a double pass to the group's show this Friday.
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NewsTen Brilliant Things to See and Do at the Auckland Fringe Festival
Look beyond your average night out at the movies.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Sydney Electronic Producer What So Not
The allure of making beats, how 'High You Are' came to life, his progress as a musician and plans for the future.
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News
Ten Brilliant Events to Check Out at Auckland Pride Festival
New Zealand’s largest and loudest social and cultural program of events.
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NewsThis New Festival Seeks to Find the Best Gin and Tonic in Auckland
Not your average 1:1 ratio of house brand ingredients.
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NewsA Floating Theatre is Sailing into Auckland
Adding to the cat dance performance and cringeworthy dating show at this year's Fringe.
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NewsInterview: Virginia Frankovich on Feminism and Her Silo Theatre Directorial Debut
Building unity amongst her cast, why Birch's play should matter to us all and whether we should still use the 'F' word.
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NewsAlliance Française French Film Festival Reveals 2017 Lineup
With 36 formidable films on offer, from the Audrey Tatou-starring Jacques Cousteau biopic to Venice Film Festival highlight Planetarium.
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NewsInterview: M. Night Shyamalan on His New Film Split, Plot Twists and Taking Risks
His latest film features James McAvoy fielding 23 different personalities.
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NewsThe Team Behind Serial and This American Life Is Releasing a Brand New True Crime Podcast
S-Town will investigate a true story set in rural Alabama.
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NewsEat, Drink and Cry at the Third Annual Cinema Peroni
Treat all the senses at this al fresco cinema experience.
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NewsBasking in the Beauty of Moonlight with Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Barry Jenkins
He chats to us about representing alternate characters, male vulnerability and black consciousness in a feature film.
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NewsTen Films From Sundance 2017 We're Hoping Make it to New Zealand Cinemas
Ghost stories, dance docos and rags-to-riches rap efforts.
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