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Ring in the New Year With the Britomart Beach Party

Score yourself a double pass and a mandatory pair of Havaianas flip flops.

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Annie Leibovitz's Powerful 2016 Pirelli Calendar Is One Big 'Yassss Queen'

Featuring a whole year of kickass women, from Amy Schumer to Patti Smith.

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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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London's Abandoned Tunnels Will Play Host to an Immersive Goosebumps Theatre Experience

Reader beware, you're in for an actual, real life scare.

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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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Win Tickets to Concrete Playground's Advanced Screening of The Belier Family

Family ties, the joy of music and breaking free.

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Win Tickets to Sleeping With Other People

Exploring the non-bump-and-grind aspects of falling in love.

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The Winners of 2015 NZ Music Awards

Celebrating the best in local music.

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Check Out the Photos From the SPECTRE Premiere With Belvedere Vodka

Playground. Concrete Playground.

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Silo Cinema Unveils December Programme

Getting you in the mood for the holiday season.

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Tropfest Cancelled Due to Alleged Fund Mismanagement

Someone make a Kickstarter fund already.

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Win a Double Pass to Ithaca

This competition has expired.

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Progressive House Pioneers Leftfield Have Been Announced to Headline Splore

Performing for the first time in New Zealand.

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Submissions Are Open For Short Doco Platform Loading Docs

Serving to transform the way we make, tell and view documentary shorts in New Zealand.

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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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Cycle-Powered Cinema is Peddling its Way to Auckland

By the end credits you'll be wheelie, wheelie tyred.

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Kendrick Lamar Leads the First Artist Lineup For Auckland City Limits

We gon' be alright.

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The Five Best Events in Auckland This Halloween

Five excuses to dress like a weirdo and drink punch till the sun comes up.

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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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This Is How to Support Ai Weiwei and Stick it to Lego

If Lego won't supply the bricks, we will.

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Shake Cats Is the New Photo Series from the Creator of Shake Dogs

The logical sequel we've been waiting for. LOOK AT THEIR FACES.

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Conscientious Cleaners Put Artists Goldschmied & Chiari's Party Installation in the Bin

Luckily, Tracey Emin's bed isn't in the same gallery.

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Win Tickets to 99 Homes

The real estate thriller is back for a proper run on the big screen.

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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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Splore Drops Second Half of 2016 Festival Lineup

None of that mainstream junk.

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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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Win Tickets to the Preview of Le Noir: The Dark Side of Cirque

The world's most daring and seductive circus is back in town.

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Win a Double Pass to National Geographic Live Presents: Ocean Wild with Brian Skerry

The accidental conservation photographer who's spent 10,000 hours photographing animals underwater.

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Watch the Trailer for Bill Murray's Netflix Christmas Special

Now that's one holly, jolly cast.

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Soulfest 2015 Has Been Cancelled

With organisers pointing to poor ticket sales.

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Finalists Announced For The 2015 NZ Music Awards

The votes are in, Nu Zilland.

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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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The Second Artist Release For Rhythm and Vines is Here

A freewheeling party rapper, some electronic heavyweights, a hypnotic rock 'n' roll band, and some contestants from X Factor NZ.

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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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A Guide to Artweek Auckland

An eight-day bender of gallery hopping, Segway riding, artist talks and creative madness.

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Rhythm and Vines Introduce a New Comedy Component

R&V are having a laugh.

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