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    Your 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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    Humans of New York's Brandon Stanton Photographed the 2015 Met Gala

    Ordinary people as celebrities, celebrities as ordinary people.

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    Rupert Murdoch Has Left the Headlines and Has Gone on Stage

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    Huddle in at one of these gigs and give your ears a little homemade treat.

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    Win Tickets to See It Follows

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    Pizzas and Laughs are on the Menu at the Montecristo and Bacco Room

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    Win One of Two Double Passes to Carmada

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