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The Ten Best Small Bars in Auckland

There's nothing better than getting cosy in a small space with some good friends and strangers, accompanied by some good food and even better drinks.

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Watch This Cute Puppy Video to Raise Funds for Charity

Join the Pedigree Adoption Drive. Do it for the dogs.

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Tavi Gevinson Will Make Her Broadway Debut in This Is Our Youth

Tavi's career change will make you feel like a hopeless underachiever all over again.

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Marina Abramovic Is Going to Do “Nothing” for Her Next Artwork

"There is not any work. It's just me."

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Michael Jackson to release new album this May

Eight previously recorded but unreleased songs from the King of Pop.

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Maligned Comic Sans Font Gets a Minimalist Neue Makeover

Passive aggressive workplace notes have never looked better. Meet Comic Neue.

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Five Memorable Lessons We Took from Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel

Futura is dead, and Jeff Goldblum makes legal jargon sound surprisingly erotic.

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Melbourne Street Artist Rone Unveils Nine-Storey Mural in CBD

Stunning images of Melbourne's most epic street art.

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New Zealanders Tweet to Bring Down King Joffrey

Tweet and bring down that prostitute-torturing weasel.

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Some Amazing Person Graphed the Quality of Every TV Episode on IMDB

Settle those pub arguments once and for all.

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The Wolf of Buzzfeed: The Perfect Takedown of Clickbait Culture

Please click on this. It has GIFs!

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Introducing Hopt Soda, a Refreshing Alternative Soft Drink

A modern soft drink for a modern drinker.

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Discover Shin’s Teppanyaki Pop-Up Experience

A fresh experience is something to be treasured.

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The Best New Experiences in Auckland this Week

We're one of the ten most liveable cities in the world, here's why.

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Win Tickets To The Selfish Giant

Win one of five double passes to The Selfish Giant.

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Nicolas Jaar and Darkside Invite You to Fall Into Their Small Worlds

We chat to Nicholas Jaar about the light in Darkside.

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Daft Punk’s Merchandise Ads Also Took a Trip Back to the ’70s

When you see The Seal, you know it's real.

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The Grand Finale to Silo Park’s Summer of Events

Thanks to the team at Silo and Waterfront Auckland for making this city such a kick ass city to live and play in.

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Ten Must-See Acts at the NZ Comedy Festival 2014

Once again Concrete Playground has curated your Festival experience with a list of ten diverse acts you need to get along to.

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Mexican Artist Saner Makes His Mark on Auckland

Watch a time-lapse video of the street graffiti installation from Saner at a prominent Newton location.

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MTV in search of a Kiwi VJ

The job description doesn't sound too bad.

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Imogen Heap Takes to Kickstarter with Computer-Controlling Mi.Mu Glove

Right now, they make music. But soon, they could give us the home equivalent of Tony Stark's studio.

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Broods Release Official Video for Bridges

New video for the brother-sister duo.

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The Ten Best Butchers in Auckland

Get your meat fix here.

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Sofia Coppola to Direct a Live-Action Little Mermaid

Ariel is, after all, a girl with problems.

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Win a LYNX Prize Pack including a Portable Mini Speaker

Win a LYNX pack and speaker

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Artist Transforms Everyday Wooden Objects into Art

Yes, his name is Maskull Lasserre. What a dude.

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Seven Things We Learnt from SXSW 2014

The future is nearly here, and Game of Thrones' Hodor is a DJ.

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Neil Young Launches Pono at SXSW 2014

Reviving the magic that has been squeezed out of digital music

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Crowdfunding Hospitality: IconPark’s New Approach to the Pop-Up

The phrase 'vote to keep your favourite in the house' just got interesting.

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The Imaginative Twitterature of the Twitter Fiction Festival

A mad rush of lies, poetry and parody accounts, all under the #twitterfiction hashtag.

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The Ten Best Things to See and Do at Womad Festival

There's no festival in New Zealand quite as a diverse.

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President Obama Appeared on Between Two Ferns and It Was Glorious

"If I ran a third time, that'd be like doing a third Hangover movie. That didn't go so well, did it?"

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Amsterdam’s Public Urinals to Turn Pee into Food

Fertiliser without phosphorous is kind of like coffee without caffeine.

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Win Tickets to TRACKS

Win tickets to TRACKS + a coffee table book.

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Lena Dunham Wonderfully, Sometimes Nakedly Hosted SNL

Because of course she did.

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Distinctive Music Preferences of Each State in the US

The Naked and Famous get a slice of state-side love.

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Beyonce Just Got an Emoji Makeover

The visual album taken to its logical conclusion.

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Shia LaBeouf’s Performance Art Explained

Shia's artistic collaborators shed some light on the whole weird shabang.

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The Ten Best Films To See At This Year’s French Film Festival

Concrete Playground makes choosing your Gallic poison easy with a guide to the top ten flick picks of the festival.

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Indigenous Art Takes Centre Stage at Auckland Art Gallery

The exhibitions offer viewers an alternative perspective on the world and a way to deepen understanding around the Aboriginal and Maori cultures.

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The Best and Worst of Oscars 2014 Acceptance Speeches

Cate Blanchett supports women in film, Matthew McConaughey celebrates a weird hero.

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