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NewsFinalists Announced for the 2016 Taite Music Prize
Otherworldly folk, space-pop, alt-country, offbeat indie-pop and psychedelic electronica.
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NewsBuy-One, Give-One Start-up Eat My Lunch is Expanding to Wellington
Creating positive social change one lunch at a time.
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NewsAuckland City Limits Complete Their 2016 Lineup
Featuring a genre-mashing sampling genius and a stage curated by the city's most forward-thinking entertainment hub.
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NewsTen More Acts Unveiled for Auckland City Limits
Featuring homegrown favourites, a lauded jazz saxophonist, an emerging alternative-pop artist, and some multi-instrumentalists.
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NewsYour Guide to Eating Reindeer This Christmas
Plus a recipe for venison larb thanks to Tom Hishon of Orphan's Kitchen.
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NewsDominic Bowden's Guide to Los Angeles
An elusive celebrity beach, a vaudevillian nightclub, hot yoga, a deli institution and the "quintessential LA" cafe.
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{"id":550054,"type":"drink","icon":"newspaper-clipping","info":"","name":"Mexico Introduce New Cocktail Concept Frida's Margaritas","description":"Margarita heaven.","thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Fridas-Margaritas-Group-e1513113657107-488x300.jpg","photo":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Fridas-Margaritas-Group-e1513113657107.jpg","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/wellington\/food-drink\/drink\/mexico-introduce-new-cocktail-concept-friedas-margaritas","latitude":"","longitude":"","address":"","booking":"","archive":{"title":"News","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/wellington\/latest"},"banners":[{"src":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Fridas-Margaritas-Group-e1513113657107.jpg","width":1280,"height":780,"alt":""}]} -
NewsYou Can Now Order Single Origin Coffee Via The World's First Twitter Robot
Upfront Coffee have kindly offered Concrete Playground readers their first 250g bag, delivered for only $4.
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NewsWin Tickets to Concrete Playground's Advanced Screening of The Belier Family
Family ties, the joy of music and breaking free.
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NewsWin Tickets to Sleeping With Other People
Exploring the non-bump-and-grind aspects of falling in love.
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NewsBean-to-Bar is the Latest Chocolate Trend to Sweep New Zealand
Score a bean-to-bar prize package courtesy of The Chocolate Bar.
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NewsProgressive House Pioneers Leftfield Have Been Announced to Headline Splore
Performing for the first time in New Zealand.
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NewsSubmissions 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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{"id":547256,"type":"drink","icon":"newspaper-clipping","info":"","name":"Mexico Unveil Their New Summer Menu + Win a $100 Voucher","description":"This competition has expired.","thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mexicosummer-488x300.jpg","photo":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mexicosummer.jpg","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/wellington\/food-drink\/food-2\/mexico-unveil-their-new-summer-menu-win-a-100-voucher","latitude":"","longitude":"","address":"","booking":"","archive":{"title":"News","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/wellington\/latest"},"banners":[{"src":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mexicosummer.jpg","width":1280,"height":853,"alt":""},{"src":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/5252_Summer15-16.jpg","alt":"5252_Summer15-16"}]} -
{"id":547202,"type":"arts-entertainment","icon":"newspaper-clipping","info":"","name":"Kendrick Lamar Leads the First Artist Lineup For Auckland City Limits","description":"We gon' be alright.","thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kendrickl-e1446494097796-488x300.jpg","photo":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kendrickl-e1446494097796.jpg","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/wellington\/arts-entertainment\/music\/kendrick-lamar-leads-the-first-artist-lineup-for-auckland-city-limits-festival","latitude":"","longitude":"","address":"","booking":"","archive":{"title":"News","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/wellington\/latest"},"banners":[{"src":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kendrickl-e1446494097796.jpg","width":1280,"height":780,"alt":""}]} -
{"id":546504,"type":"design-style","icon":"newspaper-clipping","info":"","name":"Win a Pair of Matt Hewitt x Deuce Generation Sneakers","description":"This competition has expired.","thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Stefan_Haworth-05017-488x300.jpg","photo":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Stefan_Haworth-05017.jpg","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/wellington\/design-style\/fashion\/win-a-pair-of-matt-hewitt-x-deuce-generation-sneakers","latitude":"","longitude":"","address":"","booking":"","archive":{"title":"News","url":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/wellington\/latest"},"banners":[{"src":"https:\/\/cdn.concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Stefan_Haworth-05017.jpg","width":1279,"height":783,"alt":""},{"src":"https:\/\/concreteplayground.com\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/deuce.jpg","alt":"deuce"}]} -
NewsMcLaren 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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