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NewsThe Best Things to Do in Wellington Before Payday
There's no reason to stay cooped up at home when the cash isn't flowing.
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NewsFind Love in The Candle Wasters' New Web Series Happy Playland
Behind the capital's new lesbian rom-com musical mashup.
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NewsRhythm & Alps Drops Its First Lineup For 2017
Ring in the New Year with Tash Sultana, Fat Freddy's and Little Dragon.
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NewsRhythm and Vines Announces First Artist Lineup for 2017
It's shaping up to be another blinder in Gizzy.
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NewsTwo (Sort Of) New Harry Potter Books Will Be Released In October
Hold onto your various HP merchandise, kids.
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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson and an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsEleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in April
Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
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NewsEleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in March
Spend your couch time watching Adam Sandler in space, a stunning Oscar-winning documentary, girl group-fuelled sitcom hilarity and Noel Fielding's latest show.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsNine 2024 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
'Oppenheimer', an astonishing Ukraine-set documentary, a Wes Anderson short, Emma Stone's most-spectacular performance yet: they each won 2024 Oscars, and you can check them them all now.
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NewsSay Cheers to Hollywood's Night of Nights: Concrete Playground's Oscars 2024 Drinking Game
Whether you're hoping that 'Oppenheimer', 'Barbie', 'Poor Things', 'Past Lives' or something else picks up Academy Awards, here's how to sip along.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2024 Academy Awards
Will 'Oppenheimer' sweep the Oscars? What else will win? What should but won't? Here are our predictions.
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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 32 of 2024's Oscar-Nominated Movies in New Zealand Right Now
From 'Barbenheimer' and twists on 'Frankenstein' to animated 'Spider-Man' antics and devastating documentaries, here's where to watch 2024's Oscar contenders.
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NewsThe Inspiring Women Making Waves in the Auckland Creative Scene
Life lessons and advice on defying norms and breaking convention from the city's female creatives.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Winter Reading List 2017
From a New York Times bestseller to Barnsey's memoir, these reads will get you through the colder months.
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GuideSix Ways to Mark Midwinter Matariki
Celebrate the Maori New Year with indigenous cuisine, spine-tingling kapa haka and stories around a fire.
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GuideThe Best Events to Check Out at the 2017 Wellington Jazz Festival
What to see, dance to, eat and stumble across.
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NewsAn Epic Three-Day Mud Festival is Coming to New Zealand
If you ain't dirty, you ain't here to party.
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NewsThe Team Behind Serial and This American Life Just Dropped a Brand New True Crime Podcast
S-Town investigates a true story set in rural Alabama — and all seven episodes are here.
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RestaurantHouse of Dumplings
117 Taranaki Street, Wellington
You will have your dumpling and eat it too.
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BarSouthern Cross
39 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro
The bar's ridiculously ‘gram-able courtyard is the perfect summer afternoon spot to sip on a cold one.
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RestaurantEkim Burgers
257 Cuba St, Te Aro
The best homemade burgers that you can’t actually make at home.
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RestaurantEnigma
128 Courtenay Place, Te Aro
Goliath-sized burgers and laid-back staff make Enigma a great late night haunt.
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RestaurantSweet Mother's Kitchen
5 Courtenay Place, Wellington
New Orleans staples fused with Mexican snack food.
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GALLERY: Relive CubaDupa Through Dexter Murray's Snaps
All the characters from Wellington's favourite day.
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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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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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The 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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NewsWomen's Marches Draw Massive Crowds Around the Globe
Hundreds of thousands of people turned out worldwide.
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NewsNetflix Has Turned Your Favourite TV Shows Into A Video Game
Outrun the Demogorgon or help Piper Chapman avoid cafeteria trays.
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NewsConcrete Playground's 2016/17 Summer Reading List
Ten books to get stuck into by the pool, the beach or on the couch with an Icy Pole in hand.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Diaz Grimm
Off the back of releasing his second album, 2077, we talk the importance of community, Trump, and living in the future with the eternally optimistic Cambridge rapper.
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NewsYou Can Now Download Netflix Shows to Watch Offline
Binge watch even without an internet connection.
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NewsThe Wall Street Journal Has Launched an Architect-Designed Virtual-Reality News App
Get your immersive news fix in swanky virtual digs.
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NewsBudburst Festival is Bringing Natural Wine to your Attention
Exploring the principles behind Wellington's coolest little natural food and wine festival.
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NewsGolding's Free Dive is Throwing a Big Dia de los Muertos Party
A little pre-siesta fiesta to observe Day of the Dead and Garage Project's new drop.
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GuideAgainst the Grain
Follow the journey of Auckland's fearless creatives doing things on their own terms.
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NewsVICE's Dedicated TV Channel Has An Official Launch Date
And it's transmitting 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
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NewsAn Intercontinental Lineup Has Been Announced For WOMAD
For fans of ska-punk, laidback bossa nova, New Orleans brass, dubstep and everything in between.
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NewsSome Kiwi Creatives Have Launched a Pro-Voting Campaign on Behalf of The World
A timely reminder the world is watching.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Electric Wire Hustle
Defying genres and reaching for a higher state of being.
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GuideYour Guide to Wellington's Freshest Exhibitions in October
October sees a flood of students dotting Wellington with new exhibitions.
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NewsThe First Artist Lineup Has Been Announced For Splore 2017
If beachside dancing and mid-ocean listening weren't already enough.
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NewsThousands of Nude People Paint Themselves Blue for Spencer Tunick's Latest Installation
Over 3000 punters "blue" themselves in the name of art.
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NewsThis New Service Texts Your Friends Game of Thrones Spoilers After Each Episode Airs
The ultimate jerk move.
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NewsYour Guide to the Doc Edge Film Festival 2016
Tales of ordinary people rising up in the face of their conditions.
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NewsSBS Announces First Ever Asia-Pacific Eurovision Song Contest
And Australia is up for hosting the first one.
