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NewsYayoi Kusama Is Opening Her Own Dot-Filled Tokyo Museum
The permanent five-storey facility will showcase the artist's immersive installations and more.
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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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NewsYou Can Now Visit Pennywise's Lair from Stephen King's 'It'
Spend some quality time with your friendly, neighbourhood murder clown.
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NewsYou'll Soon Be Able to Stay in the World's First Marvel Hotel
Cosy up with caped crusaders at Disneyland Paris.
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NewsWatch the Thrilling New Trailer for 'Stranger Things' Season Two
Catch a glimpse before the second season drops in October.
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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 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 20 Best New Zealand Songs From the Past Year Have Been Announced
Including a chart-topping earworm, te reo thrash metal and two from Lorde.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Picks for the 2017 NZ International Film Festival
Time management one of your special skills? You'll need it to get through this year's phenomenal program.
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NewsThis Dream-Like New York Gallery Installation Changes Colour With the Weather
Turning the courtyard at MoMA PS1 into a environmentally responsive, colour-changing wonderland.
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NewsBroad City's Abbi Jacobson to Host New Modern Art Podcast
A WNYC and MoMA collaboration, this ten-episode series will unpack Duchamp, Polloclk et al. with Questlove, Hannibal Buress and RuPaul.
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NewsThe NZ International Film Festival Adds 21 Cannes Titles to Their 2017 Program
Start rearranging your diary.
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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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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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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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NewsArtisan Brunch Is the Photo Series Turning Your Favourite Meal Into Famous Works of Art
Giving iconic artworks the food-focused makeover no one ever realised they needed — until now.
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NewsBreaking Bad Is Coming Back as a Virtual Reality Experience
Prepare to follow in Walter White's footsteps.
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NewsLorde Announces 2017 New Zealand Tour of Intimate Venues
She'll play small venues in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
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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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NewsStudio Ghibli Is Building Its Very Own Theme Park
The Totoro-themed park is scheduled to open in 2020 — and if it doesn't feature a catbus, we'll eat this susuwatari.
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NewsApple Music Unveils its Local Songwriting Project For NZ Music Month
The gift that keeps on giving.
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NewsThe Best Things to do in Wellington This Queen's Birthday Weekend
Get your geek on, eat delicious things and dance your ass off.
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NewsThere's a Poetry Exhibition Happening in Antarctica and Your Work Could Be In It
This is not a drill, people.
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NewsThe Winners of the 2017 NZ International Comedy Awards Have Been Announced
Who took home the Yellow Towel and Golden Gumboot?
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NewsFive Films from Cannes 2017 We Can't Wait to See in New Zealand
Now showing in French Riviera cinemas between May 17 and 28, and hopefully coming soon to a screen near you.
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NewsThe New Zealand International Film Festival Teases Its Full Program With Eight Features
Behind the curtain of a horror theme park, a sweeping giant screen epic, and a Mexican erotic bio-sci-fi.
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NewsThe Five Best Things to See at LUX Light Festival 2017
The kaleidoscopic festival is back and ready to glow.
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NewsFive Films to See at NZIFF Autumn Events
Prepare yourself for the full NZIFF lineup with these cinematic treats.
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News'Wet Hot American Summer' Is Being Turned Into a Role-Playing Game
Make your dream of stepping into the 2001 cult hit a reality with this crowdfunded tabletop game.
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NewsThis Immersive London Exhibition Will Put You Inside an Episode of 'Black Mirror'
Relive the anthology series' "Fifty Million Merits" episode as part of the Barbican's three-month science-fiction showcase.
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NewsNYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art Has Installed a Surreal Rooftop Dinner Party
Characters and objects from the Met's collection have been digitally scanned, cast as sculptures and spread underneath the Manhattan skyline.
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NewsAndrew J. Steel and BAYNK on Auckland's Creative Scene
Asking two innovative artists for their opinion on a city they know and love.
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NewsFour More Titles Have Been Announced for Pocket-Sized Film Series Autumn Events
A landmark musical drama, a Greta Garbo classic, a French animation, and the making of a great cinematic folly.
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NewsFive Minutes With Alt-Pop Songwriter Andrew Keoghan
Discussing his new album, musical inspirations, and life in the Big Apple.
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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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NewsSplendour in the Grass Announces Dream-Fulfilling 2017 Lineup
After six years, LCD Soundsystem are coming back to Australia.
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GALLERY: Relive CubaDupa Through Dexter Murray's Snaps
All the characters from Wellington's favourite day.
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NewsShia LaBeouf's Anti-Trump Project Has Been Shut Down Again
The fourth time wasn't the charm for the actor turned activist's artistic protest piece.
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NewsThe Guggenheim Has Just Unveiled Its Stunning Synthetic Desert Installation
Visitors step into a sea of sound-suppressing foam pyramids in an artwork designed to "heighten our understanding of perceptual experience."
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NewsTen Films from SXSW 2017 Required in New Zealand Cinemas Immediately
They're making waves in Austin, let's hope the tide brings them to our shores.
