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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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NewsShoot the Shit with Edgar Mahon from Midnight Gallery
Edgar Mahon tests the waters with his solo exhibition EP First World Problem.
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NewsYou Can't Swim in Artist Leandro Erlich's Pool (But You Can Walk Along the Bottom)
One of our favourite, most Instagrammable optical illusions to date.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Useful Guide to the 2016 Oscar Race
Who will win, who should win and who got snubbed.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Nightmares On Wax
Talking Serato, Ibiza, sampling and the current state of hip hop.
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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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NewsBuy an Original Banksy and Get This Free House Thrown in
Three bedrooms, a patio and a mural by the world's most famous street artist.
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NewsHere's This Year's Motley Crew of Oscar Nominees
Featuring a mix of blockbusters and indie releases, plus a whole lot of white people.
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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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NewsLCD Soundsystem Are Definitely Back Together and Releasing a New Album This Year
All your friends are back together.
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NewsAi Weiwei Sets Up Studio in Lesbos to Draw Attention to Refugee Crisis
Plans include a memorial for refugees who lost their lives at sea.
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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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NewsHave a Listen to Radiohead's Unused James Bond Theme Song
We'll take this over Sam Smith any day of the week.
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NewsFly Air Rhythm to Rhythm and Vines, Pay It Off With Gem Visa
Interest-free good times. Flights, accommodation and party included.
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NewsNew Artworks by Banksy Focus on the Plight of Syrian Refugees
Artwork depicting Steve Jobs, son of a Syrian migrant, to be preserved by city of Calais.
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NewsThe Ten Best Movies Hardly Anyone Saw in 2015
Do yourself a favour and add these to your must-see movie list.
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NewsAnnie Leibovitz's Powerful 2016 Pirelli Calendar Is One Big 'Yassss Queen'
Featuring a whole year of kickass women, from Amy Schumer to Patti Smith.
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NewsLondon's Abandoned Tunnels Will Play Host to an Immersive Goosebumps Theatre Experience
Reader beware, you're in for an actual, real life scare.
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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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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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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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NewsThis Is How to Support Ai Weiwei and Stick it to Lego
If Lego won't supply the bricks, we will.
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NewsShake Cats Is the New Photo Series from the Creator of Shake Dogs
The logical sequel we've been waiting for. LOOK AT THEIR FACES.
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NewsConscientious Cleaners Put Artists Goldschmied & Chiari's Party Installation in the Bin
Luckily, Tracey Emin's bed isn't in the same gallery.
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NewsNew Zealand Festival is Bringing Us Sufjan Stevens And Many More Magical Acts
Including a reinterpretation of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Miranda July, Calexico and a Salvador Dali-inspired theatre piece.
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NewsThe Royal New Zealand Ballet Unveil Their 2016 Programme
The debut season under the guidance of Italian choreographer and Artistic Director Francesco Ventriglia.
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NewsWatch the Trailer for Bill Murray's Netflix Christmas Special
Now that's one holly, jolly cast.
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NewsThe Finalists For The 2016 Billy T James Award Have Been Unveiled
The brightest talent in local comedy and their quest for the prestigious Yellow Towel.
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NewsThe Second Artist Release For Rhythm and Vines is Here
A freewheeling party rapper, some electronic heavyweights, a hypnotic rock 'n' roll band, and some contestants from X Factor NZ.
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