• Guide

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    A plethora of pursuits from the capital's galleries, bars and stages.

  • News

    Virtual Reality Concerts Are Now Happening in Australia

    Starting with this Flight Facilities set at Sydney Opera House.

  • Eat Like James Bond with Henry Hargreaves' New Photo Series

    None of Ian Fleming's fictional meals come shaken or stirred.

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    Five Must-Read Zines of Zinefest

    Five wonderful, self-published beacons of creativity.

Latest Guides
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    Win This Tiger Beer x Joe Helmore Painting Valued at $3000

    Joe Helmore is a bold, intriguing new contemporary artist on the New Zealand art scene.

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    A Brief History of New Zealand Fashion Week

    We take a retrospective look at NZFW - including the times we saw a severed boar head, a $33,000 crystal embellished tuxe and people not wearing much.

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    Corona Presents The Peacekeepers for a Series of Free Mountainside Sunset Parties

    Corona takes The Peacekeepers to the slopes in a series of live DJ parties.

  • News

    The Finalists for the 2015 APRA Silver Scroll Award Have Been Announced

    Recognising creative excellence in the craft of songwriting.

  • News

    Reasons to Go to McLaren Falls Festival Include a Waterfall, Disclosure, a Glow Worm Forest and Kurt Vile

    Expect everything from indie rock slackers to a psychedelic hip-hop electro boy band.

  • News

    A Giant, Inflatable Quasi-Cathedral is Coming to New Zealand

    Enter into an inflated space that looks kind of like the set from a deleted scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Latest Places
  • Restaurant

    House of Dumplings

    117 Taranaki Street, Wellington

    You will have your dumpling and eat it too.

  • Bar

    Southern 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.

  • Bar

    St John’s

    5 Cable Street, Wellington

    Bean bags with your beersies? Yeah, go on.

  • Cafe

    Baobab

    152 Riddiford St, Newtown

    A Newtown cultural institution.

  • Restaurant

    Ekim Burgers

    257 Cuba St, Te Aro

    The best homemade burgers that you can’t actually make at home.

  • Cafe

    Enigma

    128 Courtenay Place, Te Aro

    Goliath-sized burgers and laid-back staff make Enigma a great late night haunt.

  • Bar

    Bebemos

    88 Riddiford Street, Wellington

    The laid-back Latin craft beer bar houses over 60 different types of beers.

  • Cafe

    Fidel’s Cafe

    234 Cuba Street, Wellington

    Cuba Street's Cuban icon.

  • Cafe

    Sweet Mother's Kitchen

    5 Courtenay Place, Wellington

    New Orleans staples fused with Mexican snack food.

  • Restaurant

    Tommy Millions

    Cnr Courtenay Place And Taranaki Street, Wellington

    Big fans of Tommy.

  • News

    Here's Rhythm and Vines' First Lineup Release

    A bit of nostalgia, a little bit of trap and some music to swoon to.

  • News

    FKA Twigs Drops Surprise 16-Minute Film and New EP

    You'd better believe M3LL155X is trippy as blazes.

  • News

    Patti Smith's 'Just Kids' Memoir Is Being Made Into a Miniseries

    Step aside, Gossip Girl. This is real NYC love.

  • News

    Laneway Festival is Homeless

    And no one really knows where it's going to go next.

  • News

    BMD Thinks Safety is a Place Where Creativity Goes to Die

    "There are big challenges with working large scale outdoors, opposed to the fine artist who can sit inside, work in peace on his work with a cup of tea and the heater on. But how boring is that?"

  • News

    Brilliant Things to Do in Wellington This August

    The forecast for a Wellingtonian's social calendar this month is brilliant with a high chance of busy.

  • News

    Major Lazer, Duke Dumont, DJ Snake, Oliver Heldens and Galantis to Headline OUR:HOUSE

    Featuring genre-spanning banger-makers and the person responsible for a viral crunk sensation.

  • News

    Win Tickets to The Guest

    We take a look at five other cult films that would bring something special to your front door via the big screen.

  • News

    National Geographic Photographer Steve Winter on Competing with Pictures of Cute, Fluffy Kittens on the Internet

    Steve Winter spends six or so months get the shot that you spend six or so seconds looking at.

  • News

    Fight Club as a Rock Opera? It's Actually Happening

    Chuck Palahniuk, David Fincher and Trent Reznor are apparently all on board.

  • News

    Take a Delicious, Delicious Tour of Nick Offerman's Pizza Farm

    “If it’s on a plant, it’s good for you, who cares how it got there.”

  • News

    See Localised Listening Trends of Cities Around the World

    Roots/rock/reggae is more popular than you think.

  • News

    When It Began In Wellington

    A short piece by Annabel Hawkins.

  • News

    New Music Festival to Launch in Bay of Plenty

    A genre-bending artist line-up in an other-worldly setting.

  • News

    This NYC Rapper Made an Entire Album in an Apple Store

    When Prince Harvey's laptop was stolen, he came up with a Genius solution.

  • News

    This Massive Ball Pit 'Beach' Is Made for Art-Loving Kidults

    An ocean of 750,000 recyclable plastic balls has taken over the entire atrium of DC's National Building Museum.

  • News

    The Best Advice and Observations to Come Out of Semi-Permanent 2015

    "Nothing I know belongs to me, I'm really just a product of all the people I've met and been exposed to."

  • News

    Understanding the Work of Marina Abramovic in Five Phases

    How the performance artist got from bodily extremes to quiet introspection — and with it, superstardom.

  • News

    Music Producer Kamandi on Turning a Washed Up Middle Aged Man into a Martyr

    We also talk about the pressure of saying yes, the feelings behind a song and the value of just making a lot of music.

  • News

    Brilliant Things to Do in Wellington This July

    Play with Lego under the guise of participating in interactive art, see the best local tour of the year, experience the unprofessional professional EDM artists and get your popcorn ready for the annual NZIFF.

  • News

    Google 'Bad Ass Mother Fucker' to Find Artist and Hacker Evan Roth

    He builds fake Google street cars to wreck havoc on the streets, collabs with Jay Z and has a permanent art installation at MoMA.

  • News

    Tiny Ruins On Creating Good Art Out of Banality

    "It’s that kind of sense of fobbing away a part of yourself – the more that I felt that, the more I scrambled to make the most of my songwriting."

  • News

    New York Is Getting a Pop-Up Seinfeld Museum

    Open for five days only. Get. Out.

  • News

    NZIFF Has Made a Foray into Cannes

    NZIFF will screen seventeen films from the prestigious festival - including the winners of the Best Director, Jury Prize and Best Actor categories.

  • News

    Concrete Playground Meets Contemporary Artist Joe Helmore

    Like his paintings, Joe Helmore is a bit of a pick and mix.

  • News

    Your Winter Film Guide

    The Hollywood blockbuster formula meets hard-to-tackle issues like mental health and the role of women.

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