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NewsFinal Line-up Announced for Rhythm and Vines
The lid on the final line-up release for this year's Rhythm and Vines festival has finally been lifted
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NewsWes Anderson is Planning His Own Theme Park with Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh
What the cuss? Stop everything.
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NewsImprovising a Christmas Movie with Director Joe Swanberg
Anna Kendrick and Lena Dunham riffing the next 50 Shades of Grey. You can't write this stuff.
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Tami Neilson Walks Away With the 2014 APRA Silver Scroll
Celebrating the creative excellence of the nation’s songwriters.
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NewsThis Photographer Has Captured The Strange Faces People Make After a Shot
Prepare to be very self-conscious next time you're at the bar.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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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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NewsThe World Would Be a Better Place If Our Coins Looked Like This
Finally, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are getting the recognition they deserve.
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NewsChronophonium 2015 Lineup Announced
A special time and place for the freest of spirits to thrive.
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NewsShould Rude Customers Be Charged More For Their Coffee?
Being nicer to your barista might save you some dosh.
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News‘Baking Bad': The Breaking Bad Cookbook is Finally Here
Warning: Cookbook contains delicious baking recipes and spoilers.
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NewsAre Smartphones Responsible For the Death of Conversation?
This photo series will make you think twice before reaching for the phone.
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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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CafeSweet Mother's Kitchen
5 Courtenay Place, Wellington
New Orleans staples fused with Mexican snack food.
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NewsWOMAD NZ 2015 Lineup Announced
The family-friendly festival will be held at the 55-acre Brooklands Park and TSB Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth from March 13 to 15, 2015.
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NewsThe World’s Largest Underwater Sculpture Also Acts as an Artificial Reef
That one time dumping 60 tonnes of foreign material in the ocean was a good thing.
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NewsLorde’s ‘Hunger Games’ Soundtrack Unveiled
For the second-to-last installment of the film series.
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NewsSecret Garden 2015 Dates Announced
Sydney's most clandestine festival has fewer secrets these days.
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NewsFinalists Announced for the 2014 New Zealand Music Awards
The votes are in and the finalists for country's annual music awards have been revealed.
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NewsBill Murray and Sofia Coppola Are Teaming Up For a Christmas Musical
Your Christmas lunch could soon be soundtracked by Bill Murray.
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NewsWatch Street Art Come to Life in This Entrancing GIF Project
GIFs aren't just for Lena Dunham quotes anymore.
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NewsWatch These Sassy Kids React to Food at One of New York’s Best Restaurants
"This looks like soap. It tastes like soap. Why am I eating soap right now?"
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NewsComedy Theatre Charges Audiences ‘Per Laugh’ Using Facial Recognition Tech
It's Pay as You Go for the theatre.
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NewsSee the World’s Strangest Architecture with These Award-Winning Photographs
Straight up weekday escapism from the World Architecture Festival.
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NewsListen to Pharrell, Florence Welch, Lorde and others cover The Beach Boys
Lorde, Pharrell Williams, Stevie Wonder, Chris Martin, Sam Smith, Elton John and others combine to sing "God Only Knows".
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NewsRoman Coppola’s Short Film Competition Winners Are Just As Weird As You Thought
Goat hunts, kidnappings and gossip.
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NewsFive Underappreciated Studio Ghibli Films You Should Hurry Up and Watch
If you love Totoro and Spirited Away, then these should be right up your alley.
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NewsThe Pros and Cons of Watching Orange is the New Black
The pros and cons of binge sessions on Lightbox.co.nz
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NewsMiranda July Has Made You a Handbag with Some Very Specific Uses
It's exactly as strange as she is.
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NewsLearn to Draw Like the Masters with This Colouring Book for Grown Ups
Feel free to colour outside the lines.
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NewsBlink Announces the Inclusive New Zealand Music Awards
"It's the only music awards you can take seriously."
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NewsRage Against the Machine Guitarist Pulls a ‘Don’t You Know Who I Am?’ on Cafe
Then went on a rampage about workers' rights after being denied.
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NewsThe First Artist Line-up Announced for Splore 2015
Have a dip in the ocean while watching DJs and party bands take the stage at the now-annual festival.
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NewsNational Geographic Adventure Filmmaker Bryan Smith is More Afraid Than You Think
The man who started filmmaking with a camcorder from Walmart.
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NewsLorde Releases First Single from the Hunger Games Soundtrack
Lorde releases 'Yellow Flicker Beat'.
