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NewsChanges Galore for Gisborne's Rhythm and Vines Festival
It's a new year for the New Year's festival.
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NewsThe Seven Best Cinemas in Wellington
A museum cinema hybrid, Wellington's oldest cinema and a theatre stacked with comfy armchairs.
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NewsSome Very Good Reasons to Head to this Week's Red Bull Sound Select
In case you were planning a quiet night in this week.
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GuideThe Eight Best Bookstores in Wellington
Because books are a whole lot more than just a few hundred printed pages that smell really great.
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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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NewsThere’s a Proposed Smoking Ban on Wellington's Waterfront Under Way
The waterfront may soon be one more place where smokers are banned from getting their nicotine fix.
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NewsThe World's First Official Hello Kitty Restaurant to Open in Hong Kong
Instagram had better be ready.
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NewsWhy This Austrian Magazine Printed Their Latest Edition with HIV-Positive Blood
"Now the issue is in your hands."
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NewsYou Can Airbnb Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's Old LA Apartment
No luggage needed, just come as you are.
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NewsA Wellingtonian's Guide to Drinking Coffee in Melbourne
We decided to investigate what makes Melbourne's coffee brilliant.
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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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NewsThis New Hotel Offers Accomodation for Both Tourists and Refugees
Now here's a bighearted social enterprise.
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NewsFor $10,000 a Night You Too Can Stay in New Zealand's Most Expensive Hotel Suite
Better start saving.
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NewsYou Can Now Play Cards Against Humanity On Your Phone
The 'party game for horrible people' is now online.
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NewsThe Ten Best Pool Toys for Grown-Ups
Floating poker tables, motorised bumper boats and inflatable watermelons. Dive in.
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NewsAirbnb's Latest Terrifying Stay is Snuggled In the End of This Ski Jump
Checkout is via zipline. Really.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Summer Reading List
Ten books from this year that no bibliophile should miss.
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NewsThe Five Best Vineyard Getaways in Australia
Pop open a bottle of estate-grown wine at these stylish stays among the Australian vines.
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GuideThe Summer Travel & Leisure Guide
Because the year’s too long and summer’s too short to waste time on the mediocre.
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NewsThe Eight Best Mexican Restaurants in Wellington
Great Mexican food, much like Wellington city, is a study of contrasts.
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NewsA Look Back at Ten Years of Laneway Festival
The last ten years have seen festival after festival launch and go under. How have Laneway managed to nail it?
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NewsSpend a Luxurious, Terrifying Night Dangling at 9000ft
Two double beds and 360 degree views, but no bathroom.
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NewsThe Ten Best Things to Come Out of Jamaica
Jerk, James Bond, the world's finest coffee and rum? Thank Jamaica.
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NewsMr and Mrs Smith’s Boutique Hotel Bucket List
Let the winners of the Smith Hotel Awards inspire your daydreaming.
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NewsThis Invisible Air Umbrella Will Absolutely Not Turn Inside Out
Or hit your fellow pedestrians in the head.
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NewsYour Guide to Queenstown Part Four: What to Do
Here's just a tiny morsel of the activities Queenstown has to offer.
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NewsYour Guide to Queenstown Part Three: Where to Drink and Where to Sleep
Where to take yourself out to after the sun goes down and where to tuck in afterwards.
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NewsYour Guide to Queenstown Part Two: Where to Eat
Celebrity chef Josh Emmett’s Queenstown fort and a contemporary ‘Polynasian’ restaurant are just some of the foodie highlights of the town.
