Auckland Scene

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   6
   Sep

   Tease your tresses at Pony Express in Auckland

   If you haven’t visited Newmarket lately, you’re in for a big surprise. First there’s a whole new fashionista street behind the Rialto. Osborne Street (off Teed Street) has been made-over and now bursts with designer labels, new footpaths and trees. Then over on Broadway the new flagship Glassons has opened in the old Hallensteins building [...]

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   18
   Aug

   Jucy launches a funky hotel in Auckland

   We’ve all seen the 1950s pouty red-head blowing kisses from the side of Jucy Rental vans and cars roaring up and down the countryside in their lime green and purple kit. Well now Jucy Lucy is all set to kiss you goodnight in her very own budget hotel. You’ll find the brand new Jucy Hotel, [...]

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3. 
   11
   Aug

   Come to my place for the RWC

   Auckland Scene: Folk are running about in a veritable feeding frenzy in the lead-up to the Rugby World Cup.  Party Central looks like it’s going to end up being more of a state of mind and less of an actual place. The All Blacks are personally testing the public transport stretch into Kingsland. Mt Eden [...]

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4. 
   29
   Jul

   Plenty of brain food at Kai to Pai

   Auckland Scene: In a world obsessed with counting calories, going organic and eliminating G.E, it’s nice to know that we live in a country that still celebrates tucker as a cultural icon, rather than something to be scrutinized at its molecular level. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying we shouldn’t shudder at the fact [...]

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5. 
   25
   Jun

   Pork belly get in ma belly! Dinner at The Grove

   Last night I treated me and The Bloke to dinner at Auckland’s number 1 restaurant (as voted by Metro Magazine) The Grove. It was a chilly Auckland night but Thursday parking was good thanks to a sneaky spot outside The Den Adult Concepts on Wyndham Street, which leant all sorts of connotations to The Bloke’s [...]

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6. 
   9
   Jun

   Museum now free for Aucklanders

   If you live in Auckland and haven’t been to the Auckland War Memorial Museum (for that is its real name) for a while, then you have no excuse now. The “donation” of $10 has been removed for all locals (upon proof of address) as your rates are officially recognized as helping the museum’s coffers. Out-of-towners [...]

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7. 
   13
   May

   Auckland’s best restaurants for 2010

   We all have our favourite restaurants don’t we? Usually they’re ones we go back to time and again lest we stumble upon an untried dish and be disappointed. My dad is a classic example of this: when he and mum are on holiday, woe betide my mother if dad finds the perfect steak on the [...]

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   6
   May

   Epsom Bowling Club & cheap beer

   Auckland Scene with Luke Oram: For those of us hanging on to the last remnants of a dying summer, the barbeque is still far from being oiled down and retired. There’s a few more lazy afternoons to be squeezed out of this temperate purgatory, if you ask me. And none of this hauling the brazier [...]

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   29
   Apr

   Laugh out loud!

   Auckland Scene: We’re about halfway through the NZ Comedy Gala when my brother sniffs disapprovingly and harrumphs, “the problem with NZ comedy now is that everyone’s just copying Rhys Darby,” he says, a strange concoction of bemused disappointment. It seems like only the other week it was NZ comedy festival 2009, which leaves me to [...]

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10. 
    23
    Apr

    Chillin at the Conch Sunday Grill, Ponsonby

    Auckland Scene: I know it’s getting cliché to suggest that you take a stroll down Ponsonby Road for a lazy Sunday afternoon jaunt. I’m the first to stray far from any suburb of Auckland where every second pedestrian is a velour-clad celebrity gunning it up from Hopetoun Street on their daily jog. I live in [...]

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