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Alice in Auckland
The new Tim Burton-directed Disney's Alice in Wonderland 3D opened in Auckland on 3rd March with a dress-up screening at Sky City IMAX complete with MORE FM DJs as Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee and rabbit cupcakes for all...
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Morning Glory
What better way is there to start the day? Soul bar held a very civilised 'Morning Glory' High Tea on Saturday 6 March with very lady-like tiers of savouries and cakes in the Garden of Soul surrounded by plants...
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Mambo in the Garden of Soul
Mambo dancers shimmied to a Cuban beat at Havana Heaven at Soul bar in Auckland's Viaduct where designer Xanthe White had created a tropical paradise from plants and flowers in a living installation for six days called the Garden of Soul...
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Crackers about cheese
The Langham marked the opening of their new Great Room with Cheesefest 2010, a celebration of New Zealand’s greatest cheeses, and a delicious night out with over 400 cheeses in one grand room with all-you-can-eat cheese on offer...
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Royal visit
We had a tour of the liner before the Trelise show, amidst high security with face scanning and barcode ID tags exchanged for our passports. I guess they don't want any media stowing away on the cruise which starts around $270 a day...
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Roses in Wonderland
Visually Auckland Museum’s exhibition Wonderland: The Magic of the Rose is both attractive and busy, curators having chosen a kitsch aesthetic, the hall mixing WORLD’s Astroturf suit with artificial roses and taxidermied rabbits...
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Garden of Soul
Over six enchanting days in early March, Auckland’s Viaduct precinct will be dramatically transformed with Soul Bar & Bistro’s magical Garden of Soul. Soul Bar & Bistro will literally come alive; as a living, breathing secret garden for patrons...
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Fairytale no. 9
In its own right ‘9’, the movie, is actually a fairytale. In the sense that how this film actually got made is all but a fairytale. And that would make Tim Burton and Timor Bekmambetor, as executive producers, the proverbial fairy godmothers…
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Splore your musical side
SPLORE organisers have been to Burning Man and there is a fair share of punters with their butterfly wings and devil horns. The line up includes not only the main stage acts (Lupe Fiasco and Bassment Jaxx DJ, King Kapisi, Sola Rosa...
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Live and loud: Top Gear
ASB Showgrounds reverberated with the revving of supercars, chainsaws and stunt cars, as UK car show celebrities Jeremy Clarkson and James May joined Kiwi racing driver Greg Murphy on the stage at Top Gear Live...
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Same story, new dimension
Toy Story ranks as one of those impossible anomalies (joining Godfather 2) where the second film, in the what is soon to be trilogy, is as good as the first – if not fractionally better. A decade later both films have been re-released with 3D...
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Seaward bound
When Corinne Bailey Rae's husband Jason Rae was found dead due to a “suspected drug overdose” the budding pop star’s life was suddenly turned upside down. Out of her grieving and soul-searching comes her new album, The Sea...
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