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“I always approach the storytelling like I'm cooking a meal for everybody. I want there to be some sense of satisfaction and some sense of warmth.” — Actor and comedian Bailey Poching.
RNZ
New Zealand designers scored 15 of the 25 prizes in this year’s awards, which attracted entries from 18 countries.
Elsewhere by Graham Reid
At a structural level, this conversational memoir by Jon Toogood – frontman of our most important and much-loved rock band Shihad, and latterly prime mover behind The Adults -- falls into the familiar pattern of rock biographies: childhood, forming the band, touring, album, more touring, another album… Repeat as required. But this is Toogood's recollection of events public and... - HOME AGAIN by JON TOOGOOD by Graham Reid
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An extract from Atakohu Middleton’s newly published collection ‘Waka Aroha: He kohinga pakipoto’ — the first sole-authored book of short stories in te reo Māori, written for adults.
Elsewhere by Graham Reid
Auckland's Headband was so close to being a supergroup we might as well call it: Headband was close to being a supergroup. They pulled together considerable and diverse talents and in some way that might have been their problem. Live they were a terrific blues-based rock band but on their debut album Happen Out (a play on the Happen Inn music TV show, the name not appearing on the album's... - HEADBAND. HAPPEN OUT, CONSIDERED (1972): The band that couldn't decide by Graham Reid
Kōanga Festival marks 12 years showcasing Māori and Pacific arts amid sector funding cuts, sustaining access and artist pay through diverse funders, with new works and performances
My name is Talia Pua and I was born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau, and I’m still based in Tāmaki. My parents immigrated here about 39 years ago from Malaysia. My Dad’s from Klang (home of Bak Kut Teh!) and my Mum is from Muar (home of big pork buns!).
Newsroom
From The Detail: A small part of big road project budgets is spent on something beautiful – but under Act, it would take a back seat
The sound of a harp drifted through the shelves and into the lobby. “I don’t read anything but romantasy,” one attendee, dressed in a cape, told me.
the Guardian
The Californian once cultivated petri dishes breathed on by artists that turned ‘murky and scary’. But now, in our dystopian age of space technocrats, she’s taking inspiration from Nasa shots of asteroids
RNZ
New Zealand scores an early Emmy win thanks to the crew who worked on special effects in the freaky Netflix series.
In Aotearoa, the nighttime and the after-dark communities that inhabit it are treated with a parochial sense of reserve. A proverbial problem child who must be kept in line by reactive public policy.
RNZ
After years of reviewing music on RNZ, Jeremy Thomas takes a "perverse pleasure" in spinning some of his own eclectic favourites.
RNZ
ACT is promising to stop motorists' money being spent on roadside sculptures, cultural monuments and decorative artwork, saying fuel taxes and road-user charges should pay for roads instead.
NZ Herald
A new Waikato charitable trust aims to open the doors of the film and television industry to more people across the region. The Waikato Screen Charitable...
RNZ
Auckland Museum hopes to be free of asbestos by the middle of next year, but the still-closed Māori and Pacific galleries won't reopen until the end of 2029 - four years after the toxic dust was found.
New Zealand schools can win a stage spot with Stan Walker by creating their own version of ‘Family Tree’ from Disney’s Moana.
In 1965, Jim Allen won a design competition organised by Fletcher Trust and Investment for a sculpture to be placed in the Pakuranga Town Centre development.
Newsroom
The director of Lomu, the acclaimed movie on the life of Jonah the rugby superstar, describes new family and cultural perspective revealed in the movie
Auckland Pride, once a month-long festival, is now much more. It's an organisation that provides support and advocacy for Takatāpui and Rainbow artists year-round.
The wooden artwork was unbolted from its stone base outside the Hundertwasser Art Centre and carried away on a bike in the early hours of August 24.
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