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Geoffrey Rush, David Wenham and Gina Riley joined a line-up of some of Australia’s biggest names in television to pay a final tribute to renowned satirist, Palmerston North-born John Clarke in a packed out farewell at Melbourne’s town hall. About …

Posted on 10/07/2017  |   Posted in Arts, Film & TV, News   |   Tagged ,

Head brewer at Cumbria’s Hawkshead Brewery in England, Whanganui-born Matt Clarke, sent a New Zealand Pale Ale (NZPA) to Wellington for the 21st birthday celebration of renowned bar The Malthouse, as part of the annual New Zealand beer festival, Beervana. …

Posted on 07/09/2014  |   Posted in News, Style, Taste   |   Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

Ivan Clarke is the Queenstown artist behind the captivating and popular art collection, ‘Lonely Dog’. Ivan’s work is showcased in art galleries in Queenstown, Auckland, Wellington and Wanaka. In the last 10 years he has diversified somewhat into a fresh, …

Posted on 28/05/2013  |  

Australian news magazine, The Bulletin, featured a lengthy interview with John Clarke in its May 23 edition. The NZ-born wry humourist, who has lived across the Tasman for the last 30 years, is described as “surely one of the most …

Posted on 23/05/2006  |   Posted in Arts, Media, News   |   Tagged , , ,

Kiwi comedian and trans-Tasman icon, John Clarke, talks about his latest book, The Tournament. Clarke admits that his satirical account of a tennis tournament played by artistic and academic legends of the 20th century is perhaps “too elitist and quirky” …

Posted on 16/08/2003  |   Posted in Arts, News, Writers   |   Tagged

New Zealand speed flyers Jamie Lee and Malachi Templeton are two extreme-sports thrill-seekers who feature in the documentary, Reset, which is directed by Frenchman Thierry Donard, considered “the Fellini of adventure film-making”. “Speed flying,” according to The Guardian’s Cath Clarke, “looks …

Posted on 29/07/2021  |   Posted in News, Sport, Sport General   |   Tagged , , , ,

New Zealander Redmond Wallis plays a role in the new book, Half the Perfect World, which tells the story of the post-war international artist community that formed on the Greek island of Hydra, and also included the likes of Leonard …

Posted on 27/10/2018  |   Posted in Arts, News, Writers   |   Tagged , , , , , , , ,

Eva Green (“Casino Royale”), Eve Hewson (“The Knick”) and Marton Csokas (“Into the Badlands”) will star in “The Luminaries, “the TV adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s award-winning novel,” writes Stewart Clarke in an article for Variety. “The upcoming six-parter, which will …

Posted on 28/09/2018  |   Posted in Film & TV, News   |   Tagged , , , , ,

Jacinda Ardern, who became New Zealand’s prime minister in October, attracted international attention when she denounced television interviewers who had asked whether she planned to have children if elected. Ardern, 37, told a television presenter that it was “unacceptable” for …

Posted on 23/01/2018  |   Posted in News, Politics and Economics, Society   |   Tagged , , , , ,

Queenstown was given its name by early gold prospectors, who not only hoped to find gold, but also saw the beauty of the grandiose mountains, lakes and rivers. It’s “A town fit for a queen”, they would say, according to …

Posted on 29/02/2016  |   Posted in New Zealand, News, Travel & Tourism   |   Tagged , , , , , , ,

New Zealand-born sportswriter Norman Harris, organiser of London’s Sunday Times National Fun Run, and quite possibly the inventor of the word “jogger”, has died in Britain. He was 75. Harris worked as a sports reporter for the Sunday Times, the …

Posted on 07/12/2015  |   Posted in News, Obituaries, Society   |   Tagged , , , , , , ,
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