EDGE #301: NZ Perfect Place to Shape Ed Hillary, Kimbra’s Primal Heart, Tape Face in Vegas, Braindead Revisited, Bevan Congdon RIP + MORE

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News of New Zealand in The World From Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM | 14 February 2018 | #301 | New York Z-Files | SB Nation 12 February 2018 New Zealand the Perfect Place to Shape Ed Hillary “I ended up in boat-drunk summery Auckland because I wanted to figure out, 10 years after Sir Edmund Hillary’s death, how the first person to climb Mount Everest ever happened. I promise that is not as insane a question as it sounds, particularly when you put him… Obituaries | Telegraph (The) 12 February 2018 Cricket Legend Bevan Congdon Leaves True Legacy Motueka-born Bevan Congdon, who captained New Zealand to its first Test win over Australia in 1974, has died a day short of his 80th birthday in… Sport General | Sydney Morning Herald (The) 13 February 2018 Chris Waller Humbled by Hall of Fame Recognition All Sydney-based trainer Chris Waller wanted to be was a reasonable trainer when he started in the tough game of preparing racehorses in his homeland of… Film & TV | Blue Mountains Gazette 12 February 2018 Shotover Tech Wizards Score Early Oscar for Aerials Queenstown design engineers John Coyle, Brad Hurndell, Vikas Sathaye and Shane Buckham have scored a jump on Margot Robbie, Daniel Day-Lewis and… Politics and Economics | Times (The) 12 February 2018 Politicians Must Earn Back Trust Says Ardern Jacinda Ardern is not your average prime minister, Times political journalist Alice Thomson quickly learns. The second prime minister after Benazir Bhutto, in 1990, to… Medicine/Health | Fortune 13 February 2018 New Zealand Publicly Funds HIV Protection Drug New Zealand is about to take a pioneering approach to fighting HIV/AIDS – by publicly funding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication Truvada, manufactured… Community/General | Guardian (The) 14 February 2018 Perpetual Guardian Announces Shorter Work Week New Zealand trustee company Perpetual Guardian is on the cusp of granting its employees the ultimate in work-life balance: four days work for five days pay,… Nature | Washington Post (The) 09 February 2018 World’s Loneliest Bird Nigel Dies on Mana Island Nigel, a handsome gannet who lived on a desolate island off the coast of New Zealand, died suddenly last week. Wherever his soul has landed, the… Nature | Deutsche Welle 13 February 2018 Frisky Spokesbird Sirocco Comes out of Hiding Sirocco, New Zealand’s superstar kakapo, is alive and well in Fiordland, according to the Department of Conservation. The conservation ‘spokesbird’ shot to… Politics and Economics | Guardian (The) 07 February 2018 PM Talks about Her Particularly Public Surprise New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talks to Guardian contributor and Spinoff editor Toby Manhire about her surprise pregnancy and why she won’t stay… Film & TV | PerthNow 11 February 2018 Aaron Jeffery Gets into the Head of Chopper Read A quirk of fate could have changed the path of Australian film history and seen New Zealander Aaron Jeffery play Chopper Read nearly 20 years ago.”I… Film & TV | GamesRadar+ 09 February 2018 Braindead as Outrageous as it is Brilliant Peter Jackson’s 1992 “gore-fest” Braindead has been named one of the 30 most violent films ever made by entertainment website GamesRadar+.The list also includes… Film & TV | Teen Vogue 08 February 2018 KJ Apa to Star in Romantic Comedy The Last Summer New Zealander KJ Apa is coming back to the big screen. Teen Vogue reports that the Riverdale star recently got a part in the new movie The Last Summer,… Theatre | Chortle 10 February 2018 Tape Face Gets Stuck Into Vegas New Zealand silent comedian Sam Wills, aka Tape Face, is to embark on a three-year residency in Las Vegas.The Harrah’s casino has custom-built a cabaret venue for his mime show at a reported cost of… Music | ChicagoNow 08 February 2018 Kimbra’s Third Album Primal Heart Out in April Ahead of a recent show at Chicago’s Conchord Music Hall, New Zealand singer, songwriter and producer Kimbra, 27, spoke with Jim Ryan of ChicagoNow about her… Business | Times (The) 09 February 2018 London’s Frame Gym Finds Private Equity Backing Frame gym, founded by New Zealander Joan Murphy, 36, (pictured right) and Briton Pip Black, 35, offers pay-as-you-go membership and classes, from… Taste | Straits Times (The) 07 February 2018 Trouble Brewing Collaborates for Chinese New Year Singapore-based craft beer microbrewery Trouble Brewing, founded by New Zealander Joseph Barratt, has teamed up with a local illustrator for a specially… New Zealand | Guardian (The) 10 February 2018 While Away the Weekend in Auckland and Northland From breathtaking golf courses to pristine waterways, there are many amazing ways to enjoy New Zealand’s northernmost tip, Tourism New Zealand promotes… Visual Arts | My Modern Met 13 February 2018 New Zealand Captured in Dreamy Infrared Interested in producing images on “the fringe of the otherworldly,” California-based landscape photographer Paul Hoi creatively combines science fiction with psychedelia. Using a… See all stories and an 13,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2018 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Researched and edited by Jane Nye (Berlin), Henrike Forschler (Auckland). Web published by Henrike Forschler (Auckland). Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison.