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From Brian
Sweeney, Producer,
www.nzedge.com
NZEDGE.COM VITALS:
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7.04 minutes. 71% of recipients opened the last newsletter.
Pictured above: Flight of the Conchords,
Anna Paquin, Mils Muliaina, Helen Klisser During, David Thodey
NEW
ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand headlines in this
week's sampling of global media appearing in Earth Times,
NYArtsmagazine, The New Yorker, Guardian, The Times of India, The
Toronto Star, Financial Times, The Age, Las Vegas Sun, National Post,
The Age, Telegraph, Guelph Mercury, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, The
Washington Post, HAMPTONS, The Statesman, Wall Street Journal, Exclaim,
The New Yorker and Granta include:
FOTConchords
near end of '09 Spring US tour in Vegas, "riotous 90-minute
set"
Anna
Paquin, actress, 26, relishing her role in HBO's True
Blood
Mils
Muliaina, Chiefs captain, to skipper All Blacks home games in
June
David
Thodey, NZ-born businessman, takes over CEO role at Telstra
New
Zealand 80's indie music scene honoured with two-disc tribute
Bruce
Connew, photographer, explores censorship in Granta
magazine spread
Suraya
Singh, 30, launches Filament, UK erotica magazine
aimed at women
New
Zealand birth rates highest since '91, average per woman, 2.2
Kiwi
Paradise, German title, hard "to understand [NZers']
mysterious mentality"
Helen
Klisser During, arts advisor, excited about Hye Rim Lee,
Kihara
New
Zealand banking system healthy for Australian dominance
Marie
Jones, London-based visual effects producer wins Bafta for Dr
Who
Billy
Bowden, umpire, first interview in 3 years, backs cricket
review system
White
Island tour guide urges group not to attempt to outrun lava
Martinborough's
Kusuda Wines an example of Japanese perfection
Kaikoura,
Zero Waste district, no kerbside collection, Bokashi promoted
Bernard
Beckett, Hutt High teacher and author, Genesis
promoted on WOW
New
Zealand given rave reviews by senior writers from The New
Yorker
Pipi
Quinlan, 3, bids and wins $20,000 earthmover on TradeMe
Jane
Campion urges female directors to take on "old boys'
network"
Albiston
and Sutherland, directors, awarded Cannes distinction, $6.50
Man
Palmerston
North City Council banishes no. 13 from mailboxes
Pip
Gibbons, RNZ Navy Lt Cdr, poster girl for UN Peacekeepers Day
Richard
Gow, renovator, builds house in Canada from bits and bins
Unite,
NZ's newest union, calls on bosses to "Supersize" youths' pay
Fiordland
kea robs Scottish tourist of passport; fear of
"fraudulent claims"
Annabel
Alpers, that's Bachelorette, latest album "bright,
transcendent"
Phillip
Wilkins, Mitsubishi, offers free "hardy" goat with
every Triton sold
Montana
Brancott Winery employs seasonal "vintage" harvest
hoppers
Fisher
& Paykel signs $58m deal with Chinese appliance maker
Haier
Jenny
Shipley, former PM, lectures Yemeni women in political
participation
Richard
Nunns, taonga puoro authority, plays Gillian Whitehead piece
in US
Queen
Charlotte Track "what Ritz-Carlton is to a homeless
shelter"
Michael
Hill, jeweller, finalist in Ernst & Young World
Entrepreneur of the Year
INSPIRATIONAL
EDUCATION ABOUT NZEDGE HEROES
A new schools' resource on Katherine
Mansfield is the fifth education feature prepared for nzedge
by Liz and Russell Shaw of Starters
& Strategies from Turangi: "Discuss the idea of KM
using a mask or several layers of masks when associating with her
literary friends. Why would she do this? Can students find any evidence
of her not fitting in well and of being regarded as an outsider?"
Other world-changing New Zealanders featured in our education series are
mathematician Alexander
Aitken, suffragist Kate
Sheppard, China revolutionary Rewi
Alley, and aviator Richard
Pearse.
RECENT NEW ZEALAND
PUBLISHING
Generous publishers
have been sending me books and journals which I am pleased to showcase
here.
The
Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngati Hau and the Jerusalem Commune by
John Newton (Victoria University Press) is a compelling examination of
the community established by poet and seer James K. Baxter on the banks
of the Whanganui River. The Jerusalem commune proved to be more than an
experiment in idealistic living; indeed, The Double Rainbow is
a story of a Pakeha community earning acceptance by living alongside
local Maori. It's a situation that bicultural Aotearoa may yet strive to
imagine. Readers of nzedge.com social commentator Denis
O'Reilly will know him as a "Baxterite".
Me
and My Little Blokes: How fatherhood changes life for the better
by Graham Lowe (Random House) is a heartwarming book revealing the
gentler side of the legendary league coach. The only coach to win
championships in three countries, Lowie finds that coaching his own
little blokes throws up insights about his own mortality, and the
preciousness of family love.
Confessions
of a Rugby Mercenary by John Daniell (Ebury
Press) is a riotous confessional of professional rugby in France. A
Wellington, NZ and Oxford rep, John Daniell takes us deep inside a
French provincial scrum to the dark world of the journeyman player as
his team ricocheted between fear and ecstasy, battling to save the club
from relegation and their careers from the scrap heap.
New
Zealand Geographic was founded 20 years ago by
John Woods and Kennedy Warne to do for New Zealand what National
Geographic has done for the rest of the world. The journal celebrates
this landits geography, its wildlife, its natural heritageand
salutes its people and their pursuits, in science, culture, leisure or
adventure. The current issue features kelp forests, the great white
shark, Auckland's unique and adored West Coast, and the Wren of
Murchison, New Zealand's avian mountaineer.
Landfall,
New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal,
founded by poet Charles Brash in 1947 and published continuously by
Otago University Press. Issue #217 is edited by international New
Zealand writer Paula Morris from New Orleans and in fair edge form is
titled "Flung"; an entire diaspora issue featuring Max
Gimblett and Jenni Quilter from New York, Michael Jackson from Harvard,
Nick Ashcroft from Oxford, Martin Edmond (Sydney), Paul Ewen (London),
Jolisa Greenwood (Connecticut), John Kinsella (Cambridge), Robert
Sullivan (Hawaii), Marcus Truver (Hong Kong), Francis Upritchard
(London), and several other luminaries including Peter Wells, Richard
Von Sturmer, C.K. Stead, Gregory O'Brien, Owen Marshall, Peter Ireland,
Charlotte Grimshaw and Hinemoa Baker.
Here are the Top 10
titles for May:
- Score, short
film 1980 AB's vs France, cut to Tchaikovsky
score
- The
Living Room, tv
series 2003 'worthy' arts magazine show
- Tangata
Whenua Waikato, doc
1974 roots of King Movement
- Billy
T Live, tv
series 1990 last hurrah for much loved comedian
- New
Zild, doc 2005
evolution of New Zealand English
- Trio
at the Top, doc
2001 Racing legends McLaren, Hulme and Amon
- The
Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls,
trailer 2009 biopic on the Topps
- Peter
Snell Athlete,
doc 1964 Gold Medalist 800m runner
- The
Governor, tv
series 1977 historical epic on Governor George Grey
- Gallipoli
the NZ Story, doc 1984 the
pick of the ANZAC Collection
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THE NEW ZEALAND EDGE
is a new way of presenting our identity, people, stories,
achievements and our role in the world. Home to a global
community of
New Zealanders. Aotearoa whanau whanui kite ao nui
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