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www.nzedge.com
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Pictured above:
Jemaine Clement, surfers at Piha Beach, Neil Finn, The Black Ferns, and
Chad Taylor
NEW
ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand headlines in this week's
sampling of global media appearing in Rolling Stone, National
Geographic, Times Online, Bust, Globe and Mail, Dexinger, ABC News, The
Weekly Times, The Argus, Brisbane Times, BBC News, Phnom Penh Post, Fox
News, The New York Times, The Toronto Star, Guardian, The Age and The
Sydney Morning Herald include:
• Jemaine
Clement, Conchord, Bust’s
favourite cleft-chinned comedian
• West
Auckland's Piha beach secures 2010
Quiksilver World Junior Surfing champs
• Neil
Finn, collaborates with Wilco,
Radiohead on The Sun Came Out for Oxfam – Rolling Stone
• Black
Ferns, to play November
double-header with All Blacks, Twickenham – Brisbane Times
• Chad
Taylor, writer, pens The Church
of John Coltrane, sequel to 1994’s Heaven
• Christopher
Banks’ 13min Teddy first
NZ film to make Iris Festival shortlist
• Rob
Hamill, Olympic rower, confronts
brother’s murderer at Khmer Rouge trial, Phnom Penh
• New
Zealanders vote an emphatic ‘No’
in smacking referendum; “law is working“, Key – Fox News
• New
Zealand and Australia have
“substantially different national identities”, union not the answer
• Badtown,
West Auckland punks, sell possessions for Brighton tour – The Argus
• Coronet
Peak, perfect piste for
international Winter Olympic training – Ski Channel
• Jeremy
Clarke, NJ-based chopper pilot dies,
32, “skilled, professional” – The New York Times
• Lloyd
Watkin’s Roxborough Farm in Tirau
a “peaceful middle of nowhere” – Toronto Star
• Fat
Freddy's Drop, Dr Boondigga
& The Big BW, “infectious loping grooves” – Guardian
• New
Zealand to Australia flights soon as
cheap as domestic; no customs – The Age
• Omar
Slaimankhel, Afghan, now Warrior,
signs 2-year NRL contract – The Sydney Morning Herald
• New
Zealand type design exhibit tells
stories in “our own local accents” – Dexinger
• Short-tailed
bat, endangered walker, descended
from Australian relatives – National Geographic
• Andrew
Adamson, Shrek director, to
take helm on adaptation of Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip
• New
Zealand earthquakes triggered by
deep water beneath plates – ABC News
• Napier’s
Art Deco Weekend, the city’s
“expression of pride, identity” – Times Online
• Sidhe
Interactive, Wellington gamesters,
launch Playstation classic Shatter – Examiner.com
• Michael
King, Toronto impresario, renowned
for restless resume, charm, accent – Globe and Mail
• Rhys
Darby, comedian, takes Park Ranger,
obsessive UFOlogist to Edinburgh
• Sam
Neill, actor, plays ruthless
Canadian railroad baron in mini-series Iron Road – Toronto Star
• David
Short, Fielding farmer, invents
portable shearing handpiece – The Weekly Times
• Harold
the Giraffe, Life Education Trust
mascot, first NZer and giraffe to go to space
TALES
FROM THE SOUTH
If New Zealand is at the edge of the world, then there is no
place geographically ‘edgier’ than the province of Southland (Murihiku).
Radio and television broadcaster Marcus Lush presents a very personal
offering on the grit, charm, and heart that makes up the fabric of the
Southern region, in a new seven-part series South, screening 7pm
Sundays on TV One. The jaw-dropping scenery is the obvious star of the show
but its inhabitants also play a lead role. Characters such as pioneering
aviator Herbet Pither, and Peanut, the finder of this country’s largest
piece of space junk. The series may be a thank you note from Lush (who fell
in love with the region before moving to Bluff six years ago) but it could
also be a nod from the rest of the country to an area that delivers more
than its fair share of epic geography, pioneering spirit and good
old-fashioned heart.
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picture, Lake Hayes; above, north of Paekakariki. More pictures at www.paradiseroad.com.
Fern symbol via www.nzflag.com.
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