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Sir Peter Snell (Marty Melville/Getty Images); Andrew
McAlpine; Lemi Ponifasio; Rose McIver; Chris Birch
NEW
ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand headlines in this sampling of global media
appearing in CNN, Wine Spectator, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning
Herald, Los Angeles Times, Telegraph, Fox Sports, The Independent on Sunday,
Deseret News, Milwaukee-Wisconsin Jersey Sentinel, The Australian,
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Guardian, DC Velocity, The Age, Hindustan Times,
York News-Times, Times Online, The New Yorker, The Dallas Morning News,
Financial Times, Tehran Times, Women’s Wear Daily, and
Entertainment Weekly include:
Arts & Film
• Weta
Studios, Workshops, garner nine Oscar nom’s including Best Pic
for PJackson – CNet
• Andrew
McAlpine, film designer, hot with An Education, UK’s
Best Commercial – BFI
• Lemi
Ponifasio’s Tempest “disturbing, visually
beautiful”; on at Sydney Festival – The Australian
• Rose
McIver, and Saoirse Ronan, lovely and “macabre”, talk
childhood in NY – New York Times
• Emily
Barclay, “astounding,” “hottest new talent” on screen,
stage – Sydney Morning Herald
• Martin
Campbell, revered action director, keen not to get too up-himself
– Guardian
• Bill
Manhire, poet laureate, poet laureate, published in The New
Yorker – “My Childhood In Ireland”
• Aaron
McConchie, sculptor, stacks 135 Chep pallets into “houses of
cards” – DC Velocity
• Peter
Jackson thinks knighthood surpasses 2004 Academy Awards – Sydney
Morning Herald
• Katherine
Mansfield’s Garden Party inspiration for book-style
menu – Milwaukee Sentinel
• Jemaine
Clement, Conchord, “woefully underused in Gentlemen Broncos”
– Cinema Blend
• Lucy
Lawless, “big-name” in sword-and-sandals epic Spartacus;
debuts in US – LA Times
• Lawrence
Arabia “can sound uncannily like John Lennon”; Chant
Darling reviewed – Times Online
• Natalie
Anderson’s
Mills & Boon romance in USA Today’s New
Year’s bestsellers – LoveReading
• Jane
Campion's The Piano "most important, best loved
film" of last 25 years – Times Online
• Olive
Bieringa, choreographer and video artist, premieres ½ Life in
Minneapolis – Star Tribune
• Taika
Waititi's Boy premieres at Sundance, "ode, and
lament to childhood" – Indiewire
Obituary
•
Pauly
Fuemana is bid farewell to his hit ‘How Bizarre’; OMC, RIP
– Entertainment Weekly
Emily
Barclay; Geoff Vuleta; Sir Peter Jackson; Corporal Willie Apiata VC (Philip
Poupin/AfghanWire); Pauly Feumana
Business & Innovation
•
Villa
Maria forms six year export partnership with US – Sydney
Morning Herald
•
Geoff
Vuleta, NY-based innovator at Fahrenheit 212, does what others
can’t – Fortune
•
Air
NZ, Airline of the Year; judges amazed at “degree of
innovation” – Sydney Morning Herald
•
Ag
Research scientists map DNA of methane-producing microbes in
stock – Tehran Times
•
Dr
Keith Alexander’s Springfree Trampoline wins US Product of the
Year award – Scoop
•
Kevin
Van der Poel + handful of NZ dairy farmers generate US$900m,
Missouri – LA Times
•
Auckland
International Aiports acquires stake in North Queensland Airports
– The Australian
•
Auckland
University scientists try to unravel mystery of terroir with
yeast – Wine Spectator
•
New
Zealand winemakers beat French at their own game – Telegraph
Nature & Tourism
•
Queenstown
is the backdrop for David Jones shoot with Miranda Kerr – Courier Mail
•
Mataura
River, world capital of brown trout and world-class fly-fishing
spot – New York Times
•
Worcester
Street, Christchurch, one of the city’s “loveliest
promenades” – The Age
•
Air
New Zealand ditches arm-rests and installs Sky Couches in economy
– Guardian
•
Wellington’s
Logan Brown, Martin Bosley’s, among best dining – Sydney Morning
Herald
•
Taiaroa
Albatross Centre rangers bemused at two females mating – The
Independent
•
Lake
Okareka Lodge, Rotorua, judged world’s best luxury lodge – Phuket
Wan
•
New
Zealand has “a wealth of botanic delights waiting to be
discovered” – Deseret News
•
Tree
Adventures, playground for adults in Auckland's Woodhill Forest
– Philippine Inquirer
•
Great
Barrier Island, expect castaway on white sand in shack of
driftwood – LA Times
•
Kevin
Judd’s, The Landscape of NZ Wine one of “best wine
reading” this year – The Age
•
Tracey
Dravitzki, PE teacher, explains NZ Christmas to rural Americans
– York News-Times
• New
Zealand lodge travel genre in own right, like safari lodge and
spa resort – Times Online
Sauvignon
Blanc vineyard; Woodhill Forest; Great Barrier Island; Hiking path, Otago;
Hamilton Botanic Gardens
Sport & Adventure
•
Jeremy
Christie, All Whites, 20, signs with Floridas Tampa Bay
Rowdies
– Tampa Bay Online
• Edward
Dawkins, 20, sprints to gold at Beijing track cycling World Cup
– People's Daily
• Peter
Snell knighted and in bronze in Whanganui – The Dallas
Morning News
• Mark
Greatbatch, 41 Test veteran, appointed Black Caps coach – Guardian
• Dylan
Hartley, Northampton hooker, harnesses rage in hope of playing
for England – Telegraph
• Sarah-Jane
Blake, Sir Peter’s daughter, races Lion maxi Auckland to Noumea
– New York Times
• Shaun
Quincey, 24, hopes to copy dad’s Tasman solo rowing feat – Sydney
Morning Herald
• Steve
Williams, racing serious as caddy career; wins NZ Saloon Car
champs – Fox Sports
• Chris
Birch, enduro rider, 29, disarmingly self-deprecating; “one to
beat” – Independent on Sunday
Z-Files
• Corporal
Willie Apiata caught on camera in Kabul; risky shot or
newsworthy? – New York Times
• Denis
Dutton, Canterbury professor, examines Y2K debacle a decade on
– New York Times
• Flat
whites introduced to London’s Costa; Peter Andre recommends –
Guardian
• Lonely
Hearts, launch debut lingerie line in silk, chiffon and leather
– WWD
• New
Zealand experiences warmest decade since records began 150 years
ago – ABC News
• God
Defend NZ could be played alongside Advance Australia Fair in
Queensland schools
• Kate
Scott, Otago University clinical psychologist, finds marriage
good for you – Hindustan Times
• Christchurch
butter, oldest in world, found near Captain Scott’s stables, Antarctica
– Times Online
• New
Zealanders “charming”; like “happy Britons” – Oxford
chancellor Lord Patten – Financial Times
DENIS O’REILLY: NGA KUPU AROHA/WORDS OF LOVE
BLOG
#38, CHIP AWAY
It’s the New Year, 2010, and Den and whanau are back from the Parihaka
International Peace Festival, loins girded and ready for action. He tells
stories of Parihaka the place, and Parihaka the event, and shares his
presentation delivered at the Speaker’s Forum. Den thinks that Hone
Harawira’s cut on changes to the foreshore and seabed legislation is about
right – put the seabed and foreshore into Maori title, make it
inalienable, guarantee access to all New Zealanders. He gives the background
to an upcoming Court battle to be faced by his sons – the price to be paid
for confronting methamphetamine – and sets the scene for a fresh year of
effort in reducing the demand for methamphetamine by ensuring the
availability of recovery treatment services – no leaping, just chipping
away. (5,904 words)
NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL
DATEBOOK
 VANCOUVER
& TORONTO, Jan 14–Feb 13, RESTRICTED Exhibition
The Monte Clark Gallery (Vancouver) hosts a joint exhibition with Clark
& Faria (Toronto), based on the film rating commonly used to disclose
explicit content. RESTRICTED will show work that examines voyeurism, the
body, and sexuality, and will show for the first time in Canada the animated
video work of Korean-born New Zealander Hye Rim Lee. Visit Monte Clark website
for further details.
 REDCLIFFE,
QLD, Feb 1–28,
MANA Maori Arts Festival
The Maori Artist Network Australia (MANA) is putting on a four-week event to
celebrate, ignite, rekindle, and educate all people about Maori culture
through traditional and contemporary Maori Art forms. To be held at the
Redcliffe Cultural Centre, Down St. For further information contact Nina
Maika 0432 110 049, ncmaika@yahoo.com.au.
 SYDNEY,
March 4, 'Talking Shop' with Rebecca Swan
New Zealand photographer Rebecca Swan will be giving a talk at The
Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) to discuss her powerful portraits of
alternative gendered people. Tickets can be purchased at the door. ACP
Members $5 / non-members $10. 257 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021. Visit
ACP website
for more info.
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Top picture, Wellington; above,
Wakatipu Basin. More pictures at www.paradiseroad.com.
Fern symbol via www.nzflag.com.
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