Sport General | Bloomberg
28 December 2012
Economist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Zealander Niven Winchester, who studies sports rankings as a hobby, argues that The National Football League (NFL) should rank teams more the way rugby does. Winchester calculates…
Taste | Guardian (The)
28 December 2012
Peter Gordon’s 2012-published Peter Gordon Everyday is one of Catherine Phipp’s ‘Best Food Books of the Year’. “Flashes of trademark fusion sit with more personal dishes from New Zealand childhood,” Phipps…
Writers | Toronto Star
28 December 2012
New Zealand author Sarah Quigley’s novel The Conductor is a “vivid evocation” of winter in Leningrad during the years 1941-42. “As the German army besieged the city, her citizens starved, corpses clogged the snowy…
Writers | New York Times (The)
26 December 2012
In Sailing the Unknown: Around the World With Captain Cook, American poet Michael J. Rosen imagines the journal of the real-life 11-year-old Nicholas Young, the youngest sailor aboard Captain Cook’s Endeavour. “We know very…
Film & TV | Paste
26 December 2012
New Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey’s role as depressed twentysomething divorcée in Hello I Must Be Going is one of Paste magazine’s ‘25 Best Movie Performances of 2012’. “Most recognizable for her recurring role on…
Z-Files | Las Vegas Review Journal (The)
25 December 2012
Moving to Las Vegas was a dream come true for New Zealander Jennifer Scott, a former journalist and magazine editor. Scott said she has had an obsession with the city since she…
Film & TV | Los Angeles Times
23 December 2012
When the premiere of West of Memphis was first announced for the Sundance Film Festival this year, the participation of Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson was something of a surprise, not…
Writers | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
22 December 2012
“This smart and sophisticated novel by prolific New Zealand writer C.K. Stead surveys the atrocities of our time – the attacks on the US on September 11, 2001, the Balkan and Iraq wars, the…
General | People's Daily
21 December 2012
Under a new five-year Arrangement on Cooperation agreement signed by the National Library of New Zealand and the National Library of China, the two institutions will share knowledge and information in joint…
Taste | New York Times (The) | Saveur magazine
21 December 2012
The New Zealand specialty bacon and egg pie features in The New York Times’ ‘Diner’s Journal’ weekly column and video. “I got the inspiration to make a bacon and egg pie from an article…
Magazine
20 December 2012
THE GLOBAL LIFE OF NEW ZEALANDERS
From Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM | 20…
General | Stuff.co.nz
20 December 2012
Wellington company Angel Delivery, owned by Becs Cass, has struck a US partnership that will see the four-year-old freshly made meal and treat delivery service enter the New York market. Partnering with…
Nga Kupu Aroha – Words of Love | Denis O'Reilly | Rolling Stone
20 December 2012
Nga Kupu Aroha recorded a journey. It may well have been a saga. The quest started…
Obituaries | Guardian (The)
20 December 2012
Gifted Wellington-born academic Amanda Rohloff, who has died aged 30, is fondly remembered by her friend, Philippa Chandler in a Guardian obituary. “She grew up in Karori, excelled at hockey as a teenager and…
Theatre | Telegraph (The)
20 December 2012
Everyone should see New Zealander Sam Wills in The Boy with Tape on His Face, writes Telegraph reviewer Dominic Cavendish. “But not everyone should sit near the front or close to the aisles,” Cavendish…
Visual Arts | Economist (The) | London Review of Books
20 December 2012
Magazine illustrator New Zealander Peter Campbell’s work is collected in Artwork and describes his 30-year career as art director, contributor (writing more than 300 articles) and, from 1993, cover artist of the…
Film & TV | Los Angeles Times
19 December 2012
Auckland-born Academy Award-nominated director Andrew Adamson – of Shrek and The Chronicles of Narnia fame – returns to the realm of the fantastic with Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, a film that captures eye-popping…
Sport General | Wiki News
19 December 2012
New Zealand Paralympic skier Adam Hall, 25, was at Copper Mountain, Colorado for the 2012-13 IPC Nor-Am Cup, where he won two silver medals in the men’s standing competition. Dunedin-born Hall says he likes…
Arts
18 December 2012
“National treasure” Sam Hunt reads his poems at TEDxAuckland 2012.
Design | Gizmag
18 December 2012
New Zealand architectural and interior design firm W2 have designed a fold-out luxury caravan “unlike anything we’ve come across before,” Gizmag’s Loz Blain writes. “The Romotow looks a bit like a high-tech…
Nature | ABC News
18 December 2012
The iconic New Zealand weta has ears similar to those of a whale, researchers at the University of Auckland have found. The ears of this 8cm-long Auckland tree weta are the white disks that…
Arts
16 December 2012
Documentary film-maker Paul Young discusses his latest work, The Last Ocean at TEDxAuckland 2012.
Visual Arts | New York Times (The)
16 December 2012
“A mythic quest involving fellowship and solitude; the startling beauty, by turns lush and austere, of a wild land: if you now have visions of The Hobbit floating in your heads, please banish them,”…
New Zealand | Jaunted
14 December 2012
Five vintage New Zealand travel advertisements feature in Jaunted this week. Among them the ‘Fly TEAL’ ad, which “pushes the airline’s popular Coral Route, which once flew passengers to the tropical South Pacific Islands…
Film & TV | Telegraph (The)
13 December 2012
Researchers from the University of Otago have analysed 22 James Bond films and discovered that violent acts in the films have more than doubled since Dr No in 1962. In the first 007 film,…
Film & TV | New York Times (The)
13 December 2012
“The Lord of the Rings was the work of a filmmaker perfectly in tune with his source material. Its too-muchness — the encyclopedic detail, the pseudoscholarly exposition, the soaring allegory, the punishing length —…
Fashion | MTV
13 December 2012
Fashion blogger New Zealander Laura Allard-Fleischl’s take on velvet makes her one of MTV Style’s ‘Bloggers of the Week’. “, is getting back to velvet’s roots in her dark…
Film & TV | Highbrow Magazine | Sundance Film Festival
13 December 2012
Melanie Lynskey, 35, is one of ten Indie actors on the verge of mainstream, according to Loren DiBlasi writing for Highbrow Magazine. “In 1994, the New Zealand native won raves for her performance alongside…
Travel
12 December 2012
Matthew Simmons – co-founder of Arvus Group – shares his passion for sound during his presentation ‘Saving Lives with the World’s Largest Subwoofer’ at…
Z-Files | News (The)
12 December 2012
New Zealander John McIntosh can trace his family lineage to the inventor of the raincoat, Charles MacKintosh and to John Mackintosh, the inventor of Mackintosh’s Toffee. McIntosh is now following the path of McIntoshes…
Architecture | Wall Street Journal (The)
12 December 2012
A Queenstown detached home with “views of the mountains, deer roaming nearby, and hills that change colour with the seasons,” is the Wall Street Journal’s ‘House of the Day’. On the market for NZ$4.35…
Style | Huffington Post
12 December 2012
Broken Shed vodka, which is distilled from whey, is “vodka for the vodka haters”, according to one of the Huffington Post’s editors. “When we caught wind of a vodka being made from…
Obituaries | Age (The)
11 December 2012
Wellington-born applied mathematician Professor Bruce Morton has died in Melbourne aged 86. Under his leadership, Monash, where he worked for 25 years, became the leading university for its atmospheric science program in Australia. Professor…
Nature | Wired
11 December 2012
A peculiar lava spine between 20 and 30m across has appeared in the crater of White Island. Wired’s Eric Klemetti is “not even sure how to describe it.” “The lava forming it has to…
Watersports | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
10 December 2012
Free divers, like New Zealander William Trubridge, 32, are taking extreme sports to new depths, while ever mindful of not being shark bait, reports The Sydney Morning Herald’s Emma Partridge. Trubridge continues to hold…
Video | Telegraph (The)
10 December 2012
In a world first a New Zealand dog is taught how to drive a car on its own.
X Files
9 December 2012
Aakash Polra and Jade Tan from technology start-up Mobileeye speak at TEDxAuckland 2012 about using smartphones to give sight to the blind.
Film & TV | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
8 December 2012
New Zealand filmmaker Florian Habicht, 30, lets the people direct his tale of romance in the Big Apple. In New York he fell in love every few minutes, Habicht says. “Like with life, with…
Sport General | News.com.au
8 December 2012
New Zealand All Black and kickboxer, Hastings-born Hika Elliot, 26, unbeaten in 62 fights, will square off against Australian league player Paul Gallen in the Fight For Life boxing charity event in Auckland on…
Science/Tech | TVNZ
8 December 2012
A two-year study, called “The longest journey — from Africa to Aotearoa”, could provide a snapshot of the lineage of all human history, according to biological anthropologist Lisa Matisoo-Smith, who is leading the research…
Te Ao Maori | Live Science
7 December 2012
Hangi rocks could reveal the magnetic history of the Earth going back hundreds of years, new research from Victoria University suggests. The findings, which were presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical…
Arts
7 December 2012
Comedian, entertainer and social change agent Philip Patston presents his talk, The Label Libel, at TEDxAuckland 2012.
Film & TV | Los Angeles Times
7 December 2012
Asked one day in 1997 if, as a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien, she might have any interest in helping out friends and fellow New Zealanders Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh adapt The Lord of…
Fashion | Dress Me (blog) | South China Morning Post
7 December 2012
New Zealand-born fashion writer Jasmine Webster, 29, who is based in Hong Kong and is the face of Dress Me blog, talks to the South China Morning Post about her obsession with dressing up…
X Files
6 December 2012
Professor David Krofcheck speaks about New Zealand’s involvement in the search for the Higgs Boson particle at TEDxAuckland 2012.
Music
6 December 2012
The music video for Stan Walker’s track, Take It Easy.
Fashion | Vogue
6 December 2012
Designer Karen Walker caught up with Vogue Australia to talk about her new Diamond jewellery collection. “The inspiration behind all our jewellery designs is jewellery for modern occasions,” Walker said. “Karen Walker Jewellery…
X Files
6 December 2012
Alistair Knott speaks at TEDxAuckland 2012 about teaching computers to talk.
New Zealand | Fox News
6 December 2012
“Whether you’re a fan making a pilgrimage to the city where the films were made, or you have no interest whatsoever in dwarfs and goblins, there’s plenty to do in Wellington. For free,”…
Arts
6 December 2012
Booktrack founder and CEO Paul Cameron explains the future of reading in his talk, Reinventing Reading, at TEDxAuckland 2012.
Politics and Economics | Financial Standard
6 December 2012
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has been named the world’s most innovative sovereign fund, winning the prestigious Sovereign Wealth Fund category in the 2012 aiCIO Industry Innovation Awards in New York. Chairman Gavin…
Z-Files | Herald Sun
6 December 2012
Dogs rescued by the SPCA are being taught to drive in a campaign to show how intelligent canines, and even those abandoned, really are. Astonishingly, it took three dogs just eight weeks to master…
X Files
5 December 2012
Prince Charles and Camilla arrive in New Zealand as part of their tour celebrating the Queen’s Golden Jubilee.
X Files
5 December 2012
Internationally recognised architect Andrew Patterson presents his talk, Rebuilding Architecture from the Ground Up, at TEDxAuckland 2012.
Arts
5 December 2012
Award-winning playwriter Pip Hall shares her presentation – Wet Hot Beauties – at TEDxAuckland 2012.
X Files
5 December 2012
Professor John Windsor talks about advancements in fighting organ failure at TEDxAuckland 2012.