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Archive >> April 2014
Irreversibly Changed Though Creatively Reborn
Like many entrepreneurs, artists, designers and other hardy residents who have chosen to stay in the city after the February 2011 earthquake, the owner of C1 Espresso…
Benny Tipene ‘Lonely’ Performance
Chill out on the couch and listen to Benny Tipene’s single ‘Lonley’. The single features in Benny Tipene’s album, ‘Toulouse’ and also includes Tipene’s…
How Do You Go about Kayaking the Cook Strait
In order to kayak across the 22km stretch of the Cook Strait, considered one of the most dangerous waters in the world, general manager at Wellington’s Fergs Kayaks Dave…
Olympic Rower Takes on the Cambridge Team
Olympic bronze medal-winner and Oxford student, Invercargill-born Storm Uru, 29, says the stress of the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race is the fun side of getting his MBA.
Uru was…
JGeeks Grand Final Performance
Watch the amazing JGeeks perform their final dance on New Zealand’s Got Talent and summon the all-powerful Taniwha. JGeeks are a Maori comedy music…
Lamingtons Are Ours Beyond Doubt
Lamingtons are definitively of New Zealand origin, with an 1888 watercolour painting by New Zealand landscape artist JR Smythe showing that the coconut covered cake is not really Australian…
Cardboard Cathedral Architect Wins Pritzker Prize
The designer of Christchurch’s Cardboard Cathedral, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, has been named the winner of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize, largely because of his work designing…
Remembering Sixties Country Star Houston Wells
The life of Houston Wells, sixties country singer, is celebrated in the Independent this month. Wells, born Andrew Smith in 1932 north of Newcastle upon Tyne, lived on the…
Vibrancy of Kuala Lumpur Fascinates Former Aucklander
Managing director at Kuala Lumpur-based Orchan Consulting, Craig Selby, 40, is fascinated by the changes taking place in Malaysia since he moved there nine years ago.
“The places near where…
Old Spice New Zealand
What does it take to be a kiwi man? Kiwi men are men of action. They were the first to climb Mount Everest, the…
Interior Designer Joins NY’s Fabergé Egg Hunt
New Zealand-born interior designer Sandra Nunnerley is participating in this year’s Fabergé Big Egg Hunt held throughout New York’s five boroughs through April 26.
The Fabergé Big Egg…
Good Morning: Thingee Pops in for a Visit
Thingee pops into the Good Morning studio for a chat about the Goodnight Kiwi, what he’s been doing with himself and what the future…
Wipster Launches Video Software at SXSW Festival
Wellington-based start-up Wipster has launched its video sharing software platform globally, just over a year after being founded by New Zealand filmmaker Rollo…
Baritone Thriving in San Francisco Opera Scene
Baritone Hadleigh Adams, New Zealand’s first San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship recipient, talks with the Huffington Post’s cultural critic Sean Martinfield about his latest performance, in American composer Gabriel…
NZ Ranked #1 for Social Progress
A Washington-based think-tank has found that New Zealand is the most socially advanced country in the world.
US-based non-profit The Social Progress Imperative, whose advisory board is led…
Downhill MTB in New Zealand with Brook MacDonald – Part 2
Take a look at part 2 of 3 videos about Brook Macdonald and his amazing downhill mountain biking experience in New Zealand. Brook MacDonald…
Crowe Impressively Grounded as Enigmatic Noah
Russell Crowe’s performance in Noah alongside Jennifer Connelly in Darren Aronofsky’s “audacious adaptation of one of the Bible’s best-known but still enigmatic chapters,” is “impressively grounded” and “powerful,” according…
Peter Thiel Invests Big in POS Software Provider Vend
New Zealand point of sale, cloud-based software provider Vend has new investors – Peter Thiel, the PayPal cofounder and the first outside investor in Facebook, is among…
New Zealand’s Dusty Landscapes Explain Ice Age Cooling
3 April 2014 – New Zealand’s iron-rich dust is helping scientists explain how the Earth cooled after the last Ice Age. Scientists travelled to the Southern Alps in an…
New Zealand Speak Clarified
Australians are carrying around a dark secret according to the Australian’s Ben Groundwater, and that is that they actually like New Zealanders. And Groundwater, “at least, kinda loves them.”
“Forget…
Broods – Bridges
‘Bridges’ is a song by New Zealand band Broods, from their self-titled debut album and was released as the band’s first single. Broods is…
Star-Studded Everest Film Re-Treks Fatal Expedition
The story of Christchurch mountaineer Rob Hall’s tragic 1996 Everest expedition in which he, a fellow guide, and two clients perished, is being made into a film by director…
Flash Haka Sylvia Park
People are surprised when a sudden flash Haka breaks out at Auckland’s Sylvia Park. Sylvia Park is a large business park and shopping…
Farmers Uprooting to Tasmanian Dairy Paddocks
A wave of New Zealand farmers are being wooed to Tasmania’s dairy scene, where milk production is rising helped by a record price from processor Fonterra of $6.64 a…
All Blacks Celebrate Hong Kong Sevens Title with Haka in Thunderstorm
After knocking England out of the Hong Kong Sevens with an impressive 26-7 score line, the All Blacks Sevens stripped off their shirts and performed a poignant haka…
For the Times We Live in, NZ the Best Country to Be
New Zealand “is absolutely the best country in the world for the times we’re living in”, according to former Seattleite, speculator and business consultant Chris Eyerman.
When Eyerman, his wife…
Trademark Taylor Encompasses All Seasons
“Rebecca Taylor, the hip New Zealand-born designer whose collections appeal to a young, fashion-forward customer, is among the designers who are turning upside down the notion of what to…
