Travel
14 July 2014
In this episode, explores the couple’s journey leading up to the departure from Canada, including getting visas, selling their house, telling their friends and quitting their jobs. Living a…
Media | Wired
14 July 2014
For the last month, 34-year-old former Aucklander Morgan Marquis-Boire has been the director of security for startup First Look Media, a website that has become the most prolific publisher of NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s…
Taste | New Zealand Herald (The)
14 July 2014
Former Aucklander Marco Kerkmeester, owner of Sao Pãulo-based coffee chain Santo Grão, currently employs more than 200 people across seven stores, and he has grand plans for up to 40 more cafés…
Media | Clash Magazine
13 July 2014
Broadcaster Zane Lowe, the voice of the BBC’s popular Radio 1 show, is trying his hand at television with a new show coming to MTV Music, which – despite its mouthful of a title,…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The)
13 July 2014
Fashion designer Sean Kelly, 25, from Hawera, is the first ever New Zealander chosen to compete on hit American television show Project Runway, hosted by German supermodel Heidi Klum.
Kelly’s mother Margaret said he was…
Film & TV | Skinny (The)
12 July 2014
Compiled from hundreds of hours of archive material, director Virginia Heath’s From Scotland With Love narrates Scottish history and heritage through the lives of everyday people, to a soundtrack by native Kenny Anderson…
Science/Tech | ScienceAlert
12 July 2014
Researchers from the University of Waikato and GNS Science will search the country’s picturesque hot springs for the next big breakthroughs in science over two-years in what is called the 1000 Springs…
Arts
11 July 2014
Part 2 of 4 of an absolutely stunning timelapse series through the always changing landscapes of New Zealand. Shot over a 4 month period this video takes you on…
Writers | USA Today
11 July 2014
New Zealand’s first podcast novelist Pip Ballantine, co-author of the steampunk Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series, talks to the USA Today about her and husband Tee Morris’ most recent addition to the anthology, Dawn’s…
Visual Arts | Huffington Post (The)
11 July 2014
Self-taught artist New Zealander Ben Young, 31, a boatbuilder by trade and avid surfer, has made a name for himself creating intricate glass sculptures that uncannily resemble moving water.
Young crafts his sculptures – all…
Travel
10 July 2014
As part of Jucy’s promotion, Peter Harding & Allison Wilkey travelled around New Zealand in a Jucy Campa and have filmed their roadtrip. Jucy is a car and campervan…
Architecture | Surface
10 July 2014
New Zealand-born Mark Wigley has stepped down after 10 years as dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. Under his leadership, the school has built on its…
Sport General | CNBC | FIFA | Independent (The) | National Business Review | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
10 July 2014
A New Zealander who bet $2 on the exact score between FIFA World Cup Semi-finalists Brazil and Germany has made global headlines.
The semi-final, which ended 7-1 to Germany and has been called “Brazil’s worst…
Music | Guardian (The) | Observer (The)
10 July 2014
Electro-pop duo Broods, comprised of brother and sister Georgia and Caleb Nott, have helped draw the eyes of the music industry to a country that had only rarely troubled the international charts, Laura Barnett…
Music
9 July 2014
Take a look at New Zealand’s singer-songwriter Kimbra as she performs a rendition of her song “Settle Down” in the front yard of the Spotify House, building an elaborate…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The)
9 July 2014
Founders of menswear label I Love Ugly have reluctantly stepped into the spotlight as they prepare to go global.
The New Zealand entrepreneurs are about to open their first international store in LA on…
Architecture | Monocle
9 July 2014
“Creative enterprises and unique collaborations are flourishing in Auckland thanks to the dramatic renovation of a collection of 1960s city council workshops,” Monocle reports.
“Until two years ago, the City Works Depot was a near-derelict…
Music | Telegraph (The)
8 July 2014
Grammy winner 17-year-old Lorde, who has urged people to believe that teenagers are wiser than adults think, has made the Telegraph’s Radhika Sanghani pine for the passion of her younger self.
“Defender of teens
War & Peace | Open Democracy
8 July 2014
In the course of its Blitzkrieg in northern Iraq, ISIS captured the Al Muthanna complex, which contains remnants of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons stock, buried in underground concrete bunkers and left undestroyed by American…
Sport
8 July 2014
Check out a bit of the action with The Crown Range’s 47 corners, 1076 metres elevation and 10.4km long track in Queenstown, New Zealand. For a moment in time…
Taste | Deutsche Welle
8 July 2014
The flat white has transformed cafés in Germany’s capital Berlin, with the city’s “dreary drip brew and morbid Milchkaffee” fast becoming a thing of the past.
New Zealander Shannon Campbell – owner of café
Visual Arts | Shanghai Daily
8 July 2014
Fifty woven panels by 40 Maori artists are to hang permanently next to the entry of the General Assembly Hall at the UN Headquarters in New York.
The tukutuku panels, a revered art form in…
Visual Arts | Telegraph (The)
8 July 2014
A stunning image entitled “The Turbulent Heart of the Scorpion” by New Zealand photographer Rolf Wahl Olsen has been shortlisted in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
The photograph is of the multiple star…
Writers | Deutsche Welle
7 July 2014
New Zealander Sarah Quigley initially came to Germany on a one-year writing scholarship in 2000. Quigley, the author of acclaimed novel The Conductor, arrived with no German and little knowledge of Germany, but was…
X Files
7 July 2014
Take a look at the Award Winning Kauri Museum at Matakohe, located just 90 minutes north of Auckland. The Kauri Museum tells the stories of settlers and how it…
Sport General | Daily Express | Wimbledon
7 July 2014
Rare photographs of New Zealand’s greatest tennis player, four-time Wimbledon champion Anthony Wilding, have emerged for the first time in more than a century, selling for an undisclosed sum to a New Zealand buyer…
Sport General | North Devon Journal
7 July 2014
Rising Christchurch track star Angie Smit, 22, has found a second home in Braunton, North Devon where she is training for this month’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
In just under four weeks Smit will…
Sport General | Clacton Gaxette
7 July 2014
New Zealander Tim Prendergast, a Paralympic gold medalist, had Essex schoolchildren entranced with his motivational speech during Clacton Coastal Academy’s first-ever sports awards evening.
Prendergast, who began losing his sight at the age of eight,…
New Zealand | GOLF Magazine | Toronto Sun
6 July 2014
“The world-renowned golf course at Cape Kidnappers is ranked as the 27th-best in the world by Golf Magazine, and for good reason is a bucket-list destination for international duffers,” Janie Robinson reports in the…
New Zealand | Huffington Post (The)
6 July 2014
New Zealand’s “veritable buffet of landscapes … each one painted with a unique palate of colour” provided the perfect setting for Huffington Post travel writer Charli Moore’s “freedom escape”.
“Having just completed an epic 18-month…
Taste | Gourmand (The)
5 July 2014
“Margot Henderson is a lauded chef, cookery writer and the co-owner of Rochelle Canteen. First establishing herself at the French House in Soho, she is one of the pioneers of the seasonal…
Science/Tech | Vice
5 July 2014
Wellington-based scientist Hari Mogosanu is unperturbed by crude pop-culture imaginings of Mars, like the 1990 sci-fi classic Total Recall, writes Danielle Street for Vice.
Three years ago, the she formed the New Zealand chapter of…
Arts
4 July 2014
What are the most distinctive aspects of our art and culture? What are the particular challenges and opportunities for art historians working in New Zealand?
Z-Files | Smithsonian Magazine | Sunday Star Times
4 July 2014
The man attributed to inventing instant coffee, New Zealander David Strang, is mentioned in a Smithsonian magazine article on the history of the beverage and about the expansion of the instant coffee market into…
Science/Tech | Sunshine Coast Daily
4 July 2014
A kiwi invention is taking the beloved pastime of colouring-in to a whole new, high-tech level, allowing kids’ colouring creations to come to life.
New Zealand company Puteko’s colAR Mix app allows users to print,…
Media | News Corporation | Taranaki Daily News | thisismoney.co.uk
3 July 2014
News Corporation trouble-shooter, Tom Mockridge, who jumped ship last year to take charge of Liberty Global’s most expensive acquisition, the $23b purchase of Britain’s cable champion Virgin Media, is now taking on his old…
Haka
3 July 2014
Fames Te Huna, Soa Palelei and Jared Rosholt talk about the Haka welcome they received upon arriving to New Zealand for Fight Night Auckland. The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)…
Medicine/Health | Boston Globe | Boston Globe (The)
3 July 2014
New Zealand Doctor Simon Talbot will lead a surgical team to give a quadruple amputee both his arms back.
Will Lautzenheiser, filmmaker and former BU professor, lost all four of his limbs three…
Visual Arts | Huffington Post | Huffington Post (The)
3 July 2014
A leading New York based New Zealand photographer Henry Hargreaves, has created a new art series featuring Vietnam War style messages on mobile phones.
In his new series “War Phones”, Hargreaves worked with a prop stylist…
General | Star Online (The)
2 July 2014
New Zealand’s vibrant economy and tranquil lifestyle are attracting more migrants from Asia and elsewhere, with 40,000 newcomers expected to settle in the country this year.
When Elzerie Alcaide (pictured), 33, moved to Wellington from…
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2 July 2014
Watch this clever little commercial about how you can get far if you study in New Zealand.
Business | Wall Street Journal | Wall Street Journal (The)
2 July 2014
New Zealand will be home to the first Boeing 787-9 plane after Air New Zealand officially acquired the first of the 10 new models yesterday.
“Boeing is proud to have contractually delivered the first 787-9…
Science/Tech | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
2 July 2014
A New Zealand scientist has spent a week with Richard Branson on his private Caribbean island playing chess, eating sushi and discussing technology and sustainability.
Auckland University lecturer Dr Michelle Dickinson was one of eight…
Travel
1 July 2014
In this episode, take a quick look into four of New Zealand’s Great Walks (Abel Tasman Coastal Track, Kepler Track, Milford Track and Tonagriro Northern Circuit). Living a Kiwi…
Business | Australian Financial Review
1 July 2014
ANZ Australia chief executive, New Zealander Phil Chronican, is a numbers man who freely admits the “soft skills” have been his biggest challenge.
Chronican has had a stellar career in finance, starting out in Treasury…
Cricket | Australian (The)
1 July 2014
Negotiations are moving closer to make the first ever day-night test cricket match between Australia and New Zealand official.
Adelaide and Hobart are battling for the honour of staging the first ever Test cricket day-night…