Science/Tech | Scientific American
30 April 2015
The boardgame Scrabble is giving psychologists a better understanding of the underpinnings of complex skill and a clearer picture of the origins of greatness. New Zealander Nigel Richards is widely regarded as the best…
Z-Files | Australian Financial Review
30 April 2015
In an extract from a paper called, “Political Captain Cook” by Australian lawyer Margaret Cameron-Ash, Cook’s decision in 1770 to misrepresent Stuart Island as a peninsula is discussed.
“Like every military man, Cook knew that…
Music
30 April 2015
Listen to the X Factor NZ Top 12 contestants as they collaborate and record a charity single with proceeds going to Ronald McDonald House Charities NZ to help families…
Music | Guardian (The)
30 April 2015
“New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Jess Cornelius is the tour de force behind Teeth & Tongue, and returns with a rollicking new track ‘Cupcake’,” Monica Tan writes for the Guardian’s weekly “Mixtape” column.
“Although recorded in…
Music | Rolling Stone
29 April 2015
New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Marlon Williams will tour Australia and his home country in support of his just-released, critically acclaimed self-titled debut album.
“A free-ranging complement to the assured country weirdness of last year’s Sad…
Film | Sundance Film Festival
29 April 2015
Actors Kodi-Smit McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn discuss their new movie Slow West which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Sundance Institute’s World Cinema Jury Prize for Drama,…
Taste | New York Times (The)
29 April 2015
New Zealand chef-turned-entrepreneur Chris Cullen seems to have hot sauce running in his veins, judging from the passionate way he speaks about one of America’s hottest food trends, the New York Times reports.
“I had…
Music | Clash Magazine
29 April 2015
The “impressive” New Zealand-born songwriter Louis Baker’s new EP Birds will be released in the United Kingdom on 29 June. Clash magazine premieres the title track.
Continually observing the world around him, Baker…
Music | InStyle
28 April 2015
Singer Kimbra was a headline act at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, included alongside big names like Florence and the Machine, Caribou, FKA Twigs and Father John Misty.
For the…
Writers | Heavy
28 April 2015
New Zealand-born crime writer and theatre director Dame Ngaio Marsh who wrote during the “golden age” of detective novels was celebrated on 23 April 2015 with a Google Doodle.
Marsh, born in Christchurch, would have…
Sport
28 April 2015
The final stop of the Rip Curl GromSearch saw plenty of action in clean waves at Fitzroy Beach, New Plymouth, Taranaki with six new champions crowned, and two international…
Film & TV | Huffington Post (The) | Washington Times (The)
28 April 2015
Growing up a New Zealander-Australian, Russell Crowe, 51, was intimately familiar with the Dardanelles Campaign, a veritable slaughterhouse battle over a tiny Turkish peninsula also known as Gallipoli. In his latest film, The Water…
War & Peace | The Creative Review
27 April 2015
Tableau vivant installation The Unforgotten Soldiers has toured New Zealand as a tribute to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers, who fought 100 years ago in the Gallipoli campaign during World…
Anthem
27 April 2015
The New Zealand Herald presents the video of the RSA Ode to the Fallen (Laurence Binyon), to remember fallen servicepersons, and is recited every Friday at 6pm. The text…
War & Peace | The Roar
27 April 2015
The rugby community paid tributes to the Anzacs, who had lost their lives during World War One over the course of the Anzac weekend.
On Friday, April 24 at Waikato Stadium, the Ode was read, The…
Film & TV | Mashable
26 April 2015
Sundance TV’s acclaimed drama The Red Road, starring New Zealander Martin Henderson “has gotten off to quite the intense start” in its newly released second season according to tvovermind.com.
In season two “Harold…
Film & TV | Al Arabiya
26 April 2015
WETA Digital has helped to finish current box office hit Fast and Furious 7 after movie star Paul Walker passed away in a car accident halfway through the filming.
Walker’s accident left the directors with…
War & Peace | ABC News
25 April 2015
The first published record of the Anzac biscuit, whose origin is “shrouded in myth” was in a New Zealand St Andrew’s Cookery Book published around 1922.
The legend of the biscuit is commonly associated with…
War & Peace | Nonprofit Quarterly
25 April 2015
Peter Jackson has helped to create an exhibition to mark the Centenary of the First World War at New Zealand’s Te Papa museum with the support of the country’s government, philanthropists, and…
War & Peace | The Border Watch
25 April 2015
A greater New Zealand focus will be introduced at this week’s Anzac Day services in Mount Gambier.
“I don’t know why this hasn’t been done before (…). We really have got to put the ‘NZ’…
War & Peace | GMA News
25 April 2015
Australia and New Zealand will jointly commemorate the centenary of the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign in Manila in the Philippines at a dawn service, which will be held in Fort Bonifacio at 5:30 a.m. on…
War & Peace | Shanghai Daily
24 April 2015
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key have dedicated a new memorial to commemorate the centenary of the two countries’ joint involvement in the World War I Gallipoli campaign…
Arts | Exhibition
24 April 2015
Behind the scenes of the episode 1 of the exhibition “Building Gallipoli with Te Papa & Weta Workshop. The exhibition consists of movies, model-making, and museums combine to take…
War & Peace | Age (The)
24 April 2015
More than 30 surf boat crews from around the world will pay tribute to the sacrifices of young soldiers 100 years ago as they take part in a marathon rowing race off the Turkish…
Writers | New Daily (The)
24 April 2015
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf are included in a list of literary “titans” who banded together as penpals whilst they produced the classics.
“Before Woolf was lionised she shared an unlikely friendship with a New…
Film & TV | Woman's Day
23 April 2015
New Zealand actress Keisha Castle-Hughes has joined the Game of Thrones cast in the series’ fifth season, which has just kicked off in the US and New Zealand.
Castle-Hughes is starring as Obara Sand, one…
Arts
23 April 2015
An amazing video projected onto The Bell Tower at the National War Museum, Wellington, New Zealand, in the lead up to the 100th Anniversary of the WWI Gallipoli Landing…
New Zealand | Australian Financial Review (The)
23 April 2015
The Kapiti Coast, one of New Zealand’s less-marketed tourism areas, captivates travellers with its “timeless stretch of sand and sea”, warm water and mild climate.
The stretch of beaches face the dominant silhouette of Kapiti…
War & Peace | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
23 April 2015
In one pivotal scene from Sam Neill’s thoughtful and moving examination of the Anzac legend, the ABC documentary Why Anzac, he approaches his grandfather’s grave in Lijssenthoek Cemetery, Belgium for the first time.
“This is…
Science/Tech | Fast Company
22 April 2015
A New Zealand rocket company, founded by inventor Peter Beck in 2007, says it has found a way to drastically cut the cost of satellite launches, by 3D printing rocket components.
The Rocket…
Film | New Zealand Herald
22 April 2015
Take a Look at this rare Gallipoli film restored by Peter Jackson for The Auckland War Memorial Museum’s special week of activities leading up to Anzac Day commemorations. This…
Rugby | Financial Times
22 April 2015
The first rugby match in the United States for the All Blacks in over three decades helped TLA Worldwide, an American athlete representation and sports marketing business, report a 26 per cent rise in…
Taste | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
22 April 2015
New Zealander Ben Shewry’s role at Melbourne’s Attica is lauded in the Sydney Morning Herald, with the restaurant named one of reviewer Terry Durack’s top 12 in Australia.
“No, you haven’t made a mistake, that…
Fashion | Sunshine Coast Daily
21 April 2015
New Zealand-born designer Failepou Peni’s resort wear label Lapou will showcase new collections at the Sunshine Coast Fashion Festival on 17 October.
Lepou specialise in figure flattering resort pieces, luxurious kaftans, swimwear and…
Film & TV | Guardian (The) | Independent (The)
21 April 2015
Like many of the cast of BBC3’s new supernatural thriller Tatau, Shushila Takao is a New Zealander. She stars alongside British newcomers Joe Layton and Theo Barklem-Biggs as Aumea in the television…
Music
21 April 2015
Commemorating the centenary of the Gallipoli landing, Neil Finn and Jim Carter have re-recorded “Blue Smoke”, composed by Ruru Karaitiana in 1940. Jim Carter played steel guitar on the…
Film & TV | Wall Street Journal (The)
21 April 2015
A documentary about a small troupe of Tokyo wrestlers with disabilities made by New Zealander Heath Cozens will premiere at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto on 27 April.
Five years in the making,…
General | BBC
21 April 2015
Innovation happens on the edge and “you cannot get more on the edge than New Zealand,” according to the CEO of Auckland’s economic development group Brett O’Riley.
Auckland may be New Zealand’s biggest city but…
Obituaries | Independent (The)
20 April 2015
The cricketing career of Richie Benaud – Australian captain and the first man to take 200 wickets and score 2,000 runs in Tests – was had a critical intervention by Timaru chemist Ivan James….
X Files
20 April 2015
Archives New Zealand presents images of New Zealanders serving in the First World War at Gallipoli, Sinai/Palestine, and the Western European Front.
Media | Associated Press
20 April 2015
Pulitzer-winning journalist New Zealander Peter Arnett spoke to a packed crowd at California State University in Fresno on his 50 years of reporting experience – from covering the Vietnam War to his struggles with…
Sport General | Irish Independent
20 April 2015
When fitness and lifestyle coach New Zealander Sene Naoupu came to Ireland with her husband, Connaught Rugby’s George Naoupu, she had no idea that she would end up lining out for Ireland’s Six Nations-winning…
General | National Public Radio (NPR)
19 April 2015
“Henry John Chitty Harper was the first bishop of Christchurch. He battled to build the Anglican cathedral that, for more than a century, was the city’s centrepiece, its greatest landmark and an inspiration behind…
Visual Arts | Conversation (The)
19 April 2015
The latest exhibition of Ian North’s work, “East Antarctica 1915”, demonstrates the Lower Hutt-born artist’s uncanny ability to tap into the zeitgeist of our socially fractured and culturally fragmented times, writes Flinders University lecturer…
Music | FDRMX
19 April 2015
New Zealand soul singer Stan Walker, 24, is about to release his new album Truth & Soul, a collection of songs from icons like Stevie Wonder and Otis Redding. The Australian Idol winner says,…
Business | Global Government Forum
18 April 2015
Former New Zealand hockey player Vicky Robertson has been appointed the new chief executive of the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) by state services commissioner Iain Rennie.
As the Treasury’s deputy chief executive, Robertson is…
Science/Tech | Forbes
18 April 2015
Auckland-based commercial space company Rocket Lab has unveiled their 3D-printed battery-powered Rutherford engine.
The liquid-fueled, battery powered engine is capable of 4,600 pounds of thrust and will power propulsion of Rocket…
Watersports | Swimming World Magazine
18 April 2015
Sophie Pascoe, a New Zealand superstar in the Paralympic swimming community, has broken her Paralympic world record of 1:03.95 in the 100 fly for the S10 division with a 1:03.72 at the New Zealand…
Sport General | Boxing News 24
17 April 2015
Undefeated #10 WBA heavyweight contender Joseph Parker has been helping out heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko with his sparring to get him ready for his upcoming fight against Bryant Jennings.
“He’s extremely talented. He’s strong (…),…
X Files
17 April 2015
“Rambo” the octopus at Kelly Tarlton’s Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand has been trained to take photos with a Sony DSC-TX30 in his tank. In fact, it only…
New Zealand | Food & Wine | Guardian (The)
17 April 2015
“If you tell a Kiwi you’re off to (Hawkes Bay), they’ll respond with a knowing smile and a ‘you lucky thing’”, proclaims Will Macpherson in The Guardian.
“Rolling, sun-stained hills, the perfect blue of the…
Film & TV | Empire Magazine
17 April 2015
Jemaine Clement is set to star in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG alongside Penelope Wilton and Rebecca Hall.
“In more than 40 years of making movies, I have been on the producing…
Music | Guardian (The) | Silicon
16 April 2015
New Zealand’s “most exciting offerings” of late, according to the Guardian, “have been the warped psychedelia of Connan Mockasin and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Completing this trio of peculiarity is Silicon – also known as…
Film
16 April 2015
Watch this historical video presented by New Zealand National Film, New Zealand Diary no. 8 – Auckland and Kawau Island (1947). The short clip is an overview of Auckland…
Visual Arts | Artnet
16 April 2015
New Zealand–born, Berlin-based Simon Denny, who is represented by one of New York’s most reputable galleries, Petzel, has opened his first American show “The Innovator’s Dilemma” at MoMA PS1. In…
Watersports | Independent (The) | Radio New Zealand
16 April 2015
New Zealand brothers Sam and James O’Connor have helped Oxford University beat Cambridge in the annual University Boat Races held on the River Thames in London.
Sam, 27, (pictured left) who has competed in and…