Taste | Irish Examiner
9 December 2015
Kai Cafe and Restaurant was opened by New Zealander Jess Murphy and her Irish husband, David in 2011, with a simple formula – high-quality produce, preferably organic or wild, sourced locally and cooked intelligently….
Film & TV | New York Times (The)
8 December 2015
MTV’s new fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles is set in the future but features elves and gnomes and promises plenty of old-fashioned adventure all filmed in the town of Kumeu, in New Zealand’s scenic…
X Files | YouTube
8 December 2015
Watch as six servicewomen from the New Zealand Defence Force discuss how they balance family and friends with work, and how they are supported in their challenging but rewarding…
Magazine
8 December 2015
News of New Zealanders…
New Zealand | Forbes
7 December 2015
“Like Melbournians, Wellingtonians take their food and drink culture extremely seriously. The city is said to have more restaurants, bars and cafes per capita than New York”, writes Jason Lim in an article for…
X Files | Fox Sports | YouTube
7 December 2015
New Zealand newlyweds Erica Skuta and Lewis Black spent their evening at a Minnesota Wild hockey game after their wedding. The Bride, Erica was caught by Fox Sports North…
New Zealand | Australian Geographic
7 December 2015
“There are many ways to enjoy New Zealand’s spectacular Queen Charlotte Track”, writes Justin Walker in an article on Australian Geographic. Walker himself walked the first part, pedalled the middle section and finished off…
Obituaries | Londonist
7 December 2015
New Zealand-born sportswriter Norman Harris, organiser of London’s Sunday Times National Fun Run, and quite possibly the inventor of the word “jogger”, has died in Britain. He was 75.
Harris worked as a sports reporter…
General | Forbes
6 December 2015
“Admittedly before visiting Wellington, I didn’t know much about the city, besides that it is supposed to be very windy. But after spending a couple of days exploring the town and meeting the people…
Business | AirlineRatings.com | Daily Mail | Daily Mail (the)
5 December 2015
Air New Zealand has been named the best airline in the world in a ranking by AirlineRatings.com for the third consecutive year, as reported in an article on The Daily Mail.
“Air New…
General | Irish Independent
5 December 2015
The world’s latest cat café has opened in Auckland. At BaristaCats café on Queen Street cat lovers can enjoy a hot drink and a cuddle with the café’s resident cats for only NZ$15 cat…
Film & TV | The Republic
4 December 2015
“MTV’s new fantasy series “The Shannara Chronicles” is set in the future but features elves and gnomes and promises plenty of old-fashioned adventure,” writes Nick Perry for The Republic.
The show is based…
Science/Tech | 3DPrint.com
4 December 2015
A collaboration between scientists at Massey University, the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa bring extinct birds species back to life with 3D scanning.
“Technology like 3D printing is the way of the…
Music | YouTube
4 December 2015
Watch Gavin Correia and Marty Rich; otherwise known as Jupiter Project in their latest music video for the single “Sweet Disguise”.
General | Hydrogen Fuel News
4 December 2015
A new Soft Plastics Recycling Program that could keep over four million plastic bags out of the landfill has been launched in Auckland by Environment Minister Nick Smith last week.
Whether or not the program…
New Zealand | Guardian (The)
3 December 2015
“Creative, well caffeinated and culinarily blessed, Wellington is surprisingly compact” and “is packed with cool-as cafes, boutique food factories and exceptional restaurants,” writes Nikki Marshall in an article for The Guardian, in…
Sport | YouTube
3 December 2015
Watch this beautifully-made timelapse by The New Zealand Rowing Association of a wonderful morning on Wednesday 6 May, Rowing NZ media day. The NZRA trading as Rowing New Zealand…
Dance | Dorset Echo
3 December 2015
Britain’s Strictly Come Dancing star, New Zealand-born Brendan Cole breaks off from a journey to Blackpool to speak about this year’s show and his new tour, which will call in to Dorset early next…
War & Peace | New Zealand Herald
2 December 2015
New Zealander Janna Hamilton, who has worked for Oxfam in the Middle East and Africa, largely with Syrian refugees on the Jordanian and Lebanese borders, argues in an opinion piece for the New Zealand…
Film | BBC | YouTube
2 December 2015
For Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary, watch as Lord Of The Rings & The Hobbit director Peter Jackson wishes Doctor Who a very Happy 50th Anniversary and talks about his…
Architecture | Treehugger
2 December 2015
A home is not just a building, it’s also a state of mind. For Christchurch woman Lily Duval, 28, it meant creating a charming, cozy space out of her self-built 14sqm tiny home, where…
Music | Guardian (The)
2 December 2015
New Zealand singer-songwriter Nadia Reid’s Look for the Signs is an “extraordinarily assured debut”, Guardian reviewer Kitty Empire writes.
The track Call the Days “suggests an Antipodean Laura Marling, a talented 24-year-old with a preternatural…
Visual Arts | Khaleej Times (The)
1 December 2015
New Zealand-born street artist Gary Yong has been in Dubai participating in the UAE Innovation Week, which saw him place 1600 bags of sand along Jumeirah Beach Residence’s open beach for a piece he…
Rugby | The Daily Mail
1 December 2015
“Thousands of New Zealanders have visited Eden Park to honour the memory of legendary All Blacks winger Jonah Lomu at a public memorial service hosted at the hallowed Auckland rugby venue”, writes Rory Keane…
Haka | YouTube
1 December 2015
A final and emotional haka was performed by Jonah Lomu’s former teammates to farewell their friend and a great rugby player.
General | Guardian (The)
1 December 2015
The Australia liberal senator Ian Macdonald has caused a media ruckus joking that New Zealand should become Australia’s “seventh and eighth state”. Guardian correspondent Eleanor Roy, who is “half Aussie, half Kiwi”, explains that…
Golf | CNN
1 December 2015
Eighteen-year-old Aucklander Lydia Ko has scooped the US$1 million LPGA Tour jackpot and has been named the women’s LPGA Player of the Year, becoming the youngest in its 49-year history to do so.
Ko retained…