Rugby | Japan Times (The)
14 September 2016
In his first press conference since taking charge of Japan national rugby team the Brave Blossoms, New Zealander Jamie Joseph warned fans to expect pain before pleasure as he builds toward the 2019 World…
Taste | The Age
13 September 2016
New Zealand-born Dave Verheul, who has worked in Michelin-starred restaurants with Marcus Wareing and Gordon Ramsay in London, plus a stage at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck, and at Sydney’s hatted The Bentley Restaurant and…
Dance | West Australian (The)
13 September 2016
Chances are if you visited the Art Gallery of Western Australia recently you would have seen New Zealand-born Raewyn Hill and the Co3 dancers rehearsing for The Cry. The contemporary performance, that sees each…
Rugby | New York Times (The)
13 September 2016
Warren Gatland, 52, landed in New Zealand last week only two days after being given the job of overthrowing what may be the country’s most cherished institution: the All Blacks rugby team. Gatland has…
Taste | Gourmet Traveller (The)
12 September 2016
New Zealander Ben Shewry, owner of Melbourne’s Attica, has been peer-voted Chef of the Year in the Australian Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Awards.
“Eleven years after answering a newspaper ad for a head chef position the…
Te Reo | YouTube
12 September 2016
Watch the highlights of this year’s Matariki Festival at Te Papa and hear about what makes Matariki a special time for those who helped celebrate at Te Papa.
Motorsports | Los Angeles Times
12 September 2016
Watkins Glen International is a special place for New Zealander Scott Dixon. He showed why again winning the IndyCar Grand Prix at the historic New York race track.
Fastest in every practice and fastest in qualifying, Dixon,…
New Zealand | Daily Mail
11 September 2016
“Immortalised by Peter Jackson in Lord Of The Rings, tourists now flock to Queenstown’s frosty lakes and rolling hills every year in search of the same magic created by the films,” writes Jennifer Smith…
Writers | Guardian (The)
11 September 2016
Hera Lindsay Bird, who “has become a cult favourite for her explicit, cutting and often funny writing” was “catapulted from respected but anonymous graduate writer to semi-cult status” after publishing her first book of…
New Zealand | Paste Magazine
10 September 2016
“From freshly caught seafood to lamb, meat, everything, the delicious yet frequently underrated cuisine New Zealand offers should top your foodie-travel bucket list,” writes A. Van Houten for Paste Magazine in an…
New Zealand | William Patino Photography
10 September 2016
New Zealand boasts “some of the finest natural landscapes on Earth” and is a “paradise for photographers and nature lovers alike”, writes William Patino on his photography blog. In his blog post he…
Arts | Guardian (The)
9 September 2016
Kiwi stuntwoman Dayna Grant has “worked as a double for A-list actors including Charlize Theron and Tilda Swinton during her thrilling 20-year career, but to the easy-going Kiwi, it’s all in a day’s work,”…
X Files | YouTube
9 September 2016
Watch this clip by NZ story, which sheds light on the unique characteristics of New Zealand’s energy and resources industry.
Design | InStyle
9 September 2016
“As one of the first classic boutique townhouse hotels in London, The Franklin has recently experienced an extraordinarily stylish revamp—and designed by none other than the Bond-Girl-turned hotelier/interior designer Anouska Hempel,” writes Hana Hong…
Innovation | Australian (The)
9 September 2016
Work on New Zealand’s first national virtual reality complex has begun in Wellington, writes David Swan in an article for the Australian. The centre will be “used to developed and test world-first…
Music | Rolling Stone
8 September 2016
Lorde’s former producer, Grammy-award winning New Zealander Joel Little, 33, is now working with Canadian singer-songwriter Ruth B on her first LP, Vine.
Little became intrigued with Ruth when a friend sent a demo of…
New Zealand | GazetteXtra
8 September 2016
“As a chilly dusk fell on famous for wildlife and Jurassic-era fossilised trees, a white-coated figure waddled gingerly across tide-slicked rocks – me, trying to get out of sight to…
Theatre | Canberra Times (The)
8 September 2016
New Zealand playwright and actor Mel Dodge depicts the personal passions of Jane Eyre author Charlotte Brontë in Miss Brontë, on at Canberra’s Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre.
Despite living most of her life in an…
Taste | South China Morning Post
7 September 2016
New Zealander Nicholas Clark is one of a number of foreigners who have invested in China’s new enthusiasm for craft beer. Clark opened Craft Head Nano Tap House in 2014 in a former convenience…
Arts | YouTube
7 September 2016
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of the NZ Opera? Watch this clip and find out what happens before the season starts and audiences get…
New Zealand | National Geographic
7 September 2016
When the kiwi arrived in New Zealand several million years ago “it found few threats and plenty of opportunities.” “In the absence of mammals, its descendants gradually lost the ability to fly, as island…
Writers | Business Standard (The)
7 September 2016
Gisborne-born author Witi Ihimaera, 72, feels the real role of a writer is to become the conscience of the nation and that Indian writers have set a “fantastic example” by using literature to address…
Visual Arts | Guardian (The)
6 September 2016
New Zealand-born artist Simon Denny’s forthcoming exhibition – Blockchain Future States – opens on 8 September at Petzel Gallery in New York City. The exhibition tells the story of blockchain visionaries, bitcoin and the…
Architecture | Financial Times
6 September 2016
“‘Art,’ wrote the -born artist Len Lye, ‘is the most valuable and least useful of all things ever made.’ Bearing that in mind, how might you make a museum dedicated to the artist?” Financial Times’…
Visual Arts | Monocle
6 September 2016
The art world has opened up to welcome new collectors and dealers defined by their zeal, Monocle reports in a profile story, which includes New Zealand-born Alan Gibbs, entrepreneur and founder of Gibbs Farm…
Film & TV | Stuff
5 September 2016
Hollywood film star Robert Redford, 80, came to New Zealand to expand his Oscar-winning résumé with children’s film Pete’s Dragon, but what he found was an idyllic paradise reminiscent of his own childhood.
Redford says he felt…
Rugby | YouTube
5 September 2016
Watch this clip by Rebel Sport and hear what fuelled Malakai Fekitoa to go after his dream of becoming a professional rugby player. Today he plays for New Zealand’s national team…
Film & TV | Huffington Post (The)
5 September 2016
When New Zealand-born director Pietra Brettkelly visited Afghanistan in 2012 she heard tell of a secret film archive, constructed during Taliban rule to protect the country’s old films from being destroyed by the regime….
Politics and Economics | Travel Pulse
5 September 2016
New Zealand’s cruise industry is experiencing an increase in cruise passengers. More than 254,000 passengers and 92,000 crew members visited the country during the August 2015 to June 2016 cruise season, as reported in…
General | Guardian
4 September 2016
Oamaru “used to be known for its population of blue penguins and having the best-preserved collection of Victorian architecture in the country”, writes Eleanor Ainge Roy for The Guardian. In 2010 the…
Design | Guardian (The)
4 September 2016
As a child New Zealander Dot Smith dreamed of living in a castle. Growing up on an isolated farm in the 1960s entertainment was scarce – so Dot read, and planned her escape. Five…
Fashion | Observer
3 September 2016
Designer Karen Walker has once again turned to older women for her campaigns, hiring models, Phyllis Sues, 93, and Roberta Haze, 78 for her latest jewellery collection, Magic Hands.
For New Zealander Walker, aged hands…
Business | Guardian (The)
3 September 2016
As demand for all-wool shoes grows, a number of US footwear brands are heading directly to the source: the sheep pastures of New Zealand. San Francisco-based Allbirds, established by former New Zealand soccer player…
New Zealand | Bustle
2 September 2016
New Zealand has been ranked the fifth best country for expats in a ranking by “InterNations, which recently produced the Expat Insider 2016 report — one of the largest expat surveys in…
Film | YouTube
2 September 2016
Watch this full Moana trailer – the official Olympics TV spot. In Moana, once-mighty demigod Maui, played by Dwayne Johnson and Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) embark on an adventure across the…
Dance | Stuff
2 September 2016
Christchurch dancer Joshua Guillemot-Rodgerson, who is understood to be the first New Zealander to be accepted by the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City, according to the Press, will graduate in May 2017.
Guillemot-Rodgerson…
Politics and Economics | IMF
2 September 2016
New Zealand has topped the International Monetary Fund’s list for housing unaffordability and has outpaced 31 other countries in the house prices to income ratio category. It hit nearly 130 points on…
Film & TV | NYTimes
1 September 2016
Wellington-born filmmaker Niki Caro will direct the latest adaptation of the classic children’s novel Anne of Green Gables with production beginning in Canada this month.
The series, Anne, may prove to be an edgier incarnation…
Fashion | Independent (The)
1 September 2016
Creator and star of hit American television show Girls, Lena Dunham and Jemima Kirke are championing the unretouched precedent for Lonely Girls, a journal featuring inspiring women modelling underwear from the New Zealand-based Lonely…
General | Guardian (The) | New Zealand Herald
1 September 2016
It boasts spectacular scenery, a temperate climate and a labour shortage in key areas, but New Zealand’s most appealing attribute, according to the New Zealand Herald, may be that it is “18,000km from Boris…