Theatre | Courier-Mail (The)
31 August 2017
They killed her off in Australian prison drama Wentworth in 2016, but Auckland-born Danielle Cormack will live again on stage for Queensland Theatre next year. Cormack, 46, played Bea Smith in the television series…
Visual Arts | Surfer
31 August 2017
The lackadaisical, drooping C-shape wave mural reflects the irreverence with which New Zealand-born, Byron Bay-based artist Paul McNeil approaches most topics, from surfing and surf culture to music and politics to philosophical ruminations, Matthew…
Haka | YouTube
31 August 2017
Watch this clip to see New Zealand’s Black Ferns perform the haka after winning the Women’s Rugby World Cup.
Watersports | World Wake Association
31 August 2017
Waikato University Hillary Scholar Morgan Haakma has won her first world title at the 2017 Nautique WWA Wakeboard World Championships. Competing in the Amateur Women’s division, Haakma won “with a stand-up run filled with multiple…
Politics and Economics | BBC
31 August 2017
The New Zealander in charge of negotiating the UK’s trade deals once Brexit is finalised, has begun his tenure. Crawford Falconer has taken up the post of chief trade negotiation adviser at the Department…
New Zealand | Huffington Post (The)
30 August 2017
“This summer I took an epic vacation in New Zealand,” award-winning blogger and traveller Lia Miller (pictured centre) writes in a three-part series for the Huffington Post. “To say that New Zealand is gorgeous…
Fashion | Broadsheet
30 August 2017
“For a small country far from the fashion capitals of Paris, New York and Milan, New Zealand fashion designers punch above their weight. Just look at Karen Walker’s empire spanning clothing, accessories, and homeware…
Magazine
30 August 2017
News of Global New…
Sport General | Evening Express
29 August 2017
New Zealand footballer Chris Wood, 25, who was most recently a striker for Leeds, has just signed with English Premier League team Burnley for the club-record fee of £15 million.
Auckland-born Wood, who is the…
Sport General | Jakarta Post (The)
29 August 2017
New Zealanders Amelia Watkinson, 25, and Mike Phillips, 26, have been crowned as winners at the Ironman 70.3 competition, which was held on Bintan Island in Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago.
Phillips was the fastest athlete in…
Music | YouTube
29 August 2017
Chelsea Jade is one of five Kiwi female artists who made the shortlist on this year’s Apra Silver Scroll Awards. Listen to her song Life of…
Visual Arts | Wired
29 August 2017
The South Island spans 50,437sqkm of breathtaking, verdant terrain. But nothing on the ground surpasses what’s in the sky. The region is home to the largest dark sky observatory in the world, glittering with…
Music | Guardian (The)
29 August 2017
For the first time in its 52-year history, New Zealand’s Silver Scroll Awards feature an exclusively all-female shortlist, made up of Lorde, Bic Runga, Aldous Harding, Chelsea Jade and Nadia Reid, the Guardian reports.
The…
Rugby | YouTube
28 August 2017
The New Zealand Black Ferns have reclaimed the Rugby World Cup title following their victory against England. Watch the game’s highlights here.
Obituaries | New York Times (The)
28 August 2017
“Colin Meads, one of New Zealand’s greatest and most revered rugby players, died on Sunday in Te Kuiti, New Zealand, his hometown. He was 81,” writes Huw Richards in an obituary published in the…
Rugby | New York Times (The)
28 August 2017
The finishing thrust that All Blacks coach Steve Hansen had been seeking all season finally returned during the weekend as Beauden Barrett scored a last-gasp try to give them a 35-29 victory over Australia in…
Rugby | Irish Times (The)
28 August 2017
“New Zealand are world champions again. ruthlessly snatched the cup from this immensely talented yet ageing English side (seven of them are 30-plus) in a style that must have made the…
Fashion | Telegraph (The)
28 August 2017
New Zealand-born jeweller Jessica McCormack recently launched not one but two new ranges from her art-filled Mayfair townhouse in London.
The new collections have very disparate inspirations but, as is McCormack’s ingenious way, are united…
Theatre | West Australian (The)
27 August 2017
New Zealander Rhys Darby believes he was a bird in a former life and it’s this premise that forms the basis for his new live show, Mystic Time Bird, which is on at Perth’s…
Rugby | Irish Examiner
27 August 2017
Kieran Keane has just arrived in Galway, Ireland to take up his new post as Connacht coach, replacing fellow New Zealander Pat Lam who has moved on to a role with Bristol.
Known as a…
Business | BusinessCloud | TIME
27 August 2017
Co-founder of UK-based Blue Maestro, New Zealander Kirstin Hancock knew from experience that attempting to take the temperature of a poorly child is no mean feat – whether you’re using an in-the-ear thermometer or…
War & Peace | Lemoore Navy News (The)
26 August 2017
American mass communication specialist Cole Schroeder of the supercarrier USS Nimitz was recently granted the opportunity “to view life on the ocean from a New Zealander’s perspective,” boarding the Royal New Zealand Anzac-class frigate…
Theatre | Guardian (The)
26 August 2017
This year, Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s “best-loved mime act” New Zealander Trygve Wakenshaw has teamed up with his one-year-old son on stage in Trygve vs a Baby.
“The publicity asks: who’s more entertaining? And the answer,…
Taste | Ventura County Star
26 August 2017
Originally from Auckland, Gwithyen Thomas, 28, and his American wife are co-owners of Aroha Restaurant in Westlake Village, California.
Aroha, which opened in September 2014, specialises in dishes that feature local ingredients…
Music | Rafu Shimpo (The)
25 August 2017
Auckland-born Mark de Clive-Lowe, who now calls Los Angeles home, juggles piano, synths and live sampling with effortless fluidity. De Clive-Lowe will perform Mirai No Rekishi (未来の歴史) / History of the Future, “a sonic…
Ads | YouTube
25 August 2017
Watch this clip by Air New Zealand about Pete – a kiwi that found a #BetterWaytoFly with New Zealand’s national airline.
Taste | Gourmand (The)
25 August 2017
London’s “restaurant royalty”, including New Zealand-born chef Margot Henderson of the Rochelle Canteen, “show their love for their favourite food” in a photographic essay for the award-winning British food and culture journal.
“The glory of…
Cricket | Cricbuzz
25 August 2017
“Tom Pritchard, New Zealand’s oldest cricketer, has died aged 100 at his home in New Zealand,” as reported in an article on Cricbuzz. “Pritchard, who played a total of 200 first-class matches and…
Music | Wire (The)
25 August 2017
Mount Somers is famous for two things: its natural beauty, and being the home of Peter King Lathe Cut Records, Noel Meek writes in a feature for UK music magazine The Wire.
King’s parents were…
Business | Thrillist
24 August 2017
Air New Zealand has taken a dull chore and turned it into a viral video phenomenon, complete with jaw-dropping shots from its home country and A-list Hollywood actors, Matt Meltzer reports for men’s digital…
Visual Arts | Daily Mail
24 August 2017
Christchurch newborn photographer Cassandra English, of Hazel & Cass, has made hearts melt across the world, after capturing heartwarming images of one-month-old redhead triplets Macy, Toby and Sadie cuddled together.
English said she wasn’t able…
Sport General | Radio New Zealand
23 August 2017
Former New Zealand basketball player Pero Cameron, 43, will be inducted into the International Basketball Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Geneva in late September.
Cameron attended two Olympic Games and three World Championships…
Arts | YouTube
23 August 2017
Watch how kiwi innovation Kaynemaile takes over New York Times Square in this recap of their New York installation #WaveNewYork. Kaynemaile was founded by Kayne Horsham.
Magazine
23 August 2017
News of Global New…
Business | Edinburgh Reporter (The)
23 August 2017
New Zealander Josephine Van Lierop who relocated from one continent to another has now moved from London to Scotland to lead the employment law team at Slater and Gordon Edinburgh.
Van Lierop will oversee the…
Fashion | Australian (The)
23 August 2017
Designer Blair Archibald has won the menswear award at the Australian and New Zealand regional final of the International Woolmark Prize held in Sydney, while fellow New Zealanders Madeleine Harman and Jessica Grubiša, took…
Business | New York Times (The)
22 August 2017
Silicon Valley goes through its own unique shoe crazes. There were Vibrams. There were Crocs. Now comes the Allbird, a knit wool loafer. Founded by New Zealand soccer star Tim Brown, 36, and clean-technology…
Rugby | BBC
22 August 2017
New Zealand “hammered” Australia 54-34 in their 2017 Investec Rugby Championship opener. According to the BBC, the All Blacks “were exceptional in the first half in Sydney and, with the help of three tries…
Obituaries | Guardian (The)
22 August 2017
Colin Meads, the famously tough All Blacks captain hailed as New Zealand’s greatest rugby player of the 20th century, has died. He was 81. Cambridge-born Meads played 55 tests among 133 games for New…
Comedy | YouTube
21 August 2017
Watch this clip to see Rose Matafeo at Chortle’s Fast Fringe, She shows an extract of her new show Sassy Best Friend. Matafeo is a New Zealand comedian, writer and performer.
Nature | National (The)
21 August 2017
New Zealander Timothy Husband should have been enjoying retirement at his cattle farm near the Blue Mountains of Australia, but he couldn’t resist the lure of helping captive wild animals at Dubai’s new safari…
New Zealand | Telegraph
21 August 2017
Sofitel’s “stylistic marriage of Parisian salon and Pacific meeting house is just out of earshot from the bars and restaurants of the Viaduct Harbour’s busy end. It is a quirky affair that elevates the…
Nature | Stuff
20 August 2017
A little brown kiwi chick has hatched at The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia, United States.
Zoo staff had been monitoring the egg closely the previous week after signs it would…
Music | NPR
20 August 2017
“Intensity in songs often expresses itself as volume – a loud guitar, a scream, a piercing synth line. But in the case of Aldous Harding it’s in the spaces, the pauses, and her unique…
Fashion | Herald Sun
19 August 2017
Thirty years after she appeared on the cover of Vogue Australia as a teenager, New Zealander Rachel Hunter has returned as the face of Australian women’s fashion brand Jacqui E.
The former supermodel, who shot…
Adrenalin | Financial Express (The)
19 August 2017
A quick flick around the internet will confirm that travellers with disabilities can enjoy adventure activities in New Zealand – from leaping out of planes and exploring the rainforest canopy to jet boating in…
Theatre | Guardian (The)
18 August 2017
New Zealand comedian Rose Matafeo, 25, “keeps things upbeat as she lightly interrogates Hollywood cliché and the role models on offer to young women” in her new show Sassy Best Friend, on now at…
Science/Tech | Idealog | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
18 August 2017
The answer to the conundrum of adding financial literacy classes to already overloaded curriculums may just be an innovative piece of technology being trialled by 3000 Australian primary school children called Banqer and developed…
Writers | Houston Chronicle
18 August 2017
Christchurch-born Paul Cleave, 42, is a relative newcomer to United States audiences. Although his first book, The Cleaner, was published in 2006 and sold half a million copies, his books weren’t marketed in the…
Science/Tech | Bloomberg
17 August 2017
When American Matthew Monahan first visited New Zealand, the Silicon Valley software developer was struck by a sense of possibility, Bloomberg reports.
Seven years later, the 33-year-old is helping the government lure other foreign entrepreneurs…
Rugby | YouTube
17 August 2017
Watch Sky Sports documentary Beneath the Black: A Journey Through New Zealand Rugby to learn what rugby means to New Zealand.
Magazine
17 August 2017
News of Global New…
Cricket | Telangana Today
17 August 2017
On a recent visit to Secunderabad, India, New Zealander Bruce Edgar met with coaches of the St John Sports Coaching Foundation. Talking to Telangana Today, Edgar said cricket has changed quite significantly from the…
Film & TV | Guardian (The)
17 August 2017
In a review of Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake: China Girl, which is currently screening on BBC2 in the UK, the Guardian’s Sam Wollaston says that not only is lead Elisabeth Moss “mesmerising,…
Taste | Guardian (The)
16 August 2017
Katherine Mansfield’s 1922 short story The Garden Party, set around the wealthy Sheridan family’s shindig, inspires Guardian columnist Kate Young to make a dessert from their elegant spread.
That meant the cream puffs had come….
Wine | Snooth
16 August 2017
“The future of New Zealand wine is strong – both through local sales and, increasingly, export,” writes Master Sommelier Cameron Douglas in an article for Snooth. “There’s no question that…