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Oregon-Based Paul Nicholson’s Life of Purpose
Retired Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) executive director Paul Nicholson is interviewed by Oregon daily newspaper, Mail Tribune as part of the publication’s periodic ‘Community Builder’ series.
Nicholson, who moved to the…
Future Looking Bright for Surfer Paige Hareb
“A world tour consisting exclusively of wavepool events would, without doubt, see Paige Hareb crowned as world champion,” Sean Doherty writes for Surfer magazine.
The 28-year-old New Zealander was “sparky”…
New Exec Role for Arts Leader Shelagh Magadza
New Zealand-born Shelagh Magadza has been appointed the new executive director of the Chamber of Arts and Culture Western Australia and will take up the role from 23 October.
Magadza,…
All Blacks vs. Pumas Highlights
The New Zealand All Blacks have won 46 – 24 over the Argentinian Pumas in Nelson last weekend. Tries were scored by…
Zaha Hadid Architects Unveil Auckland Vision
Five competing visions for a landmark new hotel and residential tower on Federal Street in Auckland – including one by UK-based Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) – have been unveiled.
The…
EDGE #331: Gibbs Sculpture Park #1 Guardian Favourite, Starbucks No Match for NZ’s Domestic Coffee Culture, Lucy Tupu And Max Gimblett Collaborate + Guardian, The Vancouver Sun, New Zealand Newsletter
Starbucks No Match for NZ’s Domestic Coffee Culture
Starbucks’ partner of 20 years in New Zealand is hanging up its apron. Restaurant Brands New Zealand Ltd. is letting its licensing deal expire in October to focus on…
Javelin Thrower Holly Jones off to Special Olympics
Paeroa woman Holly Jones has being selected to represent New Zealand at the Special Olympics World Games, to be held in Abu Dhabi in March.
Jones, who has dyspraxia and…
Jacinda Ardern On Universally Accessible Arts
New Zealand’s Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern says art should be for the many, not the few. The opinion piece features in Australia’s…
Natasha Wright to Open First Solo Show
New Zealand artist Natasha Wright is opening her first solo show on September 19th in New York. Her work “combines figuration and abstraction from a…
Lucy Tupu And Max Gimblett Collaborate To Create Beauty At Your Feet
“With her Polynesian heritage and love for all things bright and bold, coupled with Max’s artistic talent Lucy Tupu has just launched her first collaboration.”
“Drawn…
Kiwi Leadership Network USA Launch & Leadership Speaker Evening
Save the date for the Kiwi Leadership Network USA’s official launch event on November 10, 2018 at 6pm at the Official New Zealand Residence in…
Double Win for Equestrians Tim and Jonelle Price
Just four months after his wife Jonelle took top honours in the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials, fellow New Zealander Tim Price, 39, captured British eventing’s other major four-star…
All Blacks Win Over Pumas in Nelson
Coach Steve Hansen gave his rearranged All Blacks a pass mark after their 46-24 victory over a much-improved Argentinian side in Nelson, but conceded they…
Broods – Peach
Peach is the latest single of NZ duo Georgia and Caleb Nott. Watch the official video here, which was inspired by real-life music talk…
Exploring the Jurassic Park-Like Whanganui River
“Water is an oft-used metaphor for virtually everything: time, sex, death. But to New Zealanders it’s much more elemental – a connection forged when the first Polynesian migrants arrived…
Kai’s Chef Jessica Murphy Makes Bottura Book
In a recent New Zealand Listener article, Lauraine Jacobs writes about world famous chef Massimo Bottura and his new cookbook, Bread is Gold: Extraordinary Meals with Ordinary Ingredients, which…
Superorganism Adapts to Remixes and Popularity
The press has embraced Superorganism not just for its cuddly psychedelia, but also for its story – eight members, including a fresh-out-of-high-school Japanese-American lead singer, who have come together…
Seek Out Auckland’s Top Shopping Destinations
“New Zealand’s biggest city is booming, and so are its designer fashion and beauty boutiques – some of them destinations in themselves,” according to South China Morning Post correspondent…
NZ Fashion Week Showcases Established & Emerging Designers
“New Zealand Fashion Week has come to a close and the event, which ran from August 27 to September 2, offered a showcase of both established and emerging…
Rising Star Robinson Hits Huge Streaming Figures
Young New Zealand singer-songwriter who goes by just her surname, Robinson, has had a lot to get excited about recently, NME reports. Her latest tune “Nothing to Regret” has…
Air NZ – The Story of the Sketch
Find out what’s behind “The Story of the Sketch” – a video Air NZ published for #FeelGoodFriday. The airline recently was named Leading Airline…
Artist Tom White Collaborates With AI
Tom White, artist and computational design lecturer at Victoria University’s School of Design, is taking part in a group exhibition in Dehli, India, which features works created entirely by…
Air New Zealand Australasia’s Leading Airline
Air New Zealand has been named the Leading Airline in Australasia for the 10th consecutive year at the 25th annual World Travel Awards for the…
Gibbs Sculpture Park #1 Guardian Favourite
“We didn’t think anything manmade could compete with the grandeur of New Zealand’s natural beauty. Then we went to Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park, near Auckland,”…
Heather Morris on the Books That Have Inspired Her
At first, New-Zealand-born Heather Morris hadn’t intended on writing a novel.
When Morris first struck up a friendship with an elderly man named Ludwig Sokolov, she had imagined his incredible…
EDGE #330: Sam Neill on Capt. Cook, Healing Powers of Manuka Honey, Miranda Harcourt + Guardian, Indie Outlook, The Washington Post, Wallpaper
Appreciating the Life and Music of Brent Parker
“Brent Parker, who died aged 84 , was a New Zealand-born composer-pianist and lecturer in pianoforte at the DIT Conservatory of Music whose music was played…
How to Dad – How to Do Ballet
Watch How to Dad’s latest “How to” video in which he shows “How to do Ballet” with his two daughters. How to Dad Jordan…
NZ Awards First-Ever Medical Cannabis Growing License
With the rise to power of a progressive government coalition of Greens and the Labour Party, cannabis policy is beginning to change in New Zealand, Adam Drury writes for…
Fiordland Penguins Make Mammoth Migrations
Every December, the Fiordland crested penguins, Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, which live on the South Island, disappear, Jason Daley reports for the Smithsonian journal. A new satellite study shows the penguins…
New Zealand Debuts World’s First Digital Teacher
Primary school students in New Zealand will soon be the first in the world to learn from an artificially intelligent (AI) digital avatar.
Auckland energy company…
Sabah-Based Wendy Hutton a Prolific Travel Writer
Renowned food and travel writer, New Zealand-born Wendy Hutton, who lived in Malaysia, has died, aged 77.
Hutton first set foot in Southeast Asia in 1967, and had worked in…
New Zealand Artists on Show in London
As a season of summer blockbuster exhibitions come to a close in London, autumn is hot on its heels in September, with a range of shows opening in the…
The Changeover Trailer
The Changeover, an adaptation of Margaret Mahy’s novel of the same name, follows teenager Laura (Erana James) who tries to rescue her young brother from a supernatural…
The Best NZ–Made Beauty Products
“This weekend, Georgia Cherrie and Paris Mitchell Temple, the designers behind the three-year-old Auckland-based label Paris Georgia, rang in New Zealand Fashion Week with a…
Adapting Ruth Park’s Novels for the Stage
New Zealand-born author Ruth Park’s novel, The Harp in the South caused an uproar in 1948 for its portrayal of working-class life. Now, the Sydney Theatre Company has turned…
Comic Thom Monckton Embodies Art of Laughter
“Thom Monckton has demonstrated what an outstanding physical comedian he is during several previous Fringe visits. In The Pianist he used his gangling frame and rubbery face to puncture…
Neil Finn and Son Liam Get Dreamy on Lightsleeper
“Lightsleeper is the result of another crowded house at the Finn residence. The album principals, father Neil and son Liam, get the rest of the family involved – mother…
Dreaming of Miles Humphreys-Designed Cempedak
New Zealand-born Bali-based architect Miles Humphreys’ 20-villa resort on the private Indonesian island of Cempedak, is one of 10 hotels Wallpaper magazine editors list as having them “longing for…
Connan Mockasin Announces LP and Film Project
“It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from he has emerged with no small amount of ambitious projects,” Rob Hakimian writes…
Model Stella Maxwell Designs Bag for The Kooples
“Throughout the years I’ve been working as a model, I’ve gathered lots of information on the process of creating fashion without even trying,” New Zealander Stella Maxwell, 28, tells…
Georgia Pratt Figures in Modelling World
“For a long time, Ashley Graham’s name was about the only one that would pop to mind when thinking of a famous plus-size model. But as diversity becomes an…
How to Breakfast like an Antipodean
New Zealand and Australian cooks are creating sunny, generous and unexpected takes on a classic meal, inspiring food-lovers far and wide. The Guardian’s Mina Holland investigates what makes a…
