Film & TV | NZIFF
18 May 2015
The first five titles of the New Zealand International Film Festival Line-up have been released, which include “a whole raft” of “films emerging from Sundance”.
Umrika, written and directed by Prashant Nair won…
Business | New York Times (The)
11 May 2015
Auckland’s beaches, clean air and environmentally friendly image are clear selling points for foreign property investors.
There is no stamp duty or capital gains tax in New Zealand, which makes the country’s property market a…
Sport | FIFA | FIFA.com
10 May 2015
“A plan to utilise the FIFA U-20 World Cup as a platform to boost grassroots football in New Zealand is taking shape”, according to Fifa.com.
Following Auckland and Christchurch courses, football festivals to…
General | Australian Aviation
3 May 2015
Air New Zealand, turns back the clock to the 1940s and is taking passengers back to where it all began to celebrate their 75 years of flying.
“Air New Zealand’s first flight (on…
Arts
1 May 2015
Watch this beautiful timelapse of Auckland, New Zealand by Raiatea Arcuri. Locations that were photographed were the Viaduct Harbour, the Sky Tower, Mount Victoria and Mount Eden.
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…
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…
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…
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…
X Files
15 April 2015
Dîner en Blanc originally launched with just a handful of friends by François Pasquier over 25 years ago in Paris. Now it is celebrated all over the world including…
Film & TV | Comic Book Resources
8 April 2015
Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson has officially signed on with Disney to play the male lead in their newest film Moana.
The actor will lend his voice to Maui, the lead male protagonist in the upcoming…
New Zealand | Travel Daily News Asia
5 April 2015
Tourism New Zealand will showcase New Zealand at the Singapore Yacht show, held at Sentosa Cove from 23-26 April, to highlight the country as a premium destination for superyachts.
The show is Asia-Pacific’s leading superyacht…
Adrenalin | Red Bull
31 January 2015
For a trails rider, an appealing aspect of New Zealand is the PMP trails, located not far from the bustling metropolis of Auckland. This sculpted greatness is a dramatic clay theme park…
Writers | Age (The) | Graeme Simsion
29 January 2015
Auckland-born author Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist are Australia’s hottest literary couple, according to the Age, spurring on each other to keep the words – and surprises – coming.
Buist is showing signs of nerves…
Architecture | New York Times (The)
27 January 2015
A bach on the beach has long been the embodiment of the New Zealand dream, with the traditional version often a modest structure haphazardly pieced together with corrugated iron and reused timber.
Lance and Nicola…
Science/Tech | 3DPrint.com
24 January 2015
Aucklander Oana Croitoru, aka “Oana Jones”, has won first prize in the MakerBot Ghostly Vinyl Challenge for her hand-cranked record player featuring a 3D printed 15 cm-cube turntable.
Croitoru is a tutor at Auckland’s Animation…
Music | Huffington Post (The)
22 January 2015
Lorde may be the greatest New Zealand musical export of 2013, but back home, she’s got competition. The members of the improbably popular operatic trio Sol3 Mio, buck all the current trends in the…
General
11 January 2015
Originally from Auckland, Christina Tuataga, business data analyst at Fidelity Investments in Galway, explains why she chose Ireland as a place to live and work, and how snow still amazes her even after 10…
Design | Stuff.co.nz
31 December 2014
A working vinyl record player made with a 3D printer has gained Auckland animation tutor Oana Jones worldwide attention.
Jones created the player for a competition run by American independent record label Ghostly International…
Visual Arts | Yareah Magazine
28 December 2014
Ahead of Billy Apple’s 2015 retrospective exhibition Billy Apple®: The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else at Auckland Art Gallery, arts publication Yareah Magazine looks back at the life of New Zealand’s most…
Sport General | Fox News
22 December 2014
“It’s incredible,” reports FOX Football. “They’re a bunch of semi pros yet Auckland City have claimed third place at the FIFA Club World Cup, defeating Mexican side Cruz Azul 4-2 in a penalty…
Visual Arts | Art Magazin
2 December 2014
For the first time, Berlin’s Nationalgalerie, in association with Auckland Art Gallery, presents the Maori portraits of Bohemian artist Gottfried Lindauer, whose works are all but unknown outside of New Zealand.
The paintings…
Music | New York Observer (The)
26 November 2014
How does a teenager from Devonport, Auckland get plucked from relative obscurity to become a worldwide chart-topping phenomenon? Once-in-a-generation talent helps, but those gifts need to be paired with music execs who have the…
Business | Campaign Live
10 November 2014
Mark D’Arcy, New Zealand born VP and chief creative officer of Facebook Creative Shop, was interviewed by Campaign about the ways new technology has aligned creativity and business.
“We grew up with linear forms of…
New Zealand | Australian (The)
6 October 2014
Local television personality and author, celebrity chef Annabel Langbein reveals her favourite things to do in Auckland, including walks along the city’s windswept west coast beaches and browsing shops in the back streets of…
Science/Tech | LA Times | Los Angeles Times | Stuff.co.nz
3 October 2014
An ancient canoe with a sea turtle carving has survived 600 years in the South Island, creating a scientific stir around the world.
A study of the waka by University of Auckland researchers appeared yesterday…
New Zealand | Herald Sun | Lonely Planet
11 September 2014
In an extract from Lonely Planet New Zealand, Charles Rawlings-Way describes the country’s top eight must-see port destinations.
“Paris may be the city of love, but Auckland is the city of many lovers, according to…
New Zealand | CNN | Conde Nast Traveler | Independent (The)
19 August 2014
It’s great to be a tourist down under, with travellers naming New Zealand and Australia among the best vacation destinations – the cities of Auckland and Melbourne are the friendliest in the world.
Kiwis and…
Nature | Guardian (The) | space.com
12 August 2014
New Zealand was the first country in the world to see the dramatic supermoon.
On Sunday, the full moon reached the point in its orbit that is closest to the Earth, known as perigee.
The Guardian…
X Files
5 August 2014
One farmer in Kansas has an unusual way of calling in the cattle, he plays Lorde’s hit song Royals on the trombone. In the video the cattle can be…
Film & TV | Huffington Post (The)
3 August 2014
Former Xena: Warrior Princess Lucy Lawless, 46, will join the cast of American television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D in an unspecified role later this year.
According to TV Line, the show is looking to fill…
Design | New Zealand Herald (The) | Viva Magazine
3 August 2014
Formerly of Auckland, designer Virginia Star Busmann is the owner of Forestry at Home, a Netherlands-based woollen blanket producer, which sells plaid throws woven at a mill in Lithuania but made from…
Watersports | Whitsunday Times
2 August 2014
Janine and Anthony Robinson will be racing their Elliott 12 Bullrush in the Performance Division at this year’s Vision Surveys 25th Airlie Beach Race Week on in the Whitsundays, Queensland from 8-15…
Science/Tech | International Business Times
30 July 2014
New Zealand is bracing to get a big slice of the global satellite launch market with its unique space programme getting ready to blast off by 2015.
Peter Beck, founder and CEO of private initiative…
Sport General | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
28 July 2014
New Zealand has started its 2014 Commonwealth Games campaign with a bang winning three gold medals at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow.
Aucklander Sam Webster (pictured, centre), 23, sprinted his way to New…
Taste | Wall Street Journal (The)
25 July 2014
“The Musket Room serves New Zealand cuisine with an impeccable presentation, adding a bit of whimsy with touches, such as edible flowers. And it is shaking things up with a revamped cocktail menu”…
Film & TV | New Zealand Herald (The) | ScreenCrush | USA Today
25 July 2014
Comic-Con begins in San Diego today, with the New Zealand representatives ranging from Peter Jackson and the Hobbit producers to a small movie made by an Auckland animation school.
The Hobbit will be a major…
Sport General | Fox Sports | Golf | Seattle Times
23 July 2014
At just 17 years old, Lydia Ko is the youngest millionaire on the LPGA Tour, ever.
The New Zealander won the Marathon Classic in Ohio to become the youngest player to surpass $1 million in…
Business | Sports Illustrated | Sydney Morning Herald (The) | Tripadvisor
22 July 2014
Within the airline industry, Air New Zealand has plenty of admirers, and is now the most profitable in Australasia with expectations of a full-year pre-tax profit of at least $300 million in August, which…
Theatre | Telegraph (The)
21 July 2014
Rhys Darby in character as park ranger Bill Napier and Mr Adventure live in Bristol, proves “oddly, surprisingly coherent and consistently funny,” according to Telegraph reviewer Dominic Cavendish, who awards the comedian four out…
Taste | Londonist | Marie Claire
21 July 2014
Growing up in Auckland, co-founder of London’s Meringue Girls Stacey O’Gorman, says from a young age she has always had a passion for food. O’Gorman met Meringue Girls co-founder Alex Hoffler while…
Music | Philadelphia Enquirer
20 July 2014
Auckland-raised award-winning composer Rosie Langabeer, 34, has been working on the music for Philadelphia dance company BalletX’s production, Sunset, o639 Hours, which was inspired by the true story of Pan Am’s Captain Edwin Musick,…
Golf | Oregon Live
19 July 2014
Aucklander James Beale has won the 113th Pacific Northwest Men’s Amateur Championship in Washington on the 38th hole, defeating American Cole Madey.
Beale, who last week finished fourth in the Sahalee Players Championship, capped off…
Visual Arts | Limerick Leader
19 July 2014
Auckland street artist Elliot O’Donnell, better known as Askew One, the tag he adopted at age 14, is participating in an innovative urban art project, which is using the city of Limerick’s…
Film & TV | Los Angeles Times
18 July 2014
New Zealand-made television series The Almighty Johnsons, which made its American network premiere this month, is reviewed in the Los Angeles Times and stands out according to Robert Lloyd, for its scenery, its 100…
Writers | GalleyCat
17 July 2014
Booktrack, the New Zealand-based eBook soundtrack company, has partnered with best-selling author Hugh Howey and digital writing community Wattpad to launch a competition that will reward creativity in words and music with up to…
General | Buzzfeed
17 July 2014
BuzzFeed has compiled a list of how great two of the nicest countries in the world would be if they were put together.
The joined nation of New Zealand and Canada, dubbed New Zanada, has…
Fashion | Style.com
15 July 2014
Maternity wear just got a whole lot chicer – and more expensive – thanks to Auckland-raised model Ashleigh Good who closed the Chanel Haute Couture show in Paris during what appears to be her…
Media | Wired
14 July 2014
For the last month, 34-year-old former Aucklander Morgan Marquis-Boire has been the director of security for startup First Look Media, a website that has become the most prolific publisher of NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s…
Taste | New Zealand Herald (The)
14 July 2014
Former Aucklander Marco Kerkmeester, owner of Sao Pãulo-based coffee chain Santo Grão, currently employs more than 200 people across seven stores, and he has grand plans for up to 40 more cafés…
Media | Clash Magazine
13 July 2014
Broadcaster Zane Lowe, the voice of the BBC’s popular Radio 1 show, is trying his hand at television with a new show coming to MTV Music, which – despite its mouthful of a title,…
Architecture | Surface
10 July 2014
New Zealand-born Mark Wigley has stepped down after 10 years as dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. Under his leadership, the school has built on its…
Music | Guardian (The) | Observer (The)
10 July 2014
Electro-pop duo Broods, comprised of brother and sister Georgia and Caleb Nott, have helped draw the eyes of the music industry to a country that had only rarely troubled the international charts, Laura Barnett…
Fashion | New Zealand Herald (The)
9 July 2014
Founders of menswear label I Love Ugly have reluctantly stepped into the spotlight as they prepare to go global.
The New Zealand entrepreneurs are about to open their first international store in LA on…
Architecture | Monocle
9 July 2014
“Creative enterprises and unique collaborations are flourishing in Auckland thanks to the dramatic renovation of a collection of 1960s city council workshops,” Monocle reports.
“Until two years ago, the City Works Depot was a near-derelict…
Music | Telegraph (The)
8 July 2014
Grammy winner 17-year-old Lorde, who has urged people to believe that teenagers are wiser than adults think, has made the Telegraph’s Radhika Sanghani pine for the passion of her younger self.
“Defender of teens