Crying like a girl
My friend has been struck by an insanity induced by the presence of children. She cries when she sees toddlers hugging their parents, oblivious to the fact that the parent […]
Old men on motorcycles
Why the hell would a man in his mid-40s suddenly up and buy a Ducati? This is what a lot of people asked me when I up and did it. […]
Capital Questions with Damianos George
FishHead sat down with Damianos (known to the world as ‘Dee’) George in the glamorous Black Sparrow bar of Wellington’s famous Embassy picture theatre. Dee has been the manager of […]
Getting over the whoopsie
At age 60, when most people are contemplating retirement, Mark Peck flung himself back into the arena of conflict that we call politics. The decision to run for Wellington City […]
Cold Climate
Al Barry has been the conscience of New Zealand documentary-making for over 40 years. In 1973, he sailed to Mururoa with his camera to record the protests over French nuclear […]
The Biggest OE
I shouldn’t have to tell you that this year marks the centennial of the start of the First World War. The well-recorded and tragic involvement of many men from New […]
What might have been
Seattle is the home of Amazon, Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson, and the Science Fiction Museum, among other bywords in speculative writing. So it came as some surprise, as I […]
July Music Review
Shunkan Honey, Milk and Blood (Art is Hard Records) As Shunkan, 20-year-old singer, multi-instrumentalist and DIY record producer Marina Sakimoto creates bedsit indie-pop songs, which while drenched in an emotional register […]
In case you haven’t noticed, contemporary New Zealand jewellery is sensational. I don’t mean Michael Hill’s diamond rings; I mean jewellery made by contemporary jewellers. And right now, contemporary jewellery […]
Restoring Balance
If you’re experiencing a midwinter (or long-term) break-out, pigmentation problem or other skin woe, and have tried everything but failed to find a solution that works, then make Thorndon’s Skin […]
