Blindsiding
FKA Twigs LP1 (Young Turks) Young Jamaican-English-Spanish singer-songwriter and dancer FKA Twigs (real name: Tahliah Debrett Barnett) has been compelling listeners and viewers across the globe since 2013, when her […]
Snaking and standing strong
Fables were once told to Wellington schoolchildren about a mythic city of hubristic civic bunglers in towers of glass. Our story bent these towers by seismic assault: fractured them into […]
Bella
The parade of film festivals goes on, continuing to bring Wellington film fans a selection of the hundreds of films made and released all over the world every year. The […]
Of pagan gods, backyard cricket and invented traditions
“It is,” says Kelvin Aris, “a serious business, being funny.” Which is to say, the more seriously you frame something, the more opportunities there are to be silly. Kelvin and co-conspirator […]
To have and to hold
“With the arrival of the digital revolution, we saw things go through a fairly quick cycle where people went from having everything on a screen to actually wanting to have […]
A legacy on the land
The last decade has seen a plethora of group housing firms rise up, with kit-set designs reflected in the landscape of new property developments. But for one local entrepreneur, the […]