Winning the turf war

Winning the turf war

Earli­er this year, my 14-year-old son com­pleted his second suc­cess­ive sea­son of col­lege foot­ball with no matches can­celled. His older broth­er, five years his seni­or, would fre­quently have sea­sons with […]

Travel: Away from it all

Travel: Away from it all

Every­where I went in Marl­bor­ough, people said they were wait­ing for sum­mer to really begin. I said, “What do you mean?” It was sunny, it was still, it was hot. […]

Secrets and ties

Secrets and ties

On the wall behind me, a long-hid­den secret is being brought into the light. The secret is a tiled mur­al of Māui fish­ing up the North Island, and it was […]

November highlights

November highlights

INTERSTELLAR (Chris­toph­er Nolan) Opens 6 Novem­ber: The latest in Nolan’s non-Dark Knight, ‘I’ films (Insom­nia and Incep­tion count towards the super­sti­tion), this one is a full-blown sci-fi adven­ture with a […]

Surviving the sophomore slump

Surviving the sophomore slump

Elec­tric Wire Hustle Love Can Pre­vail  (Okayplayer/Somethinksounds)    With their self-titled 2009 debut, Wel­ling­ton trio Elec­tric Wire Hustle paid homage to the rich tra­di­tions of Afric­an-Amer­­ic­an soul, jazz, hip-hop and […]

Give a man a fish

Give a man a fish

                          Awa Press has spent 2014 col­lect­ing hon­ours for Rebecca Macfie’s essen­tial Tragedy at Pike River Mine: a […]

At the Māori Art Market

At the Māori Art Market

Art mar­kets and art fairs have been part of the inter­na­tion­al land­scape of con­tem­por­ary art for about 30 years. In Aotearoa they are a rel­at­ively new phe­nomen­on — the Auckland […]

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