Saddlebacks: back in the saddle
You could say it’s just a tree stump; or you could say that it’s a hallowed place, a spot where something truly special occurred. For in this stump, on a […]
You could say it’s just a tree stump; or you could say that it’s a hallowed place, a spot where something truly special occurred. For in this stump, on a […]
If my calculations are correct, the New Zealand International Comedy Festival should be going on as you read these very words. The comedy festival is, like so many events on the […]
I suppose every month of cinema releases can boast being ‘something for everyone’, but this month it really does appear to be justified. First up, on Sunday 3 May, is […]
The first quarter of 2015 was a mixed bag for local readers and booksellers. Quilters’ Dewey-defying treasure-tables displayed at last their naked surfaces, while the thrumming hive of ephemera […]
Trinity Roots Citizen (Self-released) When beloved Wellington group Trinity Roots rallied themselves for a series of reunion concerts in 2010, it became clear that the public weren’t that keen to let […]
Collage seems a useful metaphor for contemporary life in the digital age. A collage disrupts accepted meanings by taking found images clipped from their original context, then mixing them up and […]
Jeremy Commons used to put on drawing-room operas. He doesn’t now, but for 14 years he ensured that these intimate dramas were regularly re-enacted, for a small audience of the […]
Ever since I took over this column in early 2012, I feel like everything I have written has come with the subtext of coming change. Much as we love it, […]
Vera Brittain’s memoir Testament of Youth is a heart-rending lesson about the First World War and its effects. As you read, gobsmacked by the forces that swoop in and pluck […]
The past, we’re often reminded, is another country. It’s still inaccessible to even the worldliest of 21st-century travellers; good luck working out the status of forces agreement necessary to traverse […]