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 […]
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 […]
One day last year, when I was poking around the grounds of the big semi-derelict house on the corner of Abel Smith and Willis Street, I noticed a sign that […]
Simon Haxton was once an operator. If you played a pinball machine in Wellington any time up until about 2008, there’s a good chance it was one of his. You […]
“Most of my friends”, says Nicola Young, “are screaming lefties.” This is apropos of the view in some parts that the city’s newest councillor — one who happens to have […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Under our feet, the fish are swimming. Under the Basin Reserve, under Kent and Cambridge terraces, under Vivian and Aro streets, they make their way from the harbour, up stormwater […]
“I like art,” Robert Leonard says, “that plays counterpoint with me.” Partly this is the love of contrasts, of having two melodic lines that play at once, but fit together: […]
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 […]