Day: March 18, 2015

Following years of intense debate, America’s largest Presbyterian denomination has announced a change to its constitution that allows for a more inclusive definition of marriage. The Huffington Post reports that the US Presbyterian Church has just reached the majority it needed to approve a change in it’s constitution to include GLBT inclusive marriage. About 71 […]

Auckland Council’s Community Development and Safety Committee has voted 7 – 2 to allow the creation of a rainbow advisory board to proceed.  In an impassioned plea to colleagues before the vote, chairperson Cathy Casey talked of the challenges Auckland’s GLBT community still faced and expressed her view that the advisory board was long overdue saying […]

The TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre has welcomed the 500,000th visitor through the doors of the beautiful Pah Homestead since opening to the public less than five years ago. The Wallace Arts Trust have been tracking visitor numbers since the Arts Centre opened in August 2010 and one lucky visitor marked this milestone on Saturday […]

We’ve had a lot of fun getting to know the community comedians who’ll be splitting some sides at the up and coming International Comedy Festival. In the final of the series chat with sexy bear Neil Thornton, and naturally we enquire how he would cope with the now legendary second anus! What’s the funniest line […]

David Walliams and Alan Cumming are both on the list of international guests at this year’s writers festival.  Now in its 15th year, the Auckland Writers Festival plays host to more than 150 writers over five days of ideas, readings, debates, stand-up poetry, literary theatre, children’s writers and free family events. The Festival saw a […]