Day: April 8, 2016

Oh my Gorgonzola! It was great to see so many of our favourites pick up awards at the 2016 New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards last month. For the first time in five years a blue cheese took out the supreme award (Puhoi Valley Kawau Blue). Some of our favourite artisans like Mercer Cheese, Aroha […]

Debra Heather takes a look at Auckland Theatre Company’s production of Roger Hall’s You Can Always Hand Them Back. Roger Hall, one of New Zealand’s most adored playwrights, returns with British musical legend Peter Skellern (Love is the Sweetest Thing) to celebrate  forty years of smash-hit success with a light-hearted journey through all of the […]

Resident rainbow councillor Elijah Luke Michel gives his take on healthy communication, and how to avoid arguments with people whose opinions are different to our own. Every human on the planet is born unique – even identical twins have their own fingerprints – so how do we learn to relate with those who have differing […]

Notable queer comedienne Ellen Degeneres has slammed Mississippi’s Religious Freedom Bill, calling it “the definition of discrimination.” She says that “this is not politics, this is human rights”, citing that the Religious Freedom Bill stands against the Supreme Court ruling that allowed same sex couples to marry. Degeneres’ speech was littered with comedy but the power […]

The Wellington Binder Exchange will be launched this Wednesday 13 April in support of Transgender youth in Wellington, New Zealand. The Exchange aims to provide binders to youth who would otherwise have no access to the products, filling “a service gap for transmasculine youth in Wellington.” Binders are chest compression vests designed to compress breasts and create […]