Day: January 31, 2018

The Mercury Bay Art Escape is back again this year, held on the gorgeous Coromandel Peninsula, we chat to artist Chris Charteris who has been involved since the very beginning. Chris’ work is influenced by Māori and Pacific traditional carving, with a career spanning decades, in the mid 1980’s he was working at Te Rarawa […]

A study suggests the test could be 100 per cent accurate. Article by Jess Jones, StarObserver.com.au Scientists in the US are working on a new spit test to detect HIV, which could be better and faster than current tests. The test, being developed at Stanford University, can detect the virus as soon as two weeks […]

Oliver Hall visits Auckland’s Laneway Festival. It’s no wonder the Big Day Out’s resurrection crumbled quickly after the Laneway festival was formed. Sure the festivals catered to different tastes, but Laneway set the bar in what a festival could offer from a line up that presented female artists as something more than a token gesture, […]