Category: Arts & Culture
Organisers of the Auckland Rainbow Parade are calling on volunteers to make art to support the annual Parade set to take place on the 18th of February 2023 on Ponsonby Road, Auckland. If you feel like you missed your calling and have an artist inside just busting to get out – this could be your […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under is back, and Season 2 wouldn’t be the same without Ru’s best Judge Judy, Michelle Visage. She talks to Oliver Hall about what ‘down under’ drag can teach the US, Drag Kings competing and moving to New Zealand. Michelle Visage is sitting in the makeup chair getting her hair done, […]
Living sculptures and ‘photomontagers’ Gilbert & George have been turning the art world on its head since the sixties with their provocative and thought-provoking works. They talk to Oliver Hall about life’s contradictions, never arguing and ‘extraordinary’ spunk. At the respective ages of 78 (Gilbert) and 80 (George), the pair travelled to New Zealand for […]
It had been over six years since Beyoncé dropped her last solo studio album, Lemonade, so fans were thirsty when Queen B finally dropped Act 1 of her new album Renaissance last Friday. Renaissance is Beyoncé’s first Disco and House-inspired album, dedicated to the memory of her late cousin, ‘Uncle Jonny.’ The album includes a […]
Hailing from all over New Zealand and Australia, 10 queens handpicked by RuPaul herself will compete in Season 2 of Drag Race Down Under. Ahead of the premiere on TVNZ+ on Saturday 30 July, we meet our queens! Does Camden’s Pomara Fifth have what it takes? Where did you grow up and how was growing up […]
Hailing from all over New Zealand and Australia, 10 queens handpicked by RuPaul herself will compete in Season 2 of Drag Race Down Under. Ahead of the premiere on TVNZ+ on Saturday 30 July, we meet our queens! With experience performing all over Australia and Canada, can Newcastle queen Molly Poppinz win it all? When did […]
Queer As Folk returns! Oliver Hall chats with cast members Ryan O’Connell, Fin Argus, Devin Way and Johnny Sibilly, about steamy scenes, surviving trauma and seafood sex! I remember Queer As Folk (QAF) debuting in 1999 like it was yesterday. I was 16, had come out to just a few of my closest friends and […]
Coming out will drive you crazy in Rialto Channel’s chilling lesbian thriller Make Up which premieres at 8.30pm on Friday 15 July! Ever feel like you’re being watched? That’s the feeling Writer & Director Claire Oakley weaves throughout Make Up – a remarkable, eerie and unsettling directorial debut that can be found at the halfway […]