Category: Arts & Culture
Murder Haus is an artist collective and queer family that works in art, drag, ballroom and fashion spaces. While their talents and creative passions go beyond drag, the impact they have made on Auckland’s scene is undeniable. Oliver Hall meets founding members, Joshiua, Ego and Dirrrty Helen, to find out what fuels their fierceness. Shaking […]
Three new judges have been announced for Canada’s Drag Race following both Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman and Stacey McKenzie stepping down. The new judges replacing Bowyer-Chapman (who was forced to bow out of the show in March) and McKenzie (who unexpectedly left due to “COVID-related challenges”) include stylist Brad Goreski, The Handmaid’s Tale star Amanda Brugel, as well […]
When it was first announced that RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under would be filmed in Auckland it was beyond our wildest dreams that one of the three competing Kiwi queens could take the crown from one of the seven Aussies. But Kita Mean did it! Our winner discusses the cost of drag, Scarlett Adams, Anita […]
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is bringing a winter feast of extraordinary music this July, including three innovative back-to-back concerts in Auckland and Wellington, as part of its Immerse 2021 festival. The festival features the world premiere of Ngā Hihi o Matariki, a unique musical celebration of Matariki. Performances of Igor Stravinsky’s groundbreaking masterpiece The […]
Theatremaker Shane Bosher talks to Oliver Hall about his new award-winning play Everything After which he hopes will become, “a vehicle to have a much bigger conversation about wellbeing, purpose, generation difference and ageing,” in the gay community. When I first met Shane Bosher over 15 years ago, I was already a fan. As Creative […]
It’s a well-known trade secret that RuPaul’s Drag Race films multiple endings where different finalists win the competition so the queens don’t truly know who has won until it’s announced on air. Kita Mean was meant to be flying to Sydney last weekend to watch Drag Race Down Under’s finale with her fellow finalists, followed […]
For the second time acclaimed gay filmmaker Hong Khaou (Lilting), tells an intersectional story of how loss and understanding can lead to hope. Heartthrob Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) stars. Cambodian-born British Director Hong Khaou’s debut feature Lilting was something really special. Cheng Pei-Pie starred as a mother trying to understand her son’s untimely death […]
Spacey is set for a return to acting following accusations in 2017 that he sexually harassed a number of young men – many of whom are now dead. Kevin Spacey is set to make a return to the big screen after a four-year hiatus. Spacey will star as a detective in a new Italian crime […]