Category: Arts & Culture

Feb 08
‘Please Like Me’ Cancelled

Creator Josh Thomas tweeted last week that his hit TV series, Please Like Me, was ending. Originally airing on ABC2 in Australia before being picked up by Pivot, and then Hulu, in the USA, Please Like Me has gained a worldwide following. Hey I have news. We have decided Season 4 #PleaseLikeMe is the last. I’ve loved […]

Feb 07
Trapped in a Supermarket

With all the excitement surrounding the Auckland Fringe Festival, we found ourselves talking to creator and theatre mastermind Ben Anderson as we picked his brains about his upcoming show The Last Man on Earth is Trapped in a Supermarket. Inspired by having shown up to his supermarket job one day and being the only one […]

Feb 05
A Darker Pride

An important, but much darker, aspect of our Rainbow world is reflected in a new body of work by queer photographer and designer Sean Coyle. Cruising Wonderland opens at the Pah Homestead on 14 February and contains 12 pieces, including four dioramas, which form the dialogue of the exhibition, and seek to remind viewers of […]

Feb 04
Auckland Arts Festival Highlights

Bringing 19 days of the world’s best theatre, dance, music and circus to the city. From epic drama to circus comedy, from urban art to Opera and from contemporary Pasifika dance to seductive tango, the festival shines a spotlight on the wonderful world of arts. La Soirée In a show that can only be referred […]

Feb 04
Tegan and Sara Want to Love You to Death

Canadian indie-pop duo and LGBT+ advocates Tegan and Sara are set to return to our shores for the first time in seven years, continuing their tour in support of their eighth studio album, Love You To Death, released back in June. This will be the first chance for Kiwi fans to enjoy a full set […]

Feb 04
How Parson James Stole the Show

Ahead of his debut performance at Big Gay Out, gospel pop singer Parson James, real name Ashton Parson, is a man wiser than his years. Talking from his New York apartment, sitting beside sleeping dogs Dolly Parson and Presley, James was on a vocal hiatus due to a vocal cord hemorrhage, but was able to […]

Feb 03
Antique Furnishings Opens It Doors

 Kicking this year off with a bang, newly established Antique Furnishings offers a wide variety of interesting and high-end furnishings sourced from the likes of Portugal, Spain and Southern France, as well as little old New Zealand. For those who want to celebrate the past, the business boasts items as far back as the 1800s […]

Feb 02
Gay Drama Shines

Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight is a thing of devastating beauty. Part coming of age story, part coming to terms with a jeered at sexual orientation and part a soliloquy into the deeper ravages of one man’s unbreakable spirit, the movie pins hope to heartbreak. Based on three defining chapters in the life of an African American […]