Category: Arts & Culture
Canadian indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara have announced that they are returning to our shores, playing only one show at Auckland’s Bruce Mason Centre on Saturday 11 March 2017. Continuing their Love You To Death tour in support of their eighth studio album, the show marks the first true chance for Kiwi fans enjoy a […]
Benjamin Law, who created hit Australian TV sitcom The Family Law, is coming to Auckland to take part in LGBT+ writers’ festival Same Same But Different. The TV show is now producing its second series, and is based on Law’s book of the same name, which tells the story of a dysfunctional Chinese-Australian family on […]
Originally hailing from Auckland, openly gay artist WCB (aka Will Cooper Barling) is a singer-songwriter and producer, now based in Sydney. WCB unites sparse, ariose production with his melodic vocal style to bring old school R&B into the modern day. His music is an atmospheric soundscape, a storyline into which you can escape, and is […]
Image: Instagram LarzRanda, or Mainard Larkin, if you really wanted to use proper names (since when have we called rappers by the actual names?) is not your average rapper: he doesn’t rap about hos, nor does he go on and on about all the bling, or life in the ghetto; sure, he does sometimes draw […]
Things get steamy and heated and then all of a sudden, very, very dark in The Veronicas’ latest music video for their single, ‘On Your Side’. Written and directed by Ruby Rose, of Orange is the New Black fame, it montages two women’s relationship – from the initial meet-cute through courtship and the drug overdose at […]
I ventured out to see Twin City Productions and director Ania Upstill’s newest effort, a modern adaptation of John Lyly’s 1588 play, Gallathea, in Wellington last Friday night with the expectation of the queerest-ass night out I’d had since I last went out with a pack of drag queens to a New York City gay […]
The Legacy Project is a theatre development programme geared specifically towards LGBT+ writers and works. For Legacy Project 4, six brand-new rainbow works are going to be performed in a week-long season as part of Auckland Pride 2017. This is where you come in: obviously, plays need actors, so Legacy Project is holding an open […]
I didn’t want to write a review for Riding in Cars with (Mostly Straight) Boys mainly because I’d already done an interview with two of the three people involved. But the thing is, after going to their premiere performance on Monday night, I can’t help but feel that I need to share the heart-wrenchingly cuteness […]