Category: Arts & Culture
Changing the atmosphere of Auckland busiest street is no easy feat, but the AAF is giving Queen Street the feel of cultural hub. Express looks over its favourite shows so far, focusing on crown jewel Cedar Lake. Auckland Art Festival has taken over Aotea Square and it’s surrounding venues with a culture filled buss like […]
Steve Danby of Melrose, Wellington takes the runner up prize with Aisle Altar Hymn at the express Short Fiction Writing Contest – awarded at Alternative Binding’s Review Revue event at this year’s Auckland Pride. Steve said: “…as former editor of the long-defunct Pink Triangle magazine, I’d like to really congratulate express for SURVIVING. I’d like to acknowledge […]
The 2015 express Short Fiction Writing Contest received a record number of entries. The judging panel that consisted of award winning writers: Peter Wells, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Julie Helean and last year’s winner Gina Cole shortlisted seven entries for the prize. Second place went to Steve Danby for his fabulously witty and bitchy story of lust […]
Well you guys begged for it, so we found you one more shot from Andy Russell’s shoot with Richard Skins. The has every reason to me looking this good, thanks to all the skin and hair care products he works with on a daily basis. We decided to have a rummage through his bathroom cabinet […]
From Groupe F’s explosive return to Limbo’s fire-breathing theatrics, the express office was too torn to give you our picks from the Auckland Arts Festival because we would have listed everything! Instead we grabbed creative cutie Luke Alexander Wilson to give his thoughts on not to be missed shows: 1. The Book of Everything – […]
When he’s not working on the Auckland Arts Festival Tama Waipara is winning awards for his music. express caught up with the Kiwi icon to discuss: soul divas, perfect dates and being Maori in the music industry. As we settle with a coffee at Auckland Live’s XOX bar, express immediately asks the Auckland Art’s Festival’s […]
Madonna is back, and like, really back this time – not MDNA back and certainly not Sticky & Sweet back (thank God!) but genuinely ‘Rebel Heart is an awesome album back!’ Internationally the media are raving: the UK’s best selling tabloid The Sun called it, “her best album in 17 years and one of the […]
Pedro Almodovar is something of a name in both world and queer cinema. With that name we’ve come to expect several things, candy-coloured art direction for starters, convoluted characters skirting existential crises, beautiful and empowered female characters (often embittered by slights from sinister men in suits), and sex. Lots of sex. I’m So Excited is […]