Category: Arts & Culture
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 […]
Auckland Music Theatre put on a stunning performance of Bare that is worth checking out. Intense would be a suitable word to sum up AMT’s production of Bare. Bare is a show about a group of high school students at a Catholic boarding school who dealing with issues of identity and sex. The show very […]
What a pleasure this cutting-edge comedy hour was! Freya Demarais kept a largely full Basement audience for Live Orgy in chuckles and outright laughs as she fearlessly delved into topics ranging from feminism to the Green Party to sex. Kate Sheppard “what a good bitch” began the laughs, which carried on to Helen Clarke “our […]