Category: Arts & Culture
The New Zealand International Film Festival 2014 has many a treat in store as it makes it’s way around Aotearoa. express top pick | Reaching For The Moon Reaching For The Moon is a love story between two women. Elizabeth, a weak, alcoholic loser, and Lota, a strong winner, provider and do-er. They meet when Elizabeth, a […]
A fresh take on ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ In her ground-breaking new book, Feminine Lost (Weinstein Books), author Jennifer Granger argues that all humans are a balance of masculine and feminine energies, and with the rise of the feminist movement, many women have migrated to their masculine side, with some losing their […]
Matariki is well underway! check out the fun you can have! Original club-kid of cabaret and “Māori Queen of Scots” (THE SCOTSMAN) Mika will use the Matariki Festival to showcase both his award-winning risqué cabaret show, Māori After Dark, and newly formed tribal experience TAKI MĀORI, for a three-week season before they head to Britain to perform at […]
Season 3 of the award winning gay web series, “Where The Bears Are,” will premiere online August 11. It’s “The Golden Girls” meets “Murder, She Wrote” with big, gay, hairy men! Season 3 follows the exploits of three gay bear flatmates living together in LA, as they attempt to solve a string of murders involving […]
NZ Opera’s production of La Traviata opened in Auckland on 19 June to enthusiastic acclaim from a full house at the Aotea Centre. Verdi’s tale of a fragile society girl in Paris who reluctantly accepts love only to be forced to give him up, is possibly the most performed opera in the world and a […]
The 2012 film “Any Day Now” is to get a limited theatrical release in Aotearoa. Set in the 1970’s the story revolves around Marco (Isaac Leyva), a fifteen year old Down-Syndrome boy who is abandoned by his druggie mother, and Drag Queen Rudy (Allan Cumming) and his lover Paul (Garret Dillahunt), who want to keep […]
A Chinese born Canadian author, Kim Fu now lives in Seattle. Her writing is very personal in that it tells of the tremendous efforts immigrants put into passing as natives of their adopted country. In her novel For Today I Am A Boy, the father strives to be Canadian. No Chinese food for his family. […]
Andrew Rumbles unearths a self-published kiwi talent. Author Miriam Saphira’s story is one that inspires. Having worked in prisons she fought for child abuse to be recognised and obliterated from young lives. Her own earliest memory is of abuse of her mother and herself. Her father’s war legacy is a pile of love letters with […]