Category: Lifestyle
Tim Owen travels by camel to Wadi Rum, Jordan. After a few days in Aqaba, Jordan, we drove to Wadi Rum for our Bedouin excursion. We were met on the outskirts of town and directed to the tourist parking by one of the guides. And by outskirts I mean the first building we came to, […]
Alexia Santamaria is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz, the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. Melbourne is undoubtedly one of the best cities in the southern hemisphere for dining. You can get everything from fabulous cheap Bahn Mi sandwiches from a hole in the wall to four-hour degustations in gorgeous high end settings. […]
Guest editor Tim Owen visits Mumbo Island on Lake Malawi… and comes back a changed man. It wasn’t until the small wooden jetty on the mainland came into view at the end of the long weekend, that I realised just how deeply Mumbo Island had touched me. I wasn’t so deeply touched by the movie […]
Ever since Ancient Greece ceased to exist, humankind has been searching for the new Gay Capital of the World, and we can say without a second thought that this capital is definitely New York City. However, if it’s your first time there, you really have to get a pen and paper and write everything down […]
A Weekend to Remember in this artistic community. Feeling like a break?!…….need a break, a surprise, a chance to impress and escape for a few days to a little town that has little, but has it all. Never heard of Little River?……. wrong browser, wrong feed. Take a chance, feel that excitement and impress your […]
Tim Owen attends the book launch for Dear Oliver, the latest from New Zealand’s most beloved veteran author, Peter Wells held at the Woman’s Bookshop Ponsonby on 21 March. He previews Dear Oliver. This is a personal story intimately interwoven with the history of colonial New Zealand and the place of the Pakeha in a […]
Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems. Q. My partner of 6 years was born biologically male but has recently come out as Transgender, thus we have been known as a ‘heterosexual’ couple, and now we are lesbian. I love her for who she is, but feminist friends of ours have suddenly […]
The Vanishing Act by Jen Shieff The author Jen Shieff, is gay and lives in Turangi with her partner. She is a former English teacher, AUT lecturer, Govt analyst and owner of a fly-fishing lodge. Jen is now a full-time crime writer. In her second book The Vanishing Act she writes a spicy tale of intrigue […]