Category: People

Oct 03
The Topp Blacks

I sit in the café in Kingsland and I think about Eden Park, the icon of the All Blacks about a hundred metres away.  I order myself a lamington, because what’s more fitting than an icon of New Zealand food?  “How are ya buddy?” Lynda says as she comes through the doorway, she puts out […]

Oct 01
Georgie Goater

Georgie is a dancer extraordinaire, body paint/hair model and overall Amazonian goddess! She grew up in Japan, spent her teenage years in Christchurch and then moved to Auckland to study contemporary dance where she co-founded Backlit Productions. In addition, she dances for Touch Compass and cabaret show In Flagrante, and recently modelled for World of […]

Oct 01
Comedian Carlson’s Big Girly Wedding

7 Days’ Star, South African comedian Urzilla Carlson will marry next month. In an interview with the New Zealand Herald’s Michelle Hewitson, Urzila Carlson has revealed she will marry her partner Julie this November. Carlson (48) says she met Julie at a pub watching a rugby game.The two have a 16-month old daughter together. Carlson […]

Sep 28
Neil Patrick Harris Talks Marriage with Rosie O’Donnell

How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris opened up about his wedding last month to long-term partner David Burtka in an interview with Rosie O’Donnell on her chat show The View. “We were not [getting married] to elicit any kind of reaction from anyone. We just have been together over 10 years. I […]

Sep 24
Torch Song Never Smelled as Sweet

Singer-songwriter Perfume Genius brilliant third album Too Bright, co-produced by Portishead’s Adrian Utley, has been heralded by critics and seen him compared to the likes of Rufus Wainwright, PJ Harvey and Nina Simone. His interview with express is as raw and beautiful as his music. With the likes of Sam Smith topping the charts do […]

Sep 22
Meet Your Community: Paul Young

Paul Young is a Dance Lecturer at Unitec.  How did you get into dance? To improve my chances of getting into a Drama School I began training in the inaugural year of Hagley Dance Company in Christchurch under Sheryl Robinson, a well know figure in the queer community. I had no idea what I was […]

Sep 18
Samuel Levi

Local actor/model Samuel Levi moved to Sydney in 2012 for what was meant to be a short modeling contract. One job lead to another and Levi is now the proud new face of Aussie music station Channel V. He recently returned to NZ to keep all his Twitter followers updated on the happenings from New […]

Sep 17
Kate Monroe

The DJ known as “The First Lady of House” Kate Monroe, was in New Zealand to play the closing night party of Gay Ski Week, ‘Oh, What a Circus!’. One of Sydney’s hardest working and most requested DJs, Kate is regular at Mardi Gras, played the Sydney Opera House on New Year’s Eve and is a […]