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“It was heartbreaking to have to close and not being able to provide our safe space for our queer whānau to party,” Ivy Bar owner Steven Mawhinney tells express. Cuba Street institution Ivy Bar & Cabaret was forced to close at 11pm on New Year’s Ever due to flooding.  Following another tough year for the hospitality industry, […]

Following a successful surgery and outpouring of love from the community, Drag Race Down Under Season One winner, Kita Mean, has been granted an early release from hospital. “I’m blown away by the support express readers have shown me,” the star tells us. “Thank you all so much for the love. “In a turn of […]

Auckland-based drag icon and Caluzzi Restaurant co-owner, Kita Mean, will be spending Christmas Day in Middlemore Hospital following botched surgery in Thailand. December was set to be a triumphant month for RuPaul’s Drag Race Season One winner Kita Mean. She was meant to close out 2022 performing at London’s legendary G.A.Y. nightclub and start 2023 […]

“There will definitely be restrictions on every camper for the period of 28th Dec to 2nd Jan when we are at our peak,” Campsite Manager Steve Farrow tells express. In Steve Farrow and his partner Adrien’s years managing Uretiti (New Zealand’s busiest campsite), they have never seen anything like this. “To-date we have pumped over […]

The comedian brings his ‘Regional Trinket’ tour to New Zealand this month and in his only NZ interview tells us about: what he plans to get up to in Aotearoa, his life after divorce and bonding with Graham Norton. Alan Carr’s ‘Regional Trinket’ tour arrives in New Zealand this month. It’s been six years since […]

ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. Currently touring the world with their Poetry + Comedy Tour – which has been lorded by critics as “provocative and powerful.” Ahead of their Auckland show on Friday 23 September, ALOK talks to express about surviving bullying, trans-acceptance and making meaningful connections. What […]

Sandi Toksvig read Law at Cambridge (often considered to be the world’s best university), but would never practice, instead pursuing a career in comedy, leading her to present popular TV shows The Great British Bake Off and QI, as well as authoring over twenty novels. Calling from her home in England, in the middle of […]

Comedian and RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under Judge Rhys Nicholson spills the beans of Season 2, sweaty suits and coming out as non-binary. RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under has changed Rhys Nicholson’s life. Not least because they have had to spend 10 full weeks in hotel quarantine on their own. “You lose your fucking mind,” […]