Category: Review

Daniel Devenney takes a look at early 21st Century gay literature, Alan Downs’ The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World, and discovers how quickly times have changed. “The experience of being a gay man in the twenty-first century is different from that of any other minority, sexual […]

Kiwi Pop Princess Miss Geena shares her musical musts for your self-isolation. Five pop artists who will add some sparkle to your day.  Lontalius I was lucky to see this incredible artist perform at Auckland Pride’s OurParty. It’s refreshing and important to see talented queer representation in the NZ music industry. The Wellington-based singer-songwriter’s 2019 […]

Historian Gareth Watkins selects his most significant moments from Aotearoa’s queer history from February’s past. 3 February 1944 Human rights campaigner Sister Paula Brettkelly was born in the United Kingdom. As a child she emigrated with her family to New Zealand, entering the Sisters of St Joseph in 1961. In the mid-1980s Brettkelly read about […]

2017 saw Queenstown register a record 3 million visitors and numbers have only increased since. express gets away from the hustle and bustle of mountain town’s hub, by basking in the quiet, sophisticated luxury of The Rees Hotel. Built-in 2007, The Rees Hotel Queenstown is a five-star hotel situated right on the shores of Lake […]

James Malcolm checks out Testostrogen and Never Say Never at Auckland’s Pitt St Theatre. It was a Pride 2016 that many of us were introduced to the work of playwright Joanna Pearce with her pioneering trans musical People Like Us which featured a cast brimming with local talent including Cindy of Samoa, Ramon Te Wake, […]

Robert Barry checks out the new third-generation Suzuki Swift Sport, which may have grown in size and acquired more technology, but it hasn’t lost its nimble hot hatch character. The front-wheel-drive Sport is powered by a 1.4-litre petrol turbocharged engine offering 103 kilowatts of power and 230 Newton metres of torque, mated to a slick […]

Robert Barry takes the MINI Countryman Cooper S for a spin and discovers space, comfort and fun come as standard. The Countryman Cooper S is the largest member of the MINI family but it still has all the familiar aesthetics of the brand. It is a spacious and well-equipped car for up to five occupants […]

Robert Barry takes Citroen’s C4 Cactus for a ride and discovers a comfy city hatchback that’s full of character and easy on the eye. Now in its second generation, the newly released Citroen C4 Cactus has morphed from a quirky crossover into a more comfortable city hatchback. Citroen has loaded up the C4 Cactus with […]