Category: Review
Melissa Etheridge and Sheryl Crow drew an adoring capacity crown to Auckland’s Trust Arena An 80% female crowd gathered for a night of rock royalty as Sheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge delivered the hit filled sets that Etheridge had promised express they would. The delightful Crow kicked off the night warming up the crowd with […]
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 […]
This is a tale of a young gay Scottish man who moves to countries unspecified in Asia and finds he is being persecuted, he claims, because of a Facebook message he uttered about a leader “He is an elected dictator”. The primary problem with this book, which is presumably published by the author himself, is […]
Sarah Murphy attends the AAF concert on 15 March of Jazz Sensation Cécile McLorin Salvant. Cécile McLorin Salvant specialises in forgotten numbers, far from the standards we all know and listen to on repeat. It made for an evening of surprises, jumping between genres, showing the incredible range of her voice. I couldn’t help but feel […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s original adaptation of iconic New Zealand movie, The Piano, leaves Georgette Jackson struggling to admire the new work. My love affair with the Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) began as a young dancer. I attended their workshops at the Wellington School of Dance, and as an adult I have undeniable […]
Alexia Santamaria is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz, the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. Oyster Festival If you are an oyster fan, you’ll want to get your backside down to Princes Wharf this month. The Culpeper, Euro, Fish and Coley & Punch all have fantastic oyster-related goodness on for the Princes Wharf […]
20,000 people poured into Western Springs on Saturday 3 March for the second iteration of Auckland City Limits. Rapper JessB and her hype girl Half.Queen, backed by producer P Money on the decks, took to the stage early in the day and while much of the punters hadn’t arrived yet, they lay it down like […]
In 1970 Range Rover had only one model – who would have thought this would be the birth of the SUV? Now this type of vehicle is leading the sales charts. So what has captured people’s desire to be part of this lifestyle? The continuously morphing and expanding requirements for the SUV from those original […]