Category: Review
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 […]
Ballet teacher and former assistant to Candy Lane, Georgette Jackson, is wowed by the English National Ballet’s edgy new interpretation of a beloved classic. I was rather sour and disappointed, almost unimpressed when I heard that Giselle had been re-invented for our modern-day era. But as time went by, and more snippets were teased by […]
In the midst of the Pride Parade and Proud Party, a musical event fit for a Queen rocked Spark Arena. Auckland Pride’s condensed two week festival assured if you wanted to experience everything the festival had to offer you were going to be very busy. For me, Saturday night was the most packed of all, […]
Sam Brooks delivers a touching gay love story to fill your heart with Pride. It’s hard not to over-hype the work of multi-award winning playwright Sam Brooks. One of his previous works Wine Lips is the only play I have ever watched that felt so real, for a brief moment I actually forgot I was […]
It’s no Misery Business as Hayley and the gang return to NZ with an effervescent set. Spark Arena had been transformed into an intimate half-moon shape for the former-emo rockers return to NZ in four years. Paramore didn’t come empty handed bringing with them American support act The Bleachers, a band fronted by producer de jour Jack Antonoff […]
The 2018 Legacy Project features a great selection of young theatre artists, in the wonderful intimacy of the upper Q Theatre. It’s a beautiful youth voice; that gorgeous age between teenage angst and having it all together, when things are still swirly, raw and faced with trepidation. When youth have that sleek, gangling self-confidence – […]