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With Winter Pride in full swing, platinum partner Booking.com releases new research shedding light on the power of community and acceptance for more inclusive travel. ‘Travel’ and its connotations should usually denote positive experiences, adventure and enjoyment. Yet for many Kiwi LGBTIQ+ travellers, the reality of travelling can often paint a very different picture, as […]

Pop icon Madonna has released her 50-track career-spanning compilation album titled: FINALLY ENOUGH LOVE: 50 NUMBER ONES to celebrate her huge range of club hits! The new album, which is available now via streaming and in physical format and includes an epic collection curated by Madonna, is in celebration of her historic milestone as the […]

This is our opportunity to get our monkeypox (MPX) response right – but we all need to be on the same waka. At the time of writing this, Aotearoa New Zealand has recorded 4 official cases of MPX. All had recently travelled from overseas and none are connected, which means no confirmed community spread. So […]

Footnote New Zealand Dance is Aotearoa’s longest-running contemporary dance company. Founded by Deirdre Tarrant in 1985, Footnote is an ambitious national arts organisation that is dedicated to extensively touring dance works around Aotearoa and internationally. Footnote is known for creating and commissioning bold new work by New Zealand artists. Footnote’s new show, Dry Spell, is […]

It may have been a month since the Northern Hemisphere’s official Pride month ended, but Pride can (and should) still be celebrated year-round. For half (50%) of Kiwi LQBTIQ+ travellers, being part of the rainbow community impacts the decisions we make when travelling, with 44% of us feeling that the destinations on our ‘bucket lists’ […]

This just in! Fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under are in for double the fun as Queens from season one, and the recently announced season two are set to join forces for an eleganza extravaganza when they tour New Zealand this October. Season one winner Kita Mean will be joined on stage by runners-up […]

They say money makes the world go round, but if we were to take a closer look, we’d discover chocolate and coffee actually play pretty significant roles too. In fact, when you realise there is an entire festival celebrating both, you know they’ve got to be important! The ever-popular Chocolate and Coffee festival is celebrating […]

Join the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) for a red-hot evening on Saturday 30 July, with award-winning artist Tami Neilson and her Hot Rockin’ Band of Rhythm! Hailed a ‘fire-breathing belter’ by Rolling Stone magazine, Tami Neilson will bring her rich songbook of hits to life, as well as treating audiences to premiere performances of brand-new songs, exclusively […]