You may have seen ads on the site recently for a comedy play called Gagarin Way, which opens in Auckland this Wednesday. As part of the Scoop ad cartel, we have four pairs of tickets to give away. Here’s the game: best – ie most funny/apt – 2011 campaign slogan for each of the Nats, Labour, the Greens, and ACT wins a pair of tickets.
So after all that hoo-ha I did have to think for a while what it means to look and sound like a New […]
For some time now National has been quietly making plans to subsume Archives New Zealand and the National Library within the Department of […]
An article in the Guardian puts gender politics into perspective, with 1,000 “honour killings” a year in India, according to one recent study. For those who think that the world has moved on – it hasn’t.
“After the goldrush†Oil painting and words – Chuck Joseph 2010
When the circus left town, we had a parade,
the band played on and floats were made.
I looked sideways as they passed,…
Fancy wasting a little time on a slow Sunday? Some viral video, courtesy of Guardian blogger, Jemima Kiss.
My Granddad grew up in Te Aroha near Tui Mine. The mining ruined a large swathe of the land and toxic tailings were left behind which polluted the river and turned a large patch of bush into a desert – it is a scar on the face of my Granddad’s mountain which looks over his grave. As I write this I can hear him reciting this poem:
A burst of ‘popular’ culture to mull over the weekend, with the Guardian providing comment on the upcoming Alice in Wonderland. According to […]
There is a weird article in the Sunday Star Times about a US lecturer missing out on a job because she objected to […]
The more I ponder the scrapping of the TVNZ charter the dafter it seems. There are obvious downsides. What is the upside? What […]
So the Nats have decided to kill public service television broadcasting: TVNZ’s charter is to be repealed in a move commentators say will […]
I just read that the Troy Kennedy Martin, the screenwriter responsible for Edge of Darkness died earlier this week. I wanted to mark […]
If you’re looking for something to do on a Sunday that’s a bit more uplifting than arguing politics, why not check out some […]
Much as I disagree with those who oppose the freedom of same sex couples to marry, I also can’t stand those that attack […]
Over at his site Shepard Fairey, the creater of the Obama “HOPE” poster, has an update on his legal wrangle with the Associated […]
The opening night of the Pasifika festival at Western Springs in Auckland will be proceeding. After a funding shortfall the Auckland City Council […]
I posted on this in the early days of The Standard but now might be a good time to check it out if […]
At the end of my post a couple of days ago I touched on the notion of a new Zealand identity and a […]
MSD released its Social Report today, an annual publication that collates a wide variety of standard of living measures, and produces this awesome graph. […]
The Lonely Planet has a new guide on Godzone and has lavished praise on our beauty but also offers a warning on “the environmental cost, with […]
So National has adopted Labour’s arts, culture and heritage policy essentially unchanged. Good. The flourishing of New Zealand’s arts and culture we’ve seen […]
Remember that Drinking Liberally Auckland is having its inaugural session tomorrow with David Slack. Note it in your schedules and tell your left-leaning […]
You’re invited to the first Auckland Drinking Liberally event – 7.30pm next Wednesday night (2 July) at the London Bar with special guest […]
The Unionist reports Nicky Hager’s book The Hollow Men has been made into a film and will be screening as part of this […]
Wanting something that’s great to be even better is no bad thing – but the Mercer 2008 Quality of Living survey our today […]
We’re used to the importance of presentation in the world of politics, but no-one does it quite so blatently as the fashion world. We’ve […]
Rock’n’roll pioneer Bo Diddley has died of heart failure, aged 79. Here’s a little something to remember him by (ignore the crazy Dutch […]
As regular readers will know, we’ve long refused to let Robinsod write for us due to his penchant for filth and gutter politics. […]
Do you have a fascination with ads? Ever wonder where they come up with their ideas or feel like you’ve seen an ad […]
For those of you who haven’t already found it, Left Business Observer editor Doug Henwood has a bloody good economics-based radio show that […]
Stuff reports that Wellingtonians of the year, “Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who play marginally talented folk singers struggling to make it in […]
No Ordinary Sun Tree let your arms fall: raise them not sharply in supplication to the bright enhaloed cloud. Let your arms lack […]
Nigel Richards, formerly of Christchurch, has become our first world Scrabble champion. Richards apparently led from the start, needing just three of the […]
Well I must admit to having been excited about the prospect of congratulating Lloyd Jones on winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. […]
Outragous Fortune’s heading to the US. ABC has signed a deal with South Pacific Pictures to turn the show into an American series. […]
