Auckland gets its culture on. Read Post
Where have you been all summer? Read Post
Pixies play Vector Arena, Saturday 11th March 2017. Read Post
The rain didn't seem to dampen anyone's fun Read Post
Oh, yes indeedy, I would much rather be "out on the harbour" than sitting here in my bus with Peter snoring away behind me, writing yet again about this sorry issue. ¶ Forever the multi- tasker, I have managed to combine…
Dotted about the former Yugoslavia are Spomeniks – largely forgotten monuments, often erected in silent, empty landscapes, like sentinels from another world. Even their collective label sounds alien. (It's Serbo-Croatian for "monuments." ) ¶ "They're truly hideous," wrote one design critic. But…
It's not especially unusual for someone to to compare the governing political party to a criminal gang – that's every day somewhere on Twitter, right? – but when the person making the comparison is a respected legal commentator and he's quoting the…
The thing about Twitter is that is forces you to choose your 140 characters carefully. ¶ To say what you really think as artfully and briefly as possible. ¶ To be pithy. ¶ Understood. ¶ So when Nicky Wagner gazed out of her inner…
Yesterday, I joined thousands of other Aucklanders on the first public walkthrough of the 2.4km Waterview tunnel that will, when it opens to traffic early next month, bring SH20 all the way to SH16, thus completing the Auckland motorway network.…