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Read reviews from week one and week two. Who doesn’t love a slice of life film? Sometimes the best cinema is truly those which invite a little peek into a life far away from ours, especially if that ...
The little-known Act MP had a rare opportunity to ask three patsy questions – and gave a performance for the ages.
Alex Casey talks to Lisa Holmes, Survivor NZ winner and now contestant on Australian Survivor: Australia vs The World, about re-entering television’s most enduring strategy game.
Welcome to The Spinoff event guide, your weekly, curated selection of gigs, events and exhibitions happening across Aotearoa. If you want to pitch your event for future guides then please use this ...
Ngāti Porou–Irish–Scottish, award-winning writer and educator, current PhD student, perpetual mātauranga Māori learner, die-hard Shakespeare nut, and an irrepressible believer in the possibility of ...
The government’s obsession with saving money and cutting costs risks burning out teachers and worsening our teacher shortage.
There’s little evidence our mandatory cycle laws improve overall safety, and quite a bit of evidence suggesting they’re doing ...
We don't have too many houses, and even if we did, having ‘too many houses’ is like having ‘too many bowls of Kiwi onion dip’ ...
The people behind three new Christchurch eateries tell Alex Casey why the city’s hospitality scene is bucking the doom and ...
Once a backwater of the industry, out-of-home media is now the only locally operated sector showing robust growth.
Alex Casey goes in search of ‘Crawl’ by Atlas, the beloved mid-2000s emo anthem that’s ‘fallen between the cracks’.