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Diners find thief sitting in the driver’s seat of their car

By Stephen Bolton ⋅ May 17, 2013

Police are searching for a man who stole a Toyota RAV4 car during a violent confrontation with two men in Epsom last week. The two men, who had been out for dinner in Manukau Rd, returned to their car at 8.30pm, to discover the thief sitting in the driver’s seat having just started the engine. [...]

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Impressive line-up for the writers and readers festival

By Jane Jeffries ⋅ May 17, 2013

This year’s Auckland Writers and Readers Festival is underway. Festival director Anne O’Brien says the line up is impressive. “I am very happy with the line-up I have. It’s quiet different from last year where there was a stronger focus on fiction. This year there is a stronger focus on non-fiction,” she says. It is [...]

River regeneration becomes art at 5th Auckland Triennial

By Nikolai Smith ⋅ May 15, 2013

A traditional gallery space at the Auckland Art Gallery has been transformed into a river-regeneration think-tank focusing on West Auckland’s Whau River. University of Auckland architecture lecturer Kathy Waghorn, 10 architecture students and American architect Teddy Cruz have created the Muddy Urbanism concept. It consists of the students’ projects that examine how the river and surrounding [...]

Kiwi artists reclaim K Road

By Becky Rutherford ⋅ May 15, 2013

Organisers of Auckland’s first street art festival, All Fresco, say it was a success and helped to reclaim a bit of the life an increasingly gentrified K’ Road has lost in recent years. Held earlier this month, All Fresco gathered 14 of New Zealand’s best street artists to take over the walls of the K [...]

Unique world of steampunk hits Auckland (+video)

By Clayton Barnett ⋅ April 10, 2013

Goths, trekkies, skaters and hipsters. There are all sorts of subcultures to belong to, but there is one you may never have heard of and it’s set to become the next big thing. Welcome to the unique world of steampunk. It’s a way of life for 42-year-old audio-visual technician Michael Hodgson, chief organiser of Auckland’s [...]

Auckland kicks off 2013 World Triathlon Series in style

By Finian Scott ⋅ April 10, 2013

It was a case of déjà vu on Saturday as top triathletes from around the world converged on Auckland for the opening leg in the ITU World Series. Spaniard Javier Gomez took line honours in the elite men’s event, while Anne Haug of Germany won the women’s race. Both these athletes claimed gold last year [...]

Supercity festival stirs things up in the heart of multicultural NZ

By Finian Scott ⋅ April 9, 2013

The Auckland International Cultural Festival turned Mount Roskill into a hive of cultural activity on Sunday. Despite cool weather, thousands attended the event. Alongside a diverse range of food, ongoing entertainment played out across five stages throughout the day. From interactive music workshops to Chinese line and dragon dancing, the festival showcased more than 50 cultures [...]

Park residences see artists draw from the environment

By Jane Jeffries ⋅ April 8, 2013

Filmmaker Denise Batchelor and sound artist Tim Prebble will each spend eight weeks living and working in the Waitakere Regional Park as part of the Auckland Regional Park Artist in Residence Programme. The programme, which began in 2008, is designed to encourage artists to generate new works inspired by the environment. Artists get to select a [...]

Gardener wages war on wasted space

By Becky Rutherford ⋅ April 8, 2013

Richard Reynolds is on a worldwide crusade inciting the pubic to commit criminal damage and trespass. The enemy? Derelict public land. Weapon of choice? Perennials, pitchforks and pansies. During a short stop-off in New Zealand this week Mr Reynolds spoke at K-Road’s Bizdojo Co-space about guerrilla gardening – a worldwide phenomenon for which he has [...]

Grand old lady seeks $90,000 for digital switchover

By Stephen Bolton ⋅ April 8, 2013

The digital switchover was never going to be cheap but when you’re a 100-year-old cinema with a bill for $90,000, you’re going to need to do more than a sausage sizzle. That’s how much the Victoria Cinema in Devonport needs to upgrade to new DCP (digital cinema package) technology by the end of this year. [...]

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