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New service targets mental health in Auckland’s Muslim community

By Ciara Pratt ⋅ May 11, 2012

Muslim Aucklanders are set to benefit from a new health service aiming to boost awareness of mental health issues within their community. The Auckland District Health Board is launching a Muslim Mental Health Liason Service after a report indicated there was a lack of mental health awareness within the Muslim population. The report, called Muslim [...]

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Christchurch cookery school reopens at Auckland’s Viaduct

By Sarah Argyle ⋅ May 1, 2012

Refusing to be defeated by the earthquakes that devastated Christchurch, the New Zealand School of Food and Wine has restarted its operation in Auckland. Founded by Celia Hay, NZSFW opened its first campus in Christchurch in 1995. The school recently reopened its doors at the Viaduct in downtown Auckland, fully-equipped with modern demonstration and practical [...]

Kiwi kung fu kids head to Thailand for training with expat master

By Skye Wishart ⋅ May 1, 2012

Two lucky Auckland children will pack their bags for Thailand this September to train in martial arts with a kung fu master. The Sir Gee Dorr Kung Fu Club in Mt Albert, run by Charlie Tamati, is applying for funding from sports foundations to take two young students — yet to be named — with [...]

Kony campaign fizzles out as hardly anyone turns up

By Bruce Lee ⋅ April 27, 2012

The KONY 2012 campaign’s “Cover the Night” event did not live up to its hype. The American NGO Invisible Children set out to make Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony “famous” on April 20. The event was to use posters, banners and stickers of Kony to cover streets across the world to make people aware of his [...]

Smokers comply with ban but quitting not part of the plan

By Bruce Lee ⋅ April 24, 2012

Smokers are complying with AUT University’s campus-wide smoking ban, but there is little evidence it is encouraging them to quit. Following the example of the University of Auckland, which employed smoking bans across campuses in 2010, AUT University is the latest tertiary institute to go smoke-free. Andrew Codling, the head of the Vice Chancellor’s Office [...]

The party is over for banned pills

By Ciara Pratt ⋅ April 10, 2012

Party pill retailers will suffer big financial losses from this week when the latest ban on the recreational drugs is enforced. And Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne told Te Waha Nui legislation at the end of the year will ensure new party pills undergo vigorous clinical testing. Retailers will have to stop selling party [...]

Move over Pilates, ballet is making a comeback

By Eva Evguenieva ⋅ April 9, 2012

It’s not the message you usually hear about ballet – that anyone can do it. But the principal dancer behind new adult ballet classes starting next month in Auckland says that’s true and the classes are part of an international trend. Shore Dance Studio principal Whitney Harrington says the classes were a response to strong [...]

Restoration begins on 107-year-old painting in new gallery facilities

By Chris Thompson ⋅ March 26, 2012

An enormous 107-year-old painting rolled up in storage at Auckland Art Gallery since the 1920s is being prepared for its first public display. Gallery visitors can see a number of paintings in conservation at the gallery, including one from the British artist William Calderon. On the Sea-Beat Shore, which is nearly 4m long and almost 2m tall, is intended [...]

Fashion bloggers come out of the closet on K Road

By Sarah Krieg ⋅ March 10, 2012

Rummaging through second-hand clothes on K Road actually came with some expert fashion advice last week. Cross Street Arcade was filled with colourful stalls exhibiting Kiwi fashion bloggers’ surplus threads for the Blogger Closet Raid. Organiser Sarah Smith said it was a chance for online fashion writers to network and readers to rummage through second-hand [...]

Volvo race delay heightens chaos on shore

By Carmel Tolhurst ⋅ March 9, 2012

The treacherous conditions between China and New Zealand that have pushed the Volvo Ocean Race fleet off course, delaying its arrival into Auckland, have also upset 16 months of organisation. The fleet was originally due to arrive yesterday, at the end of leg four of the nine-leg around-the-world yacht race. The bad weather has meant [...]

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