Culture
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Breast Cancer Cure is hosting Mother’s Day Lunch at Abbeville Estate
Read more: Breast Cancer Cure is hosting Mother’s Day Lunch at Abbeville EstateOn Sunday, 10th May at 12pm, Breast Cancer Cure (BCC) is hosting an exclusive Mother’s Day Lunch in the elegant ambiance of the homestead at Abbeville Estate. Patron of BCC, Dame Trelise Cooper and BCC Ambassador Petra Bagust, accompanied by their mothers, will host a three-course lunch with wine of preference and a gift bag…
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Film review: Insurgent
Read more: Film review: InsurgentThere’s a fine line in cinema between originality, homage, and just being a bit of a copy-cat. There’s an equally fine line between a welcome addition of a new film to a particular genre, and adding another film to a genre that’s already over-stayed its welcome. We had The Hunger Games. We had Ender’s Game.…
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Still Life: an absolute gem of a film
Read more: Still Life: an absolute gem of a filmStill Life is an absolute gem of a film, says Michael Tarry. Read our review here… Death is a natural part of life – the only certainty we have, apart from taxes. We’re all going to die. We’re all going to shuffle off our mortal coils eventually. The only questions are when, and how, and…
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Film review: Charlotte Gainsbourg and Omar Sy in SAMBA
Read more: Film review: Charlotte Gainsbourg and Omar Sy in SAMBAI’ve lived all my life in New Zealand. Some might call that good fortune; others might say it’s grim beyond measure, and ask why haven’t I emigrated to live a better life abroad? I’d reply that I haven’t had to – New Zealand’s pretty good, and I’m well paid, and my house doesn’t leak. Not…
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Kathryn Wilson Cinderella slippers auctioned for Starship
Read more: Kathryn Wilson Cinderella slippers auctioned for StarshipKathryn Wilson Cinderella slippers are being auctioned for children’s hospital, Starship. Once upon a time in a faraway land, a pair of Kathryn Wilson shoes were magically embellished with Swarovski crystals thanks to the help of a fairy godmother. To celebrate the release of Disney’s Cinderella in cinemas nationwide March 26th, these beautiful Cinderella inspired…
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Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman in A Little Chaos
Read more: Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman in A Little ChaosA LITTLE CHAOS 2.5/5 There’s two kinds of people on the planet. There’s your well-ordered ones who like a well-ordered world, all straight lines and neat boxes. They poo-poo creative clutter. They want everything to be just so and just right. The others are all higgledy-piggledy, order-in-chaos, finding beauty in the askance and askew. Both…
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Travel: Martins Bay and Algies Bay Donkey Sanctuary
Read more: Travel: Martins Bay and Algies Bay Donkey SanctuaryIn this latest travel tips column, I bring holiday hints and budget tips for my most recent family trip, north of Auckland to Matakana to stay at Martins Bay Holiday Park, and a trip with the children to the Algies Bay Donkey Sanctuary at Highfield Gardens. If you’re travelling with small children as I was,…
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Aaron Waghorn- Dance to the beat of the living dead
Read more: Aaron Waghorn- Dance to the beat of the living deadArtist, Aaron Waghorn’s latest exhibition ‘Dance to the beat of the living dead’ was recently shown at Bowen Galleries. While Waghorn insists that there are no particular themes in his hybrid series of paintings, the striking pieces are efficaciously provoking. For me, the miscellany of elements that stem from high renaissance to pop culture floods…
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Film review: X+Y maths + love
Read more: Film review: X+Y maths + loveX+Y (2014, UK) We are all of us, whether we acknowledge them or not, part of a family. We’ve all had mothers and fathers (or, at least, someone who looked after us when we were growing up), and some of us have children of our own. Tieing us to our families is this mysterious thing…
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Travel Journal: Theo Sangster in France
Read more: Travel Journal: Theo Sangster in FranceCHAPTER 1: THE SOUTH I had heard of the “three month slump” – where your average traveller falls into a pit of despair, yearning for home; looking up cheap flights on whichever cheap flight aggregator website is on trend. For me it took four months. I had woken up in an international student dorm room…