Culture
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Film review: Disney’s Big Hero 6
Read more: Film review: Disney’s Big Hero 6We headed along to Disney’s Big Hero 6 on 7th December at Sylvia Park at the media screening session. The kids loved it and it was entertaining for us parents, too. It’s a massive movie that almost covers 10 comic books in one movie. Whilst the poster tagline states it’s from the creators of big…
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Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style doco comes to New Zealand
Read more: Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style doco comes to New ZealandAri Seth Cohen of Advanced Style has released an incredible doco starring some of the women who star in his photography on his Advanced Style blog of stylish older women, in their 70s, 80s, and 90s. The film opens on Thursday the 4th of December in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington & Dunedin with Christchurch opening on…
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Semi-Permanent Wellington 2014
Read more: Semi-Permanent Wellington 2014We sent Morgan Ashworth of Hyacinth Girl along to Semi-Permanent Wellington 2014 for Thread.co.nz and she has reported back with this story of her highlights of the international Creatives conference… Last week Wellington hosted the latest Semi-Permanent event – a two-day symposium on all things creative bringing together art and design superstars from across the…
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Hello, yellow
Read more: Hello, yellowHello, yellow. The new Sodastream Play is out and super cute and colourful to boot. The first thing you notice about the Play is the cool new design. SodaStream has again partnered with Yves Behar, world-renowned designer and social entrepreneur. Behar’s design re-examines the interface, shape and material selection of the SodaStream system, redefining the…
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Highlights of my Melbourne trip in Spring 2014
Read more: Highlights of my Melbourne trip in Spring 2014Melbourne is an incredible city and by far my favourite I’ve visited in Australia, so when I had the opportunity to tag along on the boy’s business trip and do some shoppercise and culture touring of my own, I leaped at the chance. Here are some highlights of my Melbourne trip in the Spring of…
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Flowers in the Attic & Petals on the Wind
Read more: Flowers in the Attic & Petals on the WindThe V C Andrews novels Flowers in the Attic & Petals on the Wind were pretty much defining – and polarising – novels of my adolescence. They were followed by sequels If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. Everyone at school either read them, wasn’t allowed to read them, or was…
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My latest must-see movie: Chef
Read more: My latest must-see movie: ChefMy latest must-see movie: Chef. I give it 8/10, and this film is out this week on IGLOO from 26th September so you can watch it from your couch…whilst eating! Make lemonade Much as I feel the classic line: “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade” is a touch corny, that’s exactly what sums up…
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The Food Show 2014 highlights in pictures
Read more: The Food Show 2014 highlights in picturesThe Food Show Auckland 2014 – see our highlights in pictures of our picks of the best to see, drink, and eat. The Food Show was on at ASB Showgrounds Thurs 31 Jul – Sun 3 August with the best of local artisan and boutique food (and a few commercial brands too.) Below: some of…
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Larry Keigwin works in RNZB ballet Allegro
Read more: Larry Keigwin works in RNZB ballet AllegroLarry Keigwin was the choreography talent behind the super sexy work in 2012’s hot ballet, ‘NYC’, and now brings the exciting new ballet Allegro touring NZ shortly. In what will be the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s last season under Ethan Stiefel’s artistic direction, Allegro: Five Short Ballets is a powerhouse of extraordinary and diverse ballets…
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We meet: Annie Sloan of Chalkpaint
Read more: We meet: Annie Sloan of ChalkpaintIf you love colour, creativity, and renovating old things to make them new, you will adore Annie Sloan of Chalkpaint. Annie, an Australian-born artist, ex-rockstar, and mother of 3 grown-up boys, lives and works in Oxford, England with her husband David who runs the business with her. She lived in New Zealand as a child and…