Nigel Benson

Three Dunedin women are angry at the theft of their sex book.

There's something about maps.

The child is alive in Ewan McDougall. The self-confessed former "ratbag and drug fiend" has evolved into an important New Zealand artist. Nigel Benson looks back on 20 years of the Broad Bay painter's art.

The St Kilda Brass Band has brought in some heavyweight support for the New Zealand National Brass Band Championships, which start in Christchurch today.

Dunedin choreographer Daniel Belton is jumping for joy after winning an international dance film festival in Italy.

It was a case of hanging on for dear life and hoping they would be gentle.

Are you awake? How do you know? Nigel Benson meets dream merchant Chris Krishna-Pillay.

He danced from the back streets of South Dunedin, through the Depression, and all the way to Covent Garden. And he gleefully courted controversy most of the way. Nigel Benson meets Harold Robinson.

Macedonian pianist Simon Trpceski is not your normal international musician.

Anyone who missed the documentary on Port Chalmers artist Ralph Hotere last weekend on the Sky Documentary Channel will be relieved to know the network is rescreening the programme.

Life and art can get so entwined they become one. So it is in a play opening in Dunedin tonight. Nigel Benson meets some theatre old-timers who can't escape the past.

His pirouetting days may be over, but former international ballet dancer Harold Robinson showed he hadn't forgotten how to strike a pose in Dunedin yesterday.

The Southern Sinfonia had to pull some strings to bring acclaimed Japanese musician Naoko Yoshino to Dunedin for a one-off concert yesterday.

Dunedin is one of the smallest cities in the world able to maintain a professional theatre. And life is certainly full of drama at the Fortune Theatre. Nigel Benson peeks behind the curtains.

Fledgling Dunedin filmmaker Sarah Cowhey has had a film about a dying rat selected for screening in an international wildlife and environmental competition.

You sense the late Caroline Plummer would have heartily approved of the 2008 University of Otago Caroline Plummer Dance Fellow.

A previously unknown work by Janet Frame has been published in the latest edition of The New Yorker magazine.

Dunedin school pupils got a lesson in dancing with the stars yesterday.

After a sellout world tour, The Ten Tenors are back in Dunedin. Nigel Benson meets a bunch of Aussies who sing like angels.