Framed: art crime in focus
Framed: art crime in focus
Money, mystery and intrigue - art crime has it all, but in reality it can have devastating and emotional consequences. Rebecca Fox discovers New Zealand, including Dunedin, is not immune.
Rebecca Fox
Art security has been improved
Art security has been improved
Dunedin Public Art Gallery director Cam McCracken tells Rebecca Fox how the gallery protects itself from art crime.
Barking up the right tree
Barking up the right tree
Award-winning Dunedin cafe Dog With Two Tails had its inception on a masseuse’s table in South America. Rebecca Fox discovers its owner’s varied trail to cafe ownership.
True love of glaze and clays
True love of glaze and clays
Top Australian ceramicist Janet DeBoos visits Dunedin this week to share her knowledge with Otago potters. She tells Rebecca Fox about a career spanning five decades.
Chamber music 'supergroup' in Dunedin
Chamber music 'supergroup' flying in
Chamber music ‘‘supergroup’’ the London Conchord Ensemble kicks off its New Zealand tour in Dunedin. Its founder tells Rebecca Fox how it all began.
Little show of horrors
Little show of horrors
It is a scene of skilled chaos, so why not throw in another challenge? Rebecca Fox talks to the director of Little Shop of Horrors, Oliver Driver.
Gordon gives Queenstown chefs the nod
Gordon gives Queenstown chefs the nod
Two Otago chefs have been hand-picked by internationally recognised New Zealand chef Peter Gordon to take part in a fine-dining event.
Close up and personal
Close up and personal
Evoking ancient Bacchanalian rites and the wine-making traditions of France, The Wine Project aims to pull you in with a sensory and immersive experience, Rebecca Fox discovers
Determined to do Beckett proud
Determined to do Beckett proud
Simon O’Connor agreed to take on one of the greatest one-man shows ever written, Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, without really thinking about it -then the fear set in.
Sweet As
Sweet As
School holidays are always a tough time to control the junk food intake and with the sugar debate raging it is hard to know what to feed your children, Rebecca Fox finds.
Framed by life
Framed by life
He has been writing about art for years but has put himself on the line with his first book. Rebecca Fox talks to New Zealand art critic and writer Anthony Byrt.
Dressing for power
Dressing for power
A story of deceit, entrapment, cunning, courage and fear and amazingly restrictive historical dress. Rebecca Fox discovers Mary Stuart has it all.
Music from the World War 1 trenches
Music from the World War 1 trenches
For the soloists of the premiere of Gallipoli to The Somme the performance will have extra special meaning. Rebecca Fox discovers World War 1 still resonates today.
Kiwi kitchen staple revamped
Kiwi kitchen staple revamped
The revamped 2016 version of the Edmonds Cookery Book has backed New Zealand's claim that the pavlova is a Kiwi creation.
Swing and strings
Swing and strings
History is being made as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra shares the stage with the Rodger Fox Big Band. Rebecca Fox finds out how jazz and the classics come together.
Hotere and Reinhardt - similarities in the dark
Hotere and Reinhardt - similarities in the dark
Works by the late great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere will go on display in Te Papa alongside influential American minimilist the late Ad Reinhardt. Rebecca Fox discovers the significance...
Simply good recipes
Simply good recipes
Charity cookbook Cooking 4 Change is being launched in Otago this week. Rebecca Fox discovers its Dunedin roots.
Stories from the heart
Stories from the heart
The scariest moment in Kali Kopae’s life came when she stood on stage portraying the terrible domestic violence stories of three women in front of those women, she tells Rebecca Fox.
Echoes of past performances
Echoes of past performances
In celebrating its 50th year, the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra is paying tribute to its history and never more so than in its latest concert, Rebecca Fox discovers.
Coffee hit depends on your genes
Coffee hit depends on your genes
The outlook for coffee drinkers looks brighter: not only has it been cleared of its carcinogenic status, people may be able to blame their DNA for their habit or lack of it, discovers Rebecca Fox.