Rebecca Fox

Chinese market gardens are a significant part of Oamaru's history so it is fitting The Mooncake and the Kumara will be performed in the town. Rebecca Fox talks to the play's author about its origins.

Heleen du Plessis plans to head to the streets with her beloved cello to raise funds for cello education in Otago. Rebecca Fox discovers what is driving her plans.

Otago is well known for its wine, but now its chefs are also putting it on the map.

Being beamed into people's living rooms two nights a week is just another challenge for Michelin-starred New Zealand chef Josh Emett. Rebecca Fox asks how he juggles it all.

With the Port Chalmers Seafood Festival on this weekend, the focus is on the sea's bounty. Rebecca Fox asks Pier 24 head chef Greg Piner, one of the festival's demonstration chefs, to share some tricks of the trade for dealing with seafood.

Chef Ben Davidson and his partner, Emerson Morgan, have joined a growing number of people coming back to Dunedin to settle down. He tells Rebecca Fox about his journey to food-truck proprietor on the streets of his home town.

Playing a couple broken by their jobs as war correspondents is something real-life husband and wife Jacque Drew and Jeff Szusterman could not wait to do. Rebecca Fox discovers a couple not afraid to work together even when the going gets tough.

New Zealand artist Dick Frizzell will be in Dunedin this weekend for the opening of his latest exhibition. He tells Rebecca Fox about designing manchester and voices his opinion on the flag debate.

Scott (Scotto) Clarke is a photographer with a difference, manipulating images to achieve his vision. Rebecca Fox discovers his vision often involves family members.

As thousands of refugees flee from war-torn Syria and the Middle East, Auckland artist Juliette Laird's work takes on extra meaning. She tells Rebecca Fox how her work relates to issues of migration, adaptation and taking root.

Cooking 30 dishes in 12 days sounds difficult, but achievable - add in having to hunt for the protein and then cook it in the wild and the challenge ratchets up. It did not faze game chef Angelo Georgalli, Rebecca Fox discovers. 

Canadian violinist Karen Gomyo performs for the first time with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Dunedin this month. Rebecca Fox discovers how she went from regular kid to focused musician.

The digital world might be the next frontier in art, but it will never supersede painting says Hamish Coney.

The University of Otago will celebrate New Zealand music this weekend with a centenary commemoration of composer Douglas Lilburn's life and work.

As The Keys are in the Margarine begins a national tour, one of its creators tells Rebecca Fox how it has developed a life of its own.

To the builders he works with and his Manly neighbours, Philip James Frost is just another labourer. But a glimpse inside his Sydney flat tells another story, Rebecca Fox finds.

Students and the disruption they cause in some neighbourhoods hit the headlines again this year. Sally Robilliard tells Rebecca Fox she has another take on student life.

One of Dunedin's newest restaurants has won a coveted chef's ''hat'' in New Zealand's premier restaurant awards - the first to be awarded in the city.