Rebecca Fox

With a simple snap of a shutter, moments in New Zealand history have been captured.

As the value of New Zealand wine exports has grown by 7% to reach a record $1.42 billion this year, expansion in the United States market is playing a big part, New Zealand Winegrowers say.

Steady campaigning by former Dunedin student, celebrity chef Nadia Lim has resulted in food delivery service My Food Bag coming to the city.

An interactive environment reminiscent of the gold-rush era in downtown Dunedin, ''a la Deadwood'', complete with amusements, oddities and mud will be re-created in the Athenaeum to celebrate the city's 150th anniversary. Rebecca Fox discovers why.

Dunedin playwright and actor Simon O'Connor has taken on a grisly role, that of a browbeaten husband who snaps with bizarre results. He tells Rebecca Fox about playing a real-life murderer.

Australian James Galea has visited Dunedin many times but never stayed overnight. Rebecca Fox talks to the magician about going from cruise ship entertainer to the world stage.

Simon Over is probably the only person who can claim he has United Kingdom politicians singing from the same hymn sheet. Rebecca Fox talks to Southern Sinfonia's new principal guest conductor.

For the first time in 28 years New Zealand will be represented at the international Culinary Olympics and the team includes two Otago chefs.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery pays tribute to the Sargood family in an exhibition opening today. Rebecca Fox looks at the history of the family's support of the gallery over the decades.

She works three jobs, directs plays, performs in cabarets and organises new ventures. Rebecca Fox finds out how Emma Feather Shaw finds time for it all.

Madcap, hilarious comedy it may be, but does it pay the bills? Rebecca Fox talks to three actors about their latest production and the state of theatre.

For the first time the Fortune Theatre and the University of Otago have combined to offer drama students a chance to star in a ''real'' professional play. Rebecca Fox finds out how meshing professional with amateur is working.

He comes from a family of ''lawyers and judges'' but Umberto Clerici did not let that stop him from pursuing a career in music. The Italian cellist about to visit New Zealand for the first time tells Rebecca Fox about his desire to combine solo and orchestral careers.

The ''gentrification'' of Dunedin's warehouse district may signal an end to its days as an artists' enclave. Rebecca Fox talks to Blue Oyster Gallery director Chloe Geoghegan about her foray into the district.

Winning Arts Access Aotearoa's creative spaces award has given the team at Dunedin's Artsenta a boost, director Jill Thomson says.

Ever wondered how the great New Zealand Sunday roast tradition came about? Rebecca Fox asks Prof Helen Leach about the roast's origins.

Two very different approaches to landscape painting will be shown in Dunedin in coming weeks. Rebecca Fox talks to Jenna Packer about her work.

Two very different approaches to landscape painting will be shown in Dunedin in coming weeks. Rebecca Fox talks to Phillip Edwards about his work.

Hearing that black truffles had been discovered on his property at Bannockburn was like Christmas for Dunedin man Rod Keillor.