Tom McKinlay

There were lessons lurking just below the surface, during the making of Anya Tate- Manning’s Show Me Shorts entry, she tells Tom McKinlay.

While it seems to have been shuffled sideways for now, the weight of history and the reality of the present both support a view that we haven’t heard the last of He Puapua, Tom McKinlay reports.

The new poetry editor of the Weekend Poem plans to champion the diverse, she tells Tom McKinlay.

The spirit of song and the wairua of waiata flow together in the music of Aro. Tom McKinlay talked to the two halves of the musical partnership about their new EP.

One of Owen Marshall’s darker tales is about the hit the big screen. He tells Tom McKinlay how it came to be.

One of Owen Marshall’s darker tales is about the hit the big screen. He tells Tom McKinlay how it came to be.

Tanya Carlson’s piece in an Otago Museum exhibition has done national service, writes Tom McKinlay.

For those at the eye of the storm, the latest chapter in the effort to address climate change risks more compromise and failure, writes Tom McKinlay.

The French Film Festival is back. Tom McKinlay gets some pointers from Alliance Francaise president Kim Cousins.

Polished brass will lift Nadia Reid’s sound on her latest tour, Tom McKinlay writes.

For years, decades, award-winning author Kyle Mewburn felt like a fraud. But it wasn’t your usual imposter syndrome, she tells Tom McKinlay.

Tane, Maui and Hine-nui-te-po are back, reclaimed and recast for new generations by master story teller Witi Ihimaera, writes Tom McKinlay.

Sara Munro is playing favourites, Tom McKinlay reports.

Ben Elton made Thatcher’s Britain and the trenches of World War 1 the stuff of comedy, but can he wring a laugh from climate collapse and plague? Tom McKinlay asks the touring comedian.

Dunedin’s new jazz club is taking on one of the great albums, writes Tom McKinlay.

Three albums into The Chills’ comeback, Martin Phillipps says he feels like he can finally relax a bit. Tom McKinlay reports.

A new play to debut at the Dunedin Arts Festival is not about telling the truth, but might have truths to tell, writes Tom McKinlay.

Michael Metzger’s Dunedin Fringe Festival play examines rural masculinity through the lens of his own story, he tells Tom McKinlay.

A play streaming into the Dunedin Fringe Festival tells a story of homelessness in the words of those shut out, writes Tom McKinlay.