Wanaka’s wonderful week
This week I’ve been thinking about festivals again because, as I write, it is five days until the ninth Festival of Colour, which I’ve been involved with now for 10 years, writes Liz Breslin.
Preparation key to successful meeting with teacher
Preparation key to successful meeting with teacher
As the first school term draws to a close, many parents will already have had an invitation to meet the teacher, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.
Never a face so pleasingly graced
Never a face so pleasingly graced
China looms large in today’s world. With 18% of the earth’s human population and a similar share of the global GDP, it has the largest land area of any country except Russia.
Scorpius rising
Scorpius rising
A few weeks ago, I was sitting beside Hoopers Inlet, enjoying the tail end of what had been a rather beautiful auroral display, writes Ian Griffin.
Peaceful walk at blue lagoon
Peaceful walk at blue lagoon
Half an hour’s drive from Dunedin is our own blue lagoon, Purakaunui Inlet.
Bewildered by age’s tireless march
Bewildered by age’s tireless march
Do not go gentle into that brain fog; rage, rage against the dying of your hippocampus, writes Lisa Scott.
Keep up the support
Keep up the support
There’s a school of thought among researchers that holds that parents tend to withdraw their emotional support from their sons much earlier than they do their daughters, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.
Getting ahead on the big clean up
Getting ahead on the big clean up
We’ve recently watched floods across the ditch devastate New South Wales communities, with agencies and Government scrambling to assist, writes Scott Willis.
An important insight
An important insight
A scene from "everyday life" in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection provides a missing link, writes Lauren Gutsell.
Lies and ill will
Lies and ill will
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.
Responding collectively to extinction
Responding collectively to extinction
The life in our oceans needs us to make some connections, writes Abby Smith.
Stories behind the fashion
Stories behind the fashion
The mannequin is looking demurely off to the side, its attention apparently caught by something else going on in the exhibition at Otago Museum.
Race day the only show in town
Race day the only show in town
Dunedin’s 150-year-old Forbury Park trotting venue will soon be no more. But it was once the most popular place in town. No more so than during the exhilarating, surprising and record-breaking, 1965 Interdominion Championships.
An enduring imbalance
An enduring imbalance
The Employment Contracts Act is 30 years old and the country still hasn’t recovered, even as it prepares for the next major employment upheaval, writes Bruce Munro.
Rising above the plain
Rising above the plain
What’s between Milton and the coast? The McNally Track lets you find out and subtly slips in a sense of wider perspective, too, writes Clare Fraser.
Dispatches from the fringes
Dispatches from the fringes
Someone made a week for me last week. Well, it was more like some LOTS - the organisers, volunteers, actors, directors, costumers... everyone who came together to make Dunedin Fringe Festival, writes Liz Breslin.
Bags — a weighty topic
Bags — a weighty topic
A new school year and a new job - the afterschool run one day a week. And always the request to "please carry my bag", writes Ian Munro.
Equinox best time for auroras
Equinox best time for auroras
Every encounter with the southern hemisphere’s autumnal equinox makes my heart beat with excitement, writes Ian Griffin.
Small town boy
Small town boy
Michael Metzger’s Dunedin Fringe Festival play examines rural masculinity through the lens of his own story, he tells Tom McKinlay.
Grasping time and chance
Grasping time and chance
We’re already in March, and the start of autumn. The nights are getting longer, the mornings a little chillier and the leaves on the trees are already beginning to change, writes life coach Jan...
