EDGE #396 – Charles Ma, City Maker, Leads Thinking in Knight Frank City Wellbeing Index + 12 Other Stories

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News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 19 March 2020 | #396 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington) and Alexandra Burnside (New York). See all stories and a 16,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2020 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison. We give thanks and respect to the multitude of front line responders to the Pandemic – doctors and nurses, civic workers and officials, all the people involved in critical supply chains, and our leaders for the tough decisions they are making. PLEASE STAY HOME & STAY SAFE. Isolate the disease. Business | Knight Frank 17 March 2020 Charles Ma, City Maker, Leads Thinking in Knight Frank City Wellbeing Index Auckland-born Charles Ma, 29, is working on an ambitious project to reimagine the way we live with its development of an entire city – Auranga, in southern Auckland at Drury – which will eventually be home to 40,000 people. Ma features in the first City… Film & TV | Variety Magazine 18 March 2020 Stacey Lee’s Doco Underplayed to Show at TriBeCa Among the documentaries premiering at this year’s TriBeCa Film Festival in April is New Zealand-born, Los Angeles-based Stacey Lee’s debut…   Taste | New York Times (The) 17 March 2020 A British Kitchen with Margot and Fergus Henderson Chefs Fergus and New Zealand-born Margot Henderson have forged an identity for modern British cooking, grounded in technique and tradition. But will…   Film & TV | Dream Catchers 06 March 2020 Dream Catchers Charts 32 Remarkable New Zealanders Making an Impact in the UK Dream Catchers is on YouTube! Produced by Hilary Timmins, the full eight episodes celebrating 32 New…   Business | Financial Times 15 March 2020 Virgin Group CEO Josh Bayliss Is No Procrastinator Five expert users, including Virgin Group’s chief executive New Zealander Josh Bayliss, tell the Financial Times about the best tools to beat…   Music | Rolling Stone 14 March 2020 Death Metal Band Ulcerate Warp Time in New Track New Zealand extreme-metal outfit Ulcerate, which formed in Auckland in 2000, “privileges atmosphere over speed in one of its grandest, most unsettling…   Sport General | Horse & Hound 13 March 2020 Blyth Tait Calls Time on Second Eventing Career Former Olympic and world champion New Zealander Blyth Tait has retired from eventing for a second time, aged 58, Britain’s Horse & Hound magazine…   Adrenalin | Thrillist 12 March 2020 South Island the Reigning Adrenaline Capital “Of all the world’s adventure destinations, there are few more tantalising or dreamlike than New Zealand, a country that seems at once familiar and otherworldly….   Film & TV | Guardian (The) 11 March 2020 Taika Waititi Takes on the Chocolate Factory Academy Award-winning director New Zealander Taika Waititi has signed a deal with Netflix to write, direct and produce two animated series based on the works of the…   Obituaries | New York Times (The) 10 March 2020 Pioneer Troy Collings Made N Korean Connections New Zealander Troy Collings, whose tour-guide company specialised in taking young budget travellers to forbidding places like North Korea, has died. He was…   Visual Arts | Irish Times (The) 09 March 2020 Art is at the Frontline of Cathy Fitzgerald’s Fight The Hollywood Forest in County Carlow, Ireland is a source of quality timber and an inspiration for an artistic couple and their network of…   Nature | Kea 07 March 2020 Kea Show Humanlike Ability to Make Predictions Whether it’s calculating your risk of catching coronavirus or gauging the chance of rain on your upcoming beach vacation, you use a mix of statistical,…   New Zealand | CNN 16 March 2020 Twelve of NZ’s Most Beautiful Places American broadcaster CNN offers up an “insider’s guide to Aotearoa’s must-see destinations, including some off-the-beaten-track gems”. Starting at the top of the…   Innovation | ABC 18 March 2015 5 YEARS AGO Rare Glimpse Cloudless New Zealand from Space A rare image of New Zealand without a ceiling of cloud has been captured from the…   Taste | Independent on Sunday 11 March 2010 10 YEARS AGO Guava Crumble Please Gisborne-born, London-based chef Peter Gordon writes in The Independent on Sunday that he has “a sense of a growing tide of culinary xenophobia” and that…   Travel | Independent (The) 12 March 2005 15 YEARS AGO Diamond and the Rough Independent travel writer indulges mind, body and soul in NZ’s up and coming wine and tourism centre…