EDGE #427 Pandemic Effects Roil Aotearoa – End in Sight + 30 Global Stories

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News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 04 March 2022 | #427 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington) and Alexandra Burnside (London). See all stories and a 17,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2022 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison. Society | New York Times (The) 04 March 2022 Pandemic Effects Roil Aotearoa – End in Sight A full two years into the pandemic and New Zealand has been roiled by the mass arrival of the Omicron variant, economic stress in the tourism and hospitality and agricultural sectors, protests against mandate requirements including three-week occupation of Parliament… Visual Arts | Fine Books Magazine 03 March 2022 Getty Research Institute Acquires Max Gimblett Artist’s Book Collection New Zealand American artist Max Gimblett ONZM has celebrated six decades of…   Fashion | Fashionista 03 March 2022 Parris Goebel Doing Us All Proud After choreographing a Jennifer Lopez tour at 19, the New Zealand-born, IMG Models-signed dancer Parris Goebel, 30, went on to work for some of the biggest names in music, like Justin Bieber. Now,…   Film & TV | Guardian (The) 28 February 2022 Peter Jackson’s Beatles Epic Unmissable “Nonplussed coppers, 60s London panoramas and the fab four very much alive … Peter Jackson’s film is moving and unmissable,” according to Guardian reviewer Peter…   Nga Kupu Aroha – Words of Love | Denis O’Reilly 01 March 2022 Laurie O’Reilly’s voice from the grave Last week I attempted to present to the Social Services and Communities Committee dealing with the ‘Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System and Children and Young People’s Commission…   Film & TV | Guardian (The) 01 March 2022 Mainstream Cottons on to Talented Melanie Lynskey After 30 years of critical acclaim, but not mainstream fame, New Zealand-born actor Melanie Lynskey is getting noticed and it feels very, very strange…   Taste | Stuff 02 March 2022 Chrissy Teigen Insta Endorses The Caker New Zealand-born Los-Angeles-based baker Jordan Rondel​ has described the moment mega-influencer and supermodel Chrissy Teigen​ endorsed her cake on Instagram as “surreal”,…   Film & TV | Los Angeles Times 28 February 2022 Jane Campion Tops Oscar Nominations Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog has received 12 Oscar nominations, the most of any film this year. Amongst the categories, the New Zealander’s film was nominated for director, adapted…   Film & TV | If (magazine) 25 February 2022 James Morcan’s Anno 2020 Readies for Distributors Filming has wrapped on Tauranga-born writer/director James Morcan’s film Anno 2020, which involved separate crews shooting cast members in…   Sport General | Vogue 24 February 2022 Freestyle Prodigy Nico Porteous on How to Fly It’s difficult to describe what it’s like in a superpipe – the biggest class of halfpipe, used in professional competition – without actually standing in…   Writers | Star Tribune 23 February 2022 Nina Mingya Powles Explores an Otherness New Zealand writer Nina Mingya Powles’ essay collection Small Bodies of Water “just might change the way you see the world” the Star Tribune’s Cory Oldweiler…   Film & TV | Glamour UK 22 February 2022 Britain is Starstruck By TV’s Rose Matafeo With the hit BBC Three show Starstruck returning to UK screens for season two, Glamour magazine catches up with its New Zealand creator and star, Rose…   Sport General | Guardian (The) 21 February 2022 Wānaka’s Nico Porteous Takes Gold in Beijing Nico Porteous has dropped the curtain on New Zealand’s greatest Winter Games, overcoming the elements and a field of established champions to win the…   Film & TV | Forbes 21 February 2022 Director Peter Jackson Leads Forbes Rich List At the end of 2021 he was still making headlines with his Beatles documentary Get Back. Now Forbes magazine has named New Zealand director Sir Peter Jackson, 60,…   Obituaries | 7News 19 February 2022 Rugby League Farewells Legendary Olsen Filipaina Pioneering Kaikohe-born rugby league great Olsen Filipaina has died at the age of 64. Filipaina was a trailblazer, George Clarke writes in a story…   Taste | TIME 18 February 2022 Dubai-Based Kathy Johnston Loves Chocolate New Zealand-born Kathy Johnston is so in love with chocolate, she lies awake at night thinking about it. “For as long as I can remember, I have been obsessed,” she says….   General | Asia Media Centre 17 February 2022 New Zealanders in Vietnam Thrive Despite Covid As Covid continues to cut a disruptive swath through Asia, expatriate communities have been hit hard. In the unique situation of living far from home in Vietnam,…   Fashion | Vogue India 16 February 2022 Enter the World of S Asian Talent With Anita Chhiba Employing her community platform Diet Paratha to shine a spotlight on emerging South Asian talent, New Zealander Anita Chhiba, 31, is fighting the…   Visual Arts | Positive News 15 February 2022 Meet Todd Antony’s Subjects from Sierra Leone In Sierra Leone, the beautiful game is proving to be a source of joy and empowerment for amputee footballers, writes Deborah Nicholls-Lee for UK journalism…   Writers | BBC 14 February 2022 1922 – A Year of Katherine Mansfield and Other Great Modernists “James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land are rightly hailed as masterpieces – but…   Visual Arts | Dazed 11 February 2022 Photographer Rebecca Zephyr Thomas Lights Up As the chaotic fashions of the early 2000s are poised for revival, according to Dazed’s Emily Dinsdale, New Zealand-born photographer Rebecca Zephyr Thomas shares…   General | Stuff 09 February 2022 2-Metre Peter Poster Makes London Museum Two years ago Christchurch medical radiation technologist Peter Dooley loaned his 2-metre body to a Covid-19 social-distancing campaign, Cecile Meier reports for Stuff. Now the…   Obituaries | Rugby Wrap Up 09 February 2022 Geoff Andrews, Kiwi Connector in the Big Apple Geoff Andrews, a leader and organizer of the New Zealand community in New York City, died on December 30, 2021, at his home in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, aged 76….   Music | NME 08 February 2022 Gang of Youths Bassist Max Dunn on the Bigtime Music magazine NME sits down with one of Australia’s biggest bands, Gang of Youths, in their adopted home of London to talk fame, grief and their powerful new…   Sport General | Reuters 08 February 2022 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott Wins Winter Olympics NZ-First Wanaka’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, 20, stood on top of the podium in women’s snowboard slopestyle at the Beijing Olympics last week, winning the…   Watersports | Guardian (The) 07 February 2022 Rower Hamish Bond Retires After Three Olympic Golds Dunedin-born Hamish Bond, 35, has announced his retirement from rowing, bringing down the curtain on a glittering career during which he became…   Business | Inc 04 February 2022 Success for Allbirds’ Tim Brown Has Meaning Allbirds co-founder New Zealander Tim Brown shares his insights on fuelling performance with a higher purpose. Brown tells Inc. magazine that when he retired from…   Guardian (The) | Obituaries 26 February 2002 20 YEARS AGO NZ Founding Father of British Anthropology Sir Raymond Firth, one of the world’s most prominent anthropologists, emeritus professor at London University, Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit…   Rugby | Anzac 1 March 2007 15 YEARS AGO ANZACs Honoured in Acton The second annual ANZAC Sports Challenge will be held at Twyford Park in Acton, London, on April 21. The event celebrates NZ and Australia’s shared ANZAC heritage by…   Politics | Economic Times 28 February 2012 10 YEARS AGO Nationwide Smoking Ban New Zealand is aiming to eradicate smoking across the country by 2025. In an article published in the international Tobacco Control journal, health…   General | Forbes 1 March 2017 5 YEARS AGO Tempted To Move Out Of The U.S.? Wellington Wants To Help You Escape After the presidential election, visits from U.S. citizens to the Immigration New Zealand..