Russell: Our Man
Winning the world from the edge, Russell Crowe walks away with Hollywood’s biggest award. It was the day the boy from the west Auckland suburbs achieved the dream that once seemed “kind of ludicrous…
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Spray Away
New Zealand – SkunkShot, created by Victoria University scientists, hits the garden with eau de skunk; unwelcome cats and dogs keep their distance.
Pinetree Growl
“Colin Meads, the grim, great New Zealand lock, was once asked why British and Irish forwards were inferior to those produced by the southern hemisphere – especially the forbidding, beetle-browed men produced by New Zealand. “Too many…
World Desire
Melbourne’s RMIT Gallery hosts Desire, a show on fashion as art, featuring “a beautiful dress by World New Zealand, constructed from a continuous zip that spills out onto the floor”.
Kiwi Fruits
“New Zealand wine makers are on the verge of world dominance, but some things are still beyond their control.”
Novel tourism
Ngaio Marsh is among the few mystery writers whose houses merit preservation as “literary shrines”.
Fresh milk
“The gorgeous landscapes of New Zealand provide the backdrop for this peculiarity, which is like nothing else that’s played in months”
#36 Movietown, NZ
Edge Message #36 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY We’re still here, under the beating Wellington sun. It’s drought here, warmth as reliable as LA. This is, after all, Movietown NZ….
Hat Trick
“I think it has become so normal in New Zealand that there are women in senior positions, that I was taken aback by this attention,” says Dame Silvia Cartwright. The new Gov-Gen completes the female trinity…
Economic Outlook
New Zealand’s economy continues on the up; will the edge buck the downward trend of trading partners and major players?
On the Defensive
International interest in the Clark government’s announcement on defence plans to 2010 .
Kiwi on Top
Apparel gives German tennis player edge by-proxy. Nicolas Kiefer walked into the interview room Wednesday wearing a blue floppy hat with the word KIWI embroidered across the top. Kiefer, 23, is German. “It’s my own…
Savage thoughts
King Kapisi spins the crowd: “Taking the crowd through a full turntable tutorial, including “the crab” and other techniques, Kapisi has them in the palm of his hand”.
Marvellous Merlot
“From the legendary wines of Pomerol, the tradition of Italian Merlots and the “new classic” wine regions of California, Oregon and Washington, to the great vineyards of South America, Australia, New Zealand and beyond, Merlot has proved…
Milk free
The Price of Milk is nothing at promotional showings of the New Zealand movie with a “cult-like” following.
Musical score
“Pragmatic and visionary” New Zealander Grant Cooper scores a sugar plumb of a job, conducting New York’s Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.
Return to the scene
Despite facing the sixth anniversary of the day Neil Finn saved his life by pulling him from a Piha rip, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder is preparing to return to New Zealand for the…
Innovation I2B
Carter Holt Harvey enters the technology services market with software designed to breed innovation in large corporations.
World’s Greatest Sports Brand?
Brandchannel reviews “one of the most distinctive international brands in the history of sport.” “The All Blacks are a team not a brand” insist the NZRFU. “The team’s values are absolutely about winning, whereas the brand’s values…
Crowe 007
Will it be “Crowe, Russell Crowe” next time 007 hits the big screen? “To play Bond, you need a man who has great screen presence and is believable in the part. Looking at him,…
Green Edge
The Greens are a presence in parliaments around the world – the revolution started in Wellington.
Canuck Farming Luck
“In 1985, New Zealand stopped bailing out farmers. Today, its rural areas are thriving. It’s a ‘brutal process,’ experts say, but it would work in Canada.”
Fairy tale ending
Xena meets her doom in the finale of the wrapped series that turned Lucy Lawless stellar.
Rewi Alley Postscript
In November of 2002 a book on Rewi Alley, Friend of China – The Myth of Rewi Alley, by Anne-Marie Brady (Routledge Curzon, $102.95) was published. A series of reviews followed, responding to Brady’s revision of…
Cross-course Appeal
“Sunline, a huge bay five-year-old, is one of those rare beasts to have jumped the fence between her sport and the wider public. She has her own website, an official fan-club and a range of merchandise.”…
August Florist
A flowering of beauty takes place under the hands of top international florist, New Zealander Maurice August.
Cisco of the South
Funky Wellington’s natural glories make the city “a superior urban roost with a view, a mini-San Francisco”.
Buzz of It’s Own
And, “Auckland has a buzz of its own, with enviable dance music, fashion and restaurant scenes and the largest Polynesian and Maori populations in the South Pacific.”
Hot Lodge!
Old-world charm is losing out to “far-flung destinations favoured by the elite such as game lodges in South Africa, Caribbean idylls, palatial hotels in India and New Zealand lodges.
Best Oscar Hunter
The greatest winners of all time. For best actress: Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Simone Signoret and Holly Hunter in The Piano.
Dolly, the Next Generation
PPL Therapeutic, the company behind Dolly and the cloned piglets, seeks backing to buy a farm in New Zealand. If all goes to plan, Dolly#2 will be a good kiwi girl.
The Legend of Steve Williams
Tiger’s clubs net the “amiable Kiwi” over $1 million – making Williams an international top-dollar caddy. Also, will Williams bring Tiger down under?
Spotte-y Research
Prolific writer Stephen Spotte’s latest collection ranges from “academia to the Maori cannibals of New Zealand and everywhere in between”.
Bye-bye Brierley
New Zealand business legend Sir Ron Brierley steps down as director of the eponymous Brierley Investments.
Cup Buzz
The City of Sails is still high on the America’s Cup – and not showing any signs of slowing down before the next one.
ATC in Manila
German-based lolli-pop group ATC, including Kiwi member Joe, hit Manila with their Europop/R&B blend.
Everywhere you go…
Neil Finn, international star and “nice guy” of New Zealand pop, has invited a few friends to perform his “unmistakable” sound in Auckland.
Musical extravaganza
“The concept for these shows is to invite friends whose music I admire to collaborate with me in presenting a week-long musical extravaganza which I optimistically expect to be a blast.”
Breaking in Privacy?
Will new anti-hacking laws breach the bill of rights? Parliament tries to walk the tightrope between security and invasion.
Fashioning the Seams
“My work always tends to be about throwing extremes together,” says edge-designer Karen Walker. “I always find that the most exciting thing is when you take a $5 T-shirt and elevate it into something…
Directory of Excellence
Every entry in a New Zealand winery guide has one thing in common: “passion for excellence in their field”.
Kidnappers couldn’t take me
Russell Crowe laughs off kidnap threat: “Quite frankly, if they had to spend that much time in a small room with me… one of them might end up saying, ‘Look, pass the hat around,…
Dishy
Sam Neill transmits tension in The Dish, the story of how Neill Armstrong came to be broadcast from a giant dish in the middle of the Australian desert.
Whey Better
New Zealand investment and technology turns Israeli cheese run-off from environmental hazard to valuable protein supplement.
Mega-Catch
New Zealand Envirosafe Technologies’ mega-catch mosquito trap looks like a “harmless, black plastic birdcage”, but, to a mosquito, it looks and smells exactly like a juicy human target.
Clean Fingers
European consumers can’t wait to get their hands on sustainably fished New Zealand hoki fish-fingers, but some groups strongly dispute the fishery’s right to the “sustainable” label.
Reel Pianos
The Piano, Jane Campion’s “hard to ignore” and “genuinely strange” masterpiece is the star in Jerusalem’s Festival of piano-films – celebrating the filmic attraction of tormented pianists.
Sock it to Him
Returning from Britain, Agricultural Minister Jim Sutton handed in his shoes for decontamination – accidentally also handing in a pair of dirty socks. These were also “decontaminated” by customs, returning to the minister freshly washed.
