#235: Katherine Mansfield’s inscrutability, unstoppable All Blacks, Eleanor Catton’s Rehearsal, Virgin’s Josh Bayliss + designer Emilia Wickstead and more ++

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News of New Zealanders via Global Media From Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM | 06 October 2016 | #235 | New York Writers | El Mundo 05 October 2016 Katherine Mansfield’s Inscrutability Intrigues In the acclaimed biography La Vida Breve di Katherine Mansfield, written by famed Italian literary critic and author Pietro Citati, the New Zealand-born writer’s stories are described as having the special quality of “distance”. The biography, which was first… Rugby | Independent Online 03 October 2016 Pumas No Match for Unstoppable All Blacks Title-holders New Zealand have made it five bonus-point victories out of five in this year’s Rugby Championship beating Argentina 36-17 in Buenos Aires in front of a…   Film & TV | IndieWIRE 04 October 2016 The Rehearsal Adaptation a Team Effort The spirit of collaboration runs deep in Alison Maclean’s The Rehearsal, the Canadian filmmaker’s often ambitious and hearteningly daring big screen adaptation of Man Booker…   Business | Australian Financial Review 29 September 2016 Virgin’s Josh Bayliss Plugging Luxury Gyms Switzerland-based Virgin Group chief executive New Zealander Josh Bayliss was in Sydney recently to promote the company’s luxury gym arm The Collection, which will…   Fashion | Financial Times 29 September 2016 Emilia Wickstead Shares Her Favourite Things London-based, New Zealand-born fashion designer Emilia Wickstead shares a few of her favourite things for the Telegraph’s “My Luxuries” column. Wickstead…   Community/General | Guardian (The) 04 October 2016 Elderly New Zealanders Building Their Own Caskets Quilting, lawn bowls and bridge it is not. Elderly people in New Zealand are enthusiastically embracing a new pastime: coffin construction, providing…   Z-Files | Straits Times (The) 04 October 2016 Stephen Moore Completes Singapore Bike Quest A New Zealander who set out two years ago to pedal his bike on every Singapore road – save those where cycling is not allowed – has finally completed his quest….   Film & TV | New Zealand Herald 03 October 2016 No Caller ID Makes Hollywood’s Screamfest Lineup Slasher film No Caller I.D., which was shot in one night and on a three-figure budget, has been accepted into Hollywood’s prestigious Screamfest…   Film & TV | Vice 02 October 2016 What We Do In The Shadows – Mockumentary You Need to Watch Kiwi mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows has been included in a list of mockumentaries you will need to watch in an…   Obituaries | Guardian (The) 30 September 2016 Actor Terence Bayler Was Brian and so Was His Wife Whanganui-born film, stage and television actor Terence Bayler, known notably for his collaborations with the Monty Python team, has died aged…   Community/General | Global Times 02 October 2016 BMW to Help Build NZ’s Electric Vehicle “Highway” German automaker BMW has partnered with national charging network Charge Net NZ to help “build an electric highway of fast-charging stations to…   Innovation | Telegraph (The) 01 October 2016 NZ Researchers Decode First Electronic Song Researchers from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have managed to restore the first ever computer-generated piece of music, which was created by Alan Turing…   Z-Files | Herald Sun 01 October 2016 Bali Dog Orphanage Volunteer loves Results Ten years ago, New Zealander Alanah Dalton was holidaying in Ubud when a poster outside a shop front that said “I Love Bali Dogs” caught her eye. “I love animals…   Business | CNBC 30 September 2016 Why Craig Cooper Invests in Adventure Sports When New Zealand-born venture capitalist Craig Cooper isn’t rock climbing, meditating or writing for his men’s health blog The New Prime, he’s looking for the…   Music | Wire (The) 29 September 2016 Fis Creating Eco-Conscious Electronics “Before I was producing music electronically I was a drummer, and I really loved just trying to stop thinking and just play rhythm,” New Zealand-born producer Oliver Peryman aka Fis…   Visual Arts | Daily Telegraph (The) 28 September 2016 Paul Shanta Dealing to Sydney’s Graffiti New Zealand-born artist Paul Shanta has come up with a colourful solution to the bad graffiti problem littering the streetscapes of Sydney suburb Campsie. Shanta is offering…   See all stories and an 10,500 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2016 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Researched and edited by Jane Nye (Berlin), Andrew Conn (New York), Henrike Forschler (Auckland). Web published by Caleb Walsh (Auckland). Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison.