EDGE #260: Lorde Talks Melodrama, Looksee Welly Draws 48,000, Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 + Top of the Lake Season Two ++ more

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News of Global New Zealanders via Global Media From Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM | 26 April 2017 | #260 | New York Music | New York Times (The) 22 April 2017 Lorde talks Melodrama at New York Diner Lorde owns a house in Auckland, where she grew up, but for the better part of the last year she has been living at different hotels around New York, trying to finish her second album, Melodrama. She talks to New York Times Magazine contributing writer Jonah Weiner at a… Science/Tech | New York Times 26 April 2017 Wellington Tech Talent Program Draws 48,000 Applicants The LookSee Wellington program to fly in 100 tech developers for job interviews has been “besieged” with more than 48,000 entries,… War & Peace | Courier.co.uk (The) 25 April 2017 Scottish ANZAC Ceremony Remembers Fallen NZ Airmen A quiet corner of a Scottish cemetery was the sombre setting for remembering the darkest day in New Zealand’s military history. Figures from Angus… Film & TV | Vanity Fair 24 April 2017 Taika Waititi Confirms Thor Cameo “With a very popular trailer already out, Marvel fans probably thought they already knew everything there was to know about the cast of [the Taika Waititi-helmed] Thor: Ragnarok,” according to… Community/General | News.com.au 23 April 2017 Seven Reasons Auckland Beats Sydney “Like most Aussies I know, I’ve spent my life poking fun at our Kiwi cousins, mostly because of the way they say ‘fush n’ chups’,” Andrew Brown (pictured) writes for… New Zealand | Conde Nast Traveler 23 April 2017 Sleep Under the Stars in PurePods PurePods are four free-standing glass houses set in open clearing on private farm land in the South Island. There’s no carpet, curtains, or traditional ceiling (it’s made of glass), and even the… X Files | YouTube 21 April 2017 How Blue Whales Feed Oregon State University researchers were able to capture how blue whales feed in a rare clip filmed with a drone. The footage was taken in the Southern Ocean off New Zealand. Taste | DNAinfo 23 April 2017 Coffee Chain Mojo to Open First US Shop in Chicago New Zealand coffee chain Mojo is opening its first shop in the United States in Chicago near the city’s iconic Willis Tower in May. Mojo’s first… Taste | Australian Financial Review 22 April 2017 Guy Stanaway Chef in Charge at Doot Doot Doot New Zealand-born chef Guy Stanaway is executive chef at new upmarket Melbourne restaurant Doot Doot Doot, where he will serve degustation menus showcasing… Agriculture | Guardian (The) 22 April 2017 NZ Devises Manuka Honey Test to Fight Fakes The New Zealand Government has tested 800 samples of honey from around the world to establish a scientific definition of genuine manuka honey and crackdown on alleged… Z-Files | Guardian (The) 24 April 2017 Shoelace Specialist Ian Fieggen Knots The Secure A new study explains why shoelaces keep coming undone – but it can’t explain why we’re stuck with a centuries-old fudge to fasten our trainers,… Business | iapp The Privacy Advisor 21 April 2017 Microsoft’s Lynch Wins IAPP Vanguard Award Brendon Lynch, Chief Privacy Officer of Microsoft in Redmond, Seattle, has been named 2017 winner of the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (iapp)… Education | Age (The) 21 April 2017 Jamie Beaton Leading the Ivy League Charge New Zealand-born Jamie Beaton dreamt big when he finished high school. He applied for 25 international universities and received an offer from all of them, Henrietta Cook… Music | Guardian (The) 24 April 2017 Lorde Makes Sophisticated Return at Coachella “Lorde used her late-evening (Coachella) slot to showcase material from her forthcoming album, Melodrama. Starting off with a portion of her lead single, Green… Media | Bandwagon 20 April 2017 Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 Not Built For Passive Music Fan From being BBC Radio 1’s “tastemaker-in-charge” for fresh, cutting-edge music to helming Apple’s fresh, cutting-edge new radio… Opera | San Francisco Classical Voice 19 April 2017 Isabella Moore’s Spine-Chilling Performance Lauded Auckland soprano Isabella Moore’s recent performance in Puccini’s Suor Angelica at Conservatory Concert Hall in San Francisco is highly… War & Peace | Guardian (The) 20 April 2017 MI5 File Lays Bare Case of KGB Spy Paddy Costello A controversy that has spanned more than seven decades over whether Auckland-born Paddy Costello, a Cambridge-educated diplomat and academic, was a top… Education | Stuff 20 April 2017 Palmerston North Med Student Heading to Yale Palmerston North-based medical student Josh Smith is heading to American Ivy League institution Yale University to learn a technique that could shape the future of… Film & TV | Hollywood Reporter 21 April 2017 Top of the Lake Season Two More Accessible Critics loved Top of the Lake, New Zealander Jane Campion’s dark crime drama, starring Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss as Robin Griffin, the police detective tasked with… See all stories and an 11,500 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2016 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. 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