EDGE #430 – Ten Things to Keep in Mind Before Visiting NZ + 48 Global Stories –

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Show Comments News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 04 January 2023 | #430 | 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 2000-2023 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison. New Zealand | Jerusalem Post 28 December 2022 Ten Things to Keep in Mind Before Visiting NZ To prepare those interested in a trip to Aotearoa, The Jerusalem Post polled their “Nomad community for advice on what they would tell someone visiting the country for the first time”, and this included ensuring travellers “sleep outside”, and being wary of sand… Media | Australian (The) 28 December 2022 TikTok for Good Award Goes to Jazz Thornton It’s not quite the silver screen, but for the savants of the 16×9 phone screen, TikTok’s second annual For You Fest held in Sydney celebrates the top tier of talent…   Fashion | Harper’s Bazaar 25 December 2022 Model Holly Rose Emery Ahead of the Curve As teenagers, Aucklander Holly Rose Emery (left), who is based in New York, and Australian Gemma Ward both shot to the top of the international modelling industry. Harper’s…   Business | New York Times (The) 22 December 2022 Sustainability is Abel’s Top Note Artisanal companies from Britain to New Zealand are putting environmentally sensitive production, practices and packaging at the centre of their business models, Isabella Kwai reports for The…   Taste | Guardian (The) 21 December 2022 Monica Galetti Took a Risk and Made It in London New Zealand chef Monica Galetti, 47, speaks to The Guardian about her childhood in Samoa, controlling her temper, meeting the Queen and forgetting to…   General | Wall Street Journal (The) 21 December 2022 NZ Bans Cigarette Sales for Those Born After 2009 New Zealand has adopted a steadily rising tobacco-purchase age and mandated the near-elimination of nicotine from all cigarettes sold in the country,…   Science/Tech | Forbes 18 December 2022 Richard Chandler Aims to Build Tesla of Aeroplanes Futuristic electric vertical-takeoff air taxis have grabbed all the headlines – and billions in venture dollars – but Singapore-based investor…   Nga Kupu Aroha – Words of Love | Denis O’Reilly 16 December 2022 Putting Power in the Hands of Whanau With submissions on the proposed Charities Amendment Bill closing a couple of days ago, Denis O’Reilly argues against the changing attitude towards charities and what he sees as the move…   Business | Canadian Business 14 December 2022 Allbirds’ Tim Brown Reflects on Career Change Many entrepreneurs will tell you that what they’re doing now is not what they initially set out to do. Each month in a series called, The Pivot, Canadian…   Music | Age (The) 14 December 2022 Jazz Pianist Mike Nock Relearns Seminal Album At 82, the exuberant Christchurch-born, Sydney-based pianist Mike Nock has a lifetime of stories to share, and an abundance of insights to accompany them, Jessica…   Music | Violin Channel (The) 14 December 2022 Violinist Bryony Gibson-Cornish Appointed at RCM New Zealand-born violist Bryony Gibson-Cornish is one of five new professors appointed to the String Faculty at the Royal College of Music (RCM),…   Motorsports | Age (The) 14 December 2022 Shane van Gisbergen Wins Bathurst 1000 Aucklander Shane van Gisbergen, 33, (pictured right) now has more Supercars wins in one season than anybody else, after he and Australian Garth Tander, 45, surged to their second…   Music | Rolling Stone 14 December 2022 New Zealand’s Indy Forging Own Pop Path Last month, a new indie pop star emerged – and she’s making the main character anthems of everyone’s dreams, according to Brittany Spanos writing for Rolling Stone. After…   New Zealand | Forbes 14 December 2022 Geothermal New Zealand Can’t Be Missed “New Zealand’s volcanic activity is so close to the earth’s surface that you can even dig your own hot tub in the sand,” Forbes contributor Johanna Read writes. “[The…   Fashion | Stuff 14 December 2022 Meet Hollywood Hairstylist Jaime Leigh McIntosh Jaime Leigh McIntosh is on a rare break. The Cambridge-born, Los Angeles-based hair stylist has spent the last three years leading the hair department for two…   Obituaries | Guardian (The) 14 December 2022 Pioneering Physicist Mark Warner a Selfless Mentor We are all familiar with elastic bands and other soft, rubbery materials, but familiarity should not diminish our surprise at their properties. What…   Design | Elle Decor 14 December 2022 Decorating Doyen Veere Grenney Revives Townhouse Veere Grenney, whose work on a Belgravia townhouse features in Elle Decor this month, is an acclaimed, tentpole designer with a playful style (custom…   Dance | Complex 14 December 2022 Dancer Lance Savali Never Misses a Beat Lance Savali is a Wellington-born dancer, who shot to stardom after beginning his career with compatriot Parris Goebel’s dance crew, The Royal Family. Speaking to Complex AU,…   New Zealand | Conde Nast Traveler 14 December 2022 Auckland a Condé Nast Favourite Auckland has made the Condé Nast Traveler global guide to the ‘Best Places to Go in 2023′ list, one of 23 locations worldwide to make the cut. “Widely praised for its containment of COVID-19,…   Obituaries | New York Times (The) 14 December 2022 Hamish Kilgour an NZ Musician Who Had Reach Hamish Kilgour, a founding member of the New Zealand band the Clean, who was celebrated among fans of underground music for his propulsive drumming and his…   Writers | Literary Review 14 December 2022 Literary Review Looks at Mansfield and the Movies “One of Katherine Mansfield’s defining characteristics was her restlessness, both personal and artistic: she was always most at home when on the…   Business | Forbes 14 December 2022 Simran Kaur Is a Girl That Invests When Simran Kaur, creator and co-host of the podcast Girls That Invest, and author of the bestselling book of the same name, was growing up in New Zealand, there was no resource for young women…   Dance | Harper’s Bazaar 14 December 2022 Crafting Savage x Fenty with Parris Goebel In-demand New Zealand choreographer Parris Goebel talks with Harper’s Bazaar about shaping the annual fashion spectacle Savage x Fenty and her longstanding creative…   General | Guardian (The) 14 December 2022 Auckland Couple with New Baby Looks Ahead Tuesday 15 November 2022 marked the day that the global population reached 8 billion, according to the United Nations. The impact of this is far-reaching, putting additional…   Sport General | South China Morning Post 12 December 2022 Hong Kong Trail Designed by Will Hayward Opens The 92km Tinworth Trail, dedicated to a former trail race organiser who died two years ago and designed by New Zealander Will Hayward, runs from the North East…   Visual Arts | Ocula 12 December 2022 Artist Francis Upritchard Shows in Switzerland New Zealand-born artist Francis Upritchard, 46, has had her first solo show in Switzerland at Biel’s Kunsthaus Pasquart, exhibiting over 100…   Politics and Economics | National Geographic 12 December 2022 New Zealand First to Try Taxing Cows’ Gas Emissions In a nation with seven times more livestock than people, taxing farmers for herds’ greenhouse gas emissions is a controversial proposal,…   Science/Tech | Scotsman (The) 11 December 2022 Edinburgh Tech Jobs Boost with StretchSense Landing New Zealand firm StretchSense, the brains behind “the world’s best motion capture glove”, is launching a “centre of excellence” in…   Dance | Harper’s Bazaar Australia 11 December 2022 Anything’s Possible for Choreographer Parris Goebel From Justin Bieber to Rihanna, the entertainment industry’s elite all want to work with Parris Goebel, Grace O’Neill writes for…   Music | Guardian (The) 11 December 2022 Cult Guitarist Roy Montgomery Records New Music Beloved by the likes of Dry Cleaning and Grouper, New Zealand guitarist Roy Montgomery’s life has been hit by more than one tragedy, stories he traces in…   Motorsports | Washington Post (The) 10 December 2022 Indy Prodigy Marcus Armstrong Joins Ganassi Christchurch-born Marcus Armstrong was a Scott Dixon fan his entire life and when he was eight, the aspiring young racer asked his fellow New Zealander to autograph a…   General | CNN 10 December 2022 Four Day Week’s Charlotte Lockhart Speaks to CNN In a recent CNN Audio podcast from the series, Downside Up, New Zealander Charlotte Lockhart, founder of the non-profit 4 Day Week Global, joins…   Obituaries | Athletics Weekly 10 December 2022 Running Legend Sir Murray Halberg Our Olympic Hero Sir Murray Halberg, New Zealand Olympic 5000m champion in 1960, two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist and multiple world record-breaker, has…   Visual Arts | New York Times (The) 09 December 2022 Kate Newby’s NY Art Rose Through Cracks In New York, on the Lower East Side, Laurel Gitlen gallery features two tile works that Kate Newby, the sculptor and ceramist, calls “murals”. Hung like paintings, they…   Science/Tech | Stuff 08 December 2022 CEO James Parr Searching Universe for Signs of Life As a Lower Hutt schoolboy James Parr won a scholarship to NASA summer camp. Worried he wouldn’t fit in, he turned it down. Three decades later,…   Business | Financial Times 07 December 2022 Inside New Zealand’s Clean Green Beauty Scene Kaeā, founded by conservationist Suzan Craig, is one of a handful of sustainable skincare brands to come out of New Zealand in recent years. Financial Times…   Design | Wallpaper 07 December 2022 Sandra Nunnerley Launches Sculptural Corian Tables What happens when you shape Corian, a material best known for kitchen and bathroom applications, into modern furniture? Something arrestingly…   Visual Arts | Forbes 07 December 2022 Artist Hannah Jensen Reveals Magic in Carving Paint Christchurch-based artist Hannah Jensen speaks to Forbes contributor Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle about painting in reverse, where all the layers of paint…   Nature | New York Times (The) 06 December 2022 Antipodes’ Penguins Lay Eggs Doomed to Die In 1998, a team of researchers made the three-and-a-half day trek to the isolated Antipodes Islands in the South Pacific to study one of its few residents: the…   Agriculture | Japan Times (The) 05 December 2022 Massey Scientists Reduce Cow Burps to Save Planet More than a dozen calves wait at a research farm in New Zealand to be fed “Kowbucha”, a probiotic that studies show reduces methane emissions – or…   Golf | Korea Times (The) 04 December 2022 South Korean LPGA Win for Golfer Lydia Ko The Korean-born New Zealander Lydia Ko, 25, has captured her 18th career LPGA Tour title in Korea, rallying from a one-stroke deficit with some methodical golf down the…   Politics and Economics | BBC 03 December 2022 Supreme Court Rules Voting Age of 18 is Discriminatory New Zealand’s Supreme Court has ruled that the country’s current voting age of 18 is discriminatory, meaning parliament must discuss…   Writers | Lancashire Post 02 December 2022 Juliette MacIver Writes Romping Rhyme for Kids “‘When darkness falls in rising mist, Beware the gruesome grizzled grist.’ Watch little smiles light up when they get their hands on this fun-filled…   Film & TV | Yahoo 01 December 2022 New Taika Waititi Film Stars Michael Fassbender In 2001, the American Samoa football team were thrashed by Australia and recruited the services of a coach named Thomas Rongen in an attempt to reverse their…   Nature | ABC News 01 December 2022 NIWA Scientists Say Tonga Eruption Record Size A team of oceanographers, scientists and marine geologists headed by the New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) investigating…   Business Day | Society 31st December 2002 20 YEARS AGO “The Boot” Remembered Rugby fans around the world farewell Don “the Boot” Clarke, an incomparable All Black legend. Business Day Nature | New York Times (The) 28 December 2007 15 YEARS AGO Power in Numbers The New York Times reports on a multi-organisation effort to save NZ’s national symbol from extinction. Arts | New York Times (The) 13th December 2012 10 YEARS AGO Lord of the Rings was Perfect “The Lord of the Rings was the work of a filmmaker perfectly in tune with his source material. Its too… Arts | Forbes 18 December 2017 5 YEARS AGO Royals Certifiably Diamond Rated “Just four years after it was first released, Lorde’s breakout single Royals has been certified diamond in the…   Stories you Missed in 2022 Rugby | ESPN 29 November 2022 Black Ferns Star Ruby Tui Wins Again Black Ferns wing Ruby Tui can now celebrate her World Cup victory with a new winner’s medal after she was recently named World Rugby breakthrough 15s player of the year at the World Rugby…   Golf | Reuters 29 November 2022 Lydia Ko Wins Big Prizes in Florida New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has secured the LPGA’s season-ending title, the tour’s Player of the Year award and a big winner’s cheque with a two-stroke win at the CME Group Tour…   Music | Houston Chronicle 22 November 2022 Gemma New Makes Houston Symphony Debut Gemma New has studied under conductors whose names are familiar well beyond the cloistered halls of classical music: Dudamel, Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas. The 35-year-old New Zealand…   General | MIrage News 22 November 2022 Cultural Champ Ken Gorbey Relishes Ninth Decade Arts alumnus Ken Gorbey tells Megan Fowlie, reporting for Auckland University’s Ingenio magazine, that he is treating his ninth decade as he would a museum…   Politics and Economics | Associated Press 15 November 2022 Female Lawmakers Outnumber Male in Parliament For the first time in New Zealand’s history, a majority of its lawmakers are women, Nick Perry writes for Associated Press in a story published by the Los Angeles…   Rugby | Guardian (The) 14 November 2022 New Zealand Win Women’s Rugby World Cup “This was the biggest game of women’s rugby ever played and, somehow, it exceeded even that lofty billing. New Zealand are the Rugby World Cup champions but only after a…   Writers 15 November 2022 Discovering New Zealand Crime Fiction Waitara-born writer Jacqueline Bublitz discusses New Zealand’s “significant contribution to the cannon of popular crime fiction” and recommends four authors “you should be reading…   Civil + Structural Engineer Media 31 October 2022 Kaynemaile’s Cool Silicon Valley Facade Not software but hardware, of the coolest kind. Wellington materials science and design innovators Kaynemaile have graced one of Silicon Valley’s newest buildings with their…   Nga Kupu Aroha – Words of Love 14 November 2022 A Matter of Better Judgement Cultural Reports under Section 27 of the Sentencing Act seek to address the entrenched asymmetry or negative disproportionality in criminal justice outcomes for Māori offenders. Its complex. 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