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30 July 2010

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Sam Hunt: Poet, drunk, or genius?  A documentary featured in the New Zealand International Film Festival sheds a light. WHEN filmmakers Jim Scott and Tim Rose applied to the Film Commission for financing their documentary about poet Sam Hunt, they were told: “why would we… Continue

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Sport Talk
How can anyone lose to Australia?

28 July 2010

THERE are some mad buggers in Nelson who believe the US Government is part of a shadowy conspiracy to wipe out part of the world’s population by using jets to dump aluminum, barium, strontium, and whatever else via those wispy vapours you sometimes see high in the sky. Judging by the comments and links, there’s plenty of nutbars out there who agree that Nelson is specifically being targeted to assist… Continue

 
According to Doyle
Cut to the chase!!!

28 July 2010

THERE’S nothing like a horn in your ear to get your heart pumping. That goes without saying.  But where does all the excitement of running and hunting come from? For me, it started in my childhood when we used to go on holiday up to the King Country.  While there, we’d occasionally go to nighttime movies at the old fleapit down the road.   Most of them were cowboy films like The Black… Continue

 
Wine Press
Dynamite wine

28 July 2010

YEARS ago I passed a vineyard way up north.  I was on my way to Ahipara at the south end of Ninety Mile Beach.  I wish I’d been able to convince my driver to stop – We’d zoomed right past Okahu Estate.  This week I had a chance to make amends when I stumbled across a tasting at Wineseeker on Victoria Street.   We tried the Okahu Syrah 2007 ($36.50).  A medium-bodied, berries… Continue

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Music
A future at stake

28 July 2010

Vector Wellington Orchestra, Wellington Town Hall, July 24, 7.30pm, reviewed by Garth Wilshere THE Creative New Zealand paper released this week looks at reorganising the funding it gives to the Vector Wellington Orchestra and other major arts bodies around New Zealand. Make no mistake: the future of this orchestra is at stake. Marc Taddei has consolidated and built the orchestra over the past… Continue

 
Film
In your dreams

28 July 2010

At the movies with Dan Slevin I was really enjoying Inception until I woke up. Actually, that’s not true.  Unlike my companion, the Sandman didn’t come to rescue me from Christopher Nolan’s bombastic blockbuster and I had to sit through all two and a half hours of it, wondering what all the fuss was about. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a corporate spy who specialises in entering people’s… Continue

 
Beer
Great culinary experience

28 July 2010

LAST week there were two events that celebrated how beer can have a place at the table. On Tuesday night I was involved in The Emerson’s Degustation Dinner at Logan Brown.  The event showcased just how well fine food and craft beer can work together. Logan Brown Head Chef Shaun Clouston, and brewer Richard Emerson worked together to match six of Shaun’s courses to six of Richard’s beers. We… Continue

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