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12 March 2010
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Music
Lucky 13
13 Most Beautiful, Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, Town Hall, reviewed…
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Theatre
Like an onion
The Letter Writer, Circa Theatre, reviewed by Lynn Freeman. A world…
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Other
What a bargain
New Zealand International Arts Festival. Sutra, St James Theatre, March 3rd,…
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Film
Just as good in 2D
At the movies with Robyn Gallagher TIM Burton’s Alice in Wonderland…
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Sport Talk
On sportsmanship
10 March 2010
I saw the most bizarre penalty incident on the BBC website last weekend. …
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Wine Press
Happy Santa
10 March 2010
PINOT hits the capital once more on St Patrick’s Day when 20 producers from…
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According to Doyle
Your absolute breast
3 March 2010
I don’t want to be labelled a knocker. But I want to deal with one or two…
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Sport Talk
Drooling dictators who refuse to die
3 March 2010
WE were awarded the Rugby World Cup in November 2005. Last week, Auckland…
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Stories
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Mountain Kate
TRIATHLETE and mountain running champion Kate McIlroy was fast asleep when Capital Times called to talk about her chances of winning the New Zealand Cup Championship and Oceania Championship titles in Wellington this weekend. Training at high altitude is really… Continue
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Horsey handstands
IT’S hard enough executing a neat handstand or cartwheel on terra firma let alone on horseback. The Kapiti Equestrian and Vaulting Club will demonstrate the art of performing tricks on trotting or cantering horses at Waitangi Park this weekend, and the club’s… Continue
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Life is a skate park
Go out to Waitangi Park on a sunny day in the weekend, and you will hear the swish of wheels rolling on concrete, crack of wood hitting the ground, and the occasional grunt of pain. Mostly though, you will hear cheers of triumph. Skateboarding is more than just… Continue
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Cooper trooper
In the lead up to the Hurricanes’ second home game of the Super 14, coach Colin Cooper comments on the irony of captain Andrew Hore playing hooker, and the likelihood Wellington will win the competition. COLIN Cooper is cool as a cucumber. Fresh off the field… Continue
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Go West
PHOENIX FC and the Hurricanes have much in common. Not only are they our regional sports teams – in soccer and rugby – sharing the Westpac Stadium as their home turf, but both will face-off against Perth at the stadium this weekend. The Hurricanes play their… Continue
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Wellington warrior
Charlie Gubb has had a happy time growing up in Wellington, playing rugby at Wellington College and league for the University Hunters. Now he’s spreading his wings. NINETEEN year old Charlie Gubb had a big decision to make before Christmas. The New Zealand… Continue
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Wheel love
LOVEBIRDS Verity Carroll and Ingo Schommer will celebrate their second anniversary this Valentine’s Day, on wheels. The capital couple started going out on February 14, 2008, and plan to spend part of their anniversary at the Frocks on Bikes – Love to Roll event… Continue
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Sailors at the Sevens
THREE Wellington City Council employees are swapping their day attire for “flirty” sailor uniforms at the much-anticipated Rugby Sevens. Anita Denzel, Jodi Turton and Hanna Stephen came across five sailor-girl outfits on Trademe, and decided they would be the… Continue
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Going Public
SPORTS CAFÉ is dropping the sports and going Public. Gina and Nick Mills of Chicago Sports Café fame purchased the bar on Courtenay Place from defunct owners CEA Trading in July, with the intention of giving it a makeover. The new restaurant/bar is named Public,… Continue
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What the hell is futsal?
PELE learned his skills from it. Ronaldo says it is the game he loves the most. But it’s not football, it’s futsal. Brazil’s most successful sporting export (after Pele and Ronaldo), futsal is five-a-side version of the round ball game (the only FIFA approved… Continue
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Phoenix ready to fire
WELLINGTON College boy Tim Brown has captained the New Zealand All Whites, earned his stripes in the competitive American college league, and played professionally for the Newcastle Jets football team. Now he faces a new challenge as vice captain of the Phoenix… Continue
Columns
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On sportsmanship
I saw the most bizarre penalty incident on the BBC website last weekend. Welsh Scarlets lock Lou Reed, playing against Ulster, ran at an opposition winger yelling “Arrrrghhhh!!!!” to try and put the winger off a clearing kick. Reed was never going to get… Continue
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Drooling dictators who refuse to die
WE were awarded the Rugby World Cup in November 2005. Last week, Auckland mayors finally decided that the $97 million wharf revamp to build (cough) “Party Central” and a cruise ship berth would not go ahead. It only took four years and the small matter of that… Continue
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Hurricanes management loses the plot
I recall a certain CEO I worked for calling me into his office some years ago. He had received a letter accusing me of being a two-timing scoundrel. It’s true. At the time I was. I was going through my “avant-garde raconteur man about town (i.e.… Continue
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Thanks for the N.H. Stadium debacle
NICE to see the fruitbats who turn up at most world events to disrupt things didn’t let the side down during the first couple of days of the Vancouver winter Olympics. The Olympic Resistance Network smashed a few windows, had a couple of marches, and so on. … Continue
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Sevens supporters and more
IN this last of the latest series, let’s have a jolly good look at supporters. Supporters aren’t easily classified as players and administrators are, but usually fall into one of several general camps – looney good, looney bad, long-suffering (come on in, Otago… Continue
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Average club Joe
AFTER the furore last week’s column created amongst all the sports administrators I have to deal with, I thought I’d take my death wish further and look at the various types of player and/or athlete your average club Joe has to deal with. Luckily most of… Continue
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I hate meetings
I desperately wanted to write a rude word at the beginning of this column. Despite my former journalism colleagues deciding years ago my epitaph would be “I Can’t Imagine Life Without Stress”, it got to me last week. I hate meetings. Meetings are for people… Continue
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Dunedin Stadium fuzzies
IN BETWEEN going outside and getting rained on, I’ve spent some of my break working on a new professional sports franchise, only to come to my déjà-vu conclusion that sport in New Zealand, were it a private sector business, would not exist. It’s only thanks to… Continue
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On good sports writing
IT’S 20 years since I was discharged into the world of journalism and quickly discovered that a) sports reporters get double time (it was 20 years ago) and b) a press pass can get you into every possible thing you want to go and see. I used to enjoy covering events… Continue
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The old Year in Review time
THE TIGER WOODS NAUGHTY BOY AWARD: Has to go to the NRL. Take your pick: Danny Wicks (Newcastle), drug dealing; Greg Inglis (Melbourne), beating up his girlfriend; Setaimata Sa (Roosters) assaulting a copper; Jake Friend (Roosters) range of booze-fuelled incidents;… Continue
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Air NZ Cup decision
To: Paddy Lewis From: NZRFU media HQ Subject: Please Don’t Mr Lewis – We are aware that after today’s decision on the Air NZ Cup you are probably going to make up some sort of utterance about “flip flops” or “lack of leadership”. Can we suggest, in the spirit… Continue
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All Black dissent
“GOOD news,” said the young intern as he stumbled in the door. “The All Blacks’ win has rated 579 favourable mentions from the press, including Murray Deaker.” “That brainless oaf,” said the man at the head of the table, face in shadow, “At least he’s… Continue
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NZ racing
FIRSTLY, a disclosure: I am, somewhat unwittingly, a shareholder in a harness racing breeding conflagration. By that I mean that my expert wife and her expert brother burn money breeding and training supposedly brilliant nags in their spare time in the… Continue
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Camp All Blacks
“I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.” “(I) also love fashion so it’s fantastic to be here in Milan for… Continue
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Football nation
WHEN I was growing up, I wasn’t the most robust child. After a couple of years of rugby, my father decided a year of raw meat, spinach and manual labour might be the answer while I took the season off. This was all rather perplexing to a seven year old,… Continue
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Problems in NZ football
IT’S a fairly safe bet that New Zealand Football (formerly Soccer NZ) won’t be the subject of any case studies on successful sporting management. However, given their ability to produce pigs’ ears out of everything, they might be invited to present papers to a… Continue
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