Wednesday, 19 December 2007

91 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines December 21


New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in New York Times, BBC, CNN, Guardian, Telegraph, Observer, Variety, Citizen-Times, news.com.au, Melbourne Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Salt Lake City Tribune, Sunshine Coast Daily, Orange County Register, Herald Sun include:
  • Haka in Utah via Dave Atkinson (Kaeo) for Marae Cttee NZ-US Soc
  • Henry whistles ref for RFU exit, back as ABs coach, Deans to OZ
  • Splash with splatter: NZ horror films entry genre for first directors
  • NZ War Memorial in Hyde Park wins UK communications award
  • NZ Police uses wiki for global input to update of 1958 Police Act
  • CanterburyU’s Annie Potts on vegan-to-vegan love: cruelty-free
  • NZ-Melbourne Cantonese Seamstress wins critics, diners
  • Book charts tumultuous Earthrace bio-fuelled speedboat journey
  • North Carolina realist Robert Johnson paints NZ’s edge evolution
  • Australian travel guide tips Aotearoa’s top 30 lake experiences
  • NZ voted world’s best holiday in Telegraph: 300k UK visitors
  • Pro surfer Dave Rastovich in protest over Japan’s dolphin killings
  • Wellington student Landen Hale-Brown lead role in OZ Billy Elliot
  • Climate change key issue on Clark-Rudd inaugural PM meet
  • John Daniell’s French pro-rugby book “a gem off the beaten track”
  • Balclutha-born Dean Tahana crowned Australia’s sexiest man (px)
  • Peter Gordon shreds “food miles myth” on UK TV, backs NZ food
  • Auckland feted for “stunning natural setting”, wineries, architecture
  • Kohanga reo centres triples fluent Maori speakers; hailed worldwide
  • 09 NZ Winter Games prop’d for elite PacRim athletes pre-Olympics
  • Beckham heaven: LA Galaxy, Wellington Phoenix charm Capital
  • Bob Charles’ adrenalin flows on M.Hill’s Q’town NZ Open course
  • Jesse James film “classic Americana” from Andrew Dominik
  • Neil Finn “Lennonish” at sellout UK concerts: “big, warm and tingly”
  • Dave Henderson turns IRD nemises into luxe-modern hotel SO
  • NYNZ psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson on cats vs birds rights debate
  • Pietra Brettkelly at Sundance for Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
For full stories see http://www.nzedge.com/media, a 6,000-story storehouse of international activities by New Zealanders 2000-07.

Friday, 7 December 2007

90 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines December 7


New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The New York Times, The Times, Globe & Mail, Salon, Guardian, The Age, Monocle, Undercover, China View, Telegram, BBC News, Canberra Times, Times of India and The Observer include:
  • Wellington’s Ponoko pioneer virtual personalized manufacturing
  • Rotorua microbiologists reveal methane-buster from Hells Gate
  • New 50 Facts That Should Change the World from Jessica Williams
  • Nurse Lisa French Blaker writes Heart of Darfur from Sudan
  • NZ “wine producing country of the year” – Observer’s Tim Atkin
  • OtagoU scientists patent squid gel to reduce surgical scarring
  • BEE (Beauty Engineered for Ever) cleaning products make Monocle
  • Carbon-neutral Arthur’s Pass Wilderness Lodge gets Times aok
  • Guardian has “thrillingly wild, jaw-dropping” tour of NZ back country
  • Lloyd Jones talks up raging character of Wellington wind in Times
  • Digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy Conchords score in Capital
  • Auckland artist Dane Mitchell selected for Miami’s Art Basel 2008
  • Peter Boggs compared to Edward Hopper in Canberra exhibition
  • Chills, “set apart by geography,” in Guardian’s greatest music acts
  • B+W photographer Stefanie Young in Chelsea NYC show
  • Baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes shows character range in OZ Opera
  • Lauren McKee and Wynne Pirini reinvent Tshirts in Vancouver
  • Windsurfer Barbara Kendall earns fifth Olympic Games spot
  • Buck Shelford scores 15th in Times’ list of sport’s worst injuries
  • All Black and NZ Maori legend Pat Walsh dies, Auckland, 71

For full stories see http://www.nzedge.com/media, a 6,000-story storehouse of international activities by New Zealanders 2000-07.

Photos clockwise from top left of Dane Mitchell at Miami's Art Basel, Ponoko pioneers David ten Have and Derek Ellery in the NY Times, BEE cleaning products, Dafur nurse Lisa French Blaker, patent squid gel and baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes.