115 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 20 August 2009

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Pictured above: Kiri Te Kanawa, Valerie Vili, Lucy Lawless, The Black Sox, and Sam Neill

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The New York Times, Brisbane Times, Xinhua News, Bust Magazine, Financial Times, San Francisco Gate, The Independent on Sunday, ShortList, Thaindian News and Times Online ABC News, WA Today, Los Angeles Times, Vogue Australia, Telegraph, Art & Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Korea Times and Guardian include:

• Kiri Te Kanawa, 65, to retire after Der Rosenkavalier, April ‘10
• Valerie Vili, 25, throws shotput 20.44m, takes gold at World Champs
• Lucy Lawless , 41, Spartacus star, "being naked on-screen no fun"
• Black Sox, NZ softball team, perform "scary" haka at World Champs
• Sam Neill turns down knighthood for being "just far too grand"
• Sarah Walker, BMXer, 21, wins World Champs, Adelaide
• Lisa Reihana, artist, alternative reading of her work put forward
• Ngaire Woods on recession and theory of “global regulatory capture”
• Peter Jackson's District 9, "rarity" for not being an adaptation, remake
• Swheeb, pedal-powered monorail, a direct response to future traffic
• Peter Yealands, to wrangle miniature sheep as lawnmowers
• Ted Jessep, All Black then Wallaby in first ever Bledisloe match in '34
• Wellington's "glam beer hall" Mighty Mighty, BATS Theatre, profiled
• David Jeffries, recent UK émigré, misses nothing about home
• Peter Jackson on Dam Busters: "bombing raid in 3D would be neat"
• New Zealand from a camper van opens doors to local conversation
• Rhys Darby, comedian, 35, stands up in London and soon Edinburgh
• Dr Kevin Burns, says NZ trees evolved camouflage to cope with moa
• Waiheke, Martinborough, Waipara Valley tempt epicurious Aussies
• NZ Fashion Week, to showcase Pamela Anderson's eco-swimwear
• Jim Eagles, NZ Herald journo, takes to Korean karaoke in Seoul
• New Zealand leading world in fight against overfishing
• New Zealand Syrah and Sav, best in the world at 2009 IWC
• St Mary's Bay property, Auckland high-end real estate for foreigners
• Kaikoura's Dolphin Encounter, swimming with "tarts of the ocean"

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114 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 10 August 2009

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Pictured above: Peter Jackson, Eleanor Catton, Kevin Roberts, Jonathan Porritt and Jenna Sauers

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The News Star, Guardian, Daily Mail, Travel + Leisure, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Sydney Morning Herald, Bloomberg, Irish Times, American Medical News, The Independent, Samay Live, News Miner and New York Times include:

• Peter Jackson praises fan's enthusiasm, hopes it will rub off on execs
• Eleanor Catton, 23, author, in Iowa writing "fantastical", epic novel
• Kevin Roberts, nzedge.com co-founder, awarded Honorary Doctorate
• Jonathan Porritt, "sustainability ninja", leaves SDC after nine years
• Jenna Sauers, 23, model and fashion insider reveals 'hidden' identity
• Fiordland earthquake shakes NZ 12 inches closer to Australia
• Hew Mcleod, historian and world-renowned Sikh scholar dies, 77
• Carol Diebel, former Te Papa director, to head Alaskan Museum
• NZ Wine Industry's "growing glut" threatens Australia's wine exports
• Team New Zealand win "difficult" MedCup Sardinia Trophy on Mistral
• Wellington, place where film geeks satisfy cinematic cravings
• Cheryl McKnight's 8cm-high Maltese pup potential Guinness Record
• Ivan Yukich, Brancott, Montana wine "visionary"; NZ's "star rising"
• Classic Campers' VW Kombis make for "up-close and personal" travel
• Anna Paquin in LA's Gjelina's, not nervous, but "offbeat and wry"
• Kauri Cliffs' The Lodge, voted no.1 in region by Travel + Leisure
• P750 XTOL, Hamilton-made aircraft, to rival Cessna over Alaska
• New Zealand enticing destination for US doctors seeking change

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CONCEPT MUSCLE: JULIAN DASHPHER 1960–2009
Our friend Julian Daspher, artist, died on 30 July, aged 49, in Auckland. He was loved by many and will be greatly missed. What he leaves is his art – his early paintings and a substantial body of conceptual art exploring location and art itself. Julian signed up with nzedge early, a decade ago. He was already making the local/global trip. Curator Christina Barton has written that Julian had "the unique perspective of attending to an internationalist art history from a distance, enabling him to devise strategies to work around his geographical isolation whilst simultaneously articulating its effects." He undertook a project in three editions of the premier international contemporary art magazine, Artforum. "Julian was not at ease with the institutions of art, and rightly so, maintaining a distance which was energising. Distance becomes us, and, in 1992 he inserted an exhibition-as-advertisement in Artforum magazine. Artfrom New Zealand comically defied the politics and constraints of the one-way conversation, and marked out the possibilities of the self made guy" (Natasha Conland). Julian was a connector, a hustler in Texan boots, an internationalist from West Auckland. The list of his international exhibitions are the story of his working life: Trieste, Leiden, Topolove, Canberra, Aachen, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Kluzé, Saskatchewan, Sydney, Versa, Copenhagen, Tokyo, London, Marfa, Berlin, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Houston, Oxford, Los Angeles, Athens, Brussels, Sioux City, San Luis Obispo, Lincoln, New York City, Wichita, Melbourne, Oslo, Birmingham, Vienna, Basel, Toowoomba, Den Haag, Durban, Staten Island. A true edgster, Julian worked from remote locations. Of his 2005 Iowa exhibition, Larry Taylor wrote "Sioux City is just off of about everyone's map, even in an era of MapQuest. Perhaps that, ironically, makes it the place to begin reasserting some concept muscle: less hampered by the standard coastal baggage, such a locale offers its artistic self tabula rasa." Indeed. And just to confound the notion of what a conceptual artist is or should be, Julian was a big fan, nay, a believer, in the Warriors aka the Auckland-based rugby league team that delivers ecstasy and agony in equal measures. During his illness Julian would fortify himself with a video of Ruben Wiki hammering a Roosters player ("he's in Disneyland!"). Big Ruben visited Julian in hospital a few weeks before his death, with the message "stay strong and keep going." He did, and his art ensures he will. Tears and cheers to Marie and Leo.

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BEATRICE TINSLEY – QUEEN OF THE COSMOS
Cosmologist, violinist, teacher, mentor and nzedge Hero, Beatrice Tinsley, is the subject of a new 20-part series on Radio New Zealand Concert called The Stars are Comforting: The Letters of Beatrice Tinsley. Produced by Adrienne Baron, the series airs Wednesday nights at 7pm, and is based on the internationally-recognised scientist's letters to her family. Beatrice Tinsley was a truly extraordinary New Zealander whose work on how the evolution of galaxies affects the origin and size of the universe had a profound effect on scientific knowledge. But tragically she died of cancer in 1981 aged 40. Bob Brockie's tribute to Tinsley's life in the Dominion Post this week encapsulated her as "daughter of a one-time mayor of New Plymouth, she overcame almost insuperable odds to become a scientist and professor of astronomy at Yale University." For further information on this stellar New Zealander's story be sure to have a look Christine Cole Catley's fantastic biography Bright Star: Beatrice Hill Tinsley, Astronomer.

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NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL DATEBOOK

RECLAIMING THE PAST
LONDON, September 10 – October 10 2009: 'ethKnowcentrix: Museums Inside the Artist'. October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL.Artists Shigeyuki Kihara, George Nuku, Rosanna Raymond and Lisa Reihana present mixed media and performance work exploring the idea of the ethnographic gaze in a major exhibition – the first of its kind in London – next month at the October Gallery. 'ethKnowcentrix: Museums Inside the Artist' reconsiders the spaces of meeting, looking and representing across cultures, and explores how the ethnographic gaze has been reciprocated and challenged. "With acerbic wit, these works promise to radically subvert the European legacy of museum classification, reclaim popular imagery of Pacific Island culture, and offer fresh perspectives for a shared global future."

AUCKLAND, 21 August, 7pm, CBD-Connect, Rendevous Hotel

YMCA hosts its inaugural 'CBD-Connect' fundraiser event with nzedge.com co-founder Kevin Roberts as guest speaker. There will also be music performances by Tama Waipara and a poetry recital by 'slam poet' Courtney Meredith. For more info or to book a table, contact Michelle Delahunty at the YMCA, email michelle.delahunty@nzymca.com or phone 09 306 3750.

LOS ANGELES, until 29 August, Wall Drawings – Group Exhibiton

1301PE gallery hosts 'Wall Drawings', a new exhibition featuring work by Angela Bulloch, Kate Ericsson, Mel Ziegler, Jorge Méndez Blake, and New Zealander John Reynolds. Visit 1301PE website for further details.

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Here are the Top 10 titles for July:

1. Flare – A Ski Trip, NFU short film 1977 – Snow 'ski ballet'
2. The Leading Edge, feature film, 1987 – Extreme 80's thrill-seekers
3. Peter Snell – Athlete, NFU short film 1964 – 800m Gold Medalist
4. Britten: Backyard Visionary, doco 1993 – DIY designer John Britten
5. Trio at the Top, doco 2001 – Legends McLaren, Hulme and Amon
6. Games 74, NFU film 1974 – 1974 Chch Commonwealth Games
7. Gloss, TV series 1987 – Yuppies, Walkmen; 80s cult "glitter soap"
8. Play School, TV series 1975–1990 – Iconic show for preschoolers
9. Kaikohe Demolition, feature film 2004 – Far North demo derby
10. Bred to Win, NFU short film 1968 – Racehorse breeding in NZ

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STEINLAGER ON THE EDGE
The "They're drinking our beer here" ads for Steinlager in the 1980s were a benchmark for internationalism-from-the-edge. Cultural cringe be damned, in the fanciest bars and swankiest hotels in New York, LA and London, "they" were drinking "our" beer. The brand wandered off in the late 90s, but has made a comeback with Steinlager Pure ("the taste of paradise in a bottle") and now with Steinlager Edge – "the beer for people not prepared to compromise on any aspect of their full lives. Steinlager Edge is built on a belief that finding balance in life isn't about doing less, but about doing everything." Perhaps Lion have provided the basis for a new tourism proposition for New Zealand: Pure Edge. The TV ads are a little, er, metrosexual, for me, but I'd like to like to try a bottle or three. Thanks Lion – level 14, 100 Willis St, Wellington.

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113 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 24 July 2009

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Pictured above: Zane Lowe, Lt. Col. Jeremy Ramsden, Simon O'Neill, Jerry Collins, Stuart Parker

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The Independent, Sky News, Classic FM, Radio Australia, NME, Telegraph, Guardian, Edmonton Sun, San Francisco Weekly, Star Gazette, San Francisco Examiner, All That Jazz, Islands, Dwell and WA Today include:

• Zane Lowe, DJ, 35, piloting "radio with pictures" for BBC's Radio 1
• All Blacks win first in Bledisloe, Tri Nations series vs. Wallabies 22-16
• Scott Dixon, 28, Indy star, "driver to catch" ahead of Edmonton race
• Seddon Bennington, 61, Te Papa CEO, dies in his beloved Tararuas
• Saffron, Queenstown, at forefront of homegrown produce "revolution"
• New Zealand tourists 14th best in the world, as well as 6th 'stingiest'
• Simon O'Neill, 37, opera singer, among the world's top 10 tenors
• Warwick Freeman, jeweller, exhibiting new wares in Melbourne
• Lt. Col. Jeremy Ramsden, awarded NZ's first NATO Medal, Belgium
• Stuart Parker, dairy farming astronomer, discovers supernova
• Ladyhawke plays Glastonbury crowds ahead of one-off UK charity gig
• Pakiri Beach horseriding; a BBC 'Thing To Do Before You Die'
• David Cone, Baa Blacks trainer, lets racing sheep loose in Methven
• Alka Patel, former engineer, now gourmet pie baker, San Francisco
• NZ String Quartet honor Haydn's death with Ithaca performance, NY
• Jerry Collins, back-rower, 28, swaps Toulon shirt for Welsh Ospreys
• Ford/Tipping/Wise Trio's latest jazz album "impressively creative"
• Waiheke, ranked 6th in 2009 list of 'World's Best Islands to Live On'
• Andrew McKenzie, musician, shows off sustainable bachelor's pad
• Queenstown and Wanaka; head-to-head in deep south showdown

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SEDDON BENNINGTON, 1948 – 2009
A brief tribute to Seddon Bennington, CEO of Te Papa, the national museum and art gallery in Wellington, who died of hypothermia during a snow-hit tramping expedition in the Tararuas, along with friend Marcella Jackson, on July 14. Seddon was an outstanding New Zealander whose intellectual depth, engaging presence, and commitment to storytelling made him an ideal leader of Te Papa. I met Seddon in 1981 when he was Director of the City Art Gallery in Wellington, I was with the NZ Students' Arts Council and we were producing a tour of Mervyn Thompson's song play about Maori land rights, Songs to the Judges. It was a hair-raising tour in more ways than one – raw emotion on stage and off. Seddon was the perfect host, committed and calm. He went on to an international career in science museums and returned to New Zealand to lead Te Papa in 2003. A year or so ago I was on a selection panel he chaired, and saw him as a consensus leader in a challenging role, needing to balance scholarship with populism, local stories with global ones, authenticity with consumer engagement. That Te Papa has been the most visited museum in Australasia over the past five years is a fine statement of his leadership.

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NGA KUPU AROHA: WORDS OF LOVE, #34, BY DENIS O'REILLY
An ongoing social commentary on the affairs of Aotearoa and the tribe of Nga Mokai.



THE STUB OF YOUR CHEQUE BOOK, JULY 2009
The D writes that it's what is recorded on the stub of our national cheque book that indicates the relative value we put on issues. In the area of criminal justice, despite the Government's stated commitment to 'top of the cliff' interventions rather than reliance on prison, "crush and crate 'em" is the flavour of the day. D praises the leadership of Dr Pita Sharples as Minister of Maori Affairs for getting 'buy in' from Maori street leaders towards a quest for peace on the streets of Aotearoa and for his advocacy of Maori learners getting access to tertiary education. There is korero about a possible spike in the availability of P, an account and reflection on the death and burial of Nomad's leader Denis "Mossie" Hines, and celebration at the graduation of Te Rangatira Jack Tuhi "Ranga" from Massey University. (3,657 words) Read more.

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112 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 14 July 2009

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Pictured above: The Datsuns, Dick Frizzell, Francis Upritchard at Venice, Martin Jetpack, Royce McClure

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The New York Times, Telegraph, Daily Mirror, San José Business Journal, Paste Magazine, The Guernsey Gazette, The Times of India, The Australian, St Croix Valley Press, The Northwestern, Telegraph, Habitus, The Scotsman, The Times, RonnieWorld and The Age include:

• The Datsuns, "from playing in backyards to all this hoopla"; tour US
• Dick Frizzell's 'Faraway' house "picks up salty tang of Pacific"
• Royce McClure, jigsaw guru, assembles 25,000-piece in Indian mall
• Mason Maddox wins Guitar Hero gold at Cyber Games, Singapore
• Saatchi and Colenso billboards, effective in war on vehicle fatalities
• Henry, Smith, Hansen reappointed until end of 2011 Rugby World Cup
• Billy Apple, pop artist, stages exhibition at Witte de With, Rotterdam
• New Zealand companies look to the Valley's tech investors for growth
• Niki Caro, David Lynch, Cat Power make dreamy film for 42Below
• Tony, Lynnette Mallard, car enthusiasts, drive '34 Hudson across US
• Moa feather DNA reveals bird "not unlike a giant chicken"
• Robert Scott, Bats, Clean; talks Flying Nun, new albums, fallen stars
• Roger Hurst, discovers blackcurrant extract improves athleticism
• David Kirk, ex-Fairfax head, now leads Hoyts; looks to digitisation
• Chinese community, Auckland, online and "keeping stories alive"
• Craig Ling, Minus5 creator, opens portable ice bar in Minnesota
• Glenn Martin, jetpack inventor, 49, at US AirVenture '09 conference
• Nelson Honey seeking approval to sell bee venom product in UK
• Westport couple auction bed for $302,600, with free house thrown in
• New Zealand rowers win gold at Henley Regatta; Drysdale "incredible"
• Radio New Zealand awarded Gold at NY Festival for Sir Ed doco
• Eleanor Catton, author, 23, praised in leading UK newspapers
• NZ artists Millar, Upritchard on show in Venice Biennale photo blog
• Malcolm Cook, architect, on inspiration and 40 year career – Habitus

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Here are the Top 10 titles for June:

1. Trio at the Top, doco 2001 – McLaren, Hulme and Amon
2. Peter Snell – Athlete, NFU short 1964 – Gold 800m runner
3. Beauty and the Beast, TV 1982 – classic panel show
4. The Living Room, TV 2003 – 'worthy' arts magazine show
5. Gloss, TV 1987 – Yuppies, shoulder-pads, Walkmen
6. Once Were Warriors, trailer 1994 – domestic violence drama
7. FFDrop – Based on a True Story, doco 2006, European tour
8. Score, NFU short 1980 – AB's vs France, cut to Tchaikovsky
9. Circuts of Gold, NFU short 1987, speedway guru Ivan Mauger
10. A Dolphin's Story, NFU short 1974, quest to train a dolphin

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111 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 2 July 2009

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Pictured above: Janet Frame, Anna Paquin, Rachel Paget, Boh Runga and Eleanor Catton.

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in Daily Mail, WA Today, Time Out New York, Self, The Boston Globe, Brisbane Times, The Times of India, Hollywood Reporter, The Age, USA Today, Deseret News, Financial Times, PJ Star, Byron Shire News, The Independent on Sunday, Telegraph, Adelaide Now, The New York Times, The Australian, Wimbledon Guardian, and Bloomberg include:

• Janet Frame's struggles mirror Towards Another Summer's Grace
• Junior All Blacks retain IRB Championship title beating England 42-28
• Mt Ruapehu a skiers' paradise either side; tops Australian fields
• New Zealanders frank, friendly but prefer not to talk about religion
• Banks & Jalfon's Teddy "wins over audiences" in San Francisco
• Boh Runga, singer, takes on US with new solo album Right Here
• Acorn HQ, planting oaks for iPods in North Canterbury
• New Zealand vistas inspire US artist Dan Welden; evoke McCahon
• Maori heads to be repatriated by French; in "expression of regret"
• Dave Dobbyn loyal to NZ at London's Toast Festival of bbq and beer
• New Zealand sees number of Australians visit exceed 1 million mark
• Jonah Lomu, 34, "will decide when [career] ends"; joins Marseilles
• Anna Paquin, 26, cuter the outfit, the more gore on True Blood set
• Rachel Paget, 37, She's Got the Look star, "fun, silly, great dancer"
• Queenstown's Winter Festival revellers 'bare all' over Lake Wakatipu
• Tongariro National Park raises "questions of aesthetics" in Nat Geo
• Terry Sturm, literary scholar and Professor, passes away aged 67
• Eleanor Catton, author, 23, awarded £8,000 Betty Trask Award
• New Zealand "lamb whatever the occasion", UK chef Delia Smith
• Queenstown a tippler's paradise with one bar for every 75 people
• Anna Paquin, sex symbol; '50s belle in Self magazine shoot
• New Zealand rated highly by UK expats for property prices, weather
• Quade Cooper, once a Tokoroa Pirate, now in gold on Wallaby side
• Karla Brodie, NZ yoga teacher, bids farewell to husband on Ganga
• Peter Jackson to head review of NZ Film Commission
• Urewera, Mount Tarawera; meanings source of mirth for Australians
• All Whites secure first ever point at FIFA tournament without a goal
• Bay of Islands "important crucible for NZ's human history"
• Sir Keith Park and NZ dairy farmers thanked for war efforts, and butter
• Kim Smith, 27, wins 4-mile race in US; third fastest in circuit's history
• West Coast "windswept, isolated and utterly beautiful"
• André Hodgskin, architect, his latest foldaway 'iPAD', "prefabulous"

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