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Down to some fine arts
Riversdale’s Mixed Media Exhibition has a lot of heart(s).I drive through Gore, out into the rolling countryside, past the Hokonui Hills. An evening fog hovers at sheep level over the paddocks.Twenty...
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The wonderful wizard of Bluff
Noel Peterson uses his powers for community good.Perhaps there is a magical explanation for why it’s such a lovely warm winter’s day in Bluff. But if he has cast a spell, Noel Peterson won’t say.It’s a...
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Shelter from the storm
Viv Head explores a hidden hut on the Old Man Range.A short climb through the tussocks and we were there: the ‘Skiers’ Hut’. Its existence is known to some, its location to only a few.Central Otago’s...
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Heading North
It doesn’t matter where you go.In October of 2022, Penzy Dinsdale set off on an 85-day traverse of the Southern Alps. The trip would involve walking, climbing, skiing, biking and extensive planning,...
View ArticleMusic review: Merchants by Powder Chutes
Wānaka’s Powder Chutes have dropped a new single and it’s a “hell, yes” from me. ‘Merchants’ is just the thing for our times, a bundle of joyous grunge-infused angst that simultaneously looks forwards...
View ArticleAlbum review: Midnight Hours By Killergrams
An alt-country/rock band based in Arrowtown, Killergrams is singer-songwriter Tom Maxwell, singer and bassist Sam Maxwell, as well as Nick Lynch on piano and Reuben Pearce on drums.More a...
View ArticleBook review: Heart Stood Still
by Miriam SharlandAfter nearly two decades in the country, Miriam Sharland was set to move back to the UK in early 2020. Then the borders closed. Heart Stood Still (Otago University Press, 2024) is a...
View ArticleBook review: Performance
By David CoventrySimply put, Performance is a memoir detailing David Coventry’s experience of living with ME (Myalgic encephalomyelitis), a debilitating illness that has a way of defying diagnosis,...
View ArticleFilm review: The War on Style
Directed and produced by Hank BilousOur favourite photographer/writer/nurse/skier and regular 1964 contributor has made a movie, and we caught it at The New Zealand Mountain Film & Book Festival...
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Cowboy Geniuses
Liz Breslin and Eliana Gray trot south for the 2024 NZ Gold Guitar Awards and find maybe all that glitters is gold after all.Eliana: “We haven’t quite finished the renovations.” An email, approximately...
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