OPINION: After the earthquake in 2011 I remember standing outside our broken cathedral with Mayor Bob Parker and saying to the world’s media, “the heart of our city has been broken. We will rebuild it.”

Bobby Weir has died.....😢 www.tmz.com/2026/01/10/g...

“Art doesn’t have boundaries,” McGlashan tells the Star-Times. “We make it because it makes us feel more alive. We truly believe that somewhere in the new thing that we’re writing there’ll be a spark that connects with somebody and will make them feel less alone.”

One of the coolest photos ever taken in New Zealand. RIP a true original.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Captain James X Cook

Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”

John Minto’s home attacked www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

OPINION: I know nothing of AI. I can barely even spell it. But I am planning to sue it.

the second trump administration is like every jurassic park sequel where they inexplicably decide to rebuild the park and open it back up to the public except the tiny brained rampage monsters are running the united states government

Once arrested in a raid prompted by an Al Noor mosque threat, Sam Brittenden has returned to court over a drink-driving episode.

Dune 3: Spice Up Your Life

My year in review

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

The Haeata principal recently found herself in a spectacular war of words with David Seymour over mouldy school lunches. It was not her first fight.

New Zealand grants name suppression far more than an Australian state where court-ordered secrecy is “out of control”. Is the public losing confidence in our courts?

James Cameron on Avatar: "It doesn’t feel like an animated film ... it exists as some kind of lucid dream-like state in between, which I think is part of the power of the film."

She speaks to Laura Hampson about the reality of healthcare in Aotearoa and her optimism for the next generation of GPs.

The official looking signs have been appearing around the city, but the person responsible calls it "well-behaved mischief".

The baby seal made its way up the Heathcote River to Woolston where it was fed fish from a group of boys fishing.

The 32,000sqm Parakiore is the largest of its kind in New Zealand and is open to the public in less than two weeks.

Ten sports, six venues, 1200 athletes and a worthy cause to get behind for a sneak peek of Parakiore — the National Summer Games is ready to light up the city.

Jett is still belting out rock anthems, but it’s not been an easy ride in a male-dominated industry, she tells Bess Manson.

Act your listening age not your shoe size

Forget the haters and the bogans: Six60 are the perfect choice to open Te Kaha

Something more positive (in the end) this week, or from TERFs to turf: an art show about the Ngāi Tahu deeds www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

What's a movie you can watch over & over again? 2001 and The Shining All Tarkovsky Children of Men All Jonathan Glazer Vertigo Apocalypse Now (director's cut not Redux) Taxi Driver and The Last Temptation of Christ Most Malick

The latest Epstein email rumor is destined to be known as Cockwork orange

I interviewed Irish gender critical/anti-trans writer Helen Joyce at the end of her NZ and Australian tour www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

A writer who challenges transgender views is the keynote speaker as the Free Speech Union holds its annual general meeting in the city.

Sad news www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

I also had a chat with artist Sam Mahon, who is unrepentant about his "disgusting" sculpture of Nick Smith www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

I had a chat with controversial cartoonist Garrick Tremain, who faces his final deadline www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Pike River gets a 4/5 from me. Has a great script (Fiona Samuel) and is the best thing I've seen Melanie Lynskey do. A tribute to two women, and a third (Helen Kelly). But an uncanny moment when the real Jacinda embraces actors playing Anna and Sonya; other politicians were also played by actors.

Renowned artist and author Sam Mahon explains just how he came to make that “disgusting” sculpture of Nick Smith ahead of the launch of his new book.

40 years after The Bone People won the Booker

Huge volumes of water and wind coming down the streets, and everybody was just sort of staring out windows, going, 'That's not normal'.

Nice piece by @secondzeit.bsky.social , and much I did not know, including Tiffany being an early Spiral - though it’s obvious really! I keep being drawn into the circle, first with Keri, then Marian, now Tiffany. It’s time to go into town again!

Great article about the bone people and Keri Hulme by @secondzeit.bsky.social www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608... Spiral exhibition at Chch Art Gallery christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/... #pukapuka #booksky #Ōtautahi #Christchurch

A great look back at The Bone People by @secondzeit.bsky.social, with the legacy of Keri Hulme doubtless to live on, too www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

It’s like the Ship of Theseus. How many times can Metro relaunch or evolve before it has no relationship to the magazine from the 1980s?

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Avalanche

Another movie to upset the anti-Ardern fanatics

Hit the north

The sale is a windfall for the Christchurch City Council, which gets to keep half the proceeds.

More Mauger, mate