Comedy podcast Did Titanic Sink? is back baby! Winner of the Comedy Podcast of the Year at the 2023 NZ Podcast Awards, comedians Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie are steered towards investigating a local conspiracy - the mystery of the ‘Canterbury Cat’.

Almost 40 years on, Hunters and Collectors in Pōneke remains. The first vintage clothing store in the Capital, it’s a truly iconic creative Cuba Street institution. Hunters and Collectors’ matriarch is Chrissy O. Just turned 70, known for her flame-coloured hair and parade of remarkable vintage ensembles and spectacles, Chrissy O is herself a true avant garde style icon.

Married couple Michael Hurst and Jennifer Ward-Lealand have theatre and film careers that span 40 years. Indeed, they met in the theatre - at Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s Theatre Corporate in 1983. While they’re both beloved individually for their many and varied contributions to the arts, they’ve also appeared in some 22 shows together. 

Yet it's never just been the two of them on stage together. Until now. 

In the two-hander play In other Words Hurst and Ward-Lealand play a married couple dealing with the onset of Alzheimer's.

That role of the museum is just one of the ways poet, novelist and essayist Ian Wedde explores opening out space through culture in his third volume of collected nonfiction writing, The Social Space of the Essay.

The 1960s Rolls-Royce which served as the limousine for Queen Elizabeth II’s royal tours in New Zealand is being auctioned.

Nestled in the impressive harbour of Canterbury’s Banks Peninsula, is picturesque town Akaroa.

In the genre-busting documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, two out-of-work UK actors in lockdown attempt the seemingly impossible. They seek to mount a full production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside the ultra violent world of Grand Theft Auto - the popular multiplayer online video game - with often hysterical, bloody and thoughtful results.

Mezzo-soprano Katie Trigg has been crowned the 2024 Lexus Song Quest winner. The prestigious opera singing competition took place on Saturday night at Michael Fowler Centre in Poneke Wellington. Five singers battled it out for the country’s biggest operatic honour.

Multi-disciplinary artist Liv Tennet is trying to be a cool mum - without losing her cool. Her new solo dance show For You To Know and Me To Find Out has been brewing for the past few years amidst the juggle of creativity, work, art and motherhood.

It’s difficult not to use the cliché description of ‘whirlwind’ but the past few years have been life changing for New Zealand Chinese actor Jess Hong.