Auckland based husband and wife film-makers Chris Pryor and Miriam Smith are shifting to New York for as long as the $80,000 they've just been awarded lasts them. Chris and Miriam have just won this year's Art's Foundation's Harriet Friedlander New York Residency, on the strength of their critically-acclaimed documentary features The Ground We Won, and How Far is Heaven, about the sisters of Compassion in New Zealand's Jerusalem. They're celebrating their Residency by making their multi award-winning How Far is Heaven free to view.

Following a brutal experience with customs at Los Angeles Airport - forced to give up his phone, laptop and passwords, Auckland artist Ken Griffen is questioning digital security in a new exhibition called Grey Area. Ken tells Lynn how he uses painting, sculpture, installation and sound in his exhibition depicting the nameless and faceless identities watching and tracking us online.

Jeremy Rolston (the president of the Wellington Magic Club) and Kade Nightingale demonstrate their own blend of comedy magic for the radio.

Two German children caught up in their country's false dreams and corrupt ideology during the Second World War, are at the heart of The Wish Child, a new novel from Ngāruawāhia based Catherine Chidgey. Her first novel In a Fishbone Church came out in 1998, quickly followed by Golden Deeds and The Transformation published in 2003. During this time she went to Menton in southern France as the Katherine Mansfield Fellow, and won the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters. Catherine also spent time in Berlin where she became interested in the war years and the collapse of Germany's hope for a glorious future. In The Wish Child Sieglinde lives a life of privilege in middle-class Berlin while Erich is brought up in rural Leipzig.

It's been selected at every Webfest going - from Sicily and Berlin, to Montreal and Los Angeles. Last year it won the coveted Web-series World Cup. It's called High Road, it's made on Piha Beach, and it's just launched Series 3. It may be the biggest thing you've probably never heard of. Simon Morris talks with High Road writer-director Justin Harwood, and star Mark Mitchinson.

This week marks the official 75th anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Navy, when naval vessels from around the world converge on Auckland's Waitamata harbour for a five day party. Lynn Freeman spoke to some young high achievers in the Navy, after first visiting the naval museum and a special exhibition brought together for the anniversary. There are 75 objects, many so unusual you can't understand why they'd be on display until you read the description.

People remember the famous end of The Band, captured in Martin Scorcese's concert film The Last Waltz. But the virtuoso player in the group was always in the back - Garth Hudson on keyboards and occasional sax.

A Kapiti Coaster who divides her time between there and Idaho has cliched this year's top ceramic award. Caroline Early's deceptively simple Clinch 6 has won this year's Premier Award in the Portage Ceramic Awards, with a nice $15,000 cash prize to boot.The prize is in its 15th year and is run by Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery. Caroline joins Simon Morris, along with Canberra-based potter and Portage judge Janet DeBoos.

McCahon House in Titirangi is where fans go to see where Colin McCahon lived in the 1950s. But McCahon House was also home to Anne McCahon, an artist in her own right, who until this exhibition has largely been overlooked by posterity. A Table of One's Own is presented at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery. It coincides with and celebrates the 10th anniversary of the McCahon House Museum and Artists' Residency and the 30th Anniversary of the Lopdell House Gallery.

Imagine if you will, a seven year-old girl sheltering with her family in the cellar of their house as war rages in the streets outside. What does she feel?