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Jesse Ryder suspended for 6 months for anti-doping violation
The Sports Tribunal has suspended cricketer Jesse Ryder for 6 months for an anti-doping violation. The decision and media release will soon be available for download from this website.
[Details now at: Sports Tribunal of NZ - Cricketer Jesse Ryder suspended for Anti-Doping Violation]
Howard Davis: Avantdale Bowling Club
Auckland rapper and MC Tom Scott brought his stunning jazz-infused Taite Music Prize-winning project Avantdale Bowling Club to the Opera House headlining Wellington's 2020 Jazz Festival. More>>
Howard Davis: Kevin Field Quintet
With the hardest pews in town and an icon of Ruth Bader Ginsburg adorning the walls, St Peter's Church added a distinctly spiritual element to the debut of three new pieces by Kiwi jazz pianist and composer Kevin Field that celebrated our common humanity. More>>
Stage: Wellington’s Theatre Awards To Go Ahead
The Wellington Theatre Awards will go ahead despite a devastating year for New Zealand’s creative sector. Wellington Theatre Awards Trust Chair Tom Broadmore said, “the creative sector, and Wellington’s vibrant theatre sector has been gutted by the ... More>>
Journalism: An Icon Returns. New-Look North & South Magazine Hits Shelves
One of New Zealand’s most iconic magazines, North & South, is back on the shelves this week – with new independent ownership. The magazine, which has set the benchmark for investigative journalism in New Zealand since 1986, relaunches this week, ensuring ... More>>
Howard Davis: Three New Art Books for Xmas
Massey University and Te Papa Presses have published three new art books just in time for Xmas: Dick Frizzell's Me, According to the History of Art, Railways Studios, celebrating unique examples of government-sponsored advertising and design, and Nature - Stilled, Jane Ussher's extraordinary photographs of flora and fauna from the museum's natural history collections.
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Howard Davis: Troy Kingi Rules The San Fran
The award-winning Northland musician performed songs from his new record The Ghost of Freddie Cesar, the fourth installment in his 10/10/10 series - ten albums in ten years in ten genres. More>>
Howard Davis: The Phoenix Foundation Rises From The Ashes (& Chris O'Connor Talks)
Simultaneously dreamy and structured, understated and subtle, spacious and hypnotic, The Phoenix Foundation's new album Lifeline includes gorgeous vocal harmonies, lilting lyrics with no lack of wry, self-deprecating humour, and gently weeping guitar parts. More>>
