Crossing borders
Crossing borders
Vincent O'Sullivan's new novel puts New Zealand back on the map, if not at the centre of the action, writes Tom McKinlay.
Tom McKinlay
Tricks of the film-maker's trade
Tricks of the film-maker's trade
Somehow, the moving images on a cinema screen make us laugh and cry, and duck for cover. A visiting professor tells Tom McKinlay why.
Stairway to heaven
Stairway to heaven
The Mueller Hut Route is a step up, writes Tom McKinlay.
Capturing the emotion
Capturing the emotion
There is more than one story behind Tyler Kennedy Stent’s first solo exhibition, writes Tom McKinlay.
Uploading the electric experience
Uploading the electric experience
A world-first citizen science project launched this week aims to speed the shift to electric vehicles and charge-up our efforts to tackle climate change, reports Tom McKinlay.
Planting the seeds
Planting the seeds
A community garden on the Taieri is growing vegetables, nurturing young people and promoting resilience.
New shoots
New shoots
Liv Bambery is planting cabbages with Annika Korsten, neatly spaced and cosseted in a layer of mulch: the cabbages that is.
What you sow
What you sow
Luke Facer's at Kowhai Grove extending the hands-on component of the sustainable horticulture course he's doing at Otago Polytechnic.
Short cut to Hollywood
Short cut to Hollywood
The serial horror creators who filmed the feature-length I Survived A Zombie Holocaust in Dunedin in 2011 with a local cast of hundreds have a shocking new short, which screens tomorrow at Rialto.
Going with the floes
Going with the floes
For Inuit activist and writer Sheila Watt-Cloutier, climate change is a very personal challenge, writes Tom McKinlay.
An ethical fund
An ethical fund
Investment manager Grosvenor offers the only ethical KiwiSaver fund in New Zealand that is certified by the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia.
Sewing seeds of change
Sewing seeds of change
Taking an ethical approach to investing may not always be about dumping companies behaving badly.
Ethics on the ledger
Ethics on the ledger
While you sleep, your money might be doing evil. But it doesn't have to be that way. Tom McKinlay reports.
Monitoring those small deposits
Monitoring those small deposits
University of Auckland lecturer Dr Matheson Russell says the job is not done once you have ensured your KiwiSaver account is doing no wrong.
Plugging electrics
Plugging electrics
Electric cars are alive, kicking and about to spark a revolution, says a visiting US advocate. Tom McKinlay talks to Chelsea Sexton, among others.
A record of a battered land
A record of a battered land
A New Zealand documentary provides space for dissident voices on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Tom McKinlay writes.
A question of values
A question of values
Far from the bear pits of New Zealand politics, young New Zealander Max Harris is thinking about how we might do it better. Tom McKinlay reports.
The price of fashion
The price of fashion
As the pace of fashion quickens, consumers are responding in different ways, Tom McKinlay reports.
Mending our ways
Mending our ways
Dunedin textile artist Desi Liversage is turning the work of a lifetime into a commercial enterprise, reports Tom McKinlay.
Savage truths
Savage truths
This year's Science Teller keynote speaker Dan Savage writes about sex. He talked to Tom McKinlay.