Brighton Lobofest raises funds for Musos
Brighton Lobofest raises funds for Musos
A crowd of about 200 attended the fundraising music festival Lobofest at Brighton, south of Dunedin, yesterday.
Bruce Munro
Degrees of difficulty
Degrees of difficulty
Qualification creep has become a tertiary degree arms race. Bruce Munro asks "Is it time for a PhD non-proliferation treaty?'' and "What else can young people do to get hired?''
Words of love
Words of love
Why is New Zealand's most widely read author, Essie Summers, not celebrated in the province she loved and wrote about, Bruce Munro asks.
Give yourself over
Give yourself over
The Rocky Horror Show finally has a prequel, Frankensplurta, which premieres at the Dunedin Fringe Festival, writes Bruce Munro.
Mining reality to write fiction
Mining reality to write fiction
Dunedin author Ella West talks to Bruce Munro about the difficulties and delights of writing a young adult novel set in a real time and place.
A qualified achievement
A qualified achievement
The NCEA high school assessment framework has been labelled obsessive and harmful. Parent and journalist Bruce Munro takes a look.
Review: Roger Waters stirring and enthralling
Roger Waters stirring, enthralling, satisfying
Stirred, entertained, or both - concert-goers at last evening's spectacular Roger Waters Us + Them Dunedin concert left with what they came looking for.
Call of the wild
Call of the wild
The South Island's only trained wildlife veterinary doctor, Lisa Argilla, tells Bruce Munro what drives her, what angers her and why the new Wildlife Hospital is so important.
Sniper is hoihos' best friend
Sniper is hoihos' best friend
Those battling to save yellow-eyed penguins, including the Wildlife Hospital crew, have a new ally in Sniper the tracker dog.
A family business
A family business
As Cadbury winds down its iconic Dunedin chocolate factory, Bruce Munro talks to some whose connections span decades and, in one case, almost a century.
The ins and outs of dairying
The ins and outs of dairying
Paul Ashley takes eight weeks off work each year to artificially inseminate thousands of cows. Bruce Munro asks, "Why!?" and finds out a lot more besides.
An ill wind
An ill wind
Threats of violence, fractured friendships and vandalism are claimed to be part of Blueskin Bay's descent from national transition model to deeply divided community. Bruce Munro talks to those asking "how did it unravel so badly'' and those saying "all is well''.
WW2: The phoney war?
WW2: The phoney war?
Bruce Munro talks to author Stevan Eldred-Grigg about his quest to get Kiwis to ask tough questions about war.
A place for peace
A place for peace
Both were radicals. One embraced terror and the other peace. Is it time for Te Whiti to replace Guy Fawkes? Bruce Munro takes a look.
Long Read: Where history lies
Long Read: Where history lies
Where are the bodies of Otago's four executed murderers? Bruce Munro digs up a halloween mystery of gruesome hangings, lost graves and headless ghosts.
Our 'yicky bits' need to be acknowledged
Our 'yicky bits' need to be acknowledged
We need to face the "yicky bits'' of history, including New Zealand's use of capital punishment, urges historian Prof Tom Brooking.
Change at the top
Change at the top
It's the deal breaker for most of us in our workplaces. Yet examples of it are all over the shop. So, what is great leadership today? Bruce Munro takes a look.
Role of Kiwi soldiers in Russian war
Role of Kiwi soldiers in Russian war
Based on an academic journal article by University of Otago historian Assoc Prof Alex Trapeznik, Bruce Munro recounts the role Kiwi soldiers played in the West’s forgotten Russian war of intervention after the 1917 Revolution.
Framing no ferment
Framing no ferment
Peter Stupples has come to a controversial conclusion about art’s role in revolution. It is a conviction with origins in his eavesdropping for British military intelligence in the 1950s, writes Bruce Munro.
Message received
Message received
Bruce Munro asks a psychologist and a sociologist to distil the wisdom and trends from three years of the popular Otago Daily Times weekend magazine element, Five Questions With.