Rugby World Cup of fashion at Style Pasifika
By Guest Insider – Carolyn Enting: from her blog www.enword.co.nz Liz Mitchell design for Style Pasifika Endangered New Zealand indigenous plant, the woodrose (pua o te reinga), ”flower of the...
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By Insider – Suzanne Peri-Chapman There’s a new Rugby World Cup phenomenon around, and no it isn’t how far the French managed to get. This phenomenon is a sort of confessional appearing in workplaces...
View ArticleBlack and Blue
By Insider – Jock Phillips My title could refer to the bodies of the Wallaby rugby team, but it does not. It refers to the colours of the two teams which will meet at Eden Park on Sunday night. So I...
View ArticleRugby heroes, rugby villains
By Insider – Jock Phillips Put together a case of old jerseys, cups, programmes and tickets; throw in a couple of panels about heroes of the past; add a scrummaging or a kicking-a-goal interactive;...
View ArticleSomething for everyone
By Insider – Jock Phillips We are now into the business end of the World Cup. The hordes of Irish and Scottish and Argentinian and English and Italian fans in their campervans have gone home, licking...
View ArticleHard on the Heels
By Insider – Suzanne Peri-Chapman Hard on the Heels, Peter Bush, Capturing the All Blacks Closing on October 30, this photography exhibition at the Museum of Wellington City and Sea is well worth a...
View ArticleEveryone’s an All Black supporter
By Insider – Jock Phillips It’s midday on the day of THE BIG GAME. The countdown really began at Kiri Te Kanawa’s concert last night when the great soprano welcomed everyone to a ‘celebration’; and...
View ArticleThe nationwide buzz
By Guest Insider – Eric Dorfman I suspect, like a good many New Zealanders, as Rugby World Cup 2011 approached I became thoroughly immersed in making my own preparations. Depending on how you look at...
View ArticleThe party’s over
By Insider – Jock Phillips Almost everyone was dressed up – French supporters with tricolour wigs, rooster hats, and red, white and blue drapes; Kiwis almost all in black, with silver hats, fern...
View ArticleOne Point
By Insider – Suzanne Peri-Chapman I was in the Eden Park stadium on the final night of the Tournament. Not only in the stadium, but, as part of my duties, in the players tunnel area during the last...
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