Elise Sterback is leaving The Basement theatre after seven years as its executive director. Battling post-Covid instability, she’s led the Auckland institution to a new artist-first strategy, renewed long-term funding and game-changing sector vision. It’s been a rough year for the arts, but the Basement Theatre, in its classic number-eight-wire fashion, has clambered through and … Read more
It’s like Christmas every fortnight, and an antidote to the great plastic pile-up, writes Kerryanne Nelson. Every day, once my daughter has gone to sleep, I pick up around 30 plastic toys strewn across my house and shovel them into a room where I can’t see them. Trips to the shops to get groceries or … Read more
Every day in the leadup to Christmas, open the door to reveal a Spinoff writer’s short, sizzling commentary on a weighty subject. Our arbitrary and strictly enforced word limit: 365. Today: Kerryanne Nelson on cafes and restaurants that refuse to display prices. Something weird has been happening in cafes and restaurants across Auckland this year. … Read more