Bringing you the best weekly reading from your friendly local website. Madeleine Chapman: How did a 77-year-old white guy become the go-to media voice on Māori issues? “There are plenty of uninformed takes to be heard on the radio. People call into talkback and air an opinion that isn’t shared by a single listener, but those … Read more
Jane Yee and Alex Casey from The Real Pod spent an afternoon at Hobsonville Point to bring you this harrowing report. The Spinoff TV airs 10.45pm on Three, click here to catch up on ThreeNow
Because what your Friday needs is a loneliness lesson in te reo and a touch more Mark Richardson. Tonight on The Spinoff TV, we celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori with a very special three-part lesson in expressing your loneliness. Hayden heads to Nelson to gets to the guts of the 1080 debate, The Real … Read more
He wiki kino, mo Winston Peters, because he really really hates it when people suggest he holds too much power, reports Spinoff editor Tom Manfriend/Toby Manhire. The Spinoff TV airs 10.45pm on Three, click here to catch up on ThreeNow
The case to make the singer a citizen of Aotearoa is now irrefutable. Please jump on board and get this passport party started. The American singer-songwriter with a passion for good tunes, good values and upside down exclamation marks has just completed a triumphant tour of New Zealand, playing to sell-out crowds in Dunedin and across … Read more
Bringing you the best weekly reading from your friendly local website. Hayden Donnell: What is happening? Mike Hosking and Mark Richardson both made great points “Stash some canned food under your bed. Fashion your garden implements into makeshift weapons. Sprinkle the blood of a lamb or goat over your home’s threshold. For behold; the seven seals … Read more
Toby Manhire is back to review the last seven days of New Zealand news, and with the prime minister in Naura for the Pacific Islands Forum, it was a very bad week for both Mike Hosking and Leighton Smith.
This month on Lightbox you can raid the Met Ball with Sandra Bullock, visit Castle Rock with Melanie Lynskey or share some delicious hot tea with four dames. Ocean’s 8 (drops Sep 5) If there was a film that better summed up the feeling of lounging back with a bottle of prosecco, a large bucket … Read more
From the Big Save lady, to ASB’s Goldstein, to a very young Taika Waititi selling sweets – these are the TV ads that made James Mustapic the man he is today. Watch Friday’s episode of The Spinoff TV in full here. Thanks to NZ on Air
Bringing you the best weekly reading from your friendly local website. Arie Faber: No-so-squeaky clean: Why wellness culture is a scam “Don’t get me wrong, we should stick to the government-recommended amount of added sugar, but this is not the suggestion of online food philosophers. The suggestion, of course, is to replace sugar with cleaner, … Read more
Spinoff editor Toby Manhire is back to hand out the bouquets and brickbats from the week in New Zealand news.
Nine seasons, two hundred and eight episodes, and a list of cameos longer than the list of women Barney’s slept with. Madeleine Chapman selects the five best, weirdest and most notable. You can watch all nine seasons of How I Met Your Mother on Lightbox right here: Don’t forget! All existing customers can choose to … Read more
“The boys are conscious there’s a massive inequality issue in Aotearoa New Zealand.” Starring Ra Pomare.
Bringing you the best weekly reading from your friendly local website. Duncan Greive: The real ratings of NZ’s news sites shows some have a big problem “For 20 straight days we didn’t crest 60,000 pageviews – our marker for a good day – even once. It had come from nowhere: between the start of June and … Read more
Because what your Friday night really needs is the return of Anne The Champagne Lady and two ladies in suits. Tonight on The Spinoff TV, your friendly hosts Leonie and Alex eschew their usual look for a quicker option: suits and man-size speed makeup. The result? A weirder show than usual with hidden avocados, moon … Read more
The ‘psychics make up stuff’ TV show is back on New Zealand screens, and it’s just as terrible as ever. In the latest in his series on New Zealand’s most questionable pop culture, James Mustapic looks back on Sensing Murder‘s early years, and what has and hasn’t changed since. The Spinoff TV, 10.45pm Fridays on … Read more
In our video series Kiwis of Snapchat, comedian Tom Sainsbury sources exclusive Snapchat footage of Kiwi citizens and luminaries making the news. Today: “Limos aren’t even all that.”
Bringing you the best weekly reading from your friendly local website. Catherine Woulfe: C-sections can cause infertility. Mine did “These last two years have been grim, numbing, month after month of nothing, nothing, nothing, bookended by very early miscarriages. Various GPs were optimistic but by last summer, I was not: I referred myself to Fertility … Read more
The duo behind the fashion and lifestyle blog Rally discuss working in the fashion industry and life as women of colour in Aotearoa. There are some numbers that register immediately for anyone working in the fashion and modelling industries. 32, 24, 34. 5 ft 10 in. The ‘ideal’ measurements for models. Leilani Momoisea, a self-described … Read more
It’s clear New Zealand’s 10.6 million cows aren’t going to stand for our shit anymore. So how should we fight back? The Spinoff TV’s Hayden Donnell reports. The Spinoff TV, 10.45pm Fridays on THREE
The Spinoff’s editor Toby Manhire is back to review the last seven days in New Zealand news. Who’s popping open a cold one in celebration of a job well done, and who’s drinking hard spirits straight from the bottle to make it all go away? The Spinoff TV, 10.45pm Fridays on THREE
Angella Dravid headed to the Auckland rally for striking primary teachers to hand out some gold stars for excellence in sign design. Related Why are teachers striking? It’s about a lot more than money
In the latest episode of their Spinoff TV segment looking at stuff white people inexplicably like, comedy group Frickin Dangerous Bro – Jame Roque, Jamaine Ross and Pax Assadi – investigate white people’s love for the colonialist hexagonal fantasy board game. Previously: Frickin Dangerous Bro review Lululemon, kombucha and bath bombs Watch The Spinoff TV, … Read more
It’s an eternal argument: which of the two versions of The Office reigns supreme, the original brutal UK version or its heartfelt US spinoff? The Spinoff staff finally weighs in. Alex Casey, senior writer The Office UK is coded into my DNA unlike any other show. I bought the boxset for a bargain $20 from … Read more
Bringing you the best weekly reading from your friendly local website. Duncan Greive: I send my kid to the cold equivalent of a prison-yard most days and I’m fine with it “Deobrah Hill Cone’s column yesterday was a devastating indictment of an institution that many of us use every day. The whole thing dripped with concern, … Read more
In the fifth part of the new podcast series Venus Envy, Colleen Smith and Emma Espiner discuss raising feminists. Like mother, like daughter, Emma Espiner grew up protesting. When other kids had the day off school because teachers were on strike Espiner joined her mum Colleen Smith demonstrating for pay parity. In this episode of … Read more
Because what your Friday night really needs is Duncan Greive getting beaten up in a cow costume. Let’s face it: it’s been a hard week. Judith Collins has tweeted fake news, landlords want to rifle through your bank statements and Clarke Gayford’s beard isn’t going anywhere. Why not unwind at 10.45pm on Three with a … Read more
The Spinoff’s editor Toby Manhire reviews the last seven days in New Zealand news, sorting out those riding high from those who wish they could crawl back under the bedcovers. The Spinoff TV, 10.45pm Fridays on THREE
If you’re a New Zealand man who goes clubbing, chances are you’ve been denied entry at least once for not wearing leather shoes. But why? What’s wrong with sneakers? The Spinoff TV’s Ra Pomare investigates.