Summer binge: The five best webisodes on The Spinoff this year

The Spinoff produced four web series in 2019. Here is the cream of the crop. Scratched: Ruia Morrison’s unlikely tennis journey from Rotorua to Wimbledon Meet Ruia Morrison, the first New Zealand woman and first Māori tennis player to compete at Wimbledon. Raised on the courts of Te Koutu in the 1940s, Morrison quickly dominated … Read more

The best of The Spinoff this week: Dance moms, Aldous Harding and a social studies lesson from Bob McCoskrie

Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Henry Oliver: ‘What if birds aren’t singing, they’re screaming?’: Inside Aldous Harding‘s head “Harding’s music is deep and weird and mythic. It exists in its own world and follows its own symbolic logic. She might not want to talk about her music because she doesn’t want to … Read more

The best of The Spinoff this week: Anika Moa, Mikey Havoc and mass media mergers

Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Michele A’Court: Here, let me help. Start by imagining your penis is bleeding “So… imagine that you are you, Tom. All good? And that for a few days every month, you bleed out of your penis. Sometimes a little bit, sometimes a lot. And your testicles (which … Read more