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Public Address 24/10/03 - Event Management
Friday, 24 October 2003, 12:02 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I didn't know if Karen Walker's jewellery was good so I asked the ladies. Wide-eyed, the ladies nodded that it was. The range was launched as one of the final events in L'Oreal Fashion week in York Street Studios in Parnell, on a rotating stage installed ... More >>
Public Address 23/10/03 - Fashion And Celebrity
Thursday, 23 October 2003, 12:52 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So NZTabloid is no more - the site's founders have left a message thanking the - ahem - "more than 1,000,000 people" who have visited their website since it launched in August. Well, then …... More >>
Public Address 22/10/03 - Rock 'N' Roll
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 1:58 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I knew the stars were aligned when, just as I set foot in the Control Room, the PA began blaring out The Saints' splendidly jaded consumer anthem 'Know Your Product'. That horn riff - DA-DAT-DAT-DAT-DAA - never lets me down. More >>
Public Address 21/10/03 - Killing Bill
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 10:52 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Kill Bill (everywhere) and The Lieutenant of Inishmore, at the Belvoir Theatre, Surrey Hills . Theatre, at its very best, can deliver an even more engaging and exciting experience than film. However, it rarely does. The film-makers' toolkit is huge and ... More >>
Public Address 17/10/03 - News And Sport
Friday, 17 October 2003, 12:07 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So that's what happens when you drink $10,000 worth of methamphetamine for breakfast: you - allegedly - slice bits off your ladyfriends with a sword, then hit the road to shoot one man in the back and hold another hostage at gunpoint for hours. More >>
Public Address 16/10/03 - Some Guy Things
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 12:33 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
My record collection is taking a real battering in the old style. A couple of weekends ago a mate, Dan, came around and I played him all sorts of old NZ stuff. He found it depressing... More >>
Public Address 15/10/03 - Festivals
Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 11:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Salam Pax is back in the 'hood! The Baghdad Blogger pretty much gave up posting while he was out of Iraq promoting his book, but he appears to have had a high old time of it in London and elsewhere, and has plenty to say on his return... More >>
Public Address 14/10/03 - Respect
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 12:21 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Jeanette Fitzsimons described life after the GM moratorium on One News last night: she said companies from New Zealand or abroad making applications to Erma could expect scrutiny so close that some of the "shonkier" ones would probably just drop out in ... More >>
Public Address 13/10/03 - Voices
Monday, 13 October 2003, 1:31 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I was unhappy to learn that author Michael King has cancer. The Herald website carried the news in a paragraph that turned out to be a teaser for the Saturday morning edition. An old trick but it worked... More >>
Public Address 10/10/03 - The Forward Pack
Friday, 10 October 2003, 11:48 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I told this story at my father's funeral. When I was 13 years old, I missed out on the Under 14 Open A team at the Burnside Rugby Club. There weren't enough of us to make up a B side, so we were moved up to the Under 15 Under... More >>
Public Address 09/10/03 - Beasts And Beastliness
Thursday, 9 October 2003, 12:22 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
' So Californians get their wish: a movie actor with no coherent policy platform is to take charge of their basket-case state. And Arnie comes in with a problem that might make the groping allegations look irrelevant... More >>
Public Address 07/10/03 - Bjorn Again
Tuesday, 7 October 2003, 12:04 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Self-described "sceptical environmentalist" Bjorn Lomborg will speak in Wellington tomorrow, at the invitation of the Business Roundtable - and a lot of people who should know better will make *rses of themselves. It is not that Lomborg ... More >>
Public Address 06/10/03 - Seasonings
Monday, 6 October 2003, 4:43 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Horribly hungover on Saturday morning, my phone wakes me. It's a mate asking if I'm still playing cricket. "Whaddya mean 'still'. No. I told you, I'm hanging up my gloves … ah bat …pads … More >>
Public Address 03/10/03 - Pure New Zealand
Friday, 3 October 2003, 12:03 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Earlier this week NZPundit's Gordon King bashed out an angry lament for New Zealand , wondering why we can't be more like Australia. If we don't go and beg to be a state of Australia, we will, apparently, wind up "tribal, corrupt and poor, just like all ... More >>
Public Address 02/10/03 - Holy Dreamspaces
Thursday, 2 October 2003, 12:36 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's not often you might have been in the company of a spy, or even a suspected one, but a recent promo on BBC World for Dreamspaces , a series about modern architecture and contemporary design, took me back to when I was... More >>
Public Address 30/09/03 - Tabloid Tale
Tuesday, 30 September 2003, 11:14 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Yeah, I know I wasn't going to mention NZ Tabloid, but I have come into possession of some interesting emails, and no one else seems to have covered this, so this is how they got scammed ... More >>
Public Address 29/09/03 - Many Things
Monday, 29 September 2003, 1:27 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
If the Paul Holmes thing was a ratings stunt, then it worked rather well, didn't it? Whether people got the joke or not - whether it was a joke or not - everyone's been talking about it, even other radio stations... More >>
Public Address 26/09/03 - Good Grief
Friday, 26 September 2003, 1:31 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So anyway, I was on my way out the door to record this week's Mediawatch script and my mobile rang. It was my producer, calling from Wellington. Don't bother to go in, she said: they've had a bomb threat and the building's evacuated... More >>
Public Address 25/9/03 - Strange, Uncool And Weary
Thursday, 25 September 2003, 2:11 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Clearly, Paul Holmes fancied himself - and his listeners - to be having a laugh yesterday when he launched into his bizarre tirade against that "cheeky darkie", Kofi Annan, on his Newstalk ZB show yesterday... More >>
Public Address 24/09/03 - Blog Bonanza!
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 1:13 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Firstly, isn't it a bit rich for Act and National to accuse the government of "exploiting" the murder of Coral Burrows in musing about a potential change to the law on physical punishment? Should we count the times each party has weighed in on a tragic crime ... More >>
