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Howard Davis
Scoop Arts Editor
Educated at Cambridge and UCLA; worked on several major Hollywood feature films and as a Kundalini Yoga instructor in Los Angeles; currently enjoying life in Wellington.
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Jay Rodriguez Performs at Wellington's Third Eye
Tuesday, 26 February 2019, 5:54 pm | Howard Davis
Jay Rodriguez is one of the busiest men in jazz, and one of the few playing most all the reeds as a leader and sideman with wildly diverse musicians, synthesizing these experiences within his own projects. Jay picked up the clarinet in grade school ... More >>
The Helicopter View From Space Yoga Studio
Friday, 22 February 2019, 10:14 am | Howard Davis
Written in Sanskrit at some point between the second century BCE and the fourth century CE, Patanjali's classic definition of the purpose of yoga has been translated in a number of different ways, but they all boil down to essentially the same message ... More >>
Voulez-Vous Couchez Avec Moi? - C'est Chic, Ça 'Colette'!
Friday, 15 February 2019, 9:34 am | Howard Davis
Starring the ravishingly vibrant Keira Knightley in the title role, Colette is a fairly pedestrian paint-by numbers biopic - which is a little disappointing, given that its cross-dressing and pansexual protagonist lead anything but a dull life. ... More >>
The Theak-Tet Perform at Wellington's Third Eye
Wednesday, 6 February 2019, 12:12 pm | Howard Davis
The Wellington Jazz Cooperative proudly presents one of Australia’s most distinguished bandleaders and tenor sax players, David Theak, who will be debuting his exciting new project at The Third Eye on Friday night. More >>
The Revenants - Peter Jackson's 'They Shall Not Grow Old'
Thursday, 31 January 2019, 11:42 am | Howard Davis
Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old is a ground-breaking recreation of popular history told from the point of view of the average infantryman which manages to revive a beating pulse in otherwise forgotten archival footage that had been given up for ... More >>
Pretty Maids All In A Row - 'Mary Queen of Scots'
Saturday, 19 January 2019, 10:46 am | Howard Davis
The melodramatic, bodice-ripping elements of Mary’s brief tenure on the Scottish throne and her beheading at the hands of her English cousin Queen Elizabeth have imbued her reputation with inordinate historical importance. The mythical embellishments ... More >>
Wild at Heart - 'The Happy Prince' and 'At Eternity's Gate'
Monday, 31 December 2018, 7:53 pm | Howard Davis
Ambition, love, and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory. - Oscar Wilde, Désespoir . More >>
Playing Court Politics - 'The Favourite' and 'Vice'
Thursday, 27 December 2018, 7:06 am | Howard Davis
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.” - William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun. More >>
Three Reasons for Film Fans to Get Netflix
Friday, 14 December 2018, 7:30 pm | Howard Davis
The past two months have finally seen Netflix come into its own, providing the financing for three films for its streaming service that will warm the hearts of cinephiles everywhere - Orson Welles' The Other Side of The Wind , The Coen Brothers' The Ballad ... More >>
A Brief History of Handel's 'Messiah'
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 6:42 am | Howard Davis
Handel's Messiah has become an overworked Christmas tradition as hoary as chestnuts roasting on an open fire, gorging on mince pies and eggnog, and trying to avoid shopping mall Santas like so many spectral inhabitants of Dante's Seventh Circle of Hell. ... More >>
An Embarrassment of Riches - 'New Zealand Art at Te Papa'
Friday, 30 November 2018, 10:17 am | Howard Davis
It is perhaps unavoidable in any broad survey of the history of artistic development to reconsider the value of a few well-worn sayings. “There's no accounting for taste” and “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” may spring immediately to ... More >>
Rogues & Vagabonds: The Cinematic Universe of Nicolas Roeg
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 11:02 am | Howard Davis
Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. - ... More >>
NZSO Perform Beethoven's Symphonies 1 & 9 This Weekend
Wednesday, 21 November 2018, 9:53 am | Howard Davis
When we consider precisely how prodigious Beethoven's musical output was - including nine symphonies, five piano concertos, a violin concerto, various piano sonatas, sixteen string quartets, a mass ( Missa Solemnis ), and an opera ( Fidelio ) - it ... More >>
Strange Overtones - David Byrne's 'American Utopia' Tour
Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 8:02 am | Howard Davis
Scotch-born singer-songwriter David Byrne starts each show on his latest world tour stroking a pink brain as he sits alone at a table in a gray three-button suit singing a song called Here from his latest album American Utopia . It is the only splash ... More >>
NZSO Perform Mahler's Seventh Symphony this Weekend
Wednesday, 7 November 2018, 5:26 pm | Howard Davis
In the summer of 1900, Gustav Mahler was wandering around the outskirts of Vienna when he stumbled upon a fairground. In a woodland glade, blended among the cacophony of street criers, shooting galleries, and Punch and Judy shows, a military band and ... More >>
Stray Echoes Leave No Trace
Friday, 12 October 2018, 10:30 am | Howard Davis
Writer and director Dustin Feneley's feature debut is a beautifully lyrical and cinematic tone poem that brings an unflinching eye to loneliness and isolation. After eight years stuck in development limbo before a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign ... More >>
Steve Gadd & James Carter Tour with the Rodger Fox Big Band
Friday, 5 October 2018, 10:13 am | Howard Davis
New Zealand jazz fans are in for a special treat this month, with four concerts around the country by drummer Steve Gadd and saxophonist James Carter, accompanied by the Rodger Fox Big Band. More >>
Five Hidden Los Angeles Treasures (Part II)
Friday, 28 September 2018, 3:45 pm | Howard Davis
“What's Been Did and What's Been Hid.” - Donovan's first album, released in the US as Catch The Wind. More >>
Five Hidden Los Angeles Treasures (Part I)
Friday, 21 September 2018, 11:21 am | howard davis
"What's Been Did and What's Been Hid." - Donovan's first album, released in the US as Catch The Wind. More >>
The Outsider Art of Tony Fomison
Friday, 14 September 2018, 9:39 am | Howard Davis
“A being going through life can become so other to himself as to be another … [Life] happens to you as a result of your condition. Not choice, but - at best - process, and, at worst, shocking, total change. Newness: he had sought a different ... More >>
