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Lyndon Hood: Parliament Imitates Art
Wednesday, 28 June 2006, 10:14 am | Lyndon Hood
The wild speculation of history's great creative minds has, I've often thought, rarely been able to match the droll and improbable events that occur in the politics of this nation. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 23 June 2006, 5:05 pm | Lyndon Hood
TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS:; Economy: There is No Recession in New Zealand; Biosecurity: Bee Mites Suspected in Nelson Outside Initial Radius; Weather: Roads Closed But Trains On In Central NI; MORE HEADLINES:; Arts: Barrowman awarded Michael King fellowship; ... More >>
Lyndon Hood: Lemonade Kids Feel Tax Squeeze
Friday, 9 June 2006, 11:57 am | Lyndon Hood
How much will you let them keep? Because all other things being equal, they'd want to keep it all. Now: imagine that skimming off their lemonade sales is in fact your primary source of income. And that they expect you to pay for their education, doctor's ... More >>
Lyndon Hood: National's Labour Spin Spin Machine
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 5:45 pm | Lyndon Hood
Following the discovery of a confidential Labour discussion document on communications, National MPs have slammed the Government's approach as "all spin and no substance" for one of the paper's suggestions: that repeating phrases again and again can be ... More >>
Lyndon Hood: Billboard Jamming 101
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 4:50 pm | Lyndon Hood
National has new billboards. One feels obliged to mash them up, but frankly, they're not all that inspiring. Since their Internet release, the ripfest has not been furious. The campaign itself seems familiar, but diminished. More >>
Lyndon Hood: Brash's Press Conference Prep
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 5:34 pm | Lyndon Hood
After Winston Peter's tabling of leaked emails in Parliament, that question on everyone's lips is - what was Don Brash thinking at that press conference? More >>
Audio, Images: Cigarette Warning Consultation Doc
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 1:03 pm | Lyndon Hood
Associate Minister of Health Damien O'Connor today released a consultation document proposing large, graphic images of health problems on the front and back of tobacco product packets. More >>
Lyndon Hood: Self-Publicising with the Politicians
Monday, 8 May 2006, 3:25 pm | Lyndon Hood
With Rodney Hide's first appearance on Dancing with the Stars and Heather Roy joining the Territorials, we may see a wave of politicians finding tangential and questionable effective ways to promote themselves. Scoop brings you a few of the most likely possibilities: More >>
Scoop Images: Suits Painted for Arts Open Weekend
Friday, 5 May 2006, 5:24 pm | Lyndon Hood
Today Wellington pedestrians were encouraged to let out their creativity in poster paints on a pair of men's suits. The event was promoting The Learning Connexion's contribution to The Big Look-See . More >>
Maurice Williamson Talks Local Loop Unbundling
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 6:04 pm | Lyndon Hood
National Party Spokesman for Communications & Information Technology Maurice Williamson believes there is no need for local loop unbundling and is concerned at the number of industry players trying to piggyback on Telecom without investing in their own ... More >>
Lyndon Hood: Defence Briefs
Friday, 21 April 2006, 5:08 pm | Lyndon Hood
Goff Recieves Rumsfeld Handshake of Doom - ANZAC Solomons Forces Remembers WWI With Gas Attack - Iran in firing line for not having weapons of mass destruction More >>
Theatre Review: Never Swim Alone
Friday, 7 April 2006, 1:39 pm | Lyndon Hood
A circle of sand on the stage invoke a school-holiday beach and also serve as a kind of symbolic sumo-wrestling ring. Two men in suits play out vignettes of male interaction, each one a new round in a tournament of masculinity. The woman in the raised seat ... More >>
Scoop Images: Comedy Festival Programme Launch
Tuesday, 4 April 2006, 3:58 pm | Lyndon Hood
The Wellington programme for the 2006 New Zealand International Comedy Festival was lauched today. The festival runs from May 15 to June 3. More >>
Audio and Images: ICANN's Vint Cerf, Paul Twomey
Friday, 31 March 2006, 5:46 pm | Lyndon Hood
Scoop Audio and Images: ICANN's Vint Cerf and Paul Twomey Article and Photos by Lyndon Hood More >>
Sooden & Blair Interviews A Scoop Media Inclusive
Friday, 31 March 2006, 11:23 am | Lyndon Hood
New Zealand's incidental connection to world events has been a feature of recent days. However, due to Tony Blair's granting of exclusives and Harmeet Sooden's reluctance to grant them, our media has not been able to most of these events. More >>
Arts Fest Review: DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 2:01 pm | Lyndon Hood
There is a wealth of parallels and reflection to be fond bouncing in and around DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation - Paul Miller's remix of DW Griffiths' 1915 Birth of a Nation - the most famous piece of Klu Klux Klan propaganda ever. Miller pointed ... More >>
Arts Fest Preview: DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 11:56 am | Lyndon Hood
Rebirth of a Nation sees DJ Spooky remixing the 1915 film Birth of a Nation , known both for its technical innovation, setting many of the standard techniques of cinema, and as pro-Klu Klax Klan propaganda. More >>
Writers and Readers Week: Joe Sacco
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 1:21 pm | Lyndon Hood
Joe Sacco is a cartoonist best known for his journalistic comics focusing on war zones. Palestine depicts stories and his experiences in Israel and the Palestinian territories - other works have focued on the Bosnian War and he is currently working ... More >>
Writers and Readers Week: Louise Erdrich
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 12:54 am | Lyndon Hood
Louise Erdrich, initially published as a poet, now writes fiction - daughter of an Ojibwa Indian mother and German-American father, her work is often based in Native American life. More >>
Writers and Readers Week: Nuruddin Farah
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 12:41 am | Lyndon Hood
African prose writer and playwright Nuruddin Farah was exiled from his native Somalia in 1976 as a result of his provocative writing. His work centres on the stories of Somalia and its people through dictatorship, liberation and ongoing chaos. More >>
