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Lyndon Hood: Sealing The Mine And Throwing Away The Key
Friday, 14 January 2011, 4:04 pm | Lyndon Hood
We were waiting a while for John Key to hold a press conference on the Pike River announcement, so we got bored and made up our own. More >>
Lyndon Hood's Pics of the Weeks: The Rest of 2010
Tuesday, 21 December 2010, 4:07 pm | Lyndon Hood
Scoop editorial images by Lyndon Hood, for stories from April to December 2010. More >>
Audio & Photos: Pansy Wong Faces The Press
Friday, 3 December 2010, 2:54 pm | Lyndon Hood
Pansy Wong held a press conference early on Friday afternoon, following the release of a report into her and her husband's use of the parliamentary travel rebate. More >>
City Gallery Video Is Too Hot
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 3:18 pm | Lyndon Hood
Stations, the video installation by Murray Hewitt playing outside the front doors of Wellington's City Gallery until December 12, appears to have been receiving some enhancement care of the sun. More >>
Pics of the Weeks: January to March '10
Wednesday, 6 October 2010, 4:25 pm | Lyndon Hood
Scoop editorial images by Lyndon Hood, for stories from January to March 2010. More >>
Scoop Satire: The Christchurch Dialogues
Thursday, 16 September 2010, 5:21 pm | Lyndon Hood
"... We were a bit worried we wouldn't be able to get on with the job of rebuilding. So we all decided the best thing for the recovery of Canterbury, was to pass a law that let me just rewrite any law I wanted to." More >>
Lyndon Hood: The Week In Toxication
Friday, 27 August 2010, 3:19 pm | Lyndon Hood
Sorry if this seems unconnected. Got hammered playing the policy announcement drinking game. More >>
Scoop Satire: The Calculator of Cthulhu
Monday, 9 August 2010, 3:12 pm | Lyndon Hood
I still cannot think of the affair of the Prime Minister of New Zealand without a shudder of unmitigated horror. More >>
Lyndon Hood: More and More Curious!
Monday, 7 June 2010, 3:09 pm | Lyndon Hood
The voice belonged to a large cat which was sitting on the bank and grinning from ear to ear... "Good day, Mister Cat," she said politely, "What a nice bank you have!" "Thank you," the cat replied. "I was considering selling it." More >>
Scoop Satire: Sweeping Taxonomy Changes For Budget
Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 4:00 pm | Lyndon Hood
What may have begun as a typographic error has been embraced by the Government, with the budget tipped to see a sweeping "rebalancing" of the taxonomy system. More >>
Scoop Satire: Peter's On First
Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 5:35 pm | Lyndon Hood
Scoop follows in the footsteps of Campbell Live by securing an 'exclusive interview' with the Minister of Social Development Paula Bennett on the name of the shadowy Professor Peter Saunders as an expert for the Welfare Working Group. More >>
Arts Festival Review: The Walworth Farce
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 12:52 pm | Lyndon Hood
Some of the festival's publicity hasn't make it entirely clear what to expect, so to be clear: of all the kinds of entertainment The Walworth Farce is, it's not light entertainment. But it is a wild and exciting ride that leaves you wondering about ... More >>
Writers and Readers Week: Neil Gaiman
Sunday, 14 March 2010, 6:01 pm | Lyndon Hood
Under De Goldi's questioning, Gaiman described how he had inadvertently become a specialist in Edwardian literature, and G.K. Chesterton in particular, due to the limited selection of his school library. More >>
Audio & Images: Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer
Friday, 12 March 2010, 5:09 pm | Lyndon Hood
Neil Gaiman is in Wellington as part of the NZ International Arts Festival's Writers and Readers Week. This afternoon he and his fiancée, musician Amanda Palmer, held a small press conference consisting mostly of media not potent enough to get an interview ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: The Arrival
Friday, 12 March 2010, 12:25 pm | Lyndon Hood
Red Leap's adaptation of Shaun Tan's book is not only impressively captures hiss visuals and his themes – it also shares that spirit of heartfelt invention. More >>
Arts Festival Review: 11 and 12
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 2:06 pm | Lyndon Hood
The production sat oddly the St James Theatre, as if failing to adapt to the space. This was obvious early on as Tunji Lewis, whose character's narration is our entry into the world of the play, rarely brought his eyeline high enough to include those ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Echoa
Wednesday, 3 March 2010, 3:39 pm | Lyndon Hood
Echoa Arcosm Company (France) Soundings Theatre, Te Papa 2 – 7 March Recommended for ages 6 and up More >>
Arts Festival Images: Mimetic Brotherhood
Monday, 1 March 2010, 4:22 pm | Lyndon Hood
Part of the Arts Festival's visual arts programme was the unveiling of a new work covering the four concrete plinths on the waterfront outside Te Papa. More >>
Arts Festival Review: Apollo 13: Mission Control
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 11:27 pm | Lyndon Hood
Downstage Theatre is transformed into NASAs 1970 mission control, with an impressive chunk of the audience behid their own chunky consoles, each with an allocated purpose. And before the show one of the audience – in a move that later ups both the stakes ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Sutra
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 11:07 pm | Lyndon Hood
It's possible some of the audience were thinking 'Shaolin Spectacular'. If that's what you're after, you won't lose out, but Sutra is more complicated than that. Its attempt to integrate those martial arts forms, and some of that spectacle, into modern ... More >>
