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Arts Festival Images: Transports Exceptionels
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 12:15 pm | Lyndon Hood
A sunny evening borught out a large crowd for the first free event of the Festival of the Arts – an outdoor dance duet between a man and a digger; a mixture of dance, danger, technology and moments of rather improbable emotion. More >>
Fringe Review: Buffoon's Birthday
Sunday, 21 February 2010, 9:17 pm | Lyndon Hood
When actors discover masks they can be like a child let loose in a candy store. In more senses than one: some disciplines of mask work rely on the psychological effect – something like possession – of replacing your own face with another. Among ... More >>
Fringe Review: Undergrowth
Sunday, 21 February 2010, 1:44 pm | Lyndon Hood
Undergrowth Kristin Herman and Peter Willis 19 – 21 February 9pm Fri & Sat, 2pm Sat & Sun Wellington Performing Arts Centre More >>
PM's Post-Cabinet Presser 15/2/10: Happy Families
Monday, 15 February 2010, 5:34 pm | Lyndon Hood
Questions focused on the Whanau Ora welfare policy and disputes over whether it would be limited to Maori. Discussion of the policy included the Prime Minister's explanation of why poverty is like a waterbed. On the importance of proper monitoring, Mr Key ... More >>
2010 Wellington Sevens Costumes Pics - Part Two
Friday, 5 February 2010, 4:24 pm | Lyndon Hood
2010 Wellington Sevens Costumes Pics - Part Two: The Walk Of Concrete More >>
2010 Wellington Sevens Costumes Pics (Part One)
Friday, 5 February 2010, 3:29 pm | Lyndon Hood
At lunchtime, our correspondent hit the streets as a city dressed up for the 2010 New Zealand Sevens. Outfits ranged from silly to awesome to unfortunate for an event that is the closest Wellington comes to Carnivale. More >>
Lyndon Hood's Pics of the Weeks: Oct to Dec '09
Friday, 8 January 2010, 3:33 pm | Lyndon Hood
New Scoop editorial images by Lyndon Hood, for stories from October to November 2009. More >>
Lyndon Hood: That Was The Decade That Was
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 3:17 pm | Lyndon Hood
Links to Lyndon Hood satire and relate material from 2009, as well as new japes regarding the year in review. More >>
Lyndon Hood: We'll put the world to rights
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 2:17 pm | Lyndon Hood
I t had been hectic lately. First the Phil Goff saga: a halfhearted apology for his racially-charged and inflammatory statements, calls for him to resign, fighting for his position in the party. More >>
Hood's Pics of the Weeks: July to September '09
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 4:49 pm | Lyndon Hood
New Scoop editorial images by Lyndon Hood, for stories from July to September 2009. More >>
Lyndon Hood: Travel Ideas For MPs
Friday, 11 December 2009, 11:57 am | Lyndon Hood
With just a few days of Parliament, left MPs will – if they’re anything like me – be thinking about planning their summer break. More >>
Werewolf: Looking beyond the veil
Friday, 20 November 2009, 1:38 pm | Lyndon Hood
I don't mean the press releases written by individuals who, while inhabiting this physical world, are mentally on another planet entirely. If we were to reject PR from these people we would, frankly, have nothing to publish. More >>
Werewolf: Bullet Points Will Solve All My Problems
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 1:56 pm | Lyndon Hood
So now it turns out (who knew?) you can get into trouble for making indirect threats on the Internet. Not that I want to turn these columns into a series of disclaimers, but I feel I should clarify some of the things I've said about Larry Baldock. More >>
Lyndon Hood: ETS Amendment Submission
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 1:16 pm | Lyndon Hood
The most notable change brought about by this bill would be giving polluters, to 2050, one hundred billion dollars. I am right behind that idea, but the proposed system for delivering the money is unnecessarily complicated. More >>
Lyndon Hood: Act Doesn’t Feel Climate Heat
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 5:13 pm | Lyndon Hood
Thanks to a memo we found stuck to our shoe after leaving the Parliament toilet block, Scoop can now reveal some other policies that Act plans based on their attitude to mainstream science. More >>
Lyndon Hood: Anti-Smacking Lobby Gets "Thrashing"
Monday, 24 August 2009, 3:12 pm | Lyndon Hood
Opponents of the smacking referendum have been left nursing their wounds after being seriously thrashed in the recent referendum. But despite this beating, they refuse to do what they're told - and continue to act just as lippy, if not more so. More >>
Lyndon Hood: Things The Emissions Target Is Like
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 12:42 pm | Lyndon Hood
The New Zealand Government has announced it's plan for 2020 carbon emissions... Minister will have trouble explaining why this isn't either inconsistent, selfish or openly hypocritical. To help them out, here is a list of handy analogies to help the public ... More >>
Lyndon Hood on the irony of satire
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 2:34 pm | Lyndon Hood
I t's probably no surprise that satirists have had some waspish things to say about satire. Peter Cook described his satirical nightclub 'The Establishment' as "loosely based on the Berlin cabaret of the 1930s, which did so much to prevent the rise of ... More >>
Lyndon Hood: The Week In Brief
Monday, 27 July 2009, 2:08 pm | Lyndon Hood
Health: Controversy Over Mandatory Fortification Of Bread With "Wheat"; Law Reform: Power Proposes New "Being A Total Jerk" Offence; Politics: Raising Profile Maybe Not Such A Good Idea After All - Goff; Climate Change: New Zealand To Stand On Proud ... More >>
Lyndon Hood's Pics of the Weeks: June '09
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 3:13 pm | Lyndon Hood
New Scoop editorial images by Lyndon Hood, for stories from June 2009. More >>
