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Arts Festival Review: Antonio Forcione Quartet
Sunday, 26 February 2006, 2:45 pm | Scoop Review
Antonio Focione and his Quartet bring an astonishing array of sounds to the National Bank Festival Club this week, and they opened their five-night run with an electrifying performance on Saturday which had the audience alternating between gasps of astonishment ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: The Earth from Above
Sunday, 26 February 2006, 2:43 pm | Scoop Review
The photographs in the Earth from Above exhibition may seem faintly familiar from various coffee-table collections, but on this scale they are much more impressive. There is also something enormously appealing about walking through an outdoor gallery. More >>
Arts Festival Review: The History Boys
Saturday, 25 February 2006, 4:56 pm | Scoop Review
Opening night of the New Zealand International Arts Festival. There's a sense of importance and occasion among the crowd at the St James, even if some of them were not sufficiently awed to remember to turn their cell phones off. This is serious ... More >>
Arts Fest Review: King and Country
Saturday, 25 February 2006, 2:43 pm | Scoop Review
In August 1914 Europe descended into all-out warfare, and New Zealand stepped into the fray alongside the Mother Country. Many young New Zealanders were eager to prove themselves in battle and see the world at the same time. By 1918, the tiny country ... More >>
Arts Fest: Mikelangelo & the Black Sea Gentlemen
Saturday, 25 February 2006, 2:42 pm | Scoop Review
Mikelangelo & the Black Sea Gentlemen put on a fine foot-stomping, laugh out loud and go home humming sort of show. Mikelangelo (vocals and guitar) looks like a lounge-lizard Elvis wannabe (except for the waistcoat and sombrero), and speaks with the sonorousness ... More >>
Fringe Review: Newtown Spoken Word
Saturday, 25 February 2006, 2:40 pm | Scoop Review
A spoken word festival may not be everybody's idea of a good time. However I have been known to commit poetry myself, so I happily headed off to the Newtown Community and Cultural Centre. More >>
A Week of It: RadioNZ Ructions – Air NZ Advisories
Friday, 24 February 2006, 6:27 pm | The Scoop Team
Radio Ructions – The Story You Probably Won't Hear On Mediawatch - Air NZ Boss Leaves Potentially Departing Staff Inspiring Recorded Message - Andrew Little discusses Air NZ lay offs - National's Foreign Affairs dude lashes Out At Ex U.S. President... More >>
Fringe Review: The Amazing Cromoli Brothers
Friday, 24 February 2006, 9:54 am | Scoop Review
It's 7.45pm and I wander into Blue Note on Cuba St. There's not a lot of people there, about 20, but they all seem relaxed and happy. They're mainly sitting around café style tables or getting drinks at the bar. I ask the man sitting on the couch to ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 23 February 2006
Friday, 24 February 2006, 9:03 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were... More >>
Audio: Manning & Pound On 95bFM – Street n Peters
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 5:52 pm | Scoop Audio
Audio: Selwyn Manning & Simon Pound discuss Labour's list MP Marian Street, her track-record and also what she may bring to the Labour caucus, and, Winston Peters' 'soft criticism' of the U.S. and UK. Should he be encouraged to firm up the attack? More >>
Fringe Review: Micetro
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 3:35 pm | Scoop Review
It's poor form as a reviewer to admit to ignorance – but it was quickly clear that this sorry condition put me in a small minority among the audience of improvised comedy show Micetro . More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 22 February 2006
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 9:15 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were... More >>
Audio: Kevin List On Radio Active – Air NZ
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 8:54 am | Scoop Audio
Scoop Audio: Kevin List this morning discussed on Radio Active: Just who is to blame for the looming engineer job losses at Air New Zealand? Is it the workers as Air NZ HQ and the Nats would have it? Or…? And mentions Unsworth's 1000 Buck Black politician ... More >>
Audio: Selwyn Manning on Radio Adelaide
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 10:25 am | Scoop Audio
Scoop Audio: Selwyn Manning discussed on Radio Adelaide today: Winston Peters' MFAT 5-year-plan; South Park's "Offensive" Bloody Mary episode; how 22,500 Kiwis left for Australia last year; and a Youth Rates bill designed to abolish discrimination ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 21 February 2006
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 9:09 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were... More >>
Tensions Come to Head for New Palestinian PM
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 5:00 pm | The Scoop Team
Ismail Haniyeh was nominated Sunday to be Palestinian prime minister... IDF establishes 'Israeli-only' entry points that bar Palestinians... Israel blocking Hamas members from PLC swearing-in... Israel 'has annexed Jordan Valley and shut out Palestinians'... More >>
Scoop Audio: Press Club Lap Up Greens
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 3:29 pm | Scoop Audio
Scoop Audio: This afternoon Green MP Keith Locke gave the gentlemen and gentlewomen of the National Press Club the benefit of his thoughts on the recent media furore surrounding unflattering cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. More >>
Flashback: Beginning of the Final World War
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 1:01 pm | Scoop Flashback
The optimists, who await an end to the post September 11 crisis, would end up as much disappointed tomorrow as the pacifists are today. Those who exaggerate the fear of "fundamentalist" Islam but underestimate the resistance in the Muslim world would ... More >>
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 20 February 2006
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 9:09 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were... More >>
PM Answers Historical Questions, US General Coming
Monday, 20 February 2006, 5:08 pm | Scoop Audio
Scoop Audio: The assembled masses at today's press conference had waited weeks for a chance to once again sit in Parliament's venerable Legislative Council Chamber and quiz the Prime Minister on the topics of the day. However, many of the issues ... More >>
