Mad on Radium by Rebecca Priestley – review
Issue 3785 24th Nov 2012
A critical reassessment of New Zealand in the nuclear age.
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60 years of The Mousetrap
Subscriber contentBy Jane Clifton in Theatre
Issue 3785 24th Nov 2012
After 60 years’ playing in London, Agatha Christie’s whodunnit The Mousetrap comes to Wellington.
Stroma: Pierrot Lunaire
Subscriber contentBy Elizabeth Kerr in Classical
Issue 3785 24th Nov 2012
Stroma perform what Stravinsky regarded as the “solar plexus” of early 20th-century music.
Life in New Zealand November 24 2012
Subscriber contentIssue 3785 24th Nov 2012
I still get a kick out of writing about fashionable things in my pyjamas. Sunday Star-Times, 26/8/12 The retailers, including Elio’s gunshop, are up in arms.
Crisis Management 101
Subscriber contentBy Bill Ralston in Life
Issue 3785 24th Nov 2012
Scandals won’t go away unless you deal with them properly, writes Bill Ralston.
Anna Fifield: What was that about?
Subscriber contentBy Anna Fifield in Diary
Issue 3785 24th Nov 2012
Normality – such as it is – returns to the US capital.
Letters 24 November 2012
in Letters
Issue 3785 24th Nov 2012
Fertility; education; and the US election.
Saving Myanmar's child soldiers
Subscriber contentBy Jenny Macintyre in Current Affairs
Issue 3785 24th Nov 2012
A former Kiwi high-flyer has a new mission in rapidly changing Myanmar.
Public art and Ockham’s Razor
Subscriber contentBy Hamish Keith in Cultural Curmudgeon
Issue 3785 24th Nov 2012
Seven hundred years ago in the English village of Ockham, a cleric called William had a bright idea.
How officials are swooping on family trusts
Subscriber contentBy Ruth Laugesen in Current Affairs
Issue 3785 24th Nov 2012
The Government is tightening the screws on recovering rest home costs, with family trusts set up decades ago now considered fair game.