Founder of The Warehouse retail chain Stephen Tindall discusses the world class awards and how to drive kiwi entrepreneurs to success.

Kiwi company Weta Workshop, the multiple Academy Award-winning leader in motion capture, special makeup, creature and visual effects (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong and Chronicles of Narina etc), will design and provide …

“Life is like a salmon swimming upstream,” he says. “Hard work. And sometimes you get eaten by bears.”
Wilson Dixon AKA Jesse Griffin is heading to the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

The world’s largest piano was unveiled last week in a farmers barn outside of Timaru by the world’s youngest piano maker.

The obscure third Conchord Todd Barry from the first season of Flight of the Conchords,  along with Arj Baker (AJ) and Kristen Schaal (Mel) are to appear at this years Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival …

Wellington New Zealand [photostream] has been voted by residents as having the highest quality of life of all major metropolitan areas in New Zealand. 94.9% of the residents ranked their quality of life as good …

Two Kiwis are playing at this years US Masters, former 2005 US Open Champion Michael Campbell and US Amateur Winner Danny Lee.

TV star Jessica Tovey stars in Australia’s top soap “Home and Away” but when she’s away in New Zealand she feels right at home.

The town of Whakatane is up in arms over losing the sunshine capital title to Blenheim the wine growing region in the South Island.

Breakfast reporter Amy Kelley takes us to Hamilton for the 10th anniversary of the Balloons over Waikato festival.

Kristen Schaal AKA Mel on Flight of the Conchords has spread some hope today in the St Petersburg times:

A young Kiwi Entrepreneur has developed a Twitter service for restaurant service. The “twitter” service allows  restaurateur to read the feedback in real time.

Richard Taylor the the Weta Workshop team were honored this week at World Class New Zealand Awards.

Anna Paquin is playing Irena Sendler, a Polish resistance member during the Second World War, in a made for TV movie on CBS.