Hitchcock Comes To Auckland
Simon Phillips Directs.
The bold reimagining of the beloved Alfred Hitchcock classic North by Northwest for the stage has wowed audiences worldwide since its 2015 premiere in Melbourne.
This month Verve’s star teen reviewer Lucy Kennedy takes a look at the Starman himself, David Bowie, as he narrates his life story in the movie Moonage Daydream.
There are around 10,000 people interred at Symonds Street Cemetery ‒ though around three quarters of the headstones have decayed owing to their often timber construction.
South African-born Kiwi cricketer Michael Rippon has had a cosmopolitan career having so far plied his trade in England, the Netherlands and now New Zealand. Verve caught up with him for a Father’s Day-dedicated chat as he took a break from the Black Caps’ tour of Scotland.
In need of some inspiration – and peace and quiet – while finishing off his true-tales tome, The Scene of the Crime, writer Steve Braunias came upon the idea of setting up camp in Grey Lynn’s Surrey Hotel – a place he passed and gazed at most days on the bus.
