The Spinoff Weekly: What the heck is going on with Give Us A Clue?
9-15 August 2021
Siouxsie Wiles: We all want to open up to the world. Here’s what we need to do first
As the forum on ‘reconnecting’ gets under way, Siouxsie Wiles explores the critical factors we need to consider.
What the heck is going on with Give Us A Clue?
Tara Ward answers all your questions about TVNZ’s bewildering new game show.
The Sunday Essay: A voice for the river
Central Otago’s Manuherekia River is dying. Do enough people care?
The feral, freeing power of being a woman who plays the drums
For her role in the theatre show Dakota of the White Flats, Amelia Reynolds got behind a drumkit for the first time since she was a teenager. And this time, she felt she belonged.
Review: Head High asks us to consider how our young men are shaped by rugby
The homegrown rugby drama explores the pressures exerted on our most talented high school players – and on young men in general, writes Alice Soper.
How three guys called Matt became the quiet achievers of the craft beer scene
In 10 years, they’ve gone from student flat home brew to supermarket beer fridge staple. Alice Neville charts the journey of Parrotdog.
All hail the Alpha Uterus? Separating fact from fiction on period syncing
Ask almost anyone who menstruates: when you’re living with other people with periods for long enough, your cycles will become aligned. But are period syncers just fooling themselves? Asia Martusia King investigates.
The Project is trying to topple a giant
What’s fuelling The Project? Cats, pizza, and the desire to dethrone a dynasty. Chris Schulz spends time with Discovery’s 7pm show as it nears its 1,000th episode.
Meet the woman behind South Auckland’s innovative entrepreneurs’ hub
Does a warm and welcoming co-working space that also sells homegrown fashion and beautiful indigenous art – all while mentoring young creatives – sound a bit too good to be true? Manawawharepu Udy might have agreed, as Justin Latif reports, until she created that very thing herself.
Three women at the sharp end of the tech revolution
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The way we work – and why we go to work in the first place – is changing rapidly under the influence of technology. Simon Day spoke to three women who have embraced that change.
