A complete photographic history of Mayor Wayne Brown meeting peopleThe Spinoff Daily, Thursday November 10
Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily in partnership with the Brain Drink, Ārepa. Today on The Spinoff, Chris Schulz talks to the promoters of Aotearoa's biggest music festivals about surviving two years of postponements and cancellations and preparing for a summer like no other, Alex Casey profiles “the queen of ethical and feminist porn” and Shanti Mathias watches a new play about the impossibility of authentically representing Aotearoa’s diverse Asian communities. But first, Toby Manhire presents a complete photographic history of Mayor Wayne Brown meeting people.
“Critics of Mayor Wayne Brown have chided an approach to sharing information with the people of Auckland that eschews interviews in favour of a stream of brusque press releases and imperious open letters. That charge is unfair. He also puts out photography. And what photography it is. Though the images may not yet have achieved the hallowed status of the Kim Jong-il Looking at Things oeuvre, they undeniably freight an evocative, iridescent power, especially if you squint. Let the exhibition begin.”
Live Updates: ‘Open banking’ on the way as suite of proposals announced ‘I’ve lost nearly $1 million’: How NZ’s biggest music festivals survived Covid Over a million historic NZ photographs are going up for auction The 2011 men’s Rugby World Cup had multiple fan zones. The women get none
Chris & Eli put the culture in porn In the fourth episode of Chris & Eli’s Porn Revolution, the pair learn there’s a lot of ethical and artful porn out there – you just have to know where to look.
Representation is always going to be imperfect “When the performance you’re reviewing is so clear about the impossible contradictions of being asked to represent a group of people as diverse as the Asian diaspora, it feels only fair to be clear about the structures of representation you yourself exist within. So here I am, one small piece of the Asian diaspora, reviewing The First Prime-Time Asian Sitcom.”
‘Pleasure is the purpose’: Meet the queen of ethical and feminist porn Erotica in te ao Takataapui is a tradition as old as time TV review: Duckrockers takes Sione’s Wedding back to the 80s The women-led businesses carving pathways to global success
Dame Fiona Kidman: The heart of the matter To mark 50 years of Read NZ Te Pou Muramura, the New Zealand Book Council, founding member Dame Fiona Kidman takes us on a lifelong journey of reading. This essay was delivered in person by Dame Fiona last night at the annual Read NZ Te Pou Muramura Pānui in Wellington.
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