Interview

Method behind the madness By Melinda Collins “It was a great big bloody accident,” the Mad Butcher says of his success. “But it’s quite the fairytale story really.” As summations…

Can our cup runneth over? By Katie McKone “We are unlikely to ever have another opportunity that will unite us quite as much as a Rugby World Cup; the only…

By Bridget Gourlay Napier, February 3, 1931. Students are bent over schoolbooks. Shoppers meander the streets. A harsh summer sun beats down. There is nothing unusual about this serene Kiwi…

By Bridget Gourlay Think about the best holiday of your life. The things most vividly etched into your memory probably defy time. Years later you can easily recall the frenetic…

An estimated 85,000 visitors, most from corporate backgrounds and high socio-economic groups, have for the Rugby World Cup. Expected to inject anything from $500-$700 million into the economy, the old…

November, 1976 — 18-year-old Ricky May secures his first win driving Ruling River, his grandmother’s horse, at Geraldine. Some 35 years later and all eyes are on the humble Methven…

By Bridget Gourlay Picture a factory in the developing world. The workers are hunched over, thin, their hands and eyes a blur as they work. And work. And work some…

By Melinda Collins Kiwi ingenuity; it’s world famous. Perhaps one of the strongest examples is how Kiwis took some domestic cows in the 1800s and turned them into today’s multi-billion…

April, 1962. A restless John Anderson sits in his London bedsit, itching to see Europe. The young Kiwi’s caught the travel bug in a big way, fuelled by high school…

By Bridget Gourlay When Julie Biuso was 13, she lied about her age and got a job waitressing in a Chinese restaurant. She’d fallen in love, you see — not…