Joanna Wane

6 days ago | nzherald.co.nz | Joanna Wane

The Surprise, by Auckland photographer Deborah Kelland, whose images documenting the migration of monarch butterflies features in the Auckland Festival of Photography this month. High up on a mountain in Mexico, Auckland photographer Deborah Kelland experienced one of nature’s miracles. The symbolic release of Deborah Kelland’s monarch butterflies will mark an emotional milestone for the former boutique real estate high-flyer, whose exhibition The Sacred Journey: A Flight for Life opens on May 15.

6 days ago | nzherald.co.nz | Joanna Wane

British novelist David Nicholls, whose latest book, 'You Are Here', is a midlife romance set on the Coast to Coast walking trail across northern England. One Day’s David Nicholls doesn’t believe in happy endings. For his latest book, he walked 300km across England to try to find one. Sixteen years after David Nicholls published his stratospheric bestseller One Day, the world is still reeling from its devastating ending.

2 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Joanna Wane

Life in Las Vegas is “utterly insane”, says Kiwi comic Sam Wills, who has become a hit on the Strip with the alter ego he created from black sticky tape and eyeliner two decades ago. It’s late afternoon when the man America knows only as Tape Face leaves his home in suburban Las Vegas and heads to work on the Strip. Some 45 hotel-casinos line the notorious 6.8km stretch of neon heading north from the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign.

3 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Joanna Wane

Auckland air cadet Nicholas Blanks wears his great-grandfather's World War I medals, entrusted to him after being returned from Australia. Photo / Alex Burton A set of long-lost World War I medals will once again be worn at the Anzac Day dawn service in Auckland today, for the first time in more than 40 years. A Gallipoli veteran who led an all-Kiwi bugle team in London at the first Anzac Day Commemoration in 1916 will be honoured by his great-grandson at the Auckland Cenotaph today.

3 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Joanna Wane

Royal New Zealand Ballet principal dancer Ana Gallardo Lobaina is reincarnated as The Firebird. Photo / Mark MitchellAn old Russian fairytale is translocated to a desert wasteland in an allegory for our times as The Firebird – cut short by Covid during its debut tour – headlines the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s new double bill. Affectionately dubbed “Max Max: The Ballet”, Kiwi choreographer Loughlan Prior’s dystopian take on The Firebird is a triumph of hope in a world that’s falling apart.