Christchurch: Quake-Revealed Time Capsules Opened
The two sealed time capsules have been opened by Mayor Bob Parker at the Canterbury Museum and the contents of both were revealed. More>>

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• canterburyearthquake.org.nz - Police Seek Owners for Final Few Vehicles
• SciBlogs Out-Link - Time Capsules and the ‘Wow’ Factor
• More images Out-Link - Twitpic / the4avenues

Free Speech/80s Rap: Musician Arrested, Charged 'For N.W.A. Song'
Tiki Taane: At 3:25am on Sunday the 10th of April I was arrested at my R18 concert in Tauranga... More>>

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• 2009 Parihaka International Peace Festival - Tiki Taane Bio

Obituary: Tribute To Conservationist Don Merton
Forest & Bird paid tribute to outstanding conservationist Don Merton, who died early today. “Without Don Merton, the kakapo, the Chatham Island black robin and other unique native New Zealand birds would probably have become extinct.” More>>

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• Image Link (Photo: Don Merton) - Black robin: DOC
• NZ Govt - Don Merton legacy lives on
• Labour - Labour pays tribute to environment icon Don Merton
• Greens - Rest in Peace, Don Merton
• Department of Conservation - Don Merton, 1939 - 2011: Conservation Pioneer
• NZ On Screen Out-Link - Seven Black Robins - Television

Weekly Sport Digest: Breakers Level Series, Vettel In Lead
FORMULA ONE: Sebastian Vettel led from pole position to win the second round Malaysian Grand Prix. The world champion continued his perfect start after victory in Australia two weeks ago. Vettel won at the Sepang circuit last season and claimed his fourth consecutive race victory. More>>

The New Black: iD Dunedin Fashion Week Green
iD Dunedin Fashion Show takes recycling seriously, and this year is taking its waste minimisation plan one step further. More>>

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• ID Dunedin Fashion Week - Vogue Australia to judge iD Emerging Designer Awards
• Quartz Reef Vineyard - Quartz Reef Sparkles At iD Dunedin Fashion Week
• Strategy First - iD Dunedin captures couture with Liz Mitchell

Mares / Mayors:
Christchurch Mayoress And Auckland Deputy Mayor To Race Each Other At Inter Domions
Christchurch Mayoress Jo Nicholls-Parker and Auckland Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse will be racing each other to help raise funds for Christchurch at one of Australasia’s most prestigious harness racing events, the Inter Dominion... More >>

TVNZ Moving Its Morning Show From Avalon To Auckland; 12 Redundancies=
TVNZ is relocating its weekday mid-morning programme Good Morning from Wellington to Auckland from the end of the year. TVNZ Chief Executive Rick Ellis said today that a new mid-morning programme would be launched in 2012 that would be based out of the company’s ...More >>

Wellington Waterfront: They Don’t Know About Our Promenade ...
Wellington has had a promenade on the edge of the harbour ever since the city council’s Waterfront Framework was published ten years ago. It was one of the few decisions which was supported by everyone during the... More >>

Anthology: The Best New Zealand Poems of 2010, out now
A brand new issue of the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has been released by Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), containing the best 25 poems from 2010. More >>

The BEATGIRLS Present: BEATCAMP!
Get Ready for a Beating. The BeatGirls are back at Circa Theatre with a show designed to beat the recession, entertain the troops and thoroughly cheer up the nation! Captivating audiences with their witty banter, tight choreography and fabulous costumes The BeatGirls ... More >>

Missing The Bus: Lindsay Shelton on the Real-Time Wellington Bus Schedule
Fran Wilde said on Friday that real-time information for Go Wellington buses will be “a great milestone” for public transport because it will tell us when our bus is arriving “as opposed to when it’s scheduled to arrive.” I can’t help thinking that a... More >>

Easier to be an Expat: Streamlined UK Visa Application Process For NZ Students
The UK government announced, as part of wider changes to Tier 4, that it will introduce a streamlined application process for students from countries whose nationals pose a low immigration risk to the UK. These changes will be brought in from summer 2011. ... More >>

After 500m of Investment: Tranz Metro Admits It’s Short Of Trains
Greater Wellington Regional Council and KiwiRail are announcing temporary changes to Wellington train operations to address issues with crowded peak time trains and resulting problems with fare collection. The changes, which come into effect next week, are expected to... More >>

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• Wellington Regional Council - Changes to Wellington Trains to Address Crowding
• TV3 Video - Train operator out of pocket due to overcrowding

Te Kuiti: Shearing Championships Results
MEDIA RELEASE On behalf of Shearing Sports New Zealand April 3, 2011. 9.20am SHEARS - RESULTS Results from the New Zealand Shearing Championships at Te Kuiti on March 31-April 2: International (12 lambs): New Zealand 89.217pts (Cam Ferguson 11min 3.66sec, ... More >>

Party to go on: Rugby World Cup 2011 Matches Rescheduled
Three of the five Rugby World Cup pool matches that were to have been held in Christchurch, but have had to be moved because of the February earthquake, will remain in the South Island. Rugby officials announced today (30.03.2011) that Nelson, Dunedin and Invercargill ... More >>

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• Hamilton City Council - Hot demand sees extra RWC in Hamilton
• WCC - Wellington response to RWC announcement

Buttered Corn and Liberty Cabbage: Roxy Cinema Bringing Back The Golden Age Of Movies - Wellingtonians and visitors alike can catch their first glimpse of Roxy Cinema, Miramar this Friday when the doors open on a new golden age of movie palaces. The public are invited from Friday 1st April to look around the grand surrounds of Roxy’s two state-of-the-art cinemas, including the firs ... More >>

The Urban Cool: V Energy Gives Away A "Tricked Out" 2001 Sylvia S15 - V is stoked to announce that Palmerston North local, Corey Stopforth, has won the V Tricked Out 2001 Nissan Sylvia S15. Over the past few months, car enthusiasts have shown their skills at the V4&Rotary; events throughout the country in a bid to win ... More >>

NIWA: Tagged Juvenile Tarakihi To Teach Us About Nursery Habitats - During late March and April, NIWA fisheries scientists will be tagging hundreds of juvenile tarakihi in Tasman and Golden Bays, in an effort to learn more about their nursery habits and habitat. Tarakihi are highly regarded by both commercial and recreational fishermen in New Zealand. They are caught around all ...More >>

Wellington Tenure: The Rates Go Up, Then Up And Down - The Wellington City Council yesterday announced an add-on to next year’s budget – an extra $120,000 “to improve community emergency preparedness.” In the same announcement, we’re told that the average rates increase is going up to 4.4 per cent from the previously ... More >>

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• Wellington Scoop - Comparing The Rates Increases – From 0.45% To 7.31%

Wildcard Entry: Last Chance To Audition For New Zealand’s Next Top Model - Nationwide public auditions for New Zealand’s Next Top Model have now finished, but there is one more chance for model hopefuls to become part of the third cycle. TV3 are offering aspiring models the chance to audition for a place on the show, courtesy of the Glassons Wild Card... More >>

Target Pest: Stoat Poison Will Strengthen Protection For Native Birds - A new toxin for the control of mammalian pests, thought to be the first registered in the world for at least twenty years, has been developed in New Zealand. Its use will strengthen the ability of pest control agencies to better control stoats, and feral cats... More >>

'Safety First': Richard Simmons Appointed Air NZ’s Latest Safety Ambassador - Air New Zealand’s safety ambassador for its new inflight safety video is US fitness legend Richard Simmons. Starting today, Simmons will be putting Air New Zealand customers through their paces, as he takes them step-by-step through the airline’s pre-flight ... More >>

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• Air New Zealand - Air New Zealand's new safety video tops 1 million views

Weekly Sport Digest: Black Caps Make The Cricket Semis - CRICKET WORLD CUP: The semi-finalists have been found for the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the home sides dominate the last four. New Zealand is the only team from outside the subcontinent to make the semi-finals. The Black Caps will face Sri Lanka after the host nation thrashed England by ... More >>

Werewolf: Taking Cricket To America - At the end of Joseph O’Neill’s Booker Prize-nominated Netherland, a character remarks : “There is a limit to what Americans understand. The limit is cricket.” More>>

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• Werewolf issue 22

Less Is Morphine: O’Grady Cleared By Sports Tribunal - Triathlete Graham O’Grady has today been cleared of any wrong doing following a positive drug test... In a case described as ‘unusual’ by the NZ Sports Tribunal, it turns out everyday poppy seeds were likely to blame. More>>

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• Sports Tribunal of NZ - Triathlete not at fault for testing positive to morphine

Society: Celebrating Neighbours Day - Associate Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, Hekia Parata, is encouraging Kiwis to celebrate “Neighbours Day Aotearoa” this weekend. More>>

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• Wellington City Council - Good neighbours make for great communities

Werewolf: Phillip Pullman on Library Carnage In David Cameron’s Big Society - The [British] government, in the Dickensian person of Mr Eric Pickles, has cut the money it gives to local government, and passed on the responsibility for making the savings to local authorities... More>>

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• Gordon Campbell - Larceny, Lace and the Legislature
• Werewolf issue 22

"Das Tub": Submarine Action Film Sinks Competition - A tongue-in-cheek student short film that pays homage to submarine action films has been selected as an international finalist at the Aspen Shortsfest in Colorado – considered one of the world’s top 50 film festivals. More>>

Spotted In Wellington: Guerilla Sculpture?
In a new turn on street art, Scoop noticed a small-scale installation of stacked rocks in Wellington this lunchtime. More>>

Music: Fat Freddys Heads All-Night Street Party ‘Cuba For Chch’
Next Friday, Wellington's iconic Cuba St will resonate with the sounds of goodwill and great music, with the announcement today of the headline music acts for Cuba for Chch. More>>

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• MG Promotions - Lionel Richie & Guy Sebastian Record Duet For Christchurch
• Sony Music - 'New Zealand (My Home Town)' - Fundraiser For Christchurch
• Linwood College - Linwood Orchestra Dreams Rise from the Ashes

Charity Gigs: Star-Studded Cast To Perform 'Bare' For Christchurch
Sam Neill, Rhys Darby, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Lucy Lawless are among the star-studded cast of New Zealand actors performing Toa Fraser’s iconic play Bare to raise funds for the Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Appeal. More>>

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• TV3 Video - Bare: Star-studded cast to perform for Christchurch
• Mushroom Group - Foo Fighters in Brisbane & Auckland for flood and earthquake
• TV3 Video - All Blacks to play an extra game for Christchurch - Chch to get boost from extra ABs game

Still Coming: BB King For One Auckland Show With Ruthie Foster
His reign as King of the Blues has been as long as that of any monarch on earth, and today Chugg Entertainment is thrilled to announce that Mississippi blues impresario, BB King, will be playing one very special show in New Zealand at Auckland’s Civic Theatre on Sunday 24th April. More>>

Weekly Sports Digest: Black Caps Punish Canada
The Black Caps cruised to a 97-run win against Canada. The win has guaranteed New Zealand a place in the quarter-finals and set-up a clash with Sri Lanka that could see the Black Caps top their group. More>>

Film Screening: Comedians Stand Up For Zarganar
Top line New Zealand comedians Michele A’Court and Jeremy Elwood join Amnesty International to speak out about the imprisonment of fellow Burmese comedian Zarganar ... More>>

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• 2009 Gordon Campbell - Cozying up to the regime in Burma
• The Court Jesters - Comedy for Christchurch Raises Over $7,000
• The Classic - NZ Comedy Industry seeks stars of the future
• NZ International Comedy Festival - Awesome line-up for Comedy Festival 2011

BB King, Elvis Costello, Ben Harper, Gace Jones: Grassroots Festival Cancelled
Chugg Entertainment today announces with great disappointment, that the inaugural GrassRoots Festival scheduled for two days over the Easter weekend; Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th April, will regrettably be cancelled. More>>

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• Image Out-Link - B.B. King - rehes creative

Good For Something: Maltin Likes 'Pavlova Western'
A 'Pavlova Western' is winning plaudits from United States critics. Dunedin director Mike Wallis used the landscapes of Central Otago and the Mackenzie Country as a stand-in for the old American West for his film Good for Nothing. More>>

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• Out-Link - YouTube - Good For Nothing Movie - Official Teaser
• Out-Link - Celebration And Discovery In Santa Barbara > Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy

NZ On Screen Video: New Zealand Book Month Collection
This two-part collection coincides with New Zealand Book Month to celebrate NZ books and authors on screen. Part one features screen adaptations of NZ literature. A roll-call of classic Kiwi screen and teleplays has come from books ... More>>

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• NZ On Screen - The Bruno Lawrence Collection
• Outlink - The Bruno Lawrence Collection
• Outlink - NZ Book Month Collection