CityBeat - Te Waha Nui Online

by Daniel Satherley

Radiohead, perhaps the world’s biggest band without a recording contract, have thrown the music industry a curveball even more ground-shaking than Kid A.

They’re releasing their new album, In Rainbows, on October 10 - and it’s upto each individual fan how much they want to pay for it.

Say what? Read more

by Justin Henehan

The perennial debate about religion has spilled onto the pages of Te Waha Nui…well, sort of.

Two opinion pieces from Dan Satherley and Dylan Quinnell seemed to line each other up and charge, only to pass like trains in the night. I was disappointed, as disappointed as I am in my lazy use of a mixed metaphor.

So what did they write? Read more

by Jackie Tran Van

As fashion week drew to an end a new focus is set to keep Auckland fashion in the lime-light.

Loli-pop is the latest exhibition at the Auckland Museum and focuses on Japanese Gothic Lolita phenomenon.

In a nut-shell, Gothic Lolita or Loli-goth is a style of fashion based on dolls adopted as a Japanese street style. Read more

by Geraldine Roper

‘Dogs don’t bite people; people who own dangerous dogs let them bite people.’
Or do they…

Who is responsible when a dog attacks? The dog itself? Or the owner who lets the dog loose in a public place?

This issue has once again been raised after the recent attack on two-year-old Aotea Cox. Read more

by Bex Appleton

I hate to be the bearer of negativity, but New Zealand textaholism is an increasing epidemic that just doesn’t seem to bear an end.

It is dangerously stripping us of etiquette, personality, communication abilities and intellect – we are become stupider!

In today’s fast society it is easy to desire gratification instantly, and there seems no better way of getting this fix than to flick someone a text. Read more

by Rochelle Grace

Summer is nearing, which means packed beaches and traffic jams for holiday-goers.

The new Orewa to Puhoi tolled motorway, to be finished in 2009, is meant to make traffic flow lighter as drivers do not have to pass through Orewa residential zone at 50kmh.

Despite being under its estimated $360 million budget, the motorway has currently run into problems. Read more

by Bex Appleton

A pregnant woman was questioned and reprimanded by a bartender when she ordered a light alcoholic beverage at an Auckland bar recently.

What use to be seen as a ‘no no’ for pregnant women now appears to be slipping into an acceptable trend, with the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow being seen drinking a beer while pregnant with baby number two.

Studies show 50 per cent of women in New Zealand believe drinking some alcohol during pregnancy is acceptable. Read more

by Angela Beswick

Silverdale Luge has finally opened, and just in time for the school holidays.

Located between Snowplanet and the Silverdale indoor go-cart and outdoor bumper-boat centre at Action Raceway, the park boasts three luge tracks, each are four metres wide and vary from 1km to 1.5km long.

The tracks twist and turn under and over each other Read more

by Michele Coelho

News of an earthquake next to NZ, and the danger of an impending tsunami almost meant Auckland city would be destroyed.

The earthquake took place 475km south of NZ near an archipelago known as the Auckland Islands.

But to some parts of the world, the news was that the tremor had happened next to Auckland city. Read more

by Jaheb Barnett

Christmas is just around the corner.

Well, not like just right around the corner, it’s 90 days away.

That leaves us with 90 days to get our A into G before the big red fella leaves us some goodies under our tree. Read more