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Mayor Wayne Brown this morning opened Ockham Residential’s 19th apartment building, Ponsonby’s 101-unit The Greenhouse, which has been clad in 150,000...

A holding pattern helps aircraft pass time while remaining within a specified airspace boundary, But there’s a lot more to this aeronautical flight maneuver than just flying in a circle. We ask the experts for more.

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Have you seen the 2024 Ockhams Books Awards longlist? It’s a great big juicy list full of Aotearoa New Zealand writing. Here’s what the experts have to say about longlisted titles in the fiction and poetry awards categories. 

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A controversial historian wants to help us better understand te Tiriti.

Filled with a couple of operas’ worth of tragedy, Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles is not the likeliest source of inspiration for a dramatic circus show but Ockham's Razor are here to prove us wrong. 

This company’s skills cleverly animate the characters in a dreamlike production that does not blunt the novel’s tragedy

The company Ockham's Razor takes its name from a principle devised by the medieval philosopher, William of Ockham. Very simply, it posits that, given the choice of two explanations, you should always choose the simpler one. It is sometimes known as the "law of parsimony": the razor shaving away the unnecessary to present the essence. And that is exactly what the company has done with Thomas Hardy's greatest heroine, Tess of the d'Urbevilles, in Tess, currently at the Pea...

Their latest show, a reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s 1891 novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles, has drama and emotion aplenty, writes Debra Craine