Bloc Collective celebrates road reopening this summer
The closure of Normanby Road roundabout for construction of the Mt Eden underground train station has made access to Bloc Collective tricky for more than a year, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel, with the road set to reopen soon.
Could the long season of the tracksuit be over? As we emerge from both winter and two-and-a-half long years of staying (for the most part) inside, could Kiwis finally be ready to shed their grey and black layers and embrace a bit of colour?
If you look up Bungalow Bills on Google Street View, you won’t see much. Walk up the alley and you’ll find a place that, for a certain kind of person, is paradise.
Magali Corpas didn’t want a name for her tattoo shop that included the words “ink” or “skin”. She wanted to capture what the craft of tattoo is all about: solidifying identity, reclaiming bodies, and capturing creativity and art in places that need healing.
There are a million DJs in the world, figuratively speaking. No one knows exactly how many. But what can be said is that hundreds of thousands of people around the world use DJ gear made by Numark and Denon.
Ryan Cooper built Mukpuddy with two buddies fresh out of animation school and has grown the business supplying animated children’s shows to TVNZ, Channel Ten and ABC (Australia).
When Jeffrey and Lisa Stothers were sizing up a new home for Southbound Records six years ago, one thing was very important: how does music sound in this room?
Soar Print began life in Onehunga in 1920, then moved to New North Road in 2000. This year, the company is celebrating 100 years of not just surviving, but thriving – in spite of depressions, recessions, world wars and pandemics.
In 2017, it looked like the end of the story for the Hard to Find Bookshop. After 35 years, it seemed there wasn't anywhere for Warwick and his 90,000 books to go.
A regular feature that offers a snapshot of the working lives of some of Uptown’s most colourful characters. This issue we meet Wiremu Burkhardt, 34, the owner and head mechanic at Master Mechanics on Upper Queen Street.