Archive for 2011
May 26 2011
Spareroom in Hiatus
posted by Ana Samways at 2:13 pm
Hey Spareroom readers! You may have noticed a severe lack of posts over the last few months. Apologies for the delay in letting you know, but we are having a break from the site to raise our baby Gabriel (now six months).
See you soon,
Ana Samways and Steven Shaw
March 24 2011
Trailer – Captain America: The First Avenger
posted by Steven Shaw at 3:45 pm
Captain America: The First Avenger
The trailer for the upcoming Marvel origin film Captain America: The First Avenger has landed…
March 17 2011
The Paperboy cometh
posted by Steven Shaw at 4:24 pm
Eli “Paperboy” Reed
Soul singer Eli “Paperboy” Reed is coming to NZ in April to play shows in Auckland & Wellington…
February 10 2011
Even More Gigs — George Clinton, Michelle Shocked, Leon Russell
posted by Steven Shaw at 1:39 pm
You can add George Clinton, Michelle Shocked and Leon Russell to a musical calendar that’s already overflowing with quality shows including Mavis Staples, The Blind Boys of Alabama with Aaron Neville, The Funky Meters, Bob Dylan and more
So many international gigs have been been announced in the past month or two, including the return of Justin Townes Earle, who was last seen here as support act for Wilco. Earle is touring from south to north, playing…
February 09 2011
The Julie Project
posted by Ana Samways at 9:29 am
I bawled while reading about Julie Baird’s unfortunate life, but I am a cryer.
Darcy Padilla photographed Julie over an 18 year period, from when she was a teen with her 8 day old infant to her death from AIDS at 36. The fly-on-the-wall photographs are not easy to look at; they are confronting, brutal and terribly sad. And they made me angry. Why would a woman like this have child after child? To think of Julie as a person and not a series of political issues is important. It reminds us of the fragility of human existence when poverty and poor mental health are factors, and the intergenerational nature of such deprivation…