Every year the New Zealand Comedy Trust hands out a yellow towel to the most promising comedian in the country. The Billy T Award is not only New Zealand’s most prestigious comedy award; it is also the only one.
Winning the Billy T Award
Tag Archives: heritage
Getting Precious on Maori Television
Handshake, hug, or cheek-kiss
First lady, Michelle Obama, Traces Her Ancestry Through DNA
Matching DNA samples, scientists and historians have been working to trace the ancestry of first lady Michelle Obama, which they have currently traced back to Northern Georgia. According to the New York Times, her ancestors were both slaves and the slave masters because of interracial couplings through the years. Her white relatives have been sent […]
Education: The Secretary of Controversy: William Bennet
Barely a month ago, big , bluff William Bennett looked upon his early works as Secretary of Education and declared them good.
A Compromise Plan on Immigration
With the Senate headed toward a final vote on an immigration bill this week, a leader of House conservatives is asking his colleagues to support a free-market plan aimed at bridging the gulf between the versions in the two chambers. The proposal by Rep.
Here Comes the Show Boat! Broadway musical? Or opera in disguise?
Q: When is an opera not an opera?
Deadly Clashes as Thai-Cambodian Temple Tensions Reignite
Cambodian and Thai troops squared-off for the fourth consecutive day on Monday, the latest in a series of deadly clashes over small but symbolically valued sections of territory along the Southeast Asian countries’ shared border. The flashpoints are two ancient temples known in Cambodia as Ta Krabey and Ta Moan, which lie 160 kilometers west of Preah Vihear, a cliff-top temple that is the focal point of the wider border dispute
Teaching Reverse Racism
The teachings are sheer fantasy, unsubstantiated by any credible evidence: ancient Egyptians mastered flight with gliders, which they used for both recreation and travel.
Should We All Be Vegetarians?
FIVE REASONS TO EAT MEAT: 1> It tastes good 2> It makes you feel good 3> It’s a great American tradition 4> It supports the nation’s farmers 5> Your parents did it Oh, sorry…those are five reasons to smoke cigarettes. Meat is more complicated.
Thais protest peacefully against military government
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a military coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. About 30,000 protesters, who wore red shirts in support of Thaksin, gathered in the country’s capital near the Government House, said police Lt