Sam Brooks is a playwright, journalist and critic. Email him on sam@thespinoff.co.nz
It was just a month ago that she got her dream gig, and also had the hardest on air shift of her life.
Netflix debuted its first Broadway musical this past weekend. Perhaps they shouldn’t have.
One's a diary from the 1920s, the other a book of photos and stories of men born 30 years ago. Both are long overdue.
With Aucklanders stuck inside and shopping up a storm, it's like Christmas for courier drivers – three months early.
Nobody does RuPaul’s Drag Race like the British.
This is what happens when a natural storyteller writes a memoir.
With news that RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under is holding an open casting call, we asked this year's queens to share their advice for season 2 hopefuls.
This new seriesisn't just a history-making collaboration between Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, it's a crucial immersion into a world ignored.
Sam Brooks talks to the author of Instagram romance novella Blooming Desire about his work, and a fanfiction scholar about why so many of us want to read it.
Because you can’t pay rent on 50 tickets a show.
Peter Williams had departed suddenly. His morning radio audience was mad as hell.
How has this Auckland comedy trio built an audience that most networks would kill for? They do exactly what they want.
The fun never stops at Rainbow’s End – until it absolutely has to.
Sick of watching things mindlessly? Keep your hands busy too with these free games.
The delightful doggy distraction that does the world good.
The Spinoff’s resident wig correspondent Sam Brooks investigates those wavy blonde tresses that are showing up everywhere right now.
The latest entry in the Kidman-Kelley-Moriarty canon is their weakest one yet.
Because you really should have watched Friday Night Lights by now.
Eyeglasses + face mask = fog city. But there are some solutions.
Don’t move that mouse! Hang around and relive the best of the classic screensavers, ranked from worst to best.
Including doodlings by former politicians, memes, misattributed inspirational quotes, and whatever the hell they want.
What do dicks, joysticks and queer politics have in common? This guy.
How do you translate an English rhyme into NZSL? With a lot of time, patience and flair.
How will the Tokyo Olympics' first-night party stack up against the opening ceremonies of Olympics past?
Heaven is a five star resort. Hell is everybody staying there.
Sam Brooks has had a stutter for most of his life. Last week, he got a voice-activated assistant.
