Stories by Nik Dirga

Opinion - For a brief time last night, a mostly empty church in Wellington felt like a beacon of light, with two artists broadcasting creativity and comfort around the world, writes Nik Dirga.

The Pop-Up Globe will make its final curtain call in Auckland next month after five seasons and, as Nik Dirga writes, parting is such sweet sorrow.

The Bird of the Year competition has flown the coop for another year, but the country's birds require attention all year round writes Nik Dirga, who volunteers at an Auckland bird centre.

First Person - Blood clots kill tens of thousands of people worldwide every year. With World Thrombosis Day this weekend, Nik Dirga writes of his brush with death.

A lack of movement on gun control in the face of hundreds of mass shootings in the US is maddening, but nothing will change, writes Nik Dirga, an American journalist living in New Zealand.

Review: Like the kids in Stranger Things, Nik Dirga was a gawky American 13-year-old in the summer of 1985, and writes that the hit Netflix show gets an awful lot of the era right. Video