Stories by Nik Dirga
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Covid-19: Finding a community in isolation
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.
Pop-up Globe brought Shakespeare to life in Aotearoa
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.
Bird of the Year competition: Keeping the good vibe flying high
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.
Blood clot danger: How I nearly died and what happened next
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.
Opinion: Guns create 'a map of blood' in US, but nothing will change
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.
Stranger Things: Growing up in the 1980s
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