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Twenty-five years ago, an R.E.M. album arrived that didn’t sound like a typical R.E.M. album. “Up,” the band’s 11th album which dropped in the fall of 1998, was a curious and challenging collection that split fans and critics alike but reveals more interesting things with each listen. A newly remastered reissue out Friday offers a […]
So we all have that one family story that never gets old and is passed on like an heirloom from one generation to the next. Here’s mine, an aunt of mine married a man from Naitasiri. After their wedding ceremony, she officially moved to Naitairi to carry our her duties. Their first Sunday lunch, my […]
Over 360 entries from across the Pacific. 360 plus talented Pacific artists vying for the Pacific Break title. And at the end of it all, Fijian rapper Peni Roqara better known as Ju Ben stood the tallest. Ju Ben, who at one point worked in the sugarcane industry, won for his song Sema Mai. With […]
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England women’s 15s rugby team the “Red Roses” were crowned the inaugural WXV 1 champions following a thrilling final against hosts New Zealand, Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland. The Red Roses scored five tries to beat hosts New Zealand 33-12 and avenge their Women’s Rugby World Cup 2021 final defeat against the “Black Ferns”.+ The […]
It’s a video that has gone viral with millions of views showing Bollywood actress Rashmika Mandanna getting on to an elevator. There’s only one issue. The video is 100% what’s called a “deepfake” which has been defined as “a video of a person in which their face or body has been digitally altered so that […]
We so often hear about the negative aspects of social media that it can be easy to forget that it can also be used for good. As a tool to garner support at a grassroots level, nothing else comes close in terms of effectiveness. This was the case when X user @Vive_Fj (pictured above […]
It was the moment like no other. Winston “The Real Deal” Hill who has been working on his craft and honing his skills came out firing to defeat Dylan Archer and claim the PBC Oceania Regional Super Welterweight title after a TKO. In a match titled The Battled of the Pacific both fighters wowed the […]
With the Pacific Games beginning shortly, we felt it was fitting to cast our minds back to the first time the nations of the region came together in Suva for the first South Pacific Games (as it was called then) in 1963. Specifically we’d like to talk about one person who was too young […]
