Behind the Story: Remembering Suzanne Paul’s ‘cursed’ Māori Village

Lyric Waiwiri-Smith started at The Spinoff as a staff writer two
weeks ago and has three stories under her belt already. Her story
this week, "Remembering Suzanne Paul’s ‘cursed’ Māori Village",
marked twenty years since Paul closed the doors on her Māori
cultural theme park on Auckland’s North Shore. Lyric was three
years old when it all went down, so used records of journalism past
to piece together a current-day view of a really weird moment in
our pop culture history and a venture described as “the most
significant event in Paul’s demise”. Lyric joins Anna
Rawhiti-Connell on Behind the Story to discuss whether the internet
truly never forgets, celebrity profile writing, her love of pop
culture, and live blogging while trying to buy tickets to Taylor
Swift’s Eras concert. Read the story: Remembering Suzanne
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