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Saturday, 30 August 2014
Comedian Tracy Morgan still struggling after crash
TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) An attorney for Tracy Morgan says the former "Saturday Night Live" actor is having a tough time recovering from a June accident on the New Jersey Turnpike that left a fellow comedian dead.Attorney Benedict...
3 convicted in US rapper's slaying
ATLANTA (AP) A jury has convicted three men in the shooting death of an Atlanta rapper known as Lil Phat.Melvin Vernell III was shot and killed in June 2012 outside a hospital where he was awaiting the birth of his child.On Friday,...
Movie review: If I Stay
The latest bestselling young adult novel adapted for the big screen is Gayle Forman's supernatural story If I Stay. A story of teenage love and family tragedy, the film is faithful to the structure of the novel, but a little of...
Movie review: The Inbetweeners 2
Dick jokes, bad taste buddy banter, more dick jokes. When The Inbetweeners began back in 2008, the cult UK comedy show took a simple but poignant look at adolescent awkwardness that only occasionally veered into more puerile ter...
Sharon Jones: She's a soul survivor
Sharon Jones had her last chemotherapy treatment on New Year's Eve, and four days later, she was performing live on The Jimmy Fallon Show .No, she's not superwoman, but the 58-year-old American soul singer wasn't about to let a...
Michele Hewitson: No holds barred in the cells
Crikey, the new season of Wentworth got off to a raunchy start on Monday (TV2, 8.35pm). I'm not sure how you get around it not being raunchy, being set in an Australian women's prison, although I'm not sure raunchy is the right...
For the record
You can go a long way on a giggle. Benjii Jackson's stretched his all the way to England and as for Ben Howe, well, right now, he's in New York and still going strong after 15 years.Both run record labels (Muzai and Arch Hill respectively),...
Daughter: Joan Rivers is in 'serious condition
NEW YORK (AP) Joan Rivers remained in serious condition in a New York City hospital Friday, one day after going into cardiac arrest at a doctor's office.Melissa Rivers said in a statement Friday that her mother was "receiving the...
Cee Lo Green enters no contest plea in drug case
LOS ANGELES (AP) Cee Lo Green pleaded no contest Friday to one felony count of furnishing ecstasy to a woman during a 2012 dinner in Los Angeles and was sentenced to serve probation and community service.The Grammy-winning singer...
Hip-hop moves as force for slain unarmed black man
NEW YORK (AP) Rappers are making their voices heard in the Missouri city where a white police officer killed an unarmed young black man, channeling hip-hop's earlier roots when the genre worked as a voice for the oppressed and spoke...
Verity Johnson: Let positive role models speak loud and clear
I like knowing what's going on.And I had a particularly satisfying moment the other day when I realised we were in the midst of a "moral panic".In the aftermath of the VMAs, music videos have been swirling around our collective...
Classical review: Exquisite 300 years in Vienna
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Songs from Vienna on Thursday night gave a fascinating vision of musical life in the Austrian capital over three centuries - yet another example of the APO's insightful programming.American soprano...
After deaths, NYC music festival tightens security
Drug-sniffing dogs, peers watching for people feeling ill, a "cooling tunnel" and shorter days are greeting fans this weekend at an electronic music festival where two people died of drug overdoses last year, organizers said Friday.The...
Southern exposure at Auckland Museum
Portrait photographer Jane Ussher (MNZM) was invited to Antarctica as part of the Antarctic New Zealand 2008/09 Media Programme. While there, she photographed the historic huts that served as bases for Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest...
Chelsea Clinton quits as NBC News reporter
NEW YORK (AP) Chelsea Clinton said Friday she is quitting her job as a reporter at NBC News, citing increased work at the Clinton Foundation and the imminent birth of her first child.Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's daughter had...
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