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Sunday, 31 August 2014
T.J. McNamara: Intrigue in the suburbs
Three galleries this week are showing works with traditionally admired artistic skills such as perspective, drawing and collage.Perspective construction is shown skilfully and accurately in the work of Graham Fletcher at Gow Langsford...
Saturday, 30 August 2014
Joan Rivers reportedly on life support
The 81-year-old comedienne is currently relying on a machine to keep her alive after she went into cardiac arrest and stopped breathing whilst undergoing minor throat surgery on Thursday, but her family are still hopeful that she...
Helen Mirren: On the road
Helen Mirren has been famous for 40 years now. In the compressed timeline of modern celebrity, that feels like an eternity: it's one thing to achieve fame, but quite another to hold on to it, especially while keeping it manageable...
Vesuvius blows his top in Edinburgh
"Hey, it's Juan Vesuvius!" I am heading out of Edinburgh's Assembly Roxy with New Zealand comedian Barnie Duncan at midnight. There's no better indication that his one-man show, Calypso Nights , has become the talk of the town than...
Janet McAllister: Let down by 'lazy stereotypes'
When she went to Cirque du Soleil's Totem last week, artist and curator Melissa Laing was impressed by the acts' "phenomenal" technical brilliance. But that's not her overwhelming memory of the show. Instead, she says "the performers...
A magnificent year for grandes dames
When I was 17", as Frank Sinatra used to sing soulfully, "it was a very good year."What is it about certain years that usher in a high percentage of extraordinarily charismatic babies destined to amaze and electrify us with their...
MKR stars steamed at cyber slurs
Online abuse, including homophobic slurs, and questions about their sexuality has left a sour taste in the mouth of My Kitchen Rules New Zealand hopefuls Sam Sutherland and Dan Freeman.The Auckland-based friends were roasted by...
Good Lorde - what a price tag
Fancy a private performance from Kiwi Grammy winner Lorde?Then you'd best have a spare $300,000 to cover her performance fee for one-off private gigs.According to a list American media have reported was leaked from American booking...
Brad and Angelina married once in US, again in France
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have managed to keep two wedding ceremonies secret, it was revealed yesterday.The movie stars, who have been together for a decade, tied the knot in the romantic setting of a chapel at Chateau Miraval,...
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