She has an immediately recognisable face - those dark eyes with a cheeky glint, and distinctively large lips that break into a wide smile as she emerges through the doorway of the Auckland Art Gallery.Brooke Fraser, one of New Zealand...
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Digital Nationz: Games galore and more
Oculus Rift This virtual reality device is really something to behold. When you move your head, your character's head moves smoothly and with no lag. Moving around with the controller is comparatively disjointed. When you first...
Full 2015 Laneway line-up announced
It's official. Laneway Festival is returning to Silo Park on Monday, January 26, 2015, for another Auckland Anniversary Weekend celebration.You can read the full 30 act line up further down the page - it's a bloggers dream, full...
Ashtion Kutcher and Mila Kunis welcome baby girl
Their baby has finally arrived.TMZ has reported Mila Kunis gave birth to a baby girl at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The father is her 36-year-old fiancé Ashton Kutcher.The site added that the couple...
Hayley Williams calls 1D's new song a rip off
Paramore's Hayley Williams has hit out at boyband One Direction for allegedly plagiarising a New Found Glory song.The frontwoman, 26, posted a series of tweets accusing the pop group of ripping off 2006 single It's Not Your Fault...
Prince: The return of His Royal Badness
Nightfall is fast approaching at Paisley Park.There are few lights on in the cavernous compound, and unseen doves (of course there would be doves) are cooing up a racket before twilight fades to darkness. But even their collective...
'Orange is the New Black' author talks Season 3
LOWELL, Massachusetts (AP) The woman whose best-selling prison memoir has been adapted into the "Orange is the New Black" Netflix series says Season 3 "holds some really amazing stories and twists and turns."Piper Kerman says the...
Miley Cyrus: Feminist or floozy?
Megan Sellers says: Crazy, loose, sluzzy, off the rails, druggy, these are all words synonymous with Miley Cyrus' image these days.The girl can sing - and manages to maintain an illustrious career in a very competitive industry...
My first gig: Rhys Darby
It was 1990 and I was roughly 16 years old. The only type of music I was listening to at the time was 60s and 70s rock'n'roll. Basically anything from the Vietnam War era. I was slightly obsessed with that war and for this I blame...
Attendance up at Roosevelt site after Burns series
HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) Attendance increased dramatically at the FDR Presidential Library and Home in Hyde Park, New York, around the time that Ken Burns' documentary series on the Roosevelts aired on public television.The FDR National...
Ed Sheeran sells out second Auckland show
Ed Sheeran's New Zealand concerts have all sold out.In a matter of minutes tickets were snatched up completely for the Don't singer's Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch shows. Tickets for the concerts went on sale at midday...
Little frontrunner for awards
The first nominations in this year's Vodafone NZ Music Awards have been announced with Lorde producer Joel Little a frontrunner for his work on the Pure Heroine album.Little is a double nominee in the technical categories with nods...
Tour news: Shihad's summer blast
Shihad are capping off a big year with a mega-summer tour.The band are headlining a four-band roadshow, which hits the North and South Island in the Christmas-New Year period.Shihad's tour mates will be Ocker rockers Airbourne,...
Sideswipe: October 1: Just waiting for a biscuit
Perhaps the rodent is waiting for a biscuit. (Via B3ta.com) Chip bags put to intriguing use Peeved that there's a deceptively large amount of air in bags of potato chips these days, a group of South Korean students decided to...
Movie review: Gone Girl
The film version of Gillian Flynn's hit 2012 novel presents the reviewer with a problem: any sensible discussion of its fundamental flaw involves giving away the major plot twist.That will not happen here - no spoilers follow -...
Album review: Prince, Art Official Age and Plectrum Electrum
The perfectly groomed, tightly wound tiny ball of a 56-year-old has gone back to the future with his latest release. Prince has gone back to working with a major label (as opposed to unexpectedly dropping albums via newspapers or...
'I'm fine with a punch in the mouth': EastEnders Matt Di Angelo discusses rape storyline
HE'S SOON to be embroiled in one of the most controversial soap story lines of the year, but Matt Di Angelo said he's not bothered about abuse he might suffer.
'I'm my own worst enemy': Kirstie Allsopp braves feminism and the downfalls of being posh
SHE'S THE star of the screen and famous for her money-saving manners - but Kirstie Allsopp has admitted she's her own worst enemy.
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
The upper crust poised to battle it out in Bake Off final
THE Great British Bake-Off contestants were dramatically whittled down to just three last night after fashion designer Chetna Makan was sent home.
Yours for £1million - the home the size of a BATHROOM
BRITAIN'S smallest million-pound house has gone on the market - a studio flat the size of a hotel bathroom.
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