Guys, start working on your fades - rapper Drake is planning his first New Zealand visit.The Canadian star, known for spanning the gap between hip-hop and R&B, will perform at Auckland's Vector Arena on February 23 on a Monday night...
Sunday, 2 November 2014
Singer Katie Melua discovers a spider has been living in her ear for an entire WEEK
NEVER mind Halloween, Katie Melua discovered what nightmares are really made of when she discovered a spider had been living in her ear for a whole week.
Jennifer Lopez takes the plunge in daringly low-cut gown at Los Angeles film gala
SHE may be all about the booty but that's not Jennifer Lopez's only asset as she proved last night at the LACMA Art and Film Gala in Los Angeles.
Hobbit fans descend on NZ
Hobbit fans and media have descended on New Zealand for an exclusive Hobbit tour and screening of the final film in the trilogy.The Hobbit Fan Fellowship is made up of 75 fans and 40 international media who will be visiting locations...
Six reasons why we love Lorde
Lorde ended her Pure Heroine tour with a hit-packed show at Vector Arena that came with fresh covers and new visuals. The crowd went crazy for the teen from Devonport, deservedly so.Here are five reasons why we love our Lorde....
TV pick: Secrets and Lies
Things are going awry in your marriage, you can't sleep, so you get up in the early hours, throw on your running shoes, and head off on the nearby bush track for a quiet run... and then all of a sudden you've just about stepped on...
Reese is the word: Ms Witherspoon is back
IT'S been a quiet few years for the star of Legally Blonde and Walk the Line – but Ms Witherspoon is back with plenty to say, as Brad Balfour reports
What is the UK's catchiest song of all time?
Scientists have discovered the Spice Girls' anthem Wannabe is the catchiest hit single in the UK.Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) published the results of a year-long study into what makes a song particularly...
Reality TV wrestles for our hearts and minds
In 2004 Kiwi television viewers lapped up a diet of live local sport, documentaries and free-to-air movies.Fast forward a decade and tastes have changed ¬ significantly, with an insatiable appetite for fact-based and competitive...
Creator of Operation couldn't afford operation
The creator of the board game Operation needed his own operation, and it turned out he couldn't afford to pay for it.So John Spinello's friends decided to raise the money for him online. Now, they've been able to raise enough money...
Mr Turner review: 'Timothy Spall beautifully plays the magnificent grump'
AN UNCONVENTIONAL biopic of the extraordinary British painter JMW Turner in his later years
Wexford Festival Opera reviews: Don Bucefalo, Silent Night and Salome
DON BUCAFELO is a joyful number drawing on Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Silent Night is a Pulitzer Prize-winning opera with sketchy characters, while Russian baritone Igor Golovatenko shines in Salome
Matthew McConaughey on Interstellar: 'This is the biggest film I have ever been a part of'
BATMAN trilogy director Christopher Nolan's new, Spielbergian science fiction film is about humans encountering alien life forms, played out from a family perspective
Eileen Atkins is glorious in obscure Jacobean drama The Witch Of Edmonton
THERE are universally excellent performances in a Jacobean witch trial play that is part tragedy, part rustic comedy and horror story; incestuous drama 'Tis Pity She's A Whore cynically lures punters in with the promise of nudity and Gemma Jones is splendid in Sheridan's The Rivals
Jump at the Peacock Theatre: Martial discipline becomes fantastical dance
ONE of Korea's biggest selling shows comes to the UK with spectacularly acrobatic tussles leave you gasping for more
'We’re going on a jolly-up': Micky Flanagan's Detour De France
THE comedian takes a light-hearted look at our French neighbours and pours his 52-year-old physique into cycling Lyrca while he's at it…
TV round-up: The Missing, Life Is Toff and Grayson Perry's Who Are You
JAMES NESBITT's harrowing new thriller feels tragically real; the foul-mouthed Fulfords are back in Life Is Toff and Grayson Perry examines identity in an affecting, involving series
The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes: 'Brilliantly funny new romance'
A BEAUTY therapist's life changes after a crippling illness and literary success in a strangely uplifting novel that will leave you with a warm glow
Nick Hornby's Funny Girl: Poignant, rich portrait of a comic actress in Swinging London
FEVER PITCH writer Nick Hornby recreates a rich, believable Swinging Sixties with his homegrown Lucille Ball, a feisty Lancashire lass tackling fame, friendship and love
Daniel Radcliffe's film Horns is 'entertainingly bonkers'
THE Harry Potter star gives it his all in this supernatural horror comedy romance about an outcast who sprouts a pair of devilish horns
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