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Friday 20 February 2015
Dominic Corry: When the Oscars got it wrong
It's much more fun to rag on the Academy Awards than to celebrate them, especially considering how often the organisation gets things so spectacularly wrong. With this in mind, I am going to cite here - in order of the degree of...
Thursday 19 February 2015
Actress-turned-addict June Fairchild dies at 68
LOS ANGELES (AP) " June Fairchild, who appeared in more than a dozen movies including Cheech and Chong's drug movie "Up in Smoke" before real addictions left her homeless in Los Angeles, has died. She was 68.Her friend, Dawna Sodders,...
Source: Whitney Houston's ailing daughter has tracheostomy
ATLANTA (AP) " Bobbi Kristina Brown has had surgery to replace her breathing tube with a tracheostomy tube. The surgery comes nearly three weeks after Whitney Houston's daughter was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub of...
Symphony in C, 1 of 3 training orchestras, taps new director
COLLINGSWOOD, New Jersey (AP) " One of the three professional training orchestras in the United States is getting a new music director.Camden, New Jersey-based Symphony in C announced Thursday that Bulgarian-born conductor Stilian...
Smithsonian TV documentary, box set celebrate Lead Belly
NEW YORK (AP) " Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter never had a hit record before he died of Lou Gehrig's disease in 1949. But the folksinging legend, who is being celebrated next week as part of Black History Month by the Smithsonian with...
Kiwi fans support Foo Fighters after crash
Kiwi Foo Fighters fans have offered to do whatever it takes to get the band to play tonight's cancelled show.Fans took to Facebook to offer their support and condolences after a truck driver was seriously injured in a crash that...
Review: Imagine Dragons deliver middling 'Smoke + Mirrors'
Imagine Dragons, "Smoke + Mirrors" (Interscope)Imagine Dragons' second studio album, "Smoke + Mirrors," is certainly one of the more technically ambitious releases of this young year. It's a boisterous but hit-and-miss effort from...
NZ on Screen: Christchurch quake documentaries
In the past four years, the Christchurch quakes have been the subject of several documentaries, as well as the drama series Hope and Wire . Hope and Wire received mixed reviews, with some viewers feeling it was too soon for a drama...
Game review: Dying Light
How do you like to kill your zombies? These days, there's an answer for everyone. Arcade splatter fest? The cartoon fun of Sunset Overdrive has you covered. Stealth mode sneak attacks more your thing? The cinematic sweep of The...
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