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Saturday, 18 April 2015
School sex scandal that still divides America
Robin Williams the posthumous star of '3 Still Standing'
TORONTO (AP) " Before the late Robin Williams enthralled television audiences on "Mork and Mindy," he already was a star on the 1970s stand-up comedy circuit " and by the '80s was a leading light for a new stand-up generation.The...
iZombie: Brain food for zombie fans
Somehow, despite being partial to a jolly good zombie romp (or rampage), I've only just caught up with iZombie (TVNZ OnDemand) which I can only put down to having had my, er, fill of blood and gore and autopsies and weirdness on...
Letters from the battlefield
Michael Williams' Symphony No 1 ( Letters from the Front ), which the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will play in its Spirit of Anzac programme on Thursday, is not the first time the Hamilton composer has worked with the orchestra.In...
T.J. McNamara: Favourites past and present
One sound reason for visiting Philadelphia is to see the famous painting The Gross Clinic by one of the city's favourite sons, Thomas Eakins . It is at the imposing Philadelphia Museum of Art.The neo-classical building, brown rather...
NZ Dance's stirring tribute to the Anzacs
The Anzac centenary has brought thoughts of warfare, its gallantry, violence and terrible loss to the forefront of many peoples' minds. But Shona McCullagh, choreographer, arts laureate, Woman of Influence (Westpac and Fairfax Award...
Emily Perkins takes on A Doll's House
The interview with Emily Perkins starts off like most others. A couple of years ago, Perkins moved from Auckland to Wellington, where she is a senior lecturer at Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters, so...
George Lucas to Colbert: Why aren't you replacing Stewart?
NEW YORK (AP) " Stephen Colbert came to the Tribeca Film Festival to interview filmmaker George Lucas, but the "Star Wars" creator had a question of his own."The perfect choice to replace that Jon Stewart fellow would have been...
MasterChef's Greg Wallace: 'Cooks who learn the fastest win'
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