NEW YORK (AP) Jason Wu says he was inspired by strong women for his Spring 2015 collection, and he had two in particular in mind: Actresses Charlotte Rampling and Diane Kruger."They have impeccable style," Wu says of the actresses,...
Saturday 6 September 2014
Whatever happened to… The Bill's Jim Carver
MARK WINGETT on acting ambitions, career and family
TV presenter Lorraine Kelly: 'I have the best job in the world'
LORRAINE KELLY is celebrating 30 incredible years in breakfast TV. She tells Saturday magazine why she’s here to stay…
Actor Paddy Considine: 'I've had great feedbacks from my aunties'
PADDY CONSIDINE is back as the troubled Victorian detective
Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games at the Palladium Review
MICHAEL FLATLEY'S Lord of the Dance is an ambitious dance spectacle that ends up trawling through clichés and power ballads that will send you to sleep.
Nick Cave: Sit down and write
Nick Cave is distracted. One of his twin sons requires his attention as he talks in his Brighton office."Just a second. ... Darling ..." gently calls the man whose songbook boasts one of highest body counts in rock history. "Can...
Seductive Nahuatl opera to premiere in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY (AP) Three young women surround a muscular, shirtless man, laughing, hugging and caressing his neck as he rocks his head back in pleasure.A dozen musicians pound out a furious rhythm with pre-Columbian traditional wooden...
When the money man comes home
There's a term used in New York to describe a certain type of businessman: the $50 million man. It's a criticism, not a compliment, and denotes someone who, despite smarts and looks, hasn't rocketed into the realms of the super-rich...
EXCLUSIVE: Why diet drinks can make you fatter
DIET drinks are a danger to health and actually ruin attempts to lose weight, according to new research.
Car review: Audi's tried and trusted leads the way again
How do you solve a problem like the Audi TT?
Christine Bleakley: 'I have nerve-wracking moments at work'
CHRISTINE BLEAKLEY, 35, shares her style tips
Get set for autumn: The hottest make-up colour trends of the season
EILEEN LEAHY takes a look at the new season’s hot colours
Rise and shine: Simple and nutritious breakfast recipes
START the day as you mean to go on, with a nutritious breakfast
Blades of glory: How to grow ornamental grasses
ORNAMENTAL grasses can transform a garden, says Alan Titchmarsh
Sir Roger Moore: 'I've read that I'm dead on several occasions'
SIR Roger Moore opens up about his colourful life in showbiz and his new book
Property expert Sarah Beeny: 'My cooking is a bit lazy'
PROPERTY expert Sarah Beeny opens up about her weekends, lazy cooking and painful bedtimes.
Friday 5 September 2014
Threads of rich emotion
The dexterity of an artist's technique means the viewer can often be involved in the action of the moving hand as well as the unspoken thoughts that might underlie a painting.This is the special element of the work by Kathy Barber...
NZ Opera's seductive Don Giovanni
Auckland opera audiences have become accustomed to having Verdi and Puccini presented through the eyes of female directors from across the Tasman. In 2012, Lindy Hume gave us Rigoletto while Kate Cherry was responsible for Madame...
Don Giovanni: A villain admired and vilified
Goethe was outraged by the suggestion that Mozart merely composed Don Giovanni "as if it were a piece of cake or biscuits stirred together out of eggs, flour and sugar!"For this great German writer, Mozart's opera was "a spiritual...
Greg Dixon: Poverty porn that tugs at the heartstrings
There is a sense of invasion of privacy, and that you shouldn't be watching it. But Benefits Street is weirdly uplifting television, too.Poverty is politics. But should it be entertainment? Actually make that, should it be take-the-phone-off-the-hook,...
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