Artists find many different ways to convey their ideas. Perth-based Rebecca Baumann takes delight in colour, light and movement. To express these she finds industrial display mechanisms and makes them servants of her art. Her impressive...
Saturday 4 October 2014
The Great Fire and why it nearly sent the monarchy up in flames
IT IS late summer 1666 and London is still reeling from the Great Plague of the previous year.
Life of Brian: How Professor Cox made science cool
IN A brand new BBC series, Brian Cox questions what it is to be human
Friday 3 October 2014
Infection has news organizations looking at risks
NEW YORK (AP) For media covering the spread of Ebola in West Africa, the infection of a cameraman who works for NBC offers both a reason to emphasize precaution and to continue to bear witness.The New York Times' approach is emblematic...
There's only one real artist here
The correct attitude towards the annual exhibition of the artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize exhibition is always to assume you'll hate everything in it and then hope to come away pleasantly surprised.When I read the press...
Thrilling piece of storytelling
Next week's Lucia di Lammermoor , another joint venture from Auckland Chamber Orchestra and Auckland Opera Studio, already looks and sounds fighting fit.Even in the spartan surroundings of a rehearsal hall, the sextet from Donizetti's...
A hard decision: Louis Walsh weeps as he sends home X Factor hopefuls
IT WAS a tense time in the sun for the groups auditioning in the judges houses segment of the X Factor this year, but Louis Walsh was firm in his choices.
Almost Human: On the beat with RoboCop
Technology brings us closer to the people furtherest away and distances us from those nearest. The words of sci-fi king and film/television whiz J.J. Abrams are echoed by the star of his series Almost Human ."The smartphone is...
Having fat friends makes you greedy
SITTING next to overweight people makes you more likely to gorge on unhealthy food, a study found.
Ryan Bingham: Southern songman
The story of Ryan Bingham somehow manages to combine every image of Texan life you can conjure. Old dudes playing mariachi, pick-up trucks parked up outside a rodeo, the streets of Laredo, open mic nights at Austin bars, hill country,...
In it for the long run! EastEnders' Danny Dyer to sign £400k deal to remain on the Square
HE'S only been on EastEnders less than a year and already Danny Dyer has proven to be hit with TV fans and bosses alike.
Intrepid NZ: Mountains of pluck but no ego
You'd think Intrepid NZ (Wednesdays, 8.35pm, TV One), would be bursting with man talk and show-offery. Two brawny guys pulling off dangerous stunts for the cameras. But this is no Marc and Matthew road trip. Kevin Biggar and Jamie...
Michael Hurst: No holds bard
Michael Hurst turned 57 a few weeks ago. But there was no cake."Sugar is the enemy - Kevin Smith told me that. So I've told everyone: no cake. I've cut all that stuff out, which isn't easy for me. I do have a sweet tooth and I do...
Becks still hits the net, mega net profit, that is...
DAVID Beckham may have hung up his boots last year, but the soccer legend still managed to net himself almost £15million in sponsorship deals.
TV pick: Transparent
Lightbox is adding 10 episodes of new American comedy-drama Transparent to its line-up from Saturday. It stars Jeffrey Tambor - best known as Arrested Development 's patriarch George Bluth - in a role that calls for the description...
'We play naked Twister!': Mel B lifts the lid on her happy marriage to Stephen Belafonte
WHILE most married couples dread the seven-year itch, Mel B has revealed her and her husband Stephen Belafonte still have the spice in their marriage.
Movie Review: Reaching for the moon
Miranda Otto and Gloria Pires as the American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.The lives of the poets have often found themselves at the mercy of that least poetic, most prosaic of genres, the...
'Top Gear' crew flees Argentina after cars stoned
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) The host of the popular BBC television program "Top Gear" and other members of the crew have fled Argentina after being pelted with rocks by people who believed one of their cars had a license plate alluding...
Movie review: The Boxtrolls
A stop-motion animation based on Alan Snow's children's adventure novel Here Be Monsters, The Boxtrolls offers unconventional, witty and heartfelt family entertainment. It's by Laika Studios, who brought us the whimsical and eerie...
Watch: Bradley Cooper takes the lead as a gun wielding marksman in American Sniper
HE'S played the hopeless romantic, the relentless bachelor and now Bradley Cooper has taken the lead as a lethal marksman in Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'.
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