Friday 27 February 2015

Live preview: Shakey Graves' puberty blues

Being spurned by a 13-year-old girl was the event that sparked the songwriter in Austin, Texas-born musician Alejandro Rose-Garcia."The first girl I ever dated, in like 7th grade, had a big thing for guitar players. And she went...


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Weekend Watch: Bounties, benders and by to Broadchurch

Broadchurch, Sunday TV1 at 8.35pm Last Sunday's episode ended in agony, the credits rolling with the jury's forewoman a breath away from announcing their verdict in the trial of Joe Miller for the murder of Danny Latimer. In truth...


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Convict pleads not guilty to killing 20th Century Fox exec

LOS ANGELES (AP) " A convicted drug dealer pleaded not guilty Thursday to killing a 20th Century Fox executive whose remains were found in the Southern California desert 2 1/2 years after he vanished.John Lenzie Creech, 42, entered...


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Antemasque: Brotherly love

For 25 years, Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez lived and toured together, sharing homes, clothes and positions in two fiery bands called At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta.With their crazy hair and electric, sometimes...


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Want to shed weight? Eat less says trim Lord Lawson





THE secret to losing weight is to eat and drink less, the once overweight former chancellor Lord Lawson said yesterday.


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'He came to me' Artist Tracey Emin discusses her friendship with PM David Cameron





SHE SHOT to fame in the 1990s with her very specific style of artwork and Tracey Emin counts the Prime Minister as one of her fans.


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Half million youngsters to die smoking unless we make changes, warns charity





HALF a million children are to die from smoking when they get older unless more is done to cut cigarette use, a charity warns today.


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Sigourney Weaver: 'I don't have my films, I don't have a little library of my films'





SHE'S one of the world's most famous movie stars but Sigourney Weaver has admitted she doesn't watch her movie back.


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Girl bullied as 'Ugly Betty' now a beauty queen pursuing modelling career





A YOUNG woman who was bullied and called Ugly Betty at school is hoping to launch a career as a catwalk model.


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Top 10 facts about pangolins





LAST Saturday was World Pangolin Day, so here, with apologies for being late to recognise an event of such global significance, are some facts about pangolins.


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X Factor Judge Natalia Kills fumes over bed-linen auction

X Factor judge Natalia Kills has blasted a Rotorua hotel for auctioning bed sheets used by her and husband Willy Moon.The Trade Me auction, which closed yesterday afternoon, stated "sheets, towels, pillow cases", the couple's signed...


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Thursday 26 February 2015

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare hit by DLC delay with no Exo Zombies on PC until March





CALL of Duty: Advanced Warfare has been hit by a DLC delay.


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Convict pleads not guilty to killing 20th Century Fox exec

LOS ANGELES (AP) " A convicted drug dealer has pleaded not guilty to killing a 20th Century Fox executive whose remains were found in the Southern California desert 2 1/2 years after he vanished.City News Service reports John Creech...


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'He sprinkled fairy dust on his story' - Sister of slain teen reveals X Factor agony

X Factor contestant Shae Brider sprinkled his back-story with fairy dust, says the sister of the teenage boy Brider was convicted of killing. Jodie Frew said yesterday from her Wanganui home that her "brother didn't stand a chance"...


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NZ on Screen: Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year celebrations for the year of the sheep have been attracting crowds up and down the country. In Auckland, the annual Lantern Festival has just begun, and it will run throughout this weekend. New Zealand has had a significant...


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Julianne Moore parties all night long after Oscars triumph





JULIANNE Moore showed the youngsters how it’s done by partying all night long following her Oscars triumph.


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Model Of The Year Rosie Huntington-Whiteley bares all at Elle Style awards





SHE was crowned Model of the Year but Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was barely wearing clothes at the Elle Style awards on Tuesday night.


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Why Celia Imrie is happy to plug girl power





ACTRESS Celia Imrie thinks equality between genders has gone backwards.


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'My cape was tied too tight' Fans still reacting to Madonna's tumble at 2015 BRIT Awards





IT WAS meant to be her big comeback after 20 years away from the BRIT Awards, but today it's not Madonna's singing that Twitter users are talking about.


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Madonna thinks Kanye West is 'a beautiful mess'

The Living For Love hitmaker says the rapper, who was recently criticised for almost storming the stage when Beck won Album of the Year instead of Beyoncé at the Grammy Awards, takes award shows "too seriously" but thinks he is...


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