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At the top of Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles, in a room full of suits, Georgia Nott suddenly found she couldn’t breathe. The 20-year-old had been whipped to the States with older brother Caleb, 22, on the strength of a song the duo put on music-sharing website Soundcloud.

Thousands of Kiwis have paid tribute to a heroic doctor who died after finding the cure for the disease that ultimately killed her. Dr Sarah Potts died on Monday, hours after contracting a killer virus.

Miranda Hart could scarcely believe her good fortune when she was cast as the amiable midwife Camilla

REVIEW: Thirty years on, Cirque du Soleil’s street-theatre origins are all but forgotten – the travelling Canadian-based troupe now boasts 4,000 employees from 50 nations and that size is reflected in the ambition of its first show to hit Auckland in five years. Director Robert Lepage’s extravagant Totem is loosely themed on man’s evolution, although Darwin wouldn’t necessarily recognise the narrative.

The digital era of film is threatening a Central Otago cinema’s chance of holding a Guinness Book of Records title. The Teviot Valley Community Board will consider a funding request at its meeting next week to help contribute towards the $100,000 needed for new digital equipment to replace the obsolete projectors in the Roxburgh Entertainment Centre.

The digital era of film is threatening a Central Otago cinema’s chance of holding a Guinness Book of Records title. The Teviot Valley Community Board will consider a funding request at its meeting next week to help contribute towards the $100,000 needed for new digital equipment to replace the obsolete projectors in the Roxburgh Entertainment Centre

During his university years, Chris Bennewith would roam around taking photos with a lens wrapped in bubble wrap, experimenting with weird diffused-light effects. The designer can’t quite pinpoint the reason for his fascination with light, but it has shaped his work ever since

The cover photo on Jeff Taylor’s new book shows a merry throng of young persons splashing and swimming at Hamilton Lake, and the vintage image has attracted plenty of attention from those who never dreamed such things once happened. Taylor’s had people say to him, “What, they used to swim in the lake” They surely did.