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Robin Williams dies in suspected suicide
Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, has died after an apparent suicide. He was 63
$15,000 prize winning artwork shatters
It won a $15,000 prize and later shattered. But that was something artist Deanna Dowling considered with her artwork Tell Someone if Something Happens, which won the National Contemporary Art Awards
Teen Choice Awards were ‘rigged’, winner claims
The Teen Choice Awards, an annual event which hands out publicly-voted awards to television, film and fashion personalities, is under fire for allegedly “rigged” results. The accusation came, somewhat unexpectedly, from one of the winners
The 11 most bizarre things Courtney Love said in latest interview
Courtney Love is the personification of drama. Her life in the spotlight has been peppered with drug addiction, suicide, bitter fights, money issues and more lawsuits than hot dinners, however the Hole front woman is a consummate performer on stage and especially in front of the media
Antiques Roadshow home run with $1m find
The American version of the British TV series Antiques Roadshow has hit a home run with a collection of 1870s Boston baseball memorabilia. A trove of signatures and rare baseball cards from Boston Red Stockings players was appraised for insurance purposes on the show at US$1 million (NZ$1.15m), series producer Marsha Bemko said.
Capturing a city
Phil Dickson has rambled Wellington and climbed its surrounding hills since he was a small boy growing up in the Hutt Valley. A predilection for art and geography led him to be a cartographer – “the saying goes there is ‘art’ in cartography,” he says – and now he has produced a very personal book of art, including maps, evocative of his 69-year love affair with his city.
Game of Thrones actor dies
Veteran actor JJ Murphy has collapsed and died just four days into filming his first scenes for the iconic HBO drama Game of Thrones. He was 86
Re-creating the excess of the 80s
It’s Wembley. The crowd are going wild.
Musician gets ‘life story’ guitar back after 7 years
It could be a tale from a blues cliche – except this story of love lost has a happy ending.