Author Archives: admin

Taylor Swift

As the Tall Blacks prepare to compete at the world champs in Spain, James Croot looks at 10 of the best cinematic depictions of basketball.

People around the world are looking at beautiful photos of four-year-old Auckland girl Violet Spring, taken by her mum Holly. The Te Atatu mother has taken out the creative photographer of the year award from the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers

The Luminaries is good enough to win the international Man Booker Prize, but it is not the best book in New Zealand. Eleanor Catton’s novel was trumped by the story of a Wellington art dealer at tonight’s New Zealand Post Book of the Year awards.

People around the world are looking at beautiful photos of four-year-old Auckland girl Violet Spring, taken by her mum Holly.

You can only hope that Jonathan Lemalu knows a good dry-cleaner, after he endured not one, but two ice-bucket challenges today*. Dressed in his finest performance tails, NZSO bass singer Lemalu headed for Civic Square to decline the challenge he’d received, but instead a mysterious man, later identified as one Jason Henderson, doused him twice in the space of 30 seconds.

Tawa’s Musical Island Boys are absolutely positively ecstatic after being recognised for their world-beating achievements in Wellington today. The barbershop quartet of brothers Will and Jeff Hunkin, Matthew Gifford and Marcellus Washburn, have been presented with an Absolutely Positively Wellington award by Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.

Justin Bieber has compared himself to the late Princess Diana after reportedly being rear-ended by a paparazzo. The 20-year-old pop star was driving his red Ferrari in West Hollywood, California when the collision occurred, X17 Online claims

People around the world are looking at beautiful photos of four-year-old Auckland girl Violet Spring, taken by her mum Holly. The Te Atatu mother has taken out the creative photographer of the year award from the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers.

It wouldn’t be a self-respecting Hollywood hoedown without a nipple slip mid choreographed dance routine.