Category Archives: Movies and Entertainment

Taylor Swift’s 19th hit Shake It Off is the highest new entrant in the NZ Top 40 singles chart.

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

Te Papa has splashed taxpayers’ cash on two new artworks, one of which even its creator jokingly describes as a load of rubbish. The purchase of the works by Bill Culbert means taxpayers have now effectively funded them twice – once when Creative New Zealand paid $650,000 for their creation and showing at last year’s Venice Biennale, and now as Te Papa adds them to the national collection.

Moves to turn the biennial New Zealand Festival into a series of mini events have had a funding boost from Wellington councils. A special mayoral committee has agreed to give the two-yearly festival $132,200 from a regional amenities fund to help research and develop a business case for a “new New Zealand Festival”

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.

There is always one – the album that sums up a particular moment in time or feeling you don’t want to forget. The one you return to time and again.

If you’re a Soundwave fan we’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news is that none of

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on social media, the ice bucket challenge has reared its head again.

REVIEW: Half top-knots, selfies and a cloaked man palming off tickets to impressionable teens: This is the line to the debut headline concert of New Zealand’s newest indie music darlings. It’s a line that stretches 100 metres from the doors of Auckland’s sold-out Powerstation.