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What’s the album of your life?
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.
Review: Echoes of Home
Echoes of Home New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen with Daniel Muller-Schott (cello) Music by Pruden, Dvorak and Rachmaninov April 13, Michael Fowler Centre This was the sixth time the NZSO had played this programme and it showed in the playing. The players were completely inside each of the three works that made up of works loosely based on homesickness, and conductor Inkinen revealed his growth as a conductor
Win a meeting with Aerosmith
Aerosmith will be walking this way next week to perform their first ever concert in New Zealand. And one lucky Stuff reader will get the chance to meet Steve Tyler and Joe Perry at their only show in Dunedin.
Anne ‘would have been a Belieber’
Justin Bieber has visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, and the museum says the Canadian pop star wrote in the guestbook that he hoped Frank “would have been a Belieber” if she had lived. A post on Saturday on the Facebook page of the museum said Bieber had visited the previous night and stayed over an hour, along with a group of friends and guards, as fans waited outside to “see a glimpse of him”.
Deftones bassist dead at 42
Alternative metal bassist Chi Cheng of the Deftones has died, four years after a car accident left him a coma.
Actor stalked by razor wielding fan
Officers arrested a woman for stalking after she wielded an electric razor while approaching Australian actor Hugh Jackman at a New York City gym, police said. Katherine Thurston, 47, went into the gym where Jackman was working out early on Saturday morning (local time), and after a brief encounter with the 44-year-old actor, she fled and was arrested a few blocks away, a New York police spokeswoman said
The Wayans Brothers come to NZ
When you hail from a family as big and talented as that of New Yorkers Howell and Elvira Wayans – with 10 children – you have to work to get noticed. For Shawn and younger brother Marlon, the necessary attention was gained through making people laugh, and now they are arguably two of the most recognisable members of their clan.
Harington sick of gutting chickens
Kit Harington it tired of being told to “gut chickens” for Game of Thrones. The British actor portrays Jon Snow in the smash hit sci-fi series.
Witch song second in UK charts
A campaign by opponents of late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to get the song Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead to the top of the British pop charts to celebrate her death failed on Sunday (local time) although it did manage to reach second place. Thatcher, who died aged 87 last Monday, deeply divided Britons and while some have paid warm tributes to the achievements of her right-wing Conservative governments, others said her privatization of swathes of industry had destroyed communities.