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Earnest Q Theatre, Auckland Some people consider Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest to be full of coded campy references to the Victorian homosexual underground.

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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. > Share this story on Facebook Blue Chips Nick Nolte teamed up with a young Shaquille O’Neal for this excellent 1994 college basketball drama.

John Lennon’s imprisoned killer says he still gets letters about the pain he caused in his pursuit of notoriety nearly 34 years ago.

X Factor Australia judge Redfoo has been reportedly hit in the head by a flying glass at a Sydney hotel.

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.

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Within the cardboard structure of the cathedral he designed, award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban opened Christchurch’s biennial writer’s festival with stories of how it came about. As a child, Ban enjoyed watching his parents renovate their home by hand, to house the many woman who came from outside Tokyo to sew for his fashion designer mother

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