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Hey Girl, a sushi restaurant-cum-dance club (um, because plain sashimi is just so lacklustre without heavy beats), has dreamed up an ingenious way to entice the ladies through its doors – make its female bathroom look like a teenage girl’s bedroom by covering every inch of it in Ryan Gosling posters.
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A painting by a renowned British artist, who lived and painted in New Zealand for more than 30 years, has sold for $55,400 at an auction in Auckland.
Dame Eileen Mayo lived in New Zealand until her death in 1994 and painted Sea Holly – a surrealist tempera on board.
The work was predicted to reach up to $35,000 at the International Art Centre in Parnell’s auction on Wednesday.
The previous record for an Eileen Mayo work was for Lobster Pot which sold for $43,200 in 2008 at an Australian auction.
Sea Holly was bought by Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest as a gift to the Auckland Art Gallery.
International Art Centre Director, Richard Thomson, says Aucklanders should be excited the painting now has a permanent home for the public to enjoy.
“This is quite a stunning piece of art. Dame Eileen lived and worked as an artist here for many years and her contribution to the art scene in New Zealand was enormous.”
The painting, which most recently was held in a private collection in Auckland, features a surrealist portrayal of sea holly in flower on a sandy shore with a backdrop of the sky and ocean.
Dame Eileen painted Sea Holly when she was studying at Academie Montmartre in Paris.
Dame Eileen was 87 when she died in Christchurch in 1994.
She was born in England and was soon widely acclaimed for her work.
She moved to Australia in 1952 and to New Zealand 10 years later in 1962.
During her time in New Zealand she designed stamps including the 1969 Cook Bicentenary and 1971 Antarctic Treaty stamps, Unicef commemorative stamps and three fish stamps in 1970 for the New Zealand Post Office.
She became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire a week before she died.
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Robert Downey Jr.’s son has reportedly been charged with felony drug possession.
Indio, 20, was arrested back in June after police allegedly spotted him smoking a substance in a pipe while a passenger in a car driving in West Hollywood, California.
Authorities later said Indio was caught in possession of cocaine.
However, due to this being Indio’s first offence, he has been automatically enrolled into a “drug diversion” programme, according to TMZ.com.
The website also reports Indio was charged with a second offense of “possession of drug paraphernalia”, a misdemeanour.
It was reported earlier this year that Indio had entered rehab at Cliffside in Malibu to receive treatment for drug addiction following his arrest.
Indio was previously treated for his use of prescription pills in October 2013. However, his mother Deborah Falconer, who married to Robert in 1992 and split from the actor in 2001, insisted her son wasn’t gripped by addiction at the time.
“He was not addicted,” she told National Enquirer at the time. “He was taking one pill a day…
“We are hoping to do it the homeopathic way rather than with medications. He’s being treated with vitamin supplements and organic foods. He’s doing great. He’ll be back playing music and doing better soon.”
Robert Downey Jr understands all too well what his son is going through, as he struggled with drug addiction himself for years. The 49-year-old endured several run-ins with the law, including an arrest for possession of heroin, cocaine and an unloaded handgun while speeding in his car and missing various drug tests. His downward spiral resulted in the actor doing nearly a year in California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and state prison in Corcoran, California in 1999.
The Iron Man actor has been open about his past, and has spoken about how his father allowed him to have marijuana at just six years old.
“It was like him trying to express his love for me in the only way he knew how,” he previously said.
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There’s no mistaking those golden tones – a fresh spotlight has been cast on the early work of pop goddess Lorde with the airing of a couple of tracks featuring her work with her high school band And They Were Masked.
When we say early work, the 17-year-old’s back catalogue doesn’t go back that far, of course, but about May 2012, at the tender age of 15, she lent her distinctive vocals to an album called
The children’s classic
Jamie Foxx will have to take steroids to portray Mike Tyson on screen, the former boxer has joked.
The 46-year-old actor has reportedly been cast to play the former heavyweight world champion in an upcoming project which is yet to be named.
Tyson is delighted with the news, although understands
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If you’ve always wanted to watch the Lion King, you may not even have to book tickets. You just need to be in the right place at the right time.
Travellers on a New York subway were given an impromptu, a cappella performance of The Circle of Life by the Broadway cast of The Lion King.
Finally, someone managed to bring a smile to the faces of cranky New Yorkers on the subway. (Well, some of them.)
It’s not often that I find myself laughing and crying in quick succession in a movie.
Audio clips of Lorde singing with her former band as a pre-fame 14-year-old are available to purchase at online music store Bandcamp.
A whole album of material from a young Ella Yelich O’Conner with her band And They Were Masked has been released on the website.