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Courageous, risk-taking young writers lead the pack in this year’s NZ Post Book Awards. Chief judge and Campbell Live presenter John Campbell said he was blown away by the strength of this year’s 185 eligible books.
Amanda Bynes has been hospitalised for a mental health evaluation after a witness said he spotted flames on her pant legs from a small gasoline fire in the driveway of a California home. Deputies responding to an emergency call on Monday night (local time) said the 27-year-old actress had started the fire in the driveway in Thousand Oaks, county sheriff’s Captain
Fans of The X Factor are up in arms after a technical glitch appears to have affected the voting system in last night’s final. The highlight of the show was Jackie Thomas being crowned the winner of the first season of The X Factor NZ over fellow finalist Whenua Patuwai
Neighbours of the four houses being used for The Block TV series in the North Shore suburb of Takapuna say the huge construction effort is affecting their daily lives and impinging on their privacy. Linda Haynes lives next door and says her biggest concern is that the council is letting the production company break “all sorts of rules” to allow the show to go ahead
Dennis Farina, a onetime Chicago cop who as a popular actor played a cop on Law & Order, has died.
A literary feud has broken out over an “insulting” play about New Zealand author Janet Frame. Frame’s literary executor and niece, Pamela Gordon, has slammed the play Gifted by Christchurch academic and author Patrick Evans
The future of tap dancing in America may rest on the small shoulders of a four-foot-tall, 52-pound, 10-year-old boy from Ashburn, Virginia. Luke Spring is a YouTube darling who is even more astonishing in person
One difference between me and Desiree Hartsock, this season’s bachelorette, is that I’m cursed with the inability to fall in love with someone who mistakes verbs for adjectives. Des, to her credit, is more forgiving
Blue Man Group is one of the most popular and oddest left-field theatre experiences to come out of the United States. Every so often the call goes out for new Blue Men.
The entire cast of X-Men thrilled fans at Comic-Con by uniting on stage