Paul Nicklen
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Judge’s facts become work of blockbusting fiction
A district court judge who lectures on international art crime has found his work in the most unexpected place – the pages of Dan Brown’s latest blockbuster. Hamilton-based Judge Arthur Tompkins, who each New Zealand winter teaches a course on art crime during war in a small town north of Rome, was stunned to find The Da Vinci Code author had lifted a passage of his writing for use in his latest New York Times bestseller, Inferno.
Thousands flock to Armageddon expo
More than 20,000 people are expected to stream through the doors of the Armageddon Expo, held at Westpac Stadium this weekend.
The wizard of Oz
Baz Luhrmann is temporarily lost for words. It’s possibly jet lag from two weeks of traipsing from New York and London to Cannes and Sydney, or maybe this is a question he hasn’t heard before
Inside the pet hospital
Janie Smith visits Massey University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, the setting for a new Prime documentary series. Whether it is X-raying an injured tui or performing lifesaving surgery on a horse, the Massey University Veterinary Teaching Hospital is the place for the job.
‘I died on the operating table’
Josh Homme shakes his guitar and hammers home the final moments of A Song for the Dead. A smile breaks across his face.
Piecing together Warhol history
One hundred people gathered together, jostled and bumped each other, and made some patchwork artwork today to launch Te Papa’s latest exhibition. The artwork – images of Sir Peter Jackson and TVNZ Seven Sharp presenter Alison Mau – were held up by 100 people who had been brought together by social media
The shows TV snobs hate
There’s nothing that quite riles people up than some trumped up, self-loathing, columnist-nobody criticising their TV habits. And given that’s exactly what I did last week, I thought it only fair to repay those truly aggrieved by my views on the televisual dreck that abounded in the ’90s by taking a look at five of the best story-driven TV shows of all time.
Homage or irksome marketing ploy?
There are about 600 versions of Adele’s Oscar-winning song Skyfall on the Spotify subscription music service. Not one of them features Adele.
Singer goes from Westport to the world
She has wowed producers on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and has shot a music video in Los Angeles. That’s not bad for a songbird from Westport, who took up singing because she wanted something to do after school