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ASYMMETRY Karnivool (Sony) For an Australian band that started off playing Nirvana covers, Karnivool have progressed somewhat into more sonically ambitious territory on their third studio album and first in four years.
The ultimate hero in Titanic, a real life model-loving lothario, and now set to be a space astronaut – Leonardo DiCaprio is the man who embodies every boyhood fantasy. A trip sitting next to DiCaprio on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space flight went for $US1.5 million (NZ$1.85 million) at amfAR’s annual gala and auction at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
When Max Gimblett was eight he fell in love with America. With Japan a growing Pacific threat during WWII, American troops moved into Auckland and Wellington in 1942
Colonel Chris Hadfield has signed off after five months as commander of the International Space Station by performing David Bowie’s Space Oddity in zero gravity.
Every year the New Zealand Comedy Trust hands out a yellow towel to the most promising comedian in the country. The Billy T Award is not only New Zealand’s most prestigious comedy award; it is also the only one.
The world is waiting with bated breath for the follow-up to last year’s hit Gangnam Style. But with Psy’s latest single set to be released this week, the K-Pop star is starting to feel the pressure
Strange objects are caught on camera flying in the sky over Denver. An Unidentified flying object (UFO) caught on camera by a news crew in Denver, CO has even aviation experts mystified about its origin.
Like pretty much every other agency in the government, NASA is likely to be hurting for money over the next few years.
It was one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, and a lot of people wanted a piece of it.
FOLK SINGING Anything called a hootenanny ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz and all over the U.S