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When New Zealand-born country singer Keith Urban announced he would be jumping ships from The Voice Australia to American Idol, host Darren McMullen was sceptical about finding a suitable replacement. However, when it was announced that Latin singing sensation Ricky Martin would be joining fellow coaches Seal, Joel Madden and Delta Goodrem on the show, McMullen was livin’ la vida loca
Stuff is proud to present Shopping, the debut feature film by Wellington film-makers Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland.
The premiere of New Zealand’s first season of The X Factor has topped TV3s previous ratings hit The Block.
Success doesn’t seem to have clouded French band Phoenix’s minds. While their 2009 album was titled Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, tipping their hat to the famous composer, they named the follow-up simply Bankrupt! The title of the band’s fifth album, out tomorrow, is a nod to the beauty of failure, guitarist Christian Mazzalai says.
REVIEW: Rodriguez TSB Bank Arena, Saturday, March 16 Sixto Rodriguez recorded two albums and was promptly forgotten until last year’s Oscar-winning documentary Searching For Sugar Man told a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction version of some of the events leading to a comeback. He was huge in South Africa but the film forgets that he’d already toured Australia and had some following in New Zealand.
In an era of CEO pay gone wild, Jim Sinegal is the steal of the century. The co-founder and chief executive of Costco earns a salary of just $350,000 , richly refuting the boardroom notion that CEOs of billion-dollar corporations require pay packets to match
The spectacular success of Indians in the U.S. smashes old stereotypes and adds a dash of spice to the American melting pot By ANTHONY SPAETH When Manoj Night Shyamalan was growing up in suburban Philadelphia, his parents–both immigrants from India, both physicians–didn’t hesitate to pile on the pressure
This week hundreds of Roma in Italy watched as their long-established homes in Milan were bulldozed to the ground. The act of racism came just weeks after France evicted Roma from their camps and forced them to board flights bound for Romania and Bulgaria, where they experience seemingly inescapable poverty and hate
L.A. Laker fans must have hoped that their team’s imploding in this year’s NBA playoffs during coach Phil Jackson’s likely last season was the end of the this year’s Staples Center soap opera.
This winter’s surprise hit movie offers no marquee names and no special effects, only a small cup of poison for maternal peace of mind. In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Rebecca De Mornay plays the Nanny from Hell, who insinuates herself into the home of a trusting family only to wreak havoc on it.