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TV: Sainsbury will be missed

I'm not going to much miss TV One's <i>Close Up</i> when it folds its tattered old tent and departs these screens at the end of the week.

Review: Minaj almost perfect (+pics)

Saturday night the path to Vector became a sea of neon, tight frocks, outlandish wigs and insanely high shoes.

Nicki Minaj at Vector Arena

Nicki Minaj played her first New Zealand show as part of her Pink Friday Reloaded Tour at Auckland's Vector Arena.

Concert review: Nicki Minaj, Vector Arena

Album review: Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Movie review: Crossfire Hurricane

Graham Reid considers a new documentary about the Rolling Stones' wild years and yet another greatest hits compilation.

Movie review: Shadow Dancer

Concert Review: Mahler and Messiaen, Auckland Philharmonia

Classical review: Viva Voce choir brings out the best in Handel's Solomon

Handel would have been heartened by Viva Voce's <i>Solomon</i> on Sunday, one of the finest of his oratorios, cannily written to appeal to the tastes of his (and all) time.

TV review: Nothing Trivial

A viewer's heart flutters, as it should, when a warning of "sexual content" appears before a TV drama.

Theatre review: Amazing acts of derring do

The Dust Palace has brewed up a volatile concoction with circus acrobatics, contemporary dance and physical theatre shaken into a potent cocktail.

Classical review: Secrets and strokes of genius

Bach's D minor Double Violin Concerto is a score of peerless beauty, its many contrapuntal threads woven with inevitability and rightness.

DVD review: Led Zeppelin's Celebration Day

Movie review: Skyfall

Album reviews: Bach & Zelenka

Concert Review: Settling the Score, APO