EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Paper Sky - A Love StoryAfter creating a sensation at the previous Auckland Arts Festival, the creators of <i>The Arrival</i> have returned with an exquisitely crafted rhapsody of image and movement-based theatre.06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentConcert Review: Roxy Music, Villa Maria EstateThe last time Roxy Music played in New Zealand it was in a Waikato field as the headliners of Sweetwaters 1981.06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney, Handel With CareProgramme of tasty morsels served with wonderful flair06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: <i>Hall Pass</i>After several flops, the Farrelly brothers (There's Something About Mary) try to reclaim their status as kings of the gross-out sex comedy with this scatological outing starring Owen Wilson. 06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: <i>The Last Exorcism</i>Patrick Fabian is a confident leading man in The Last Exorcism.06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: <i>I Am Number Four</i>On the run from ruthless enemies, teenager John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) must come to terms with his alien heritage to get the girl (Dianna Agron) and save the planet.06 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>From Under The Overcoat</i>Though Sue Orr's new collection of short stories, <i>From Under The Overcoat</i>, references short stories by literary greats such as Nikolay Gogol (<i>The Over Coat</i>) and James Joyce (<i>The Dead</i>), don't hold that against it.06 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating</i>A sickbed obsession culminates in moving musings about the beauty of our world. 06 Mar 04:00 PM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: XerxesHeroes don't come much kookier than Xerxes. He may be the King of Persia but he opens Handel's opera by extolling the beauties of a plane tree; a man who, as one character comments, "is aroused by a rough trunk."03 Mar 12:00 AM
EntertainmentArts Festival Review: Havoc in the GardenThe latest piece of youth-oriented theatre from Massive Company adopts the admirably egalitarian but dramatically unsatisfying strategy of giving what amounts to a lead role to each member of the 14 person cast.02 Mar 09:50 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Radiohead <i>The King of Limbs</i>Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Another futuristic beauty02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie review: <i>Curry Munchers</i>A knockabout Kiwindian comedy with a light seasoning of pathos, this self-funded project does not exceed the expectations raised by its modest origins.02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Of Montreal <i>False Priest</i>Rating: 4/5. Verdict: More absurd fun from Georgia's most colourful, camp and clever band02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie review: <i>Tamara Drewe</i>Based on Posy Simmond's graphic novel, originally serialised in the Guardian's Review supplement, Tamara Drewe is a light and frothy satire on life and lust in a quiet English country village.02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: An Emerald City <i>The Fourth</i>Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Setting their controls to the heart of the sun02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: PJ Harvey <i>Let England Shake</i>Rating: 5/5. Verdict: History recorded02 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentFringe Festival Review: Deep in the Forest: A Cautionary CabaretDeep in the Forest is subtitled a Cautionary Cabaret and punters should be cautioned to exercise a certain amount a scepticism when viewing the show's promotional material. 02 Mar 01:31 AM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Working The Room Essays</i>One of the pleasures of reading an essayist as eclectic as Geoff Dyer is that one can go within a few pages from regarding him as a fount of wisdom (when his opinions match yours) to thinking he's a pretentious phoney (when they don't).02 Mar 01:00 AM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Remember Nothing And Other Reflections</i>For women of a certain (or uncertain) age, remembering nothing is not difficult. Remembering something is more problematic. Thus, women of a certain age will be enchanted by Nora Ephron's take on memory, or lack of it.01 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Of Love And Evil</i>Confession time: I'd never read anything by Anne Rice before this. For a while, I thought she was another name for Stephenie Meyer. She's not (of course), but she could be.01 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Rose</i>I began this book when a William Lobb rose was in its first flowering in my garden. Every time I went out to get the mail the perfume hung in the air and I breathed it in and felt good about being alive.01 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Sourland</i>It's been six months since the last Joyce Carol Oates, so it's not surprising to find she has another book out. Her productivity is astonishing, she's Barbara Cartland in black instead of pink.01 Mar 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Dolci Di Love</i>Lynch fans will delight in her latest offering of love and heartache in the Italian hills. Sarah-Kate Lynch even helped smooth the reviewer's own path to love.27 Feb 03:00 PM
EntertainmentConcert Review: High On Fire, Melvins and Kylesa, Whammy Bar, AucklandK Rd's Whammy Bar has hosted more than its share of full and sweaty nights over the last few years, a bit of communal congestion being something that regulars of this underground live music institution never seem to mind too much.24 Feb 11:00 PM
EntertainmentFringe Festival Review: When Animals Dream of Sheep, Lower Myers ParkThe avant-garde end of Fringe Fest spectrum finds an appropriate niche with a free event held at the base of the stairs that link Saint Kevin's Arcade with Myers Park.24 Feb 08:00 PM
