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Movie Review: Midnight Special

The sci-fi genre tends to put my cynical filmic sensibilities on high alert. More often than not, the genre offers cinema an easy

Music review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Skeleton Tree

It's impossible to fully appreciate this 16th studio album from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds without the tragic context that is the death

Music Review: Crossroads Revisited, Eric Clapton & Guests

Crossroads takes its name initially from the cover version of the Johnson blues that Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker delivered

Sun shines just in time for awesome community event

Pollen, pollen everywhere, our cars coated in golden dust immediately after we wash them ... not frustrating at all. We're full of

Hot tips for racing day from Hawke's Bay fashionista

IT'S FUN to strut your stuff and have a good time at the races, but as Vania Bailey says, don't forget etiquette. Vania has entered

Music Review: De La Soul, And the Anonymous Nobody

Expect the unexpected is good advice if you're about to leap into a new album from De La Soul. And so it is with And the Anonymous

SoundBites: Graham Candy, Smashproof

A Kiwi lad who in the space of a few months went from playing acoustic gigs in Auckland bars to performing in front of thousands in

Movie Review: Our Kind of Traitor

It appears that author John le Carré's work has become the darling of movie executives in the same way that John Grisham's

Hugely positive couple have difficulty just getting around

You know how sometimes in life you have those moments when you really appreciate how lucky you are? I had one of those last week

When sickness strikes we need that certain someone

It's fair to say that a lot of people have recently needed that special someone's help to get through the effects of the gastro outbreak. It's

Recipes: Let's go bananas!

They're New Zealand's top-selling fruit and we regard them as a little ho-hum. They make great snacks, breakfasts-on-the-run and

Music Review: Dinosaur Jr, Give A Glimpse of What Yer Not

Listening to Dinosaur Jr is like warmly welcoming back an old friend you haven't seen for years. The alt-rock trio, in their original

Challenging events bring out our best

It's been a tough couple of weeks in Hawke's Bay. First we had the rather large storm that dumped a huge amount of snow around the

SoundBites: Southern Fork Americana Festival, Bon Iver, Pitch Black, UMO

Thie line-up for the Southern Fork Americana Festival 2016 has been announced. Headlined by Hayes Carll and Lindi Ortega, the festival

New York days inspire Kiwi musician

Piha is a long way from New York, in a lot of ways. There are a few more people, a few more buildings, trains, noises, possibly a

Model loves every minute of her work

HOW WOULD you like a job that was so good you didn't want it to finish? That's how Bay woman Grayson Hunt-Irwin describes her role

Juicy solution or cold comfort for man flu sufferers?

As we battle our way through chilly weather, power cuts and constantly cold feet, it's inevitable that the common cold will rear its

SoundBites: Skux, Jesse Sheehan, Kora

Skux have released The Two Sides of She, a two-track, double A-side single. The new project from Ayisha Jaffer, Skux is the result