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<i>Review:</i> Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's <i>Discover New Zealand Music</i>
There was a buzz and a bustle in the Town Hall foyer as punters collected tickets for Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Happy Hour concert.
<i>Review:</i> Ute Lemper's Angels over Berlin at Auckland Town Hall
As she did at her exceptional Town Hall show in 2003, on this return visit Ute Lemper proved persuasively she doesn't merely deliver a concert of songs.
Review: <i>Avenue Q</i> at The Civic
Opening with the eternal question - 'what do you do with a BA in English?' - Avenue Q dispenses a bright and breezy antidote to the pressures of life in the big city.
<i>Review:</i> Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra at Auckland Town Hall
Poets of their Age presented three first-generation Romantic composers coming to terms with the expressive potential of the symphony orchestra.
<i>Comedy Fest Review:</i> Tarun Mohanbhai, The Comediettes
There are fewer Indian jokes this year, even though they are clearly what the audience is after - the thick accents Mohanbhai did pull out had the room roaring.
Art of glass
Four glass artists tell us why they chose the medium and what inspires their unique creations.
<i>Review:</i> Charles Lloyd New Quartet at Bruce Mason Centre
At its most pure and best, jazz is a live art where musicians disassemble, explore, then reconstruct melodies and rhythms right before your ears.
Review: <i>Horseplay</i> at the Maidment Theatre
There are Baxter self-quotations and talk of cut-throats and fowlhouses for literary experts to spot, but you don't have to know a line of the great men's work to enjoy the play.
<i>Unsung Heroes:</i> Singing enthusiast discovers hidden talent in children
Choir teacher Rhondda Garland is serious when she says everyone can sing, or at least hit the right note with her help.
<i>Review:</i> <i>Tic Tic</i> at the Limelight Lounge
At the more refined end of the Comedy Fest spectrum is an elegant memoir chronicling Paul Barrett's life-long engagement with Tourette's syndrome.
Chinese audiences treated to NZ films
A New Zealand film festival to screen in China next month is aimed at showing Chinese audiences that anyone in New Zealand can be a successful film-maker.
Pacific renaissance man
Printmaker Rodney Fumpston has the best of both worlds with a home in Auckland and the beloved place of his birth, Fiji.
Sexist Hollywood under fire
Hollywood, aromatic with the scent of gorgeous and available young women, still remains a sexualised and sexist ecosystem.
The paintings Hitler couldn't steal
A treasure trove of Modernist art, lost in the Nazi invasion, is to be auctioned in the UK.