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The Most Beautiful Man in the World

Posted 2:52pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Katie Hayes

Author: Jill Marshall Publisher: Penguin ( 4/5)     The blurb on the back of this book promised me a “pole dancer from Taranaki,” a beautiful man to be found “floating face-down in [a] Hollywood pool,” and “a tangled web of lies, sex and Read more...

Solar

Posted 2:52pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Kathy Young

Author: Ian McEwan Publisher: Jonathan Cape Rating: 3/5 Fans of Ian McEwan, prepare to be disappointed. Solar may be the closest McEwan has gotten to a rush job. Indeed, I was dismayed, and about halfway through I kept wondering if McEwan had actually written the book himself. Read more...

Eternal Life: A New Vision

Posted 2:50pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Deane Galbraith

Author: John Shelby Spong Publisher: HarperCollins (0/5) Bishop John Spong is Christianity’s version of the Dalai Lama: a purveyor of an earnestly inoffensive spirituality, which possesses all the substance and fibre of lukewarm parsnip juice. Spong dismisses fundamentalist Read more...

Thinking of Answers – Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life

Posted 2:49pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jonathan Jong

Author: A. C. Grayling Publisher: Bloomsbury (4/5) I must admit to not being A. C. Grayling’s biggest fan: we’re in opposing camps on many issues. However, I do appreciate his role as a public intellectual, bringing philosophy (or critical thinking, if you prefer) to the Read more...

Dick Frizzell: Works on Paper

Posted 2:47pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Hana Aoake

Milford Gallery Until May 19 Dick Frizzell is a prominent and highly successful New Zealand artist, based in Hawke's Bay, whose notorious artistic appropriations have become ‘Kiwi’ pop-culture icons. His work is characterised as being incredibly adaptive from one style mode to Read more...

Preview: Alice in Cappingland

Posted 2:37pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Lady Kathryn Schrader

Directed by Thom Adams, Alex Wilson and Dianne Pulham Written and acted by an ensemble cast Teachers College Auditorium, Union St May 12-22, 7.30 pm $15 Student $20 public – onlineshop.ousa.org.nz The Capping Show, notorious for its painful puns and topical sketch comedy, as well as a Read more...

LTT Review: Shared Agendas Thursday 6-5-2010

Posted 2:36pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Co-ordinated by Ali East and Martyn Roberts (3/5) This performance was the fourteenth Shared Agendas event. Shared Agendas provides an annual forum for a cross-disciplinary, improvised exchange between musicians, dancers, actors, performers, and techies. James Reedy explains that the work Read more...

The Return of the Super Sharp Shooter

Posted 2:18pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Martyn Pepperell

In 2006, DJ Zinc (Government name: Benjamin Pettit), one of the true legends of jump-up jungle drum and bass, found himself heading towards a crossroads of sorts. “With drum and bass, around 2006, it became hard to find music that sounded cutting edge,” he says, speaking down the Read more...

The Chills (Live at the Empire)

Posted 2:17pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Sarah Baillie

he recently reopened Empire tavern on Princes Street has “special memories” for Martin Phillips of The Chills, as it is one of the regular venues the band played at during the heyday of Flying Nun bands in Dunedin. The only remaining member of The Chills’ original line-up, Martin Read more...

The Evolution of the Side-Scroller

Posted 2:12pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Damien Khalsa

Platforms: All Some of the very first role-playing and action games were side-scrollers – well, the first ones that weren't entirely text-based, at least. They became popular ith both game developers and gamers. The developers liked side-scrollers because they allowed them to Read more...