"In what other industry would you be expected to take options that cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars?"

E-reader competition is hotting up.

Paris' Pere Lachaise Cemetery is a surprisingly charming part of the City of Love, writes Liz Light.

If able soloists did not always lift Charpentier's characters from the page, Rosser's dramatic conception did not err.

School holiday theatre shows are all over town, writes Dionne Christian.

Two favourites and one new work are on show in the Young and Hungry line-up, writes Dionne Christian.

You can get away with a lot when your superhero arsenal includes a "lasso of truth" and the ability to fly.

Phone bidders from around the world are expected to take part in an auction of rare Napoleonic memorabilia in Auckland tonight.

Auckland rallied in force to farewell the New Zealand Youth Choir on the eve of a tour that will take it to Shanghai's World Expo.

This one-man show engages the audience with an intimate conversational tone.

This year the Montana NZ Book Awards have become the NZ Post Book Awards, with fewer categories and smaller shortlists.

After art connoisseur Ambroise Vollard died in a 1939 car crash, only a small part of his vast collection was ever accounted for.

Actor and director Simon Prast is standing for the Super City mayoralty to challenge the heavyweight contenders, John Banks and Len Brown.

A homage to the Maori showbands of the 1960s, the Titanics have all the harmonies, musicality, glamour and humour of their heroes.