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Brendon McCullum - 'Why I nearly quit NZ cricket'
"In what other industry would you be expected to take options that cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars?"

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

Concert Review: Viva Voce <i>at St Patrick's Cathedral</i>
If able soloists did not always lift Charpentier's characters from the page, Rosser's dramatic conception did not err.

Buried treasure, magic and a fat ginger cat
School holiday theatre shows are all over town, writes Dionne Christian.

Preview: Young and Hungry Festival of New Theatre at the Basement
Two favourites and one new work are on show in the Young and Hungry line-up, writes Dionne Christian.

Colourful chaos, cool minimalism
Offerings to suit a range of tastes are on show at Auckland's galleries this week.

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

Review: New Zealand Youth Choir at the Auckland Town Hall
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.

Review: <i>Heroic Faun No One</i> at the Basement
This one-man show engages the audience with an intimate conversational tone.

Young choristers make the music speak
Artistic director Karen Grylls should be justifiably proud of the diversity and range of music that her 46-strong choir will be singing.

The incredible shrinking book awards
This year the Montana NZ Book Awards have become the NZ Post Book Awards, with fewer categories and smaller shortlists.