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![Comedy Review: The Big Show, Comedy Chamber, Town Hall](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Comedy Review: The Big Show, Comedy Chamber, Town Hall
A boozy Saturday night crowd wants easy gags. Thankfully Gordon Southern, the host of The Big Show - one of the more glamorous daily events at the festival - was full of them.
![Book Review: <i>Bird Cloud</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Book Review: <i>Bird Cloud</i>
There are memoirs that are about a personal life lived, and then there are memoirs about a specific subject on which an author wishes to ruminate at length. Annie Proulx's non-fiction Bird Cloud very much falls into the latter.
![Album Review: Roy Orbison, The Monument Singles Collection 1960-1964](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: Roy Orbison, The Monument Singles Collection 1960-1964
Roy Orbison didn't show a lot of emotion, but his songs and voice were brimming with them, writes Graham Reid.
![Album Review: Noah and the Whale Last Night on Earth](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: Noah and the Whale Last Night on Earth
On their third album, Twickenham band Noah and the Whale is slightly evangelistic in its take on life, and the way one can meander through it.
![Album Review: David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights Left by Soft](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights Left by Soft
Dunedin rock stalwart David Kilgour's previous album, 2009's Falling Debris, had him setting music to the words of Sam Hunt. That project has a slight hangover here.
![Album Review: PNC Man on Wire](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: PNC Man on Wire
A couple of years ago, PNC's album Bazooka Kid set local hip-hop on a renaissance trip of sorts with its flashy and fun mix of styles, cheeky bravado and rhymes like "Looking for the chicks with Brooke Fraser lips".
![Concert Review: Herbie Hancock, ASB Theatre](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Concert Review: Herbie Hancock, ASB Theatre
When Herbie Hancock was last here in 2007 he played a show that spanned his classic work - and really, that's what you want to hear.
![Book Review: <i>When God was a Rabbit</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Book Review: <i>When God was a Rabbit</i>
A British actress' first novel reveals her comedic talent.
![Book Review: <i>Or the Bull Kills You</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Book Review: <i>Or the Bull Kills You</i>
Nervous readers need not fear, Jason Webster's new Spanish detective, Max Camara of Valencia, hates bullfights.
![Book Review: <i>Nice Day for a War: Adventures of a Kiwi Soldier in World War I</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Book Review: <i>Nice Day for a War: Adventures of a Kiwi Soldier in World War I</i>
Not a picture book, not a graphic novel, not anything easily pigeon-holed, Chris Slane and Matt Elliott's study-cum-evocation of life in World War I is a great resource and a great read.
![Book Review: <i>War Wounds: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Book Review: <i>War Wounds: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict</i>
On May 27, 1942, two Czech parachutists ambushed and wounded SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich near Prague. Heydrich was not seriously wounded but a ricochet bullet had carried cloth, wire and wool into the wound.
![TV Review: MasterChef, episode 10](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
TV Review: MasterChef, episode 10
One of the fun parts of watching an elimination show like MasterChef is trying to second-guess the producers.
![Album Review: Marianne Faithfull, Horses and High Heels](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: Marianne Faithfull, Horses and High Heels
The off-beat British singer is determined to keep at it, and so drags her voice through her 18th studio album, a collection made up mostly of covers.