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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
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
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: 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".

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.

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>
A British actress' first novel reveals her comedic talent.

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.

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
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.

Album Review: J Mascis, Several Shades of Why
For those expecting the ear-splitting riffs similar to the ones J Mascis lets rip with in Dinosaur Jr. then take a chill pill.

Album Review: Sandra Boynton with B.B. King, One Shoe Blues
Guitar hero B.B. King singing the blues with a chorus of sock puppets? What the ... ?

Hayley Westenra teams up with legendary Italian composer
New Zealand popera star Hayley Westenra has teamed up with a legendary Italian composer for her latest album.