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Album Review: Duran Duran, All You Need Is Now Shock

Duran Duran must have felt pretty slick when they returned to the studio to record their 13th studio album. They had Mark Ronson - the guy who produced Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen and Adele - behind them.

Concert Review: Foo Fighters, Auckland Town Hall

Concert Review: Santana, Vector Arena

Carlos Santana is in love with a black magic woman. Really, he is, and she's got a wild afro, saucy style, and plays drums.

Theatre Review: Poor Boy, Maidment Theatre

Link between the plot and Tim Finn's songs is tenuous, but it's a striking piece of theatre.

Book Review: <i>Love And War In The Apennines</i>

It was 1956 and Eric Newby, the man who would become one of Britain's most admired travel writers, was stuck in a fitting room with a designer, a model and a lady with a mouth full of pins.

Concert Review: Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Auckland Town Hall

Arts Festival Review: NZ String Quartet

TV Review: MasterChef, episode 5

Book Review: <i>Me and Mr Booker</i>

Stories of young, attractive women desperately trying to escape their small-town roots by allowing themselves to be seduced by older, apparently more worldly men, are not new.

Album Review: Papercuts, Fading Parade

Graham Reid is left wanting more from San Francisco's Jason Robert Quever.

Movie Review: Force Of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie

Lest I be labelled a seal-clubber and eater of endangered species, I say at the start that no sensible person could disagree with any assertion in this film.

Album Review: REM, Collapse Into Now

With the three members of REM now all into their fifties, it would be nice to report that they've fixed whatever stopped their Noughties albums being as vital as the ones which got them there.

Album Review: Matt Langley, Featherbones

Langley's rootsy folk-cum-alt.country EP <i>Lost Companions</i> of 2007, recorded in Wellington, announced a mature lyricist and a singer with a delivery like the best Americana artists with a little Dylanesque drawl.

Movie Review: Limitless

Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro face off in this drug-fuelled thriller, and it's hard to work out who comes out on top in the story, or in the acting contest.

Album Review: Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX, We're New Here

This remix album is a collaboration between Jamie Smith of hushed electronic rockers The xx and Gil Scott-Heron, the 1970s street poet and revolutionary rapper.

Arts Festival Review: Gaff Aff

Arts Festival Review: The End

Arts Festival Review: Spirit of India 2011: Shehnai and flute

Rajendra Prasanna comes from generations of Indian master musicians. On Tuesday, thanks to him and his three colleagues, a rapt audience fell under the spell of a music in which time itself seemed almost to stand still.