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Concert review: Lionel Richie, Vector Arena
Richie's voice matched the fabric of his shirts - satin and velvet - and his moves rivalled his frenetic back-up musicians.

Arts Festival Review: Rapt
When Douglas Wright sets his stage with a big grey wall, it's a wall with an enigmatic, palpable life of its own.

Concert Review: Bobby McFerrin, Skycity Theatre
You hear of performers playing their audiences, but Bobby McFerrin really did use his Auckland audience as a musical instrument last night.

Arts Festival Review: Paul Kelly A-Z, Town Hall Concert Chamber
Russell Baillie reviews the first night of Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly's Auckland Arts Festival season.

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: Matt Langley, Featherbones
Langley's rootsy folk-cum-alt.country EP Lost Companions 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.

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: 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.

Book Review: <i>Daughters-In-Law</i>
As she grows older and hones in on the big issues of life, Joanna Trollope just gets better.

Book Review: <i>Hokitika Town</i>
Charlotte Randall is an award-winning New Zealand author whose novels reflect someone utterly in love with the potential of language.

Book Review: <i>Our Tragic Universe</i>
Scarlett Thomas has penned a chatty, delightful easy read about friendship, love, and making those hard, life-defining choices.

TV Review: <i>Firstline</i>
For a "grown-up" morning news show, tune into TV3's Firstline, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Arts Festival Review: The Manganiyar Seduction
The 42 Indian musicians of The Manganiyar Seduction work their wiles in the glare of red and light-bulbs, piled up in a grid inspired by Amsterdam's red-light district.

Fringe Festival Review: Standstill
Some marvellous images are being created at the Basement this Fringe, writes Janet McAllister

Arts Festival Review: Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright describes her look as "ageless" - she is poised on the stage dressed like a school-girl with hair all wispy like her grandmother's.