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![Review: Joe Bonamassa, Auckland Town Hall](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: Joe Bonamassa, Auckland Town Hall
Bonamassa - Grammy-nominated, with a back catalogue of at least a dozen albums but hardly a household name - found blues loyalists turned out for him in their legions last Friday.
![Album review: Robert Plant, Lullaby and the Ceaseless](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album review: Robert Plant, Lullaby and the Ceaseless
Although singing a generous number of highly reconfigured Led Zeppelin songs at his 2013 Vector show with this band, Plant continues to distance himself from Led Zep's hard rock-cum-folk catalogue.
![Movie review: Wish I Was Here](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie review: Wish I Was Here
Zach Braff's debut feature film, the quirky indie flick Garden State, saw the Scrubs star explore life as a disconnected 20-something.
![Movie review: Night moves](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie review: Night moves
An eco-terrorism thriller with a hard shell and a heart full of moral imponderables, Reichardt's new movie will please those who enjoyed her lyrical, almost hallucinatory quasi-Western Meek's Cutoff.
![Movie review: The Skeleton Twins](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie review: The Skeleton Twins
A little like Wish I Was Here, also reviewed today, The Skeleton Twins is a film featuring siblings affected by their upbringing and who discover, as adults, the only person who can really help them deal with their issues is each other.
![Album review: Little Bark, USB](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album review: Little Bark, USB
The moment USB (which stands for Unique Sonic Broadcast, not a piece of office equipment) opens with Modern Love, you hear a flicker of Swedish electro-pop diva Robyn, a touch of David Bowie, a flash of Kylie Minogue, and also something distinctly Kiwi, w
![Concert review: Andrea Bocelli, Vector Arena](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Concert review: Andrea Bocelli, Vector Arena
Italian tenor delivers a crowd-pleasing recital of opera arias and popular love songs.
![Theatre review: Rural take on dodgy deals](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Theatre review: Rural take on dodgy deals
The fraudulent world of high finance has furnished plenty of high-stakes drama in recent years.
![Classical review: 'Jewels' on show fail to dazzle for quartet](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Classical review: 'Jewels' on show fail to dazzle for quartet
Four months ago, the New Zealand String Quartet enthralled a town hall audience playing Mozart and Brahms quintets with Canadian clarinetist James Campbell.
![Music review: Rhythym & Resonance, Auckland Town Hall](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Music review: Rhythym & Resonance, Auckland Town Hall
It was a quartet with a difference at Chamber Music New Zealand's Rhythm & Resonance concert - two pianists and two percussionists in a programme roving from Mozart to Lutoslawski.
![Theatre review: Belleville, Herald Theatre](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Theatre review: Belleville, Herald Theatre
A knock at the door sounds like hammering with an anvil in this Silo Theatre production, but clever, compelling Belleville is really only playing dress-up as a thriller.
![Classical review: The Medium, Opera Factory](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Classical review: The Medium, Opera Factory
The music theatre of Gian Carlo Menotti fits in well with the strengths of Auckland's Opera Factory, as its new production of The Medium revealed.
![Theatre review: Earnest, Q Theatre](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Theatre review: Earnest, Q Theatre
The party fun starts even before you enter the theatre for this Importance of Being Earnest, fabulously reimagined as an all-male dandy revel.