A Christchurch prostitute who arranged to do an indecent photo shoot with her 15-year-old daughter has been jailed for 20 months and told her behaviour was "almost inexplicable conduct by a mother".

Regan Cameron is one of New Zealand’s most successful exports, yet most of us don’t even know his name.

Max Gimblett is one of our most beloved painters. Rebecca Barry met him in his New York studio and learned about his creative process.

Once stuck in a 9-5 rut in a Wellington office job, Gala Darling donned a new identity and created a new life as a New York style and self-help guru.

The Oscar-winning actress has "serious concerns" for the welfare of the couple's two-year-old daughter.

When handing out a prize at the 2011 Sundance Festival, America Ferrara from Ugly Betty said it was a festival of women.

Paul Auster writes splendidly about disaffected, damaged people, usually alienated from society in some way, often isolated, physically and/or psychologically.

A US businessman fraudulently billed almost a quarter of a million dollars to film director Sir Peter Jackson's credit card.

Sheen has been rushed to hospital, reportedly after throwing a wild party days after an 'epic bender' with three porn stars.

P. Diddy is to play a detective in US TV series Hawaii Five-0.

Three years after the death of her lover Heath Ledger, actress Michelle Williams has an Oscar nomination. The Hollywood star talks candidly to Tim Teeman about grief, her daughter, her mania for cleaning — and her new film.

The human nose contains roughly 400 olfactory receptors, but no two people have the same sense of smell.

On the first Friday evening of every month, visitors to Phoenix can join thousands of locals on the city's self-guided art walk.

Christian Wolmar finds himself warming to the foibles of one of America's lesser-known modes of transport.

Yeasayer are back for Laneway, but don't expect a repeat of an infamous earlier trip, says Paula Yeoman.

How much you'll enjoy this novel from American actor and comedian Steve Martin will depend on how engaged you are with recent art history.