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Sweat, Broods and tears

At the top of Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles, in a room full of suits, Georgia Nott suddenly found she couldn’t breathe. The 20-year-old had been whipped to the States with older brother Caleb, 22, on the strength of a song the duo put on music-sharing website Soundcloud.

Totem an evolved circus

REVIEW: Thirty years on, Cirque du Soleil’s street-theatre origins are all but forgotten – the travelling Canadian-based troupe now boasts 4,000 employees from 50 nations and that size is reflected in the ambition of its first show to hit Auckland in five years. Director Robert Lepage’s extravagant Totem is loosely themed on man’s evolution, although Darwin wouldn’t necessarily recognise the narrative.

Cinema’s world record threatened

The digital era of film is threatening a Central Otago cinema’s chance of holding a Guinness Book of Records title. The Teviot Valley Community Board will consider a funding request at its meeting next week to help contribute towards the $100,000 needed for new digital equipment to replace the obsolete projectors in the Roxburgh Entertainment Centre.

Te Papa splashing cash for art trash

Te Papa has splashed taxpayers’ cash on two new artworks, one of which even its creator jokingly describes as a load of rubbish. The purchase of the works by Bill Culbert means taxpayers have now effectively funded them twice – once when Creative New Zealand paid $650,000 for their creation and showing at last year’s Venice Biennale, and now as Te Papa adds them to the national collection.