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A painting by a renowned British artist, who lived and painted in New Zealand for more than 30 years, has sold for $55,400 at an auction in Auckland. Dame Eileen Mayo lived in New Zealand until her death in 1994 and painted Sea Holly – a surrealist tempera on board.

The children’s classic

There’s no mistaking those golden tones – a fresh spotlight has been cast on the early work of pop goddess Lorde with the airing of a couple of tracks featuring her work with her high school band And They Were Masked. When we say early work, the 17-year-old’s back catalogue doesn’t go back that far, of course, but about May 2012, at the tender age of 15, she lent her distinctive vocals to an album called

Hey Girl, a sushi restaurant-cum-dance club (um, because plain sashimi is just so lacklustre without heavy beats), has dreamed up an ingenious way to entice the ladies through its doors – make its female bathroom look like a teenage girl’s bedroom by covering every inch of it in Ryan Gosling posters. Yes, San Diego’s

Jamie Foxx will have to take steroids to portray Mike Tyson on screen, the former boxer has joked. The 46-year-old actor has reportedly been cast to play the former heavyweight world champion in an upcoming project which is yet to be named.

Audio clips of Lorde singing with her former band as a pre-fame 14-year-old are available to purchase at online music store Bandcamp. A whole album of material from a young Ella Yelich O’Conner with her band And They Were Masked has been released on the website.

It’s not often that I find myself laughing and crying in quick succession in a movie.

If you’ve always wanted to watch the Lion King, you may not even have to book tickets. You just need to be in the right place at the right time