Even rock stars have their tourist moments – and Robert Plant couldn’t resist stopping to take a photo of the cardboard cutouts in the window of Wellington record store Slow Boat Records this afternoon. The English musician and former Led Zeppelin frontman stopped in at the Cuba St record store ahead of his show tonight with his band the Sensational Space Shifters.
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Bristol’s most famous son
He’s like Madonna in these parts, or Kylie: a single moniker that’s instantly recognisable.
18,000 Anzac biscuits for memorial
A Kiwi artist has created a tasteful, and tasty, new World War I memorial – made of biscuits. Kingsley Baird, designer of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Wellington, intends to build a memorial made of 18,000 Anzac biscuits at a museum in France next month
Meet Aaradhna’s Great Man
These are exciting times for Kiwi soul sensation Aaradhna. Yesterday she scooped a record five nods at the Pacific Music Awards and today she is premiering the video for her latest single Great Man
Sheeran’s forever linked to Hamilton
A Hamilton tattoo artist flew across country to give rising star, Ed Sheeran, his first ta moko, and his first tattoo with real meaning.
Visual treats found in unlikely places
Vibe is one of the channels that you get with your basic Sky package. Many men will put it with the Living Channel in the “avoid at all costs” pile
Monet’s Love Affair with Japanese Art
One day in 1871, legend has it, a French artist named Claude Monet walked into a food shop in Amsterdam, where he had gone to escape the Prussian siege of Paris. There he spotted some Japanese prints being used as wrapping paper
Staying Sharp: Can You Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
Laura Pizzuto, 78, of Seattle admits she loses her words every now and then. An avid gardener, she will sometimes forget the name of a familiar plant
Fingerprint unmasks original da Vinci painting
A smudged fingerprint has convinced art experts that a painting thought to have dated back to the early 19th century is the work of revered Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
China issues death sentences over Xinjiang riots
Six people were sentenced to death for murder and other crimes in riots that killed about 200 people in western China, state media reported Monday. The southern California artist rode the waves in Indonesia, India and Morocco, and on dry land, his curiosity piqued about the religion practiced there.