Robert Plant visits Welly record store

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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Stars get the slime treatment

Johnny Depp and Kristen Stewart avoided slime – mostly – while picking up blimp-shaped trophies at the Kids Choice Awards. The ‘Dark Shadows’ star won as favourite movie actor at the 26th annual awards extravaganza, while the ‘Twilight’ leading lady was selected as favourite movie actress and ‘female butt-kicker’

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Box Office: How Rio Made Madea Mad

Birds of a feather flock to Rio, and so do audiences everywhere. Fox’s 3-D animated carnival, the high flyer at last week’s box office, saw nothing but blue skies its second time around; it earned $26.8 million, according to early studio estimates, to win the Easter weekend at North American movie theaters.

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