One difference between me and Desiree Hartsock, this season’s bachelorette, is that I’m cursed with the inability to fall in love with someone who mistakes verbs for adjectives. Des, to her credit, is more forgiving
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Desperately seeking Chinese meanings
Talk about talking heads. Oscar’s Guide to the Chinese Zodiac, TV3’s Inside New Zealand documentary which went to air on Wednesday at 9.30pm, had so many Kiwi celebrities and New Zealand notorieties in it, it was distracting viewing and hard to absorb the information
New star for J Lo
‘Jenny from the Block’ has a spot on
How to bit on a storage locker
If you can imagine it, chances are that Darrell Sheets has found it in a storage locker. The storage auction veteran has spent 36 years buying storage units without being able to tell exactly what is in them.
Quiz and win with Daft Punk
After what has been one of the smartest marketing campaigns in pop music, the day of Daft Punk’s album launch is finally here. To celebrate the release of the French duo’s album Random Access Memory, we are offering you the chance to win one of five stylish 3D masks and your copy of the album
Album review: Bloodsport – Suede
BLOODSPORTS Suede (Warner) It’s been well over a decade since the last Suede album and yet their new album is such a natural progression of what’s come before that the cellular memory kicks in straight away. And while singer Brett Anderson and guitarist Bernard Fanning might have appeared to have mended their errant ways with their duel project The Tears it hasn’t led to a full reconciliation.
Rob Kardashian sued for robbery
Rob Kardashian is being sued for allegedly assaulting a paparazzo. The 26-year-old Keeping Up with the Kardashians star is accused of getting into a violent confrontation with a female paparazzo at a West Hollywood gym.
Album review: Way To The Blue – The Songs of Nick Drake
WAY TO THE BLUE: THE SONGS OF NICK DRAKE Various (Southbound) Tribute albums are always bound to be bittersweet affairs. Anyone who has had an affinity with the artist – in this case English folkie Nick Drake – is likely to be disinterested unless they are zealous completists and those unfamiliar in the first place aren’t likely to care about the re-visitation.
Fighting off the ear worms
It is one of life’s most common irritations: the song you do not like that becomes stuck in your head.
Album review: House on Fire – Jeff Healey Band
HOUSE ON FIRE Jeff Healey Band (Shock) If you were around at the time, probably the most enduring memory of blind Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey was his small part role as Cody the leader of the house band in the 1989 Patrick Swayze movie Road House.