Grammy-award winning hip hop artist Will.i.am jetted into Auckland for a company party last night, but he’s not going home without leaving something behind. The Black Eyed Peas frontman has donated $100,000 to a network of low decile schools in the city’s low-income areas toward providing children with new computers and iPads
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Good guys telling jokes for charity
New Zealand comedians are once again putting their jokes on the line for charity. The sixth-annual The Good Guys is a one-night comedic showcase in aid of children’s charity SpinningTop
All the world’s a stage for Rawiri
This very
First album excites young singer
The 11-year-old songstress who captured the country’s attention last year on New Zealand’s Got Talent is set to release her first album. Competition runner-up Jessie Hillel can’t wait to hear the final cut of the album With Love, recorded in Auckland, which will hit the shelves on April 26.
Tonto takes centre-stage
To watch a snippet of The Lone Ranger is to empathise with the stoic looks of concern its star, Johnny Depp, deadpans throughout the action film. A white man playing Tonto, one of the most famous American Indian stereotypes of all time, might work.
Time Lords rally for Sir Peter
The Lords of Time have decreed that Doctor Who must be filmed in New Zealand.
Review: Robert Plant and the Spectacular Space Shifters
What: Robert Plant and the Spectacular Space Shifters Where: Vector Arena, Auckland When: Thursday, April 11 When reviewing an act like Robert Plant, you kind of hope that it’s terrible just so you have something else to write other than that it was incredible. But alas, other than a (smoothly recovered) fumble of the mic, the man lived up to the legend
Bullet-riddled bus with a message
In springtime Washington, little can distract the teeming outdoor crowds from the grandeur of cherry trees nearing peak bloom. One exception: a yellow school bus pocked by 6,000 rounds of ammunition
Paradise lost in Queenstown
In an
The incredible Steve Carell
Some romances start with fireworks; a whirlwind of animal attraction and uninhibited passion. But for Steve Carell, the spark was slower to ignite