Meet Red Dog's trainer

"He saved my life once..." Mick and Blue team up.

4:53 PM  Watch the tricks of the movie trainers trade, and be in to win one of eight family prize packs.

Rose takes aim at action

Ruby Rose plays elite sniper Adele Wolff in XXX: The Return of Xander Cage.

Actress Ruby Rose is a crack shot. She proved it by hitting a horizontal playing card from 1000 metres.

NCIS: Los Angeles star dies

Miguel Ferrer has died at 61. He was best known for his roles in NCIS:LA, Robocop and Twin Peaks.

Miguel Ferrer was Hollywood royalty. But his fans knew him as a granite faced "that guy" they loved.

How to escape from prison video

Jesse Ibell spent two days on the run after breaking out of Waikeria Prison in 2012.

4:33 PM  It was June 7, a Thursday, when Jesse Ibell had a bad day and decided he had enough of jail.

Trump shocks Gorillaz to life video

The video features London poet and 2015 Mercury prize winner Benjamin Clementine.

Hallelujah! The 00s virtual heroes have risen again with a song about Trump.

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Sofia Vergara helped trolled star

Ariel Winter leaned on her co-star Sofia Vergara once her body developed.

Ariel Winter reached out to co-star Sophia Vergara for help, and we totally get why.

Waiheke gallery visitor numbers exceed expectations

Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Artworks, Oneroa is attracting more visitors than ever.

As Waiheke prepares for its headland Sculpture on the Gulf event, the gallery is doing rather well too.

'I'm glad I didn't make changes'

Ruby Rose: 'I want to have babies one day, so I'm glad I didn't make changes earlier in my life.'

Ruby Rose is glad she didn't have gender reassignment surgery because she wants to be a mum someday.

Artworks hidden in full view

An archway of huia feathers, Nga Huruhuru Rangatira, is Palmerston North's latest piece of public art.

Public sculptures were not counted in a tally of how little art Palmerston North has on display.

Holographic exhibitions to bring art out of the vaults

Gabe Redding's holographic art exhibition project could help solve the problem of limited display space for New ...

A Palmerston North project to create holographic exhibitions could revolutionise museum industry.

Bring jackets and singing voice to concert

Icehouse, led by Iva Davies, will be the final performance at the Gibbston Valley Summer Concert on Saturday.

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Sky high photography is 'stunning'

A sky high photo captures tyre tracks on a farm in Warea, Taranaki.

A drone, an infrared lens and a special skill helps one photographer capture quite the shot.

A perfectly judged evocation of grief

Both Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck are devastatingly superb in Manchester By The Sea.

REVIEW: Manchester By The Sea is a miraculous piece of writing and performance.

Artist of the week: Anthonie Tonnon

Auckland songwriter Anthonie Tonnon says he manages to live a fairly conventional life as an almost fulltime musician.

Silver Scroll nominated songwriter Anthonie Tonnon loves to convey narrative through his songwriting.

Creating future opera stars

Samson Setu had never attended an opera production before he discovered it in high school.

"It's good to show that anyone can do this … no matter where you come from."

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Sofia Vergara helped trolled star

Ariel Winter leaned on her co-star Sofia Vergara once her body developed.

6 min ago  Ariel Winter reached out to co-star Sophia Vergara for help, and we totally get why.

'I'm glad I didn't make changes'

15 min ago  Ruby Rose is glad she didn't have gender reassignment surgery because she wants to be a mum someday.

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It's weapons grade stupid, but like anything this moronic, it's hard to look away.

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A perfectly judged evocation of grief

Both Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck are devastatingly superb in Manchester By The Sea.

REVIEW: Manchester By The Sea is a miraculous piece of writing and performance.

Restless Night fails to fire

Despite a terrific cast, Ben Affleck's Live By Night just feels a little too episodic to really truly compel.

REVIEW: Ben Affleck's latest feels both sprawling and once-over-lightly

People's Choice awards weirdness

Blake Lively with her People's Choice Award for  Favourite Dramatic Movie Actress in The Shallows.

If there's on thing this year's raft of winners and losers as picked by the fans proves, it's that the fans are bonkers.

Monae's moonlighting pays off

Having conquered music and modelling, Janelle Monae is now starring in two critically-acclaimed movies.

The role is a return to her roots, says the singer. A chance to show black women as brilliant-minded and necessary to the culture.

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Creating future opera stars

Samson Setu had never attended an opera production before he discovered it in high school.

"It's good to show that anyone can do this … no matter where you come from."

Porirua's classical music success

Rochelle Pese, 10, performs as part of Porirua's Virtuoso String Orchestra.

The children from Porirua's low-decile schools are making beautiful music

Simple Minds' black-swan song

Simple Minds. Ged Grimes, Charlie Burchill, Jim Kerr, Mel Gaynor and Andy Gillespie.

Four decades on, Simple Minds are revisiting some of the tracks that made them one of the world's biggest bands in the 1980s.

Trump will dance to My Way

Nancy Sinatra's response to Donald Trump using her father's song My Way for his first dance as president has caused a ...

The president-elect has chosen the classic Sinatra ballad for first dance with Melania. One Sinatra thinks that's hilarious.

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What fame Gotham brings

Robin Lord Taylor plays Oswald Cobblepot - aka The Penguin - in Gotham.

Gotham actor Robin Lord Taylor admits to experiencing the occasional bout of fan-madness.

Sherlock unleashes creepy Culverton

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Tune in for Trump's big day

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Here's what to expect, and how to watch it (or not) as Trump assumes the presidency.

Indian Summers' terror plot

Julie Walters plays Cynthia Coffin in Indian Summers.

The Julie Walters-led drama returns for a second series with explosions and unrest.

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Growing up Christian, and gay

Wez van der Linde talks frankly about wrestling with homosexuality while being a Christian in his book Space for the ...

"I'm a perfectionist, I want things to be right, I want things to be perfect. And for me, perfect was not being gay."

Reading renaissance

Second-hand book sales are on the rise says SPCA Op Shop manager Karina Greenall.

Sales of second hand books are undergoing a revival as readers turn away from digital alternatives.

Captain Cook found in fridge

Belmont's Little Local Library opened in 2012, and has proved hugely popular.

Schoolboy discovers rare volume in Lower Hutt community's "fridge library".

New Zealand's hidden wonders gallery

Electrum is a sculpture on Alan Gibb's Makarau farm.

From the strange to curious, these seven wonders will inspire awe and wanderlust.

arts

Artist of the week: Anthonie Tonnon

Auckland songwriter Anthonie Tonnon says he manages to live a fairly conventional life as an almost fulltime musician.

Silver Scroll nominated songwriter Anthonie Tonnon loves to convey narrative through his songwriting.

Sri Lankan dance to celebrate Waitangi Day

From left: Seyara Surendra, 11, Nethlni Parangama, 9, and Nethara Lamahewa, 10 get ready for dance practice at the Sri ...

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Bellydance and Bollywood fusion headed to Auckland

The founder of Bellywood, Meher Malik.

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Poetry slam coming to Womad

Penny Ashton is going to be busting out some poetry beats at Womad.

"It truly has the best atmosphere and is one of the best festivals in the world."

stage & theatre

From Sudan to NZ

Izadine Ahmed Abdallah, front centre in white, is part of Mixit's summer show, This Way Out.

Izadine Ahmed Abdallah was only 13 when he arrived in New Zealand from an African refugee camp.

'Surreal' Trump play tour

Alexander Sparrow in his one man political satire The President.

Alexander Sparrow will impressionate Trump, in The President, one last time.

Sinister Havelock tale showing

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"A good old-fashioned murder mystery."

Actress ready for war

Noel Hayvice, Charlotte Lennon and Cayden Howes perform.

An Upper Hutt actress is telling the history of New Zealand.

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