By Nick Paris, Alice in Videoland Drive The ultimate wheelman film, with Ryan Gosling playing a panelbeater by day and a getaway driver at night. Mixing art-house with action and a side of romantic drama, director Nicolas Winding Refn’s moody pic serves up a real Grand Prix winner. Swirling with an electronic soundtrack, the pedal [...]
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By Garry Knight, Penny Lane Records El Camino By The Black Keys Over ten years and seven albums, these two white guys from Akron, Ohio have turned their blues/rock project into one of America’s greatest bands. El Camino is the most ‘pop’ release of their catalogue, full of soul/rock/blues/R&B and ‘70s glam sounds. With Danger [...]
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By Paddy O’Reilly (Blue Door) RRP $29.99 A life-affirming novel about friendship, love and fighting for things that matter, telling the story of single mother Loretta Boskovic. She has fantasies about leaving her kids and riding off on a Harley with her dream lover, but her reality is life in a dusty country town.
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By David Spiteri (HarperCollins AUS) RRP $39.99 The founding president of one of Australia’s first outlaw motorcycle clubs tells of how clubs develop from loose affiliations to structured and well-connected groups with links to police and politicians.
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by Nick Cohen (Fourth Estate) RRP $34.99 Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism and the advent of the Internet, it has become the conventional wisdom that we are living in an age of unprecedented freedom. But, as Cohen argues, this view is in fact dangerously naïve.
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Only a Kiwi bloke would do it! Toyota decides to test drive its new FJ Cruiser by driving the length of New Zealand off-road. And who better to represent the Kiwi bloke than Marc Ellis …
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You can’t keep Christchurch down, so in the absence of Rugby World Cup 2011 matches in the city we’ve got ourselves an exciting official Fanzone area in which to celebrate. Set in the Events Village at North Hagley Park …
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Tamara Chalabi is descended from a powerful Iraqi family. In the 1920s they were amongst the movers and shakers and played a large part in creating the Iraqi monarchy.
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As our city picked up the pieces, Bruce Raines set up a Facebook page to collect somewhat different ‘rubble’: a heap of funny comments and giggles, the best of which made it into the hilarious compilation You Know You’re From ChCh When …
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With ten commercial ski areas and club fields to choose from, powder days are there for the taking. Never tried? Head to one of the city’s excellent ski and snowboard shops and make 2011 your first year on the slopes!
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