Arts & Music
Culture Making light by Ian Wedde
Conviviality and the art of Bill Culbert.Art Weathering by David Eggleton
Inge Doesburg, Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin; HARBOUR MYTHOLOGIES, Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin; DIFFERENT JOURNEYS, Salisbury House Gallery, Dunedin; VICTORIA CHAMBERS, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (until September 3).Dance Ménage à trois by Francesca Horsley
TRINITY, Royal New Zealand Ballet; Aotoa Centre, Auckland.DVDs The iron maiden by Chris Knox
North Country (Warner)
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (Warner) and more...Film Bloody Tuesday by Helene Wong
UNITED 93, directed by Paul GreengrassMusic All very nice, but by Peter Shaw
Is dependability really what is needed in a conductor?Music Hats off to Panama by Jim Pinckney
Panama! Latin, Calypso and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-75, Various (Soundway)
Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up, Various (Numero Group, www.numerogroup.com)Theatre Blonde love by Anna Chinn
HITCHCOCK BLONDE, by Terry Johnson; directed by David Lawrence, Fortune Theatre, Dunedin (until August 19)
Books
As sad as winter rain by Siobhan Harvey
BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN, by Haruki Murakami, (Harvill Secker, $36.99)The tiny hordes by David Larsen
A children’s book festival is the best way to find out what the kids want to read.For the birds by Hugh Roberts
ONE SHAPELY THING: Poems and Journals, by Dinah Hawken (VUP, $29.95)Blue Wednesday by Philip Matthews
BORN ON A BLUE DAY, by Daniel Tammet (Hodder & Stoughton, $49.99)Enlighten me by Diana Balham
PASSIONATE MINDS: THE GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT LOVE AFFAIR, by David Bodanis (Little, Brown, $35)