Arts & Music
Culture Good vibrations by Sally Blundell
How an engineer from Christchurch unlocked the secrets of violin-making.Art Out on the street by Andrew Paul Wood
Anton Oliver isn’t the only hooker memorialised in oils.Classical The rite impression by Ian Dando
Testimony & Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.Culture Vulture Muted Impac by Denis Welch
It sounds vaguely impressive when you hear that a New Zealand novel is on the long list for the world’s richest prize for a work of fiction in English.Film Hot for teacher by Philip Matthews
NOTES ON A SCANDAL, directed by Richard EyreMusic Say your prayers by Nick Bollinger
SUNKEN TREASURE: LIVE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, Jeff Tweedy (Nonesuch, DVD)
Books
Feeding frenzy by Jolisa Gracewood
HUMBLE PIE, by Gordon Ramsay (Harper-Collins, $40)
WHITE SLAVE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Marco Pierre White (Orion, $60)Inside and out by Hugh Roberts
SECRET HEART, by Airini Beautrais (VUP, $25)
AFTER THE DANCE, by Michele Amas (VUP, $25)Never been to me by David Levinson
BRAINPARK, by Anna Sanderson (VUP, $30)Make it click by David Eggleton
CLICK! PORTRAITS OF NEW ZEALANDERS, by Reg Graham (Longacre, $50)
CHASING THE SOUTHERN LIGHT, THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MATHESON BEAUMONT (Longacre, $80)I’m with stupid by Simon Wilson
THE TRIUMPH OF THE AIRHEADS, and the retreat from commonsense, by Shelley Gare (Park Street Press, $30)
