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Saturday's TV highlights
7PM, TV ONE HUNGER FOR THE WILD The boys are in seafood heaven tonight. Brownie returns to his old stomping ground at Castlepoint for a feed of paua butties and Logie lays some fresh kahawai out on the smoker.7.30PM, TV ONE...

The Mars Volta: Amputechture
Herald rating: * * * *When singer Cedric Bixler Zavala and guitarist Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez parted ways with their former band At the Drive In, in 2001, it was a sad day. What a band.When De-Loused in the Comatorium , their...

Amanda Laird: Soba noodles with Sichuan fried tofu, greens and sesame
Serves 2150g soba noodles150g silken tofu1 tsp Sichuan pepper, roughly ground in a pestle and mortarCornflour2 Tbsp vegetable oil1 bunch gai larn, rinsed and trimmed of any tough stalks1 Tbsp toasted sesame seedsSea...

New Cross Soul: Reality
Herald rating: * * * *This was recorded in a 108-year-old farm house in Hawkes Bay. There's a weird urban-rural vibe going on, which has a lot to do with the hokey interludes, like when neighbour Gary drops in to meet the music...

Sudoku Puzzle for 30 September & 1 October, 2006
Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

Classical music devotees embrace digital media
Classical music lovers are high-tech as well as highbrow, says a survey for Gramophone magazine.Three-quarters of classical music fans are listening to their music through 21st-century media such as MP3 players, digital television...

Curious curry-flavoured mushrooms set to tempt tastebuds
A mushroom that tastes like curry - it's not the creation of genetic engineering, but an entirely natural food that grows wild in Scotland.Now, the small, brown but potent-tasting curry-scented milkcap, or Lactarius camphoratus,...

Tidelines : Cruisers planning round-NZ rally
The Island Cruising Association is celebrating its 21st year with a novel circumnavigation. It is a fun rally starting in Auckland on January 2 next year. The course takes in Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Fiordland...

Throw out your old beacon
The word is going out to boaters, both recreational and commercial. Switch now to the new 406MHz distress beacon.The reason? The widely used 121.5MHz Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs) are becoming obsolete.In...

Tom Petty: Highway Companion
Herald rating: * * * *On 2002's The Last DJ , Tom Petty turned grumpy old man in one of the more uninspired efforts of his long captaincy of the Heartbreakers.On this, the 55-year-old's third solo album after Full Moon Fever...

Outkast: Idlewild
After the heady heights of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below , you can't help but expect genius from Outkast, even if it comes in separate packages.You still get it on their sixth album, but with less focus, as the two creatives try...

Oldies unite for rugby competition
The Russians are coming, and so are Sicilians and Norfolk Islanders. These are just some of the nationalities that will be represented at the Golden Oldies World Rugby Festival in Wellington from October 29 to November 5. More than...

Shop in your sleep at Nicky Hilton's hotels
Expect accommodation with an exclamation mark when Nicky Hilton launches her chain of hotels next year, with help from Brian Long, one of the international VIPs at New Zealand Fashion Week."Think People magazine, E-channel,...

'Dead' songwriter very much alive
LOS ANGELES - Paul Vance was just an itsy bitsy teenie weenie touch surprised to learn from the television news this week that he had died. As anyone might be.The cable channels, newspapers and wire services all announced that...

Name-game book just the thing to buy dad
Old news inspired a fresh idea when author Nicola McCloy was rifling through the New Zealand room at the Auckland Library last year.Researching her second book, New Zealand Mysteries , the Random House editor stumbled across...