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Baimurat Allaberiyev doesn’t look like a pop star. He’s 38 years old, but looks well into his forties, and his creased, leathery face hints at a life of sadness and toil. For the past two years, the native of mountainous Tajikistan…

New Zealand Music Month is here again and there is a host of gigs and events on to celebrate the cream of Kiwi music. What is your favourite album by a Kiwi musician or group? Here is the latest selection of YOur Views: (Note:…

G.I. Joe cartoons were, primarily, extended advertisements for toys. As a kid, you see this guy with a metal face riding in an awesome missile launcher, you want to play with those things, and you beg your parents until they buy them, and then you watch more of the cartoon so that you understand who should be firing what at who. Everyone but parents win. And I think that’s a fine system. If the new G.I. Joe movie was a big commercial for new toys, I’d be alright with that. But it’s not. It’s more like an infomercial for crappy, black Iron Man suits that let you dodge things Matrix style:

Today marks the first day of the ninth year of New Zealand Music Month and statistics suggest people respond to it by supporting local acts. The New Zealand Music Commission said last May one in four albums sold were from local…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A new poll shows a Swedish party that calls for legalising internet file-sharing could win a seat in the European Parliament in June. The poll published yesterday in the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter …

WASHINGTON - China, Russia and Canada were among 12 countries targeted by the Obama administration for failing to sufficiently protect American producers of music, movies and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy. The…

Ut oh, would-be Moon viewers. Io9 is saying Douglas Jones’s sleek, promising sci-fi film will only be playing in New York and L.A., leaving the rest of America only a Star Trek to sate their summertime space travel cravings. So if you’re not in New York or Los Angeles, and you want to see Sam Rockwell contract the space madness before the DVD comes out, time to start electro-petitioning Sony Pictures Classics. (I don’t know how to go about that. Someone should set that up though.)

Sharon, Sharon, Sharon - we know you're over fifty and have a fabulous bod, but do you need to remind us alllll the time? At least you're not hanging around a public park with your children or anything like–…

photo credit: Mario Testino for V Mag The always sexy V Magazine is turning up the heat just in time for summer with their first ever swimsuit issue. They've lined up some of the hottest women on the planet,…