A 42-year-old Australian man who allegedly posed as Justin Bieber online to solicit explicit images from children has been charged with more than 900 child sex offenses, police said Thursday.
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The Common Touch scheduled for Documentary Edge Festival
A Kiwi short-film about a Christchurch high school student who made global headlines after his prizegiving speech, will screen at this year’s Documentary Edge Film Festival. Directed by student filmmaker Mason Cade Packer, The Common Touch follows former Christchurch Boys’ High School pupil Jakob Ross Bailey’s quest to inspire others, after his 2015 prizegiving speech, just days after learning of his life-threatening cancer diagnosis, struck a chord with people around the world.
University to honour distinguished alumni
Outstanding graduates of the University of Auckland, in fields ranging from the creative arts and broadcasting to science, health and optometry, will be honoured at a gala dinner this month [10 March]. The University will recognise four winners of Distinguished Alumni Awards and a Young Alumna of the Year for their outstanding contributions to their professions, their communities, New Zealand and internationally.
Mother with kids in car caught ‘speeding, drink driving’
Police officers in the town of Cue posted a receipt from the breath test to Twitter and wrote: ‘This is why we breath test at all hours.’ The 27-year-old woman was stopped by officers on the Great Northern Highway in the Shire of Mt Magnet before 9.15am on Thursday.
Music from Copland House Takes Flight Next Month
Taking flight on Sunday afternoon, March 19 at 3pm is The Life of Birds, a musical aviary exploring the journeys, habits, and “personalities” of some astonishingly versatile flying, feathered singers. The concert takes its name from a work by Mason Bates, the Kennedy Center’s first Composer-in-Residence; calling it “a web of short but dense moments from the aviary,” the music visits parakeets, flycatchers, and other winged creatures at rest and play, in love, and in flight.
The unemployment rate ticked up slightly. Cue the Trump Twitter distraction.
President Trump tweeted about a variety of subjects Friday morning, before the monthly jobs report was published. President Trump began his Friday by firing a scattershot of tweets about Iran, Australia, business leaders, anarchists, terrorists and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Australian Unemployed Workers Union: helping the vulnerable
According to Roy Morgan Research, in October a total of 2.5 million Australians, or 19% of the workforce, were either unemployed or under-employed. There are about 13 million people in the Australian workforce.
Improvised Musical Parody SHAMILTON Shakes Up the Windy City Starting Tonight
The producers of the Chicago-based “Baby Wants Candy” announce the debut of their newest improvised musical, “Shamilton,” inspired by hit musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda , at Apollo Theater Chicago . Directed by one of the founding members of “Baby Wants Candy” and Emmy Award-winner Peter Gwinn , the improvised musical features a 75-minute live-performance musical written on-the-spot about a historic figure of the audiences’ choosing.
Atlanta-filmed “Hidden Figures” nabs Oscar nom
The other nominees for best picture are: “Moonlight,” “Arrival,” “Manchester by the Sea,” “Hell or High Water,” “Lion,” “Fences,” “Hidden Figures” and “Hacksaw Ridge.” The candy-colored love letter to musicals “La La Land” landed a record-tying 14 Academy Awards nominations, matching it with “Titanic” and “All About Eve” for most nominations ever.
The sounds of 1987This was a big year for big albumsWhispering Jack…
Penned by Brill Building legends Gerry Goffin and Carole King, The Loco-motion topped the US charts in 1962 for Little Eva and again 12 years later for, aptly, Grand Funk Railroad. While it wasn’t a brand new dance, the train-themed hit fast-tracked the pop career of Kylie Minogue, after she performed the song at an AFL charity event with her Neighbours cast mates.
James Taylor bemoans end of Obama era
James Taylor bemoans end of Obama era “It feels like it’s raining all over the world,” the troubadour says. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2k9kpkE In this Dec. 1, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama sings “Jingle Bells” with James Taylor during the lighting ceremony for the 2016 National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington.
‘I’ve seen rain:’ James Taylor bemoans end of Obama era
Half a world away from Washington, James Taylor is greeting fans with a video bemoaning the end of the Obama era.
Terri Irwin and Russell Crowe romance rumours take a new direction
Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website – Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. Over the past month, Australian tabloid magazines have been competing for stories on an alleged relationship between Russell Crowe and Terri Irwin.