Otago Daily Times: Entertainment

Lady Gaga has cancelled a planned Indonesia concert because of security concerns over objections by Islamic groups to her "vulgar" style.

Anybody who has gone into a Dunedin fish and chip shop will recognise the characters in Two Fish 'n' a Scoop. Charmian Smith talks to the Fortune Theatre team staging the play that looks at an integral part of Kiwi culture and its darker side.

Austrian director Michael Haneke was the popular winner of the Cannes film festival's top honour with "Love" (Amour), an elegiac tale of an elderly couple facing the inescapable, yet no less tragic march of death.

As bad boy lead singer of the anarchic, trail-blazing and short-lived 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols, John Lydon (then Johnny Rotten) snarled and spat his way across a shocked society and music scene still pleasantly half-high from the mellow 1960s.

Tucked away above the neighbouring Turnbull's Bay at Broad Bay on Otago Peninsula is Caselberg House, which offers residencies for artists and writers. Charmian Smith talks to Megan Campbell, the current resident.

New reality television show The GC took a knock in ratings after its second episode this week, losing around 80,000 viewers.

This book is the latest contribution to what its editor calls "the recuperation of Robin Hyde".

There is nothing particularly wrong with this game - it's just that it has all been seen before.