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The Mint Chicks — Fri-Sat at the Transmission Room, Mayoral Drive, Auckland

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If you thought the rude reply from a local catering business — which has gone global over the last few days — was a one-off, think again. It looks like Margaret McHugh from the Gourmet Food Store could benefit from an intensive Kiwi Host course, or at least a holiday…

Just like the marquee company who called their client’s wedding ‘cheap and tacky’ in an email, the owner of the Gourmet Food Store Margaret McHugh shows little restraint in an email with one of her clients…

Reverb-drenched guitar, acoustic bass and ghostly drums ring out against a gentle hiss track, in an old mid-western dance band style that would fit right into that rundown hotel in Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train. This is typical of T-Bone Burnett’s production throughout Raising Sand, an outstanding album of duets from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss…