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Sopranos strip club sells its well-oiled poles; Karaoke songs to avoid at all costs; Jeff Wayne’s War of The Worlds now playing two nights in Auckland; L.A. Mitchell’s album Debut; Then and now pics from Fast Times; Donald Trump to fire Brit, Paris and Lindsay; They’re making DeLoreans again; and trailer for Death At A Funeral…

This was Grandad before (left), now he’s cut, ripped and hot; A local site launches a weekly video gossip show; The solution to our police recruitment problem; Ever been glamping? (Like camping, but better); They’ve been banging on about equal pay for years, now women are wanting wives!; Replica food which looks good enough to eat; And Kiwi icon John Clarke doing his best Bob Jones impression…

New Zealanders can’t get a locally made big brand peanut butter for love or money, so how come ETA is claiming their salted peanuts are locally made by plastering the “Buy NZ Made” logo on its packaging?

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Pics of Heath Ledger as the Joker; Mint Chicks rev Auckland crowd up, stop show; Flight of the Conchords second season greenlit; Trailer for Walk the Line parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, plus more…

Blogs are starting to take over the Herald; Would you know a flat-screen TV from an oven door? 100-things-you-can-make-yourself if you were in between jobs and child-free; Ad mocks Titanic; And a fascinating TV news report on the very early days of the Internet…