The Apprenticeship Training Trust held its 2009 graduation and annual awards prizegiving function in Auckland on Friday (12 March).

Over 100 instruments will come together when an Argentinean orchestra combining indigenous instruments and digital technology plays in Wellington this Saturday.

The decision by Wellington artist Liam Gerrard to paint a portrait of convicted killer Clayton Weatherston was wrong.

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New York-based artist Anthony McCall will be in Wellington next week to open his exhibition Anthony McCall: Drawing with Light at Victoria University's Adam Art Gallery.

By Daniel Gilhooly of NZPA

Wellington, Feb 8 NZPA - It's the scoreline to leave even the optimistic New Zealand Super 14 rugby supporter sweating ahead of this weekend's competition kickoff.

61-17.

Wellington, Feb 8 NZPA - Super 14 rugby squads, odds and predictions for 2009:

BLUES (NZ):

Home ground: Eden Park, Auckland

Coach: Pat Lam

Captain: Keven Mealamu

2009: 9th

Hookers: Keven Mealamu, Tom McCartney

Wellington, Feb 5 NZPA - There was nothing subtle in the message delivered by Jacob Oram as New Zealand outmuscled Bangladesh to win in the first one-day cricket international by 146 runs at Napier tonight.

The top 20 singles and albums for the week ended January 31, supplied by the Recording Industry Association, with last week's position in brackets.

SINGLES:

1 (1) Black Box - Stan Walker

2 (2) Replay - IYAZ

3 (8) In My Head - Jason DeRulo

New York-based artist Anthony McCall is to transform the striking architectural spaces of Victoria University's Adam Art Gallery in an upcoming exhibition of 'solid light' installations.

The Q+A interview with Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is transcribed below.

The full length video interviews and panel discussions from the first episode of Q+A 2010 can be seen on tvnz.co.nz at, http://tvnz.co.nz/q-and-a-news

HONE HARAWIRA interviewed by PAUL HOLMES