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Digital disruption or disaster?
If the news media is left to sink or swim, who will hold the powerful to account?
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Fair's fair
Are we kidding ourselves that the world is a fair and just place?
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Fortify yourself
Iodine is an essential mineral for our metabolism but opt for bread and milk rather than salt to get an adequate dose.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Flautist’s flight
A United Nations of styles mark Tessa Brinckman’s collection of flute pieces.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Characters with a back story
A new local comedy drama set in a spinal unit is based on the lives of two of its writers, one of whom stars in the show.
3 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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On the slopes of whakapapa
Kids go bush in Taranaki in a family flick with some familiar touches.
3 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Southern belles
Kaylee Bell embraces Nashville, while Amiria Grenell heads to Americana.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Flying colours
Look Blue Go Purple, a group which stood out among the many in 1980s Dunedin, is being honoured at the Taite Music Prize. RUSSELL BROWN tracked down the op shop-raiding politest band in rock'n'roll”.
4 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Critters for life's jitters
A talking fox offers solace to a struggling man in this moving story about the redemptive power of nature.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Intimations of war
Two women, Maori and Pakeha, are at the centre of a novel in which the Taranaki land wars are the backdrop.
3 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Hungering for more
In fat-averse Japan, a female convicted killer with a French food fetish gives a journalist a sensory awakening.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Using his noodle
A journey from mastery of a carrot salad to finding new love in Wellington ends the dislocation felt after a bereavement.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Palestinian horror story
The tragedy of Israel and Palestine’s intractactable conflict is writ small in this fine investigative work.
3 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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All in the family
A generational journey that spans from Colombo and London to Invercargill introduces a new Kiwi writer.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Stories of unease
Setting down family histories of Aotearoa's colonisation is a small but significant step in changing the conversation, argues Richard Shaw.
3 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Crosses to bear
An early commission by one of the country's most highly regarded artists lies hidden in obscurity amid a row over traditional and modern art in a religious context.
8 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Battleground bylines
Forget images of tough-guy male war correspondents two of New Zealand’s most distinguished reporters from the front lines were women.
8 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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In the firing line
MBIE also known as the Ministry for Everything - has grown exponentially since it was conceived in 2012. What will the government's belt-tightening mean for its services?
8 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Horror on the highways
When speeding kills more New Zealanders each year than homicide, there's dismay over the new government trading speed reductions for perceived economic benefits.
10+ min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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The medium needs a massage
My doctoral thesis was about the impact of the printing press a new information. technology on law and legal culture in the England of the 16th and 17th centuries.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Little (photo)shop of horrors
There was a teeny bit of acid in the atmosphere when New Zealand won so many noughties Academy Awards for Lord of the Rings. Oscars host Billy Crystal joked \"everybody in New Zealand\" had been thanked.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Just what the doctor ordered
'Kia ora,\" said the text message from the AI, \"your ACC claim has been No human had needed to read my explanation that I had injured my back bending badly to stack the dishwasher on a Sunday morning.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Sleeping with strangers
To wear pyjamas or not to wear pyjamas? That is an increasingly common question for Europeans as they contemplate catching a night train around the continent and sleeping with strangers, rather than dealing with angry airport security staff.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Nowhere to run
Pre-election claims are coming back to bite the embattled PM as his deputy goes off on a tangent of his own.
4 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Let's get ethical
People power led to investments being pulled from financing Putin's war in Ukraine. It can do the same to protect the environment, says Barry Coates.
2 min |
March 30 - April 5, 2024
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Track and trace
New Zealand is a perfect natural laboratory to test the capability of a satellite designed to track methane emissions.
2 min |
March 23-29, 2024
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Attack the snacks
Health advocate Paul Rangiwahia and his sister, Jane, a cook, have produced a book that matches kai with kindness.
5 min |
March 23-29, 2024
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The eve of the beholder
As he opens his first solo exhibition at home in more than a decade, painter Sandro Kopp talks about the emotions driving his latest work and what it’s like to whip up a faux oeuvre for a Wes Anderson film.
5 min |
March 23-29, 2024
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Living in the past
Going to town in an annual celebration of art deco style doesn’t require embracing the era’s suspect values.
8 min |
March 23-29, 2024
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Friend or foe
Some call him a panda-hugger, others say he’s gone native’, but a Kiwi Sinophile is unapologetic. He believes it is time for us to embrace China.
6 min |