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The last round
Veteran director Ken Loach says goodbye to a lifetime of political cinema with a story of hope in an English mining town.
Sharp as a knife
Memoir of a girl growing up across two hemispheres is a sly and delicious peepshow.
A kaleidoscopic crème brûlée
David Cohen taste-tests what's coming to the boil and what's so last year to help home kitchens and top-end diners stay on trend in 2024.
Cooking by the book
What cookbooks do chefs and foodies reach for? Alana Rae asks some of our culinary leaders about their favourite tomes.
It's a celebration
Turkey is the main event, bookended by refreshing watermelon to start and raspberries to finish, with sourdough stuffings and a potato pie in between.
Performance pressure
Young women are weighed down by feelings of being judged by their peers, and social media mores are making it worse.
The Ardern enigma
Why did many New Zealanders turn so quickly on our most popular leader of recent times? And will the politics of compassion ultimately be her legacy?
An untimely delay
An unnecessary operation delayed appropriate treatment for prostate cancer patient Paul Catmur. One year on, he's still waiting for his surgeon's actions to be investigated.
Equal measures
Living behind her parents' dairy taught Vanisa Dhiru all about being helpful. Now, she puts that into practice in her advocacy roles.
Jibes across the Tasman
Scott Morrison, the self-confessed bulldozer prone to mansplaining, exasperated Ardern.
Let the brawling begin
We've had a government for barely a week and already the insults are flying thick and fast.
Enhanced memoirs
An awful suspicion is dawning that rather than just replacing humans by being more efficient, artificial intelligence (AI) might also show them up for the wretched, self-deluding egomaniacs they so often are.
One fine day
There are perfect moments in the garden in spring. My favourite bit of the garden is one that I had no part in making. This is the gravel garden, on the drive in front of the house. I didn't know I wanted a gravel garden. I certainly didn't plan to grow a gravel garden. It grows itself. A gravel garden is a marvellous thing. You don't have to feed it, you scarcely have to weed it or water it, and the best thing about it is that it hasn't cost you a cent. It is perfect for miserly gardeners.
An AI leap for robots
The same tech underpinning ChatGPT is set to finally make the general-use robot a reality.
Great expectations
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, so keep your stresses at bay.
Sweet talking
A common artificial sweetener has for the first time been classed as possibly carcinogenic.
On a high note
Countertenor Stephen Diaz explains why JS Bach presents such a challenge to singers.
Sunday bloody Sunday
Outback noir's smallscreen adaptation has big-screen aspirations.
Titillating takedown
Mr Ripley meets Brideshead in this black comedy, an outlandish dissection of the British upper classes.
The cannonball run
French leader biopic is hardly revolutionary, but it sure is fast.
Folky valentines
Erny Belle confirms her early promise and Cat Power plugs and unplugs Dylan.
Her plucky stars
How touring harpist Mary Lattimore has found a niche among pop’s left field.
Man of the match
As his football comedy Next Goal Wins finally arrives, Taika Waititi talks about ego, money and having nothing left to prove.
P for panic stations
A drug once regularly doled out for weight loss is now a terror of the modern age but crackdowns so far have failed. Is it time for a different approach?
Airbn' bust
Short-term lets have shaken up the tourism industry and housing markets. Now, authorities are clamping down but that’s far from the only issue confronting travellers and hosts.
From the ground up
An ex-Mongrel Mob member is teaching a new generation that a difficult past need not define their future.
Algorithm's arrow
Older adults are now embracing online dating as enthusiastically as digital natives. But many find the path to true love as pothole-strewn as old-school approaches.
Always a champion
A lifetime achievement award for screen production is a far cry from Robin Scholes’ early days, selling lingerie to brides.
Ink stink
We tend to think of progress in information technology W as a given, and in most cases, it is. The internet connection I use now is literally 69,000 times faster than the first one I used in 1993. Chips are faster, storage ever cheaper and more vast. And then there are printers.
Talkfest begins as Gaza burns
It's that time of the year again. No, not Christmas. It's time for another COP summit. The acronym is short for \"Conference of the Parties\" to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. That is, all those who say they really, truly do want to do something about climate change. The 197\"parties\" include all UN member states and the European Union.