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Big grief
Lorin Clarke on the feelings that engulfed her in the days after her father's death.
Dagg of a dad
In a new memoir about her relationship with her father, Lorin Clarke reflects on how John Clarke was just as funny as a family man as he was on television.
Sew & tell
A new breed of at-home sewers explain what it is - besides pandemic lockdowns - that inspires them to get creative with fabric.
Citizen pain
A broken funding system is delivering record local-body rates all over New Zealand. Is there a way around the financial potholes?
The fogeys are coming
Court judge James Pickles became an international emblem of fuddy-duddyness when, in the 1960s, he enquired from the bench, \"Who are the Beatles?\"
Big shots in the 'burbs
The election hoardings are up, the game is on, promises are being made. The main parties are roadbuilding. Winston Peters has a cunning plan: as the nation's handbrake and culture warrior, his new hill to die on will be the ladies' loo.
Hear them roar
For the past couple of years one of the most excruciating sights in British politics has been when a Labour Party figure is asked to define what a woman is. In their desperate efforts to say nothing while speaking words, they have frequently taken the English language into whole new territories of evasion and obfuscation.
Of grumps and gripes
Policy moles are popping up all over the place and being whacked down just as quickly.
Swings and turnabouts
Unless the government reverses key policies - and Chris Hipkins replies to his letter - Jules Older will be taking his left-leaning vote elsewhere.
Bear with me
Hangzhou Zoo in China has been accused of dressing up humans in furry costumes and passing them off as sun bears. The zoo has denied this of course. The very idea of a Chinese state-run anything carrying out any sort of deception is as ludicrous as the very idea of a human pretending to be a bear. It turns out that the idea that humans were pretending to be bears was baloney.
Going his own way
Pianist rediscovers the lost art of classical improv.
Share Gaul
What have we done to deserve two shows in which ex-All Blacks explain France to us?
Reel life memoir
Lovely touches in a Gujarati spin on Cinema Paradiso.
Talking to a brick wall
Podcaster solo act takes Monolith to great heights.
Aged care
When an alien lands in the bushes, bored old folk go to the rescue.
Once more with feeling
It may not be original but the Feelers’ self-tribute” album hits some worthy notes.
An independent spirit
Bernie Griffen was a late bloomer. His first album, Everything So Far, didn't come until he was 60. Griffen, who died at 72 earlier this month, might have been late to recording but music was the pulse of his life.
Who's a happy cavy?
In Carl Bland's new play, a guinea pig has something to say about human nature.
More power to her
Lower Hutt's Zoë Robins takes a prominent role in the second series of fantasy epic The Wheel of Time.
Once were warriors
Two books illustrate the ways in which women’s lives have been diminished by generations of prejudice.
Shock tactics
Post-quake tales explore life beyond the shipping containers.
Double or quits
What does it mean to be truly modern, asks this debut novel from a NZ-born author.
Off the shelf
Patrick de Witt, a chronicler of weirdos, delivers a simple, warm-hearted tale of a retired librarian.
Getting there
Richard Ford's road-trip novel is a nuanced portrait of a fractious father-son relationship - and a vision of Trump's America.
A fresh start
The country needs more startups, but are tax breaks the best way to get there?
Hear & there
Older people who feel they are slowing down should think about having their hearing checked.
Gone to seed
Roasting food can introduce potentially harmful chemicals, but preparation is the key.
Handle with care
Just because a medicine is sold over the counter doesn't mean it is completely free of side effects.
Just chilling
It takes a certain type of person to plunge into the freezing depths of one of the country's coldest lakes in the middle of winter.
Voices of hope
Amid a rising tide of racism and misinformation, Australians are grappling with a simple question that is tearing the country apart.