Up-and-coming Australian designer Dion Lee is has collaborated with Cue to create an impressive high-low fashion collection.

The owners of Auckland's Palace Hotel could be prosecuted after the release of a damning report identifying severe damage to the heritage building before it was knocked down.

Punters dressed in their finest let out squeals of joy and groans of frustration at the annual Auckland Cup Day at Ellerslie yesterday.

A Westmere couple decided to expand on a theme rather than change their bungalow's character.

These cute T-shirts are a collaboration between fashion label Huffer and local charity Paw Justice.

They may have swept us away with Handel and Purcell last week, but Lautten Compagney's Tuesday cocktail of Merula and Glass was altogether less enticing.

Teatro de Los Andes, based in Bolivia, offered to stage their "earthquake play" here instead of La Odisea, but were turned down for logistical reasons.

At first, this late-night one-man show from Australia looks like just a vehicle for a Mr Bean impersonator in younger, more alternative clothing.

Cheese, yoghurt, icecream ... nature's white gold is a star in the kitchen.

The stage is dark with just the faint gleam of drum kit, sita, cello, violin and four seated musicians.

When the Basement theatre is packed out at 10pm on a Monday night for a local production based on a 19th century novella by Henry James, I think it is safe to say the Auckland Fringe Festival and the Auckland Arts Festival are going off.

Boldly and cleverly, this Flaxworks solo show is built upon one solitary, striking symbol of celebrity.

Paul Simei-Barton reviews Silk, on at the Basement Theatre as past of the Auckland Fringe Festival

Anil Sharma and Rachel Jones arrived in Freemans Bay eight years ago from Britain, via Palmerston North. Rachel tells Catherine Smith what the family loves about the area.

Our four-legged beasts can now share the love in Auckland parks.

Ancient forests and waterfalls are all part of a short trek through the Waitakeres, writes Danielle Wright.

Twenty Three Cafe, from the same people who introduced The Corner Store next door, found at 23 Mt Eden Rd is a nice, modern place with a hint of psychedelic thrown in.

If I could be a fly on the wall during any aspect of the production of Masterchef New Zealand, it wouldn't be the North Shore mansion they live, cook and bitch in.