EXCLUSIVE: Primetime local television is about to feature its first transgender actor playing a transgender character in a long-running storyline.

If you head west, through Titirangi Village and wend your way up Scenic Drive, you'll happen upon The Refreshment Room.

Verity Johnson outlines a few of the many moments when life's easier if you're a man.

She's the biggest-selling female artist of all time. Why, wonders Kim Knight, do we love to loathe her?

A new Southeast Asian eatery is generous in choices and offers good value for money.

Madonna. Fizzing doesn't begin to describe the feeling. How does that relate to my wine picks this week?

Lifelong tea drinker Jane Phare has never really understood the coffee culture. She sets out to find out what it's all about.

No one gets beheaded; some readers are displeased.

Greg Bruce spends a day in the kitchen with Sid Sahrawat and discovers a chef with a penchant for silence - and a problem with carrots.

Modern designers have revisited the 70s and 80s - but who expected the noughties to reappear?

Book extract: Helen Garner's assault on condescension.

Sally Gardner's imagination seems inexorably drawn to the past, but what if the journey was real? She talks to Stephen Jewell about her latest novel and its time-travelling teenagers.

If you feel the urge to adopt an organic vibe, embrace the Anzac spirit or immerse yourself in something unusual from Italy, I have just what you're looking for ...

Bucking the trend for eco-friendly lentils and smoothies, this 30-year-old venue is a meat-lover's dream.

A bit of a Remuera institution, Benson Rd Deli has been operating for more than 40 years, 20 with its present owner, and has a prime position on the roundabout intersecting Upland and Benson Rds.

It's widely touted as being the best start in life for babies. But, asks Michelle Duff, is it the best for their mothers?

Scottish writer Peter May tells Stephen Jewell about returning to his homeland for his latest novel and putting himself into his character's mind.

Comment: Don't complain about your agent on the 'confidential' feedback form.

Weekend Herald editor Miriyana Alexander introduces your Weekend Herald.

Ahead of a new exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Act, David Herkt reveals what it was like to grow up gay in the 1970s, while Sam Brooks explains what it's like today.

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