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Driving on the safeside
It used to be, years ago, that safety didn’t matter much when it came to cars. These days it’s one of the first things we consider when buying. Alan Perrott offers a starters’ guide to buying a safe car.
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Brunch: Misters, Auckland CBD
New inner-city cafe comes with an alluring concept, but needs to sort of teething problems.
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Driving me crazy
Comedian and top-class driver Urzila Carlson explains why it’s easier to drive in New Zealand than South Africa and why she’s not a good passenger.
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Books: Small steps towards fascism
The conversation turns to how to end the world when David Larsen talks to writer Jo Walton.
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Gallery: Portraits From A Doctor's Surgery
For nearly two years Northland doctor Chris Reid photographed his patients. Greg Dixon talks to him on the eve of an Auckland exhibition of the result.
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Amy Poehler spills the beans in new memoir
Comedy queen Amy Poehler’s new memoir spills the beans on her divorce and her dalliance with cocaine. Now, the much-feted comedian is on a new mission — to get rid of the cult of cool and promote humour that’s for everyone, writes Hephzibah Anderson.
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Win at rock, paper, scissors
Thought rock, paper, scissors was a game of chance? Think again, says William Poundstone.
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Bowler: To live and die in LA
Leena Tailor talks to Kiwi actor Grant Bowler about the long path to Hollywood success, divorce, and sex scenes with Lindsay Lohan.
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Books: Pulling the plug
Meetings with prize-winning authors form the basis for new satire, writes Stephen Jewell.
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Review: Dilecta, Grey Lynn
A delectable array of Mediterranean-inspired small plates gives diners good reason to head to Grey Lynn.
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Book extract: A walk on the wild side
A new book exploring New Zealand’s long history of bush walking is published this week. In this Exclusive extract, writers Shaun Barnett and Chris MacLean discuss the evolution of that mysterious New Zealand term for hiking: ‘tramping’.
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The invisible man
As a finalist for the Walters Prize, artist Kalisolaite ‘Uhila lived rough on the streets of Auckland for three months. It was scary, challenging and uplifting, he tells Linda Herrick.
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Matt Holmes: Sole man
Nelson-bred Nike director Matt Holmes is doing today what he did as a kid — he’s just doing it at a GLOBAL level, he tells Rebecca Barry Hill.
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Books: Elementary, my dear
Anthony Horowitz talks to Linda Herrick about shocking his readers with his new Sherlock, why he wrote with a fountain pen and how his difficult school years drove him to the world of books.
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Wine: New-release red wines
For some, the only real choice of wine is white or red. For red wine aficionados, here are some recent releases worthy of consideration.