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How to choose wine for a friend

Canvas Wine Writer Yvonne Lorkin gives a few tips for choosing wine when you are buying for a friend. Video / Canvas

The Queen of the scream: Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her roots

New York Times: The star is finally free from the long-running horror franchise.

Do Let's Have Another Drink: 101 Dubonnet-soaked anecdotes

A biography of the Queen Mother in 10 chapters, one for each decade of her life

Greg and Zanna review The Peripheral: It's like Westworld, but dumber

Greg and Zanna review the hot new thriller based around a tired old concept.

Drink mezcal and say quesadilla - De Nada reviewed

Not all nachos are created equal.

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Poetry, fiction and non-fiction reads for the weekend.

The Kardashians: Our critics get their first taste of the reality TV juggernaut

It's been going for decades but our reviewers haven't been keeping up.

Happy Endings: Keri by Svakom - for alone time but partner-play too

Keri - the toy that doesn't make your hand feel 'fizzy'

'My rugby conversion to hardcore fan' - I was forced to confront my own long-held perceptions and I was surprised'

'Was this feminist going to be walking into a pit of testosterone-fuelled chauvinism?'

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Kelly Ana Morey talks to Catherine Chidgey about her new rural-set novel.

Design for Living: The town King Charles built

The nostalgic new urbanism of Poundbury, designed with help from King Charles.

Steve Braunias: 'Hot pools form a kind of river running beneath New Zealand'

Steve Braunias reflects on the importance of the hot pool.

From 'freaking brilliant' to a 'truckload of hate' - outcry over Jihad Rehab

How Meg Smaker's Jihad Rehab went from Sundance debut of her dreams to nightmare

Bar food hits new heights: The Auckland rooftop bar you should check out this weekend

Masala fries with your Waitākere sunset?

'Soft, gentle, modern intro to self-pleasure' - our verdict on Share Satisfaction's Coco

From "light flutter" to strong, Share Satisfaction's Coco has the goods

Reboot is an old show in a new show's clothing

Greg and Zanna review Reboot, a show that's not as original as it wants us to think.