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I built a dating app to cure my heartbreak
Daily Telegraph: Dating app founder Justin McLeod is an unlikely tech guru.

Restaurant review: The General
Faux marble with your tuna tartare and plinky piano ambience?

Are some people born brave? Where confidence really comes from
Are some people born brave or does it come with age and experience?

The Confession Box: Gordon Brown
103-year-old Gordon Brown tries to avoid confessing to pride, greed and envy.

Steve Braunias: when the family home is up for sale
Steve Braunias finds his family home listed in the real estate section.

Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black's remarkable story
Sharon Stephenson talks with Dustin Lance Black about his new book Mama's Boy.

Restaurant review: Daisy Chang, Howick
An eastern roadtrip ends in an icecream - and slider - like no other.

The real price of women's work
What price is paid by the women who look after 'liberated' women's children and houses?

Dying is easy, comedy is hard: Peter Calder tries stand-up in his 60s
What will be the score when former restaurant critic Peter Calder tries stand-up comedy?

The endless merry-go-round of kids' activities
Childhood has changed, learns Ruth Larsen, for better and for worse.

Simon Wilson: Does money buy you architectural happiness?
Simon Wilson on the Institute of Architects' Awards - what's good and what's not.

Herne Bay gets a new restaurant in Izzy
"It was like the lamb had been on an excellent - and slightly exotic - holiday."

Meet the poster girl for plus-size pop stars
Times: How did a trained flautist who used to be homeless become a Glastonbury star?

Deborah Hill Cone: Why I love being invisible
Not being seen by others is liberating in ways Deborah Hill Cone never imagined.

Food critic's review of Auckland's best restaurant
Food critic Kim Knight found "elemental goodness at a restaurant like no other".

India meets France at Epicer
A little floret of broccoli here, a roasted carrot there and quite a lot of marigolds.

The woman behind New Zealand's biggest art project
Artist Sara Hughes on her latest creation, New Zealand's largest-ever public art works.

Sopranos star Steve Van Zandt on being the boss and touring NZ
Steve Van Zandt is back as the boss of his own rock 'n' roll band The Disciples of Soul.

Locked in a tiny cell for 23 hours a day for 43 years... for a crime he didn't commit
Albert Woodfox served 43 years in solitary confinement.

Why is it so hard to make friends after 40?
A lack of friends is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Ashleigh Young on Donald Trump's dreams
Other people's dreams are often the most interesting thing about them.

Review: Bluff's best at Oyster & Chop
There is no middle ground with an oyster - but there is a hierarchy.

How to not tell a story
Australian writer Maria Tumarkin tells why she turned away from storytelling

Sensitive souls: Are Gen Z really a bunch of snowflakes?
They feel unsafe if you disagree with them, call police if they find a mouse in the house.

New Zealand's Catholic Bishop confesses his sins
Patrick Dunn confesses to pride, sloth and greed.

Are these Auckland's best mussels?
Informal luxury at a restaurant that knows where its bread is buttered.

Steve Braunias and a case of mistaken identity
Steve Braunias relishes a case of mistaken identity.