A puffer jacket is an investment piece.

A new cafe warrants benefit of doubt when faced with a busy morning.

There might be buckets of 'fake' news out there, but these wine reviews are real.

Is it a good idea to buy online for your home's interior design?

Kim Knight reports from the dirt-cheap frontline of home fashion.

Ruth Spencer on the real meaning of home improvement.

Settle down at St Heliers' Porch Bar.

OPINION: We were Melrose Place. We were Friends. We were literally having sex in the city.

Want salubrious sipping for under $20? Step right over here...

Brunch proves to not be the focus of a Remuera corner location.

Streetwear gets the grown-up treatment as men fix up and look sharp.

Nicky Hager lives in the house he built and has written six books while living there.

Ruth Spencer on reading that matters.

OPINION: I've been perfecting the art of postponing my pleasure as long as I can remember.

Here are three new foundations that we are loving right now.

Location perfect whether you are a boating enthusiast or just out for a leisurely stroll.

Discover what's good about Hyderabad-style food.

Dominic Corry talks to Scottish writer Armando Iannucci about the art of parody.

Tomorrow we gain an hour. I think that's right. Yes, we fall back into winter.

Co-housing is one of the new forms of residential expression that could be seen in Auckland under the Unitary Plan's blueprint for the city's built future.

Illuminators are great in theory, tricky in practice.

Embrace cooling temperatures with colourful and irreverent knitwear.

These wines will warm your cockles and shiver your timbers...

A cafe's after-hours transformation gets the thumbs up, even the insects.

It may be on the wrong end of the street, but this cafe is sustainable.

Can't stand the rain? Neither can Ruth Spencer.

Paul Little gets to the root of the problem of being follicly challenged.

Opinion: Lately, I find myself wondering what shape my death might take.

A few words with comedian and self-proclaimed 'interested idiot' Robin Ince.

It looks like a giant piece of Lego - but it could be a vital building block in the urban intensification which is so clearly in Auckland's development future.