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The players
It's called Fresh Produce but it has nothing to do with farmers' markets or the current vogue for home-grown vegetables.

<i>Review:</i> Splore festival
Hundreds of festival-goers slapped on sunscreen and absorbed three days of music and art by the sea at the biannual Splore festival at the weekend.

PM's chip off the old block leaves mark on gift to China
In Rotorua with Chinese Ambassador Zhang Limin, the Prime Minister took a mallet and chisel to what will be a 10m kauri waharoa, or gateway.

Sisterhood of the travelling sketchbook
Distance has been no barrier to the collaboration of artists Melinda Young and Lauren Simeoni.

<i>Preview:</i> Nation at Rialto Newmarket
Terry Pratchett's alternate world as seen in the latest National Theatre film offering has a Kiwi tang.

A winning Fourmyula
The pioneering band who gave us Nature - regarded as the best Kiwi song ever.

<i>Rebecca Barry:</i> Kookaburra only one laughing
Didn't Sinclair plagiarise a kookaburra when she came up with the original tune plagiarised by Men At Work?

<i>Review:</i> The Lover at Basement Theatre
Leaving for work, a buttoned-up English banker asks his housewife: "Is your lover coming today?"