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Plans dusted off for prime harbourfront walkway
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With winter bugs popping up everywhere, here's what you need to know.

Music review: The Miltones, The Miltones
This debut album is a modern classic, drawing on some of rock's most memorable acts.

Movie Review: The Mummy (+video)
It looks like Universal Pictures wants some of that lucrative franchise action.

Movie review: Adult Life Skills
Adult Life Skills is infused with as much playfulness as it is with existential insight.

'Caged Beings' make their point
Former Bachelorette Alicia Cowan has joined a protest against factory farming.

Family all shave heads for 10yo cancer sufferer
Family rally around Avie, 10, in cancer battle, shaving hair for Child Cancer Foundation.

Bolivia: The white city shines
The white city shines for Tony Nielsen as he explores Bolivia

Mum, do I have cancer? Am I going to die?
Tauranga mum recalls the moment 9yo daughter diagnosed with cancer spoke those words.

Movie review: Wonder Woman
Better than most from DC's universe but Wonder Woman still fails to rise above its genre.

Skiing, snow, sun and design
Rosie Dawson-Hewes mini series talks to locals about what arts and culture means to them,

Oakura - Where lifestyle meets nature
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Al fresco dining urged for Wharf St
Wharf St's evolution into an ''eat street'' appears to have strong public support.

SoundBites: The Bads, Modern Māori Quartet, Miltones, Glass Vaults
Highly acclaimed act The Bads are back with new music, and news of a new album

The fashion designer keeping women out of black
Bright and bold, Augustine's Kelly Coe is a Tauranga success story.

10 Questions with Tami Neilson
Ahead of her national tour, we find out what makes award winner Tami Neilson tick

Collingwood: Centre of its own universe
Jo Ferris visits a town once touted to be capital but finds an off-the-beaten-path magic

Music review: Dave Dobbyn, A Slice of Heaven - 40 Years of Hits
Dave Dobbyn has been relentless in creating word and music perfect pop songs.

Music review: Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 2
Where this soundtrack has it over others is the way it's integrated into the film

Music review: Coco Montoya, Hard Truth
Hard Truth is an excellent showcase of where the Chicago blues are at right now.

SoundBites: Fly My Pretties, Black Seeds, Theia
Fly My Pretties will release a double album version of their String Theory show

Movie review: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
The sum of all its excellent parts doesn't quite make the film a coherent whole.