The look of luxe gets a modern and nonchalant update this season.

A lewd display of street harassment doesn't ruin our meals - the food does that all on its own.

Fifty years after she became America's most famous feminist, Gloria Steinem tells Gaby Wood why the fight is far from over.

When you have children, time off is a whole different game, discovers Kim Knight.

Local writer Ben Sanders tells Greg Fleming about transposing his previously Auckland-based crimes Stateside and finding his storylines while daydreaming.

The question: "What do you do in your free time?" Why do people hate this? Well, it's because most people don't do anything in their free time, writes Verity Johnson.

Play around with fashion's favourite fall-back: hard versus soft.

A restaurant in Fort St is bound to attract chocolate lovers and those who appreciate food art.

How did an expat South African PR dynamo become one of Auckland's most influential women? Greg Bruce meets the force that is Deborah Pead.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest batch of crime fiction

A Euro-influenced restaurant offers deli shopping and floral fare to go while you wait.

She was a member of New Zealand's first all-girl rock band, and now runs an incredible junk shop in a Ruakaka car wrecker's yard. Steve Braunias meets Yvonne Judge.

SET UP & SITE Ask any Auckland foodie - the city's best noodles and dumplings are to be had at this tiny eatery at the city end of

Our new literary heroines are dark, twisted - and a little closer to home. Kim Knight talks domestic noir with Paula Hawkins, ahead of the British author's Auckland visit.

VERITY JOHNSON: The other day I made a joke about how men don't know what it's like to fake an orgasm.