Are millennials really that different to previous generations? Greg Bruce speaks to three generations of two families to find out.

Mick's is about as neighbourly as a restaurant can get.

Every now and then fashion magazines like to trot out the latest colour of the season to wear.

I came to the Black Power as an act of community service.

These glorious drops got me through a Netflix binge of the pants-wettingly funny Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. They're great sips for sore ribs.

EXCLUSIVE: Primetime local television is about to feature its first transgender actor playing a transgender character in a long-running storyline.

If you head west, through Titirangi Village and wend your way up Scenic Drive, you'll happen upon The Refreshment Room.

Verity Johnson outlines a few of the many moments when life's easier if you're a man.

A new Southeast Asian eatery is generous in choices and offers good value for money.

Madonna. Fizzing doesn't begin to describe the feeling. How does that relate to my wine picks this week?

Lifelong tea drinker Jane Phare has never really understood the coffee culture. She sets out to find out what it's all about.

The internet has different rules for likeability than in real life, and when I say "different" I mean regressive.

If Gen Z really want to embrace the whole Madonna / whore paradox, they could do worse than emulate our cover star this week, Madonna.

No one gets beheaded; some readers are displeased.

Greg Bruce spends a day in the kitchen with Sid Sahrawat and discovers a chef with a penchant for silence - and a problem with carrots.

Book extract: Helen Garner's assault on condescension.

Sally Gardner's imagination seems inexorably drawn to the past, but what if the journey was real? She talks to Stephen Jewell about her latest novel and its time-travelling teenagers.

VERITY JOHNSON: There are so many famous teenagers now that the rule seems to be that in order to be successful, you have to have only recently graduated to solid foods.

Weekend Herald editor Miriyana Alexander introduces your Weekend Herald.

If you feel the urge to adopt an organic vibe, embrace the Anzac spirit or immerse yourself in something unusual from Italy, I have just what you're looking for ...

Bucking the trend for eco-friendly lentils and smoothies, this 30-year-old venue is a meat-lover's dream.

A bit of a Remuera institution, Benson Rd Deli has been operating for more than 40 years, 20 with its present owner, and has a prime position on the roundabout intersecting Upland and Benson Rds.

It's widely touted as being the best start in life for babies. But, asks Michelle Duff, is it the best for their mothers?

Scottish writer Peter May tells Stephen Jewell about returning to his homeland for his latest novel and putting himself into his character's mind.