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.

Turns out, not everyone's a foodie. Kim Knight meets the people who couldn't care less about your salted caramel kale.

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.

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.

She's the biggest-selling female artist of all time. Why, wonders Kim Knight, do we love to loathe her?

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?