Comedy queen Amy Poehler’s new memoir spills the beans on her divorce and her dalliance with cocaine. Now, the much-feted comedian is on a new mission — to get rid of the cult of cool and promote humour that’s for everyone, writes Hephzibah Anderson.
Thought rock, paper, scissors was a game of chance? Think again, says William Poundstone.
Leena Tailor talks to Kiwi actor Grant Bowler about the long path to Hollywood success, divorce, and sex scenes with Lindsay Lohan.
Meetings with prize-winning authors form the basis for new satire, writes Stephen Jewell.
A delectable array of Mediterranean-inspired small plates gives diners good reason to head to Grey Lynn.
A new book exploring New Zealand’s long history of bush walking is published this week. In this Exclusive extract, writers Shaun Barnett and Chris MacLean discuss the evolution of that mysterious New Zealand term for hiking: ‘tramping’.
As a finalist for the Walters Prize, artist Kalisolaite ‘Uhila lived rough on the streets of Auckland for three months. It was scary, challenging and uplifting, he tells Linda Herrick.
Nelson-bred Nike director Matt Holmes is doing today what he did as a kid — he’s just doing it at a GLOBAL level, he tells Rebecca Barry Hill.
Anthony Horowitz talks to Linda Herrick about shocking his readers with his new Sherlock, why he wrote with a fountain pen and how his difficult school years drove him to the world of books.
For some, the only real choice of wine is white or red. For red wine aficionados, here are some recent releases worthy of consideration.
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival in New Zealand of Chinese refugee families fleeing the Japanese. Renee Liang talks to one of the original refugees, now an Auckland GP, about the long road to acceptance.
He used to be a fine dining chef in Wellington. Then he had an epiphany and moved to Auckland. Greg Dixon meets Al Brown, the man who learned to relax at dinner and made us do the same.
If there's anything Kim Kardashian is good at, it's knowing how to dress for her body shape.
With her rock star lineage and teen modelling career, Liv Tyler could easily have become a Hollywood wild child. Instead, she chose the school run.
Ian Wedde retraces his childhood steps from Blenheim to Pakistan, Bangladesh, England and Jordan, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.