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Lion Heart: Amber-Rose Gailer

What does it take to save a baby's life? Suzanne McFadden traces the incredible story of a baby's will to live.

James Griffin: Commonwealth's odd sports

The best thing about the Commonwealth Games is that they are exactly like the Olympics except we win heaps more medals.

Hope at heart of display

Graphic images show the extremes of life worldwide. Paul Lewis reviews the World Press Photo exhibition.

Wine: American beauties

It’s a pity there are so few American wines available here as many of them are drop-dead gorgeous. True, many are extraordinarily expensive but those that find their way here are usually of astonishing quality and value for money.

Review: Touquet, Auckland CBD

The council's new cobblestones will look cool when they're finished, but at the moment O'Connell St is a bit of a mess.

The Dark Horse: Cliff's edge

Cliff Curtis’ turn as a bipolar chess champ may be his greatest role yet. He talks to Russell Baillie about piling on weight, confronting his past, and being a family man.

Fashion: Colour bomb

New season, new colours. Take a foolhardy approach to this season’s bright fun things.

The many faces of Cliff Curtis

Cliff Curtis has been on our screens for more than 20 years, ranging from pivotal roles in New Zealand films like Once Were Warriors and Whale Rider to becoming a chameleonic character actor in Hollywood. Here's a visual look back at his career so far.

Brunch: Ravenhill, Birkenhead Point

We’d peered behind the papered-up windows, anxiously wondering what the new owners were changing on this popular corner spot, so the first chance we could we were queuing at the door.

Brunch: The Botanist, Auckland CBD

The Botanist does more than brunch, or even lunch or dinner.

James Steen: Can toast be drunk?

In his New book, The Kitchen Magpie, James Steen presents a veritable host of household hints. Here are some of our favourite.

Martine Bailey: Taste of murder

Martine Bailey puts a dark twist on food in her ‘culinary gothic’ novel that features real, historic family recipes, writes Stephen Jewell.

Book review: Upstairs at the Party

Reconsidering moments that changed everything is an old chestnut in fiction, but Linda Grant manages it with verve in this excellent novel.

Book review: No Book But The World

Fred Robbins is an enigma, even to the person closest to him in the world, his sister Ava.

James Griffin: Franco and Rogen spark war?

It was reported recently that North Korea, the gift that keeps on giving, had declared war on Seth Rogen and James Franco.

Flawless at 50

Elle Macpherson says she was an ‘insecure dork’ at the height of her model stardom. Now, at 50, she reckons she looks better than ever — but don’t ask her about skinny models, writes Matthew Stadlen.

Wine: Best bottles of Thorn Clarke

Review: Mikano Restaurant & Bar, Mechanics Bay

Red sails in the Auckland sunset are all very well, and I’ve enjoyed them as an eating backdrop many times, but for me seeing a working port in action beats yachts every time.