Audience members as well as people working on shows say in some seats you can’t see parts of the stage, while in others you can peer behind the scenes. And then there are the sore backs, necks and ...

Savings: I think I usually save about $500 per week, but it’s not for any particular purpose, just what’s left over after the everything else. The money finds a way of disappearing on home ...

(Warning: contains spoilers for the finale of The Traitors UK).

Cheap duty-free sales of tobacco products not only deprive the public purse of millions of dollars, they undermine efforts to become a smoke-free nation.

My husband and I have yet to tire of travelling to Japan. It’s the perfect meeting point for our interests and with each visit I’m reminded of how Japan’s balance of complexity with simplicity, and ...

Philip Gendall is an honorary senior research fellow in marketing at University of Otago.

The oldest written mention of the song is from June 16, 1934, when it appeared in papers around the country on the radio schedule for the day. That evening, a version of the waiata sung by the ...

They religiously repeat the refrain of Edward Norton at the end of Fight Club, but if he were running an underground mahjong operation instead of a boxing ring: “You met me at a very Chinese time in ...

Even in the dead of winter, New Zealanders refuse to wear trousers to hike – and there’s practical and historical reasons as to why.

As the sky chucked it down on Christchurch's Apollo Projects Stadium, Ed Sheeran's retractable bridge failed to retract and he told the crowd it was the first time he'd seen a puddle in his set list.

Nina Brown was the editor of Critic Te Ārohi, Otago's student magazine, in 2024 and 2025.

The former PM retired three years ago. The very mention of her name still has the power to send grown men spiralling, ...