A weekly lifestyle and feature supplement included inside the Sunday Star-Times, with smart lifestyle content on home, food, wine, style, beauty, design, and other weekend-oriented topics.
A few years before Covid, Michael Khuwattanasenee was 20 days into trying veganism when a bowl of noodles on Dominion Rd undid it all. Though he’d asked for a vegan meal, he could taste the oyster sauce in his food. He didn’t blame the...
TARDY GARBAGE People who put their trash out after the rubbish truck has already been and then leave it on the footpath to rot for another week. No you haven’t, and yes, I checked my spam! A BOOK CLUB BOOK THAT’S PUNISHING TO READ Sometimes...
JACQUELINE FAHEY is a major exhibition of works by the fiercely astute artist dating from the 50s to now, at Gow Langsford, Onehunga to June 20. POSITIVE AFFECT TREATMENT A promising new therapy for depression focuses on finding paths to...
We ask five randomly generated questions from Sunday’s list of 101 ultimate conversation starters. A.What are your thoughts on the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement? Financial independence is the new Kiwi dream, a...
Four months filming around the beautiful Bay of Islands. Four months filming in snow-tipped Queenstown. Dinners with megastar Jason Momoa. It sounds like a glamorous gig, but when actor Roimata Fox gets home to Auckland she celebrates in the...
There are some unexpectedly sumptuous cashmere sweaters at Swedish fast fashion store Cos. One particular knit stands out: it’s thick and soft , wi th slightly sculptural sleeves, an oversized shape and it neither looks nor feels like...
After decades in business, Chris Maclean stepped into the chief exec role at the company his sister founded – Kindo, the online school payment and fundraising platform familiar to nearly half of all parents of school-age children in the...
Do you have pasta lying around always, like I do? Does the thought of a pasta dinner fill you with joy? Are the dried noodles often the start of a quick and delicious meal? If you answered yes to any of the above, this column is for you. I’m a big...
After decades in business, Chris Maclean stepped into the chief exec role at the company his sister founded – Kindo, the online school payment and fundraising platform familiar to nearly half of all parents of school-age children in the...