A weekend supplement of The Waikato Times featuring local events, lifestyle stories, dining, entertainment, and leisure activities across the Waikato region.
Foreign words with no English equivalents Icelandic, ‘window weather’ or weather that looks nice from the window, but is actually cold or windy. Portuguese, when you miss a person, a time or a place so much it hurts. German, roughly means...
// All’s fair Tom McGrath sent in this image of a tug-of-war competition at Whanganui Collegiate School in 1932. “The competition was between teams of boys from Marris and Selwyn – which were school houses at the time. My father Hugh...
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Clocking off after a big week calls for a cold one, but more and more we’re finding the body is begging for balance over a hangover. So when the call went up for drinks in the office recently, we reached for Picky’s new Hydrate. This sparkling...
Ōtautahi is gearing up for six days of big ideas, bold voices and plenty of star power when WORD Christchurch returns from September 1. The 100-plus writers, thinkers and performers include Kiwi music royalty Dave Dobbyn and this week’s Your...
Look, we realise we’re a few months late to the Atmosphere party, but after rescuing Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel from the black hole that is our bedside table, we can confirm: it was worth the wait. Set in 1980s Texas, the novel follows Nasa...