Category: Lifestyle

Apr 02
Preview: Peter Wells Dear Oliver

Tim Owen attends the book launch for Dear Oliver, the latest from New Zealand’s most beloved veteran author, Peter Wells held at the Woman’s Bookshop Ponsonby on 21 March. He previews Dear Oliver. This is a personal story intimately interwoven with the history of colonial New Zealand and the place of the Pakeha in a […]

Apr 02
Ask Agony Uncle Eli

Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems. Q.  My partner of 6 years was born biologically male but has recently come out as Transgender, thus we have been known as a ‘heterosexual’ couple, and now we are lesbian. I love her for who she is, but feminist friends of ours have suddenly […]

Apr 01
The Vanishing Act

The Vanishing Act by Jen Shieff The author Jen Shieff, is gay and lives in Turangi with her partner. She is a former English teacher, AUT lecturer, Govt analyst and owner of a fly-fishing lodge. Jen is now a full-time crime writer. In her second book The Vanishing Act she writes a spicy tale of intrigue […]

Mar 12
Ask Agony Uncle Eli

Rainbow Counsellor Elijah Luke Michel is here to help with your problems. Q. I had my first threesome last weekend after my boyfriend suggested we pick up a girl at the bar. I’m 23 and straight, and have never thought of women in a sexual way before so I was surprised that I enjoyed it so much! […]

Mar 07
Sade Hopkins @ wagamama

Sade Hopkins moved to the UK in 2001 and found herself broke, sleeping at a mate’s house and eating all of their food. A trial shift at a UK wagamama, suggested by a friend who was working there, would become the beginning of her 17 years (and counting) with the company. It just so happened […]

Mar 06
Foodie Bites

Alexia Santamaria is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz, the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. Oyster Festival  If you are an oyster fan, you’ll want to get your backside down to Princes Wharf this month. The Culpeper, Euro, Fish and Coley & Punch all have fantastic oyster-related goodness on for the Princes Wharf […]

Mar 05
Nic Watt @ Masu

Nic Watt’s name is synonymous with great Auckland food, despite him being more famous internationally than he was locally just five years ago. Watt was born in Australia, but grew up in New Zealand and started his culinary dream in a busy Auckland restaurant when he was just a cocky 18 year old. Over two […]

Mar 05
The Range Rover Velar is The New King!

In 1970 Range Rover had only one model – who would have thought this would be the birth of the SUV? Now this type of vehicle is leading the sales charts. So what has captured people’s desire to be part of this lifestyle? The continuously morphing and expanding requirements for the SUV from those original […]