Category: Lifestyle

Five  tips all new and existing home buyers should know. 1) Do your market research – keep visiting websites like www.realestate.co.nz to see what’s available, target an area you want to buy in and learn all you can about why people would want to live there. Go to open homes and attend auctions to get a feel […]

Starting From Scratch. New Zealand’s Most Inclusive New Home Builder GJ Gardner explains the benefits of building you own home. Building your own home is a dream that many people hold dear. It can often be more affordable than most people realise. If you are in a position to buy an existing home, you are […]

Gay Ski Week from Saturday August 30. Oliver Hall gets the low down from organiser Sally Whitewoods. Sally Whitewoods is the co-organiser of Gay Ski Week along with her wife Mandy. After famously taking over the event in 2011 the two have been working hard to make sure Gay Ski Week is growing every year, […]

Thanks to the support of Smirnoff, Family and Pop Bars, express magazine and website and Hawaiian Airlines eleven gay boys ventured off to participate in Honolulu Pride held on 7 June.  Patric Seng and Richard Todd tell the story. Auckland’s Pop Bar was buzzing on Friday nights in April and May as the winners of […]

Alexia is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. We recently checked out Le Vietnamese Kitchen in Ponsonby and liked what we found. The back courtyard reminds us of the little restaurants by the water in Hoi An and the food is tasty, bright and fresh. […]

Alexia is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. As if the seven-course degustation at Clooney could get any better, they now give you a lovely little gift to take away with you at the end of the night so you can extend the pleasure and […]

Alexia is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. What do you do when you are a gay actor who is also passionate about cooking but can’t commit to a restaurant job because of your acting work? You start Auckland’s littlest restaurant at your kitchen table, […]

All the gossip that had Gay New Zealand chirping. Going in guns blazing may look like a great idea, but this Slick Rick may have burned out his trusted advisers, talk on the street is a Tabatha styled “Take Over” is on the cards and the front man may just be that. Which half of […]