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Fashion: Opposites attract
Play around with fashion's favourite fall-back: hard versus soft.

Restaurant review: Miann
A restaurant in Fort St is bound to attract chocolate lovers and those who appreciate food art.

Is this Auckland's most influential woman?
How did an expat South African PR dynamo become one of Auckland's most influential women? Greg Bruce meets the force that is Deborah Pead.

Are you an anti-foodie?
Turns out, not everyone's a foodie. Kim Knight meets the people who couldn't care less about your salted caramel kale.

Restaurant review: Scarecrow
A Euro-influenced restaurant offers deli shopping and floral fare to go while you wait.

Brunch review: Eden Noodles
SET UP & SITE Ask any Auckland foodie - the city's best noodles and dumplings are to be had at this tiny eatery at the city end of

Our new dark and twisted literary heroines
Our new literary heroines are dark, twisted - and a little closer to home. Kim Knight talks domestic noir with Paula Hawkins, ahead of the British author's Auckland visit.

Verity Johnson: Why men fake the big O too
VERITY JOHNSON: The other day I made a joke about how men don't know what it's like to fake an orgasm.

Are millennials really that different?
Are millennials really that different to previous generations? Greg Bruce speaks to three generations of two families to find out.

Fashion: Toning up
Every now and then fashion magazines like to trot out the latest colour of the season to wear.

Wine: Three bottles to watch TV with
These glorious drops got me through a Netflix binge of the pants-wettingly funny Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. They're great sips for sore ribs.

Did local telly just grow up?
EXCLUSIVE: Primetime local television is about to feature its first transgender actor playing a transgender character in a long-running storyline.

Brunch: The Refreshment Room, Titirangi
If you head west, through Titirangi Village and wend your way up Scenic Drive, you'll happen upon The Refreshment Room.