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

She was a member of New Zealand's first all-girl rock band, and now runs an incredible junk shop in a Ruakaka car wrecker's yard. Steve Braunias meets Yvonne Judge.

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 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: 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 to previous generations? Greg Bruce speaks to three generations of two families to find out.

I came to the Black Power as an act of community service.

These glorious drops got me through a Netflix binge of the pants-wettingly funny Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. They're great sips for sore ribs.

EXCLUSIVE: Primetime local television is about to feature its first transgender actor playing a transgender character in a long-running storyline.

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

Verity Johnson outlines a few of the many moments when life's easier if you're a man.

She's the biggest-selling female artist of all time. Why, wonders Kim Knight, do we love to loathe her?

A new Southeast Asian eatery is generous in choices and offers good value for money.

Madonna. Fizzing doesn't begin to describe the feeling. How does that relate to my wine picks this week?

The internet has different rules for likeability than in real life, and when I say "different" I mean regressive.

If Gen Z really want to embrace the whole Madonna / whore paradox, they could do worse than emulate our cover star this week, Madonna.

No one gets beheaded; some readers are displeased.

Greg Bruce spends a day in the kitchen with Sid Sahrawat and discovers a chef with a penchant for silence - and a problem with carrots.

Modern designers have revisited the 70s and 80s - but who expected the noughties to reappear?

Book extract: Helen Garner's assault on condescension.

Sally Gardner's imagination seems inexorably drawn to the past, but what if the journey was real? She talks to Stephen Jewell about her latest novel and its time-travelling teenagers.

VERITY JOHNSON: There are so many famous teenagers now that the rule seems to be that in order to be successful, you have to have only recently graduated to solid foods.