Food influenced by the culture of America's sunshine state is the attraction of a new eatery.

Dumped on Facebook by a friend? Me too, writes Laura Marcus, and it stings. Here she looks at online friendships and their effect on your self-esteem.

Jane Phare meets the fashionable foodies changing the way we eat.

La Fourchette is well worth a visit.

Patricia Cornwell's best-selling crime novels are based on obsessive detail and gory research. But the author's own back story is one of the most frightening of all.

Canvas editor Michele Crawshaw shares highlights from tomorrow's Canvas magazine.

At 58, Dawn French is busier than ever. She talks to Lydia Jenkin about love the second time around, her body confidence, and the secrets she's spilling in her new one-woman show.

Customs St eatery pulls surprises out of its hat.

The food was, unfortunately, not as good as the view.

Alex Casey visits the alternate universe of soap opera Days of Our Lives, as it celebrates 50 years on television screens.

Photographer Jane Ussher has captured some of New Zealand's most beautiful church architecture in her new book, Worship. Here are some of those images.

If your last memory of rosé was bunging a candle in an empty bottle of sweet, fizzy Mateus and thinking it really added to the atmosphere of your student flat, then it's high time you stepped up to something more sophisticated. Here's how to do it ...

Feast your eyes on the marina vista while choosing from a traditional menu that offers something for everyone.

Ever wondered what it's really like to be a pastor or a psychic? Or what a bikini waxer really thinks about their job? Here, nine Kiwis with very different careers reveal - anonymously - the secrets of their working day.

Little Bread and Butter's food is top-notch.

Bill Bryson famously came from Iowa ("Somebody had to"). So do the farming dynasty of Jane Smiley's now-completed trilogy.

Canvas editor Michele Crawshaw shares highlights from tomorrow's Canvas magazine.

This season's shorts offerings are a lesson in versatility.