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Fashion: Blurred lines

This season’s power clash throws all the rules out the window.

Review: Fleur's Place, Otago

The Otago restaurant and its host are world famous — the seafood for its freshness and the host for her good humour.

Dear D&P: I got a toenail infection from my friend's nailbar

My friend has a nailbar in her house, and I got a really bad toenail infection after going there but she says it has nothing to do with her.

The truth about 'Hollywood Moms'

Were the pushy parents of Brooke Shields, Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and other Hollywood stars really as bad as all that, asks Geoffrey Macnab.

Brunch: The Garden Shed, Mt Eden

The look is the big drawcard for The Garden Shed. As the name suggests there's a botanical, rustic theme throughout the establishment.

Is our obsession with the colour black fading?

We love our All Blacks, but the new flag debate shows our obsession with the darkest hue may be fading, observes Lindsey Dawson.

Julianne Moore: queen of realism

She may have just won the best actress Oscar for her new film, Still Alice, about a professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, but Julianne Moore is as down-to-earth as ever.

Caught up in the cult of busy?

We work shorter days than ever, spend less time on household chores and more time on social media —so why are we are all so busy and why do we brag about it? Rebecca Barry Hill looks at the busy-ness trap and how we can escape from it.

Dear D&P: My husband won't let me talk to his best friend's wife

My husband and his best friend had a punch-up and are not speaking, but his friend’s wife and I are really good friends. Now my husband does not want me to talk to her.

Brunch: The White Rabbit, Auckland CBD

Where the Gruffalo roam

Julia Donaldson’s most famous book, The Gruffalo, has won the hearts of children around the world. During a fleeting visit to Auckland and Wellington, Britain’s best-selling author talks to David Larsen.

Books: When life is on repeat

Roddy Doyle’s new novel, aimed at people with poor literacy, is inspired by a death in his own family, the Booker winner tells Arifa Akbar.

Books: Riddle me this

Books: Life after death

To begin a novel with a character who is dead from the very first page is a risk.

Japan: Spirited away in Tokyo

Thirty years after he fell in love with Japan, author Edmund de Waal returns to take his family on an intense tour of its urban and rural charms.

James Griffin: Convention Centre - Plan B

Guess you've heard the bad news by now that our friends holding the reins of power (yeah, right) won't be forking out over the table with the actual cash payout they reckoned they'd stump up with when we took them out for drinkies before the election.