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How to choose wine for a friend

Canvas Wine Writer Yvonne Lorkin gives a few tips for choosing wine when you are buying for a friend. Video / Canvas

How to taste wine

Canvas Wine Writer Yvonne Lorkin explains all the swirling and sniffing. Video / Canvas

Steve Braunias on a footnote in the Peter Ellis case

Science is trial and error and this applies in court too.

Does glassware matter?

Canvas Wine Writer Yvonne Lorkin explains why glassware matters when drinking wine. Video / Canvas

How to uncork safely

Canvas Wine Writer Yvonne Lorkin explains how to safely open a bottle of bubbly. Video / Canvas

The Queen of the scream: Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her roots

New York Times: The star is finally free from the long-running horror franchise.

Do Let's Have Another Drink: 101 Dubonnet-soaked anecdotes

A biography of the Queen Mother in 10 chapters, one for each decade of her life

Greg and Zanna review The Peripheral: It's like Westworld, but dumber

Greg and Zanna review the hot new thriller based around a tired old concept.

Richard E. Grant: being ignored by Nicole Kidman, a weekend with King Charles III

Richard E. Grant delivers "glittering morsels of gossip"

How Massive dreams come true in theatre

Six top Kiwi actors on the role Massive theatre company has played in their career

The love of two wheels: Motorcycle fans tell all

Ken Downie finds out what lies behind the passion for motorcycles.

Lena Dunham's Catherine Called Birdy is missing a comma, and much else

Greg and Zanna review Lena Dunham's cinematic love letter to a beloved novel.

'My rugby conversion to hardcore fan' - I was forced to confront my own long-held perceptions and I was surprised'

'Was this feminist going to be walking into a pit of testosterone-fuelled chauvinism?'

Steve Braunias: 'Hot pools form a kind of river running beneath New Zealand'

Steve Braunias reflects on the importance of the hot pool.

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Kelly Ana Morey talks to Catherine Chidgey about her new rural-set novel.

Design for Living: The town King Charles built

The nostalgic new urbanism of Poundbury, designed with help from King Charles.