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Tough guys on addiction: 'Pride, ego, swagger can kill you'

Three Kiwi blokes tell how a macho New Zealand culture led to addiction.

Girl from the North Country star Lisa McCune reveals the tracks to her heart

The star on her new Bob Dylan musical, coming to NZ and having her mind blown by Queen.

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Battles, gods, goddesses, and Bede Scott.

Steve Braunias: Tom Cruise cast as a maverick poet

Mission: Pentameter - a new movie starring Tom Cruise as the grotesque weakling.

Under the Banner of Heaven: Mormons, murder and madness

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie watch Under The Banner of Heaven.

What life is like if your name is James Bond

A new documentary looks into the lives of James Bonds from around the world.

'I'm your worst nightmare': The rise of the Yellow Peril

From Fu Manchu to "misfortune cookies" - the new show subverting Asian stereotypes.

Simon Wilson: The new London Tube map: On track or off the rails?

Bright ideas that make cities better: Problems for the world leader in transit map design.

Diana Wichtel on being part of the stream of history

Queen's reign jubilee and TV's Kid Sister both point to the value of tradition.

Public toilets with flair - how Tokyo designers gave them appeal

Bright ideas that make cities better: The highly designed toilets of Tokyo.

Pride and Pudding: Retro trifle recipe for mid-winter Christmas

For a mid-winter Christmas dessert, go retro with this glorious trifle.

'Drug use, neglect and abuse': Survivors of infamous NZ sex cult speak out

It took 40 years to say the words "I've been sexually abused".

Milenta reviewed: Where's there's smoke, there's excellent okra

Even a mucilaginous centre tastes good when it's wood-fired.

Dancing in the dark: Matariki's rising stars

A fallen star and a taniwha form an unlikely friendship in the Matariki Glow Show.

Tara Moss: 'I wasn't really sure if I was disabled enough'

Author Tara Moss says she's learning from the disabled community

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Delicious new page-turners, including from the prodigiously talented Laurence Fearnley.