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What to watch, eat and do: Your lockdown weekend guide

Looking for things to keep you going during lockdown this weekend? Look no further.

Billy Idol: pop-punk icon's rebel yell for New Zealand, a new EP and a duet with Miley Cyrus

Garth Cartwright talks with the "prettiest punk", Billy Idol

Faeries, hell, robots, time travel: Jack Remiel Cottrell's very short stories have it all

Only a handful of the stories stretch out longer than a page (and, even then, barely).

A picture book for adults: Where lobsters go, humankind may follow

A picture book for adults

Love and death at altitude: The tragedy behind the awe-inspiring doco The Alpinist

Brette Harrington on free climbing and her late partner, climbing star Marc-André Leclerc

Sonya Wilson: 'I'm a sucker for a good opening line'

Sonya Wilson on her books, aimed at all ages

Putting a Māori lens over a classic collection of myths

Paul Little looks at a new version of a well-known Māori myth collection

The disaster of Woodstock 99, now on film

Married reviewers Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie watch Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage.

Greg Bruce: How dancing TikToks and the voice of Natalie Merchant are getting me through lockdown

Is an obsession with music and dance a good way to deal with lockdown stress?

Taonga: Artist Sarah Smuts-Kennedy's baptism by fire

"There's nothing like fire to initiate you into listening to the energies of the land."

Joan Mackenzie: 'I often like a bit of history with my fiction'

On fiction with a touch of history and an astonishing read.

Toothbrush, knickers, weed: Auckland film-maker Rachel Ross on "Green"

From post-lockdown playdates to death metal in Iran, Show Me Shorts is back on screen.

Michael Gandolfini on the riddle of Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark

New York Times: James Gandolfini's son takes on his father's iconic role in new film.

Design for living: "The trick is to be fearless"

Bright ideas that make cities better: Florentijn Hofman's Selfie Panda in Sichuan.

What to watch, eat and do: Your lockdown weekend guide

Looking for things to keep you going during lockdown this weekend? Look no further.

Diana Wichtel: John Key, Paul Henry reckons a 'blast of nostalgia about a blokey, heroic past'

John Key reckons everywhere - as if it was the Queen's Christmas message

Tattoos and taboos in Chinese TV comedy-drama

Actor and writer Perlina Lau investigates history and taboos in new Chinese TV show

Reading is a class act for kids young and old

The joy of reading to students and the politics of question time