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What to watch this weekend

Calum Henderson's quarantine TV picks to keep you entertained this weekend.

Preservation society: The quiet calm of pickles, chutney and jam

When life hands you a pickle, make gherkins - a story of preserves and self-preservation.

Movie review: A marriage divided by Love Story

Will our married, movie reviewing couple fall for the romantic classic Love Story?

How to love your family in a lockdown

Diary of a lockdown, up close and uncomfortable, by Greg Bruce.

The Bachelorette: Happily ever after, maybe

Steve Braunias reviewed every episode of The Bachelorette. This is his final analysis.

Loved-up literature for unsettling days

On love: four short stories on what love means and can look like now.

Ashleigh Young: Please make things as boring as possible

Ashleigh Young on why tedium is now rich, complex and vital to holding life together.

Kiwi writer reveals why she wanted to write about her marriage break-up

Ending a marriage: problems don't go away if you don't talk about them.

New books to note

Canvas book reviews: four new titles to put on the "to read" list.

Auckland's best chocolate cake? Barbarino's reviewed

Pasta (and cake) for flatmates, families and other unpretentious diners.

On Hollywood and hallucinogens: Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty

The writers festival is off but you can still read about life, says Liane Moriarty.

Is Nicolas Cage's scary new film good for couples? We find out.

Argumentative married couple Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie review Color Out of Space.

Thomas the Train, three children and me...

Greg Bruce dreamt of a fun family day out. It didn't quite work out that way.

"My whole career I've made movies outside my culture"

New Zealand director Niki Caro on why she's relaxed about working outside her culture.

'Sex always got in the way' - Orlando Bloom on falling in love

Ahead marrying Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom reveals what celibacy taught him.

Down Syndrome Drag stars caught in Biblical battle over their right to perform

Peter Wilson on the Down Syndrome performers fighting for their right to be on stage.

The Test - sports for a new era, indeed

A new cricket documentary could fill the sporting void in the next few weeks.

Sophia Malthus on what's kept her strong after she was paralysed in a freak accident

EX-jockey Sophia Malthus was 19 when she was paralysed, she reveals her new career move.