Life & Style

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Making left turns with Jordan

23XI Racing co-owner, NBA hall-of-famer and lifetime Nascar fanatic Michael Jordan. PHOTO: GETTY...

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Making left turns with Jordan

Many sports fans support teams that represent their region. But many also have a great love for those from further afield. George Elliott, one of a handful of Nascar...

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Merry cherry pickers

PHOTO: E.A. PHILLIPS PHOTOGRAPH, P1968-001/7-0185, HOCKEN COLLECTIONS UARE TAOKA O HAKENA

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Merry cherry pickers

Miss Bennetts and two others cherry picking at Roxburgh, 1939. — During 2025 staff at Hocken Collections added thousands of images to the Digital Collections website, most of them never...

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Photos of the year: Peter McIntosh

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Photos of the year: Peter McIntosh

Sent out of the office on a wintry day in July to look for photos I captured Logan Park High School athlete Miseki Honjo training on an ice-covered Caledonian Ground track.

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Steps into past and present

Work on the Dowling St steps and ramp was completed by October 1927. Photo: Peter McIntosh

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Steps into past and present

Dunedin’s Dowling St Steps provide a gateway to personal and city histories, Tony Love writes.

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Swifts consistently a class act

Now-former NSW Swifts shooter Romelda Aiken-George leaps in the air after their elimination final...

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Swifts consistently a class act

Many sports fans support teams that represent their region.

Station’s history, town’s foundation

Clyde Brigade with their new Dodge appliance 1979. Photos: supplied

Station’s history, town’s foundation

Retired volunteer station officer George Lockyer visits Clyde Fire Station for his book Fire Stations of Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Onboard from behind the camera

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Onboard from behind the camera

When Elliot Chilton Phillips discovered he could not keep up with his friends skating, he decided to pick up a camera and film them instead.

Summer jobs: Running a massive inflatable water park

Abbey Bisset at Kiwi Water Park. Photo: Supplied

Summer jobs: Running a massive inflatable water park

One of the world's largest inflatable water parks is just outside of Cromwell and local Abbey Bisset is spending her second summer working at the unique spot.

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Keeping the city pumping

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Keeping the city pumping

Every day, hundreds of students pass this inconspicuous little building in Union St. John Lewis finds out its function.

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Celtics represent everything great about NBA

Ian Cathcart and his son, Boston, attend a Celtics game against the Indiana Pacers, in Boston, on...

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Celtics represent everything great about NBA

Many sports fans support teams that represent their region.

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Giant leap forward with glowing fanfare

Williams on her way to winning the 1952 Olympic long jump gold medal. PHOTOS: ODT FILES

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Giant leap forward with glowing fanfare

In the runup to the 1952 Olympics, it would be fair to say that everyone in Otago expected great things of Dunedin’s Yvette Williams.

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A quiet place for forgiveness

The Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Michael Dooley, opens the door to a confessional at St Joseph...

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A quiet place for forgiveness

The Catholic confessional ritual has a few intricacies that are not all that obvious. Mark John spoke to the Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Michael Dooley to learn...

Beetroot and onion pakoras with coriander and mint raita

No-fuss, comfort and fun food is what New Zealand chef Wendy Morgan is all about, and at this time of year that is all you want from food.

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Moulding hobby into dream job

Shelley Brigit’s projects are reliably varied. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED

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Moulding hobby into dream job

No two weeks look the same to Shelley Brigit, a diversity the Dunedin artist enjoys. She talks to Ruby Shaw about the passion project which became a fulltime job. Shelley Brigit’s...

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Taxidermy jungle spot to ‘unwind’

Mike Rodgers surrounded by his more than 300-piece taxidermy collection in his home in East Gore....

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Taxidermy jungle spot to ‘unwind’

Mike Rodgers can’t stop finding additions for his jungle taxidermy, Ella Scott-Fleming reports.

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Solemn first Anzac Day

A view in front of the Town Hall, Dunedin, showing the platform, returned soldiers and the...

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Solemn first Anzac Day

Mike Houlahan looks at how the ODT responded to the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.

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Keeping sounds alive

Dunedin band Sunflower Scent perform at a resurrected Sammy’s in April 2022. Photo: Fraser Thompson

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Keeping sounds alive

Dunedin photographer Fraser Thompson is on a mission to document as much of the city’s music scene as he can.

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Pondering existential questions

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Pondering existential questions

Subeditor and avid reader Samantha Powell shares her book-worm highlights of the year.

Badass double beef and bacon burger

Badass double beef and bacon burger

Olivia Galletly, who lives north of Auckland and is author of food blog "The Hungry Cook", likes to cook food with bold flavours which is comforting, not too fussy and most importantly delicious.

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