Peaceful walk at blue lagoon
Half an hour’s drive from Dunedin is our own blue lagoon, Purakaunui Inlet.
Bewildered by age’s tireless march
Bewildered by age’s tireless march
Do not go gentle into that brain fog; rage, rage against the dying of your hippocampus, writes Lisa Scott.
Keep up the support
Keep up the support
There’s a school of thought among researchers that holds that parents tend to withdraw their emotional support from their sons much earlier than they do their daughters, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.
Getting ahead on the big clean up
Getting ahead on the big clean up
We’ve recently watched floods across the ditch devastate New South Wales communities, with agencies and Government scrambling to assist, writes Scott Willis.
An important insight
An important insight
A scene from "everyday life" in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection provides a missing link, writes Lauren Gutsell.
Lies and ill will
Lies and ill will
A new play to debut at the Dunedin Arts Festival is not about telling the truth, but might have truths to tell, writes Tom McKinlay.
Responding collectively to extinction
Responding collectively to extinction
The life in our oceans needs us to make some connections, writes Abby Smith.
Stories behind the fashion
Stories behind the fashion
The mannequin is looking demurely off to the side, its attention apparently caught by something else going on in the exhibition at Otago Museum.
Race day the only show in town
Race day the only show in town
Dunedin’s 150-year-old Forbury Park trotting venue will soon be no more. But it was once the most popular place in town. No more so than during the exhilarating, surprising and record-breaking, 1965 Interdominion Championships.
An enduring imbalance
An enduring imbalance
The Employment Contracts Act is 30 years old and the country still hasn’t recovered, even as it prepares for the next major employment upheaval, writes Bruce Munro.
Rising above the plain
Rising above the plain
What’s between Milton and the coast? The McNally Track lets you find out and subtly slips in a sense of wider perspective, too, writes Clare Fraser.
Dispatches from the fringes
Dispatches from the fringes
Someone made a week for me last week. Well, it was more like some LOTS - the organisers, volunteers, actors, directors, costumers... everyone who came together to make Dunedin Fringe Festival, writes Liz Breslin.
Bags — a weighty topic
Bags — a weighty topic
A new school year and a new job - the afterschool run one day a week. And always the request to "please carry my bag", writes Ian Munro.
Equinox best time for auroras
Equinox best time for auroras
Every encounter with the southern hemisphere’s autumnal equinox makes my heart beat with excitement, writes Ian Griffin.
Small town boy
Small town boy
Michael Metzger’s Dunedin Fringe Festival play examines rural masculinity through the lens of his own story, he tells Tom McKinlay.
Grasping time and chance
Grasping time and chance
We’re already in March, and the start of autumn. The nights are getting longer, the mornings a little chillier and the leaves on the trees are already beginning to change, writes life coach Jan...
An entire colonnade
An entire colonnade
"They called you ‘Famous Hawea Writer Liz Breslin’," said my girlfriend. Who did? Am I? After I got off the phone I got under the duvet and stayed there a while.
Continue with consequences
Continue with consequences
When it comes to getting teenagers to do things around the house, they have to know the consequences if the chores aren't done, writes Ian Munro.
Planets bomb the Sea Goat’s celestial pool
Planets bomb the Sea Goat’s celestial pool
As we approach the autumn equinox, the nights are lengthening. The sun is rising later each morning and setting earlier each evening. This makes astronomers very happy as there’s more time to...
From both sides now
From both sides now
Reversible garments have come into and gone out of fashion over many years. There’s a certain novelty appeal, combined with a sense of ingenious efficiency.
