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    Five fixes for a fabulous festival

    Weekend Mix film reviewer Amasio Jutel has five ways to make the most of using the festival’s popular five-film multipass.

    Ending the plastic deluge

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    Ending the plastic deluge

    Richard Thompson did not plan on becoming the world’s foremost expert on microplastics.

    Where the grass is greener

    Snails at Otago Escargots are of the “petite gris” variety - also known in New Zealand as the...

    Where the grass is greener

    Our undersea meadows are worth preserving.

    Dive into dog registrations offers a glimpse into family history

    Jack the Pomeranian's collar. PHOTO: ODT DILES

    Dive into dog registrations offers a glimpse into family history

    In my work at the Waitaki Museum & Archive and Forrester Gallery, I never tire of the research process. I enjoy how the threads, hopefully, come together as you start delving into something....

    Scammed before pudding

    Police warn if a high-end item's price online appears too good to be true - it probably is. Photo...

    Scammed before pudding

    They were from the bank, so thoroughly trustworthy, writes Eva Wiseman.

    Cold shoulder tells story of people’s past

    A reconstruction of the burial of Princess Ukok. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

    Cold shoulder tells story of people’s past

    One of my most memorable cruises as a guest speaker took us to Kerch, where today Putin’s infamous bridge links Russia to the Ukraine.

    A wild night’s precious sights

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    A wild night’s precious sights

    Last weekend, I found myself in Middlemarch, attempting the impossible: warming up a shed.

    A week’s worth of treats

    Raspberry and pistachio date cookies. PHOTO: PENELOPE MAGUIRE

    A week’s worth of treats

    I’ve come to realise, somewhere around the cusp of 40 years old, and after years of trying not to, that I can’t go a day without a treat. And honestly? I am so OK with that.

    Through a different lens

    Rob Harley at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

    Through a different lens

    You can take a journalist off the television, but he’ll just find other ways to share the stories, Rob Harley tells Tom McKinlay.

    Review: It’s show time once again

    All of the US university sport scene’s pageantry — and deep stats nerdiness — is on show in...

    Review: It’s show time once again

    The great thing with gaming sequels, unlike films, is that you can essentially deliver an identical product, add a few bits and pieces, and still sell millions of copies.

    Popping with authenticity

    A scene from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters. PHOTO: NETFLIX/TNS

    Popping with authenticity

    When South Koreans start to obsess over a movie or TV series, they abbreviate its name, a distinction given to Netflix’s latest hit KPop Demon Hunters. The American-made film is now...

    The fascist position on yoga

    Nazi Heinrich Himmler touted Wewelsburg Castle near Paderborn as a centre for "yoga exercises,...

    The fascist position on yoga

    For more than a century, elements of the far right have been attracted by yoga’s rigours, the author of a new book tells Miles Ellingham.

    A gathered history of occupation

    The Lee Island (Te Ana-au) rock shelter site as envisaged in use by the artist Chris Gaskin. The...

    A gathered history of occupation

    In this extract from a new edition of archaeologist Atholl Anderson’s book The Welcome of Strangers, A History of Southern Māori, he details the vast extent of māhika kai.

    Beauty and strength forged from home

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    Beauty and strength forged from home

    What does being from Otago mean to you?

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    Puketapu puts it in perspective

    It’s steep and potentially punishing, but also quite dreamy.

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    Puketapu puts it in perspective

    Hmmm... being human. Sometimes it’s a right pain, isn’t it?

    Women left their mark on prehistoric society

    The reconstructed face of the Cap Blanc woman who carved the heads of deer, bison and horses....

    Women left their mark on prehistoric society

    Prehistoric women were socially very prominent and this is seen in how they were honoured in death, writes Charles Higham.

    A deception in the heavens

    IMAGE: IAN GRIFFIN

    A deception in the heavens

    Skywatching is often about seeing new things, but just as often, it’s about humility, Ian Griffin writes.

    Nature’s perfect formula

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    Nature’s perfect formula

    Women have everything they need to care for their baby, and the planet.

    Aloud and in full colour

    Shayne Carter, front and centre, at Straitjacket Fits’ first gig, at the University of Otago in...

    Aloud and in full colour

    It might sound like Carol Hirschfeld but it’s Shayne Carter’s story, film-maker Margaret Gordon tells Tom McKinlay.

    Music off the leash

    Purple Dog, from left, Jamie Hall, Charlotte Rodgers-Foran, Imogen Foley, Corey Adams and Marc...

    Music off the leash

    There’s no time to hit pause, Purple Dog’s frontwoman tells Seren Stevens.
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