Category Archives: Food

Wellington’s got its Cuba St and Newtown street festivals and now Masterton is going to have a rocking event of its own.

Prince George turns 1 tomorrow and even at this early age his parents are making sure he learns about his grandmother, Princess Diana. Parents, Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, took George to Diana’s grave several weeks ago to mark her birthday on July 1, Woman’s Day reported.

American movie box office takings may be plummeting but New Zealanders are still flocking to the flicks, with top 20 takings remaining steady over the last two years.

Paul Valor and Pearl Hope’s whirlwind at age 19, told his father he was ready to marry. The lucky lady was Pearl, aged 21, selected from a shortlist of potential brides prepared by the Gloriavale leaders

Australian actor Luke Mitchell has signed on to a new big-budget network drama in the US. The series, titled

Missing from our screens for some time, Kiwi actor Cliff Curtis is back with a vengeance this month – not only starring in a new prime-time TV series in the US, but also his first New Zealand feature in almost a decade. James Croot catches up with him.

OPINION: Vicki Anderson reviews the second part of the three-part TV drama Hope and Wire. Did the Earth move for you last night If only Gaylene Preston had spared us from the thrush, racism, violence, weird chicken stroking, stilted teenage sweethearts and ”disaster sex”

“I’ve eaten, breathed, melted, swallowed, washed and sucked in Dylan’s records,” says Hamilton’s Chris Baigent, who claims to be New Zealand’s biggest Bob Dylan fan. The lead singer and songwriter for the band River’s Edge reckons he rightly earned that title after living in poverty for six months in Cambridge, England, in order, he says, to dedicate himself entirely to studying Dylan’s discography – and he is challenging other Dylan fans to topple his self-proclaimed status.