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Russell Brown: A day trip from Mt Albert to Ikea in the name of science (opens the original)
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New angle: Ōrākei Station on the Eastern line. Photo / Getty Images Bear with me, reader. You may have become weary of Aucklanders talking about their new train network, but this is for science. Some weeks ago, this column proposed “the Ikea factor” as a secret sauce for the forthcoming City Rail Link. “Depending on where you live in Auckland, reaching the retail icon can be an ordeal on the motorways,” I wrote. “But once the new link opens, someone in Mt Albert will be able to board a train and
Live review: Agnes Obel performance shows convention centre theatre lacks warmth as venue (opens the original)
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Julian Sartorius, Hinako Omori, Agnes Obel and Marie-Claire Schlameus perform at Te Paepae Theatre, New Zealand International Convention Centre. Photo / Dave Simpson / Getty Images NZ International Convention Centre, Auckland Walking into the New Zealand International Convention Centre and up to the Te Paepae theatre on Level 8 is a grand way to arrive at a show. The theatre itself is a modern marvel of flexibility, able to fold down from a shallow 2800-capacity arena to a flat floor for banquet
The Auckland DJ with her eyes on the after-dark economy: Could she be the city’s first night mayor? (opens the original)
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Being a good DJ requires more than technical ability. You need to love and understand music, obviously, but there are also the less tangible attributes of being able to sense what the room needs, and possessing, for want of a better term, a point of view. Shaquille Wasasala had most of that in 2017 when she proposed to her friend JessB, the rising Kiwi rapper, that she become her DJ for live performances. Growing up in West Auckland, the child of a Pākehā mother and a largely absent Fijian missi
Russell Brown: We are surrendering to stupidity (opens the original)
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No denying it: Auckland’s Southwestern Motorway during the 2023 Anniversary Weekend floods. Photo / Getty Images Winter isn’t what it used to be. Just one winter season this century has produced temperatures below the long-term average. The one from which we have just emerged was the third-warmest on record, behind 2021 and 2022. The latter was also New Zealand’s wettest winter and preceded the catastrophic Auckland floods of January 2023, when a month’s worth of rain fell in a few hours, and Cy
Robyn Malcolm on menopause: ‘I remember being in a state of really profound despair’ (opens the original)
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Robyn Malcolm, who is presenting the documentary Menopause & Us, following her earlier show on anxiety. Photo / TVNZ ‘I look back on the menopausal journey … I don’t know what happened,” says Robyn Malcolm in the opening minute of Menopause and Us. “I remember having a screaming match – well, I was the only one screaming – at my partner. I remember being a foul mother, for a moment. I remember being in a state of really profound despair at not being able to stop weeping. I remember that.” As any
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