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He doesn't call himself an environmentalist, but a timber-processing factory owner is at the forefront of a renewable energy revolution.

Meeting the sun king of Te Puke

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Belief we tend to associate with the fringes of US society have torn a swathe through Aotearoa’s traditionally easy-going if occasionally oddball community of hippies, yoga teachers, and spiritual festival-goers. 

Mystic paranoia: How conspiracy theories infiltrated the NZ new age community

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Bravo launched in New Zealand this week, bringing with it about 300 iterations of the Real Housewives franchise. Tara Ward, a real housewife herself, decided to see how their daily lives compare. With wine.  

Wine for breakfast: A real housewife spends a day living like The Real Housewives

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Zoe Scheltema spends a whole day of her life living like Kim Kardashian, recreating it all from her limited dietary options to her stringent selfie regimen. 

“The day of 100 selfies” – One woman lives like Kim Kardashian for 24 hours

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Protestors shut down the CBD today as the TPP was signed in the casino above. Don Rowe bore witness. 

The very loud minority – inside the TPPA protests

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Preview James Mustapic's incredible debut single 'Hold Your Hand in Mine Harry Warner' and scroll down for a CRAZY LIVE SPINOFF EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT.

Television: Preview the Incredible Shorty Street Scandal Debut Single + LIVE SHOW Announcement!

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Alex Casey spends an afternoon time travelling with Freeview Plus, catching up on all of the extraordinary TV she missed out on from The Real to Who's Doing the Dishes

Experiential: Oh the Ponytail and Paul Henry-themed Places You’ll Go With Freeview Plus

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Alex Casey is very good at watching cooking shows and very bad at cooking in real life. She took up the My Food Bag challenge to become a Masterchef in her own home.

TV Taught Me: How One Cooking Moron Became an Overnight Masterchef Hero

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Alex Casey watches UnREAL – a drama set behind-the-scenes of a Bachelor-esque show – with The Bachelor NZ's Dani Robinson, who dishes the dirt on how real reality TV really is.

UnREAL: How Real is UnREAL? The Runner-Up of the Bachelor NZ Spills the Secret Reality Beans

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Tim Lambourne shares his tale of Ponsonby tenancy woe, and explains how binge-watching legal drama Suits at the time helped his underdog case.

TV Taught Me: How the Television Layman’s Law of Suits Came Into Real Life Practice in Ponsonby

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"I never took this opportunity previously because the daily effort of watching an objectively bad TV show on a 20-year delay seemed like a waste of time, even by my standards."

24 Hours of Heartland: Farewelling Shakespearean Wonder Dogs and Bidet Salesmen

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After the final of X Factor NZ, Joseph Harper creates an interactive game that promises to be more challenging, fun and have higher production values than the competition itself.

X Factor NZ: Fight, Shred and Slap Your Way to the Top in Our X Factor Game

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It is the final week of James Milne's noble quest to watch Jennifer Love Hewitt's cancelled series The Client List in its entirety. He reflects upon what the show has taught him about life in small town America, and life in general.

The Client List: The Final Week – Excavating Meaning From the Void and Having a Party of None

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Brave couch warrior José Barbosa journeyed 10 hours across the televisual seas to consume the first season of epic Norse saga Vikings in one sitting, accompanied only by meat soup and mead.

The Binge: José Barbosa’s Meat and Mead-Fueled 10 Hours As a Viking

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After a musical number appears on The Client List, James Milne takes an important tangent. "I think it is important to address something which I haven’t yet tackled – Jennifer Love Hewitt’s music career."

The Client List: Week Four – A Brief History of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Pop Career

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In TV Dinners, Alex Casey tries to recreate some iconic televisual meals. This time round she tries the Eleventh Doctor's meal of choice –  fish fingers dipped in custard.

TV Dinners: Traversing Culinary Time and Space with Doctor Who’s Fish Fingers and Custard

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Sophie Smith shares health lessons learned from watching House, and how the show both helped and hindered her struggle with hypochondria.

TV Taught Me: Dr House – Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Hypochondria

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The Client List: James Milne’s Date With Jennifer Love-Hewitt – Week Three

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Checking off Jennifer Love-Hewitt’s ‘The Client List’: Week Two

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The writer and professor shares some of his favourite books – and the one he'd purge from his memory if he could.

‘A sick wish fulfilment fantasy, so badly written’: Harry Ricketts’ biggest book regret

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A much maligned old friend is reborn as a field of dreams. 

How Mt Smart turned into the most electrifying Auckland destination of 2024

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Leaked emails and documents show that the media giant will soon break apart – opening up a range of options for owner Sinead Boucher.

Stuff ‘consciously uncouples’ into two separate digital and print businesses

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With funding stagnant since 2008, the broadcaster is racing to adapt to a digital world – but at what cost?

With its daily news bulletin scrapped, what’s next for Whakaata Māori?

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Some in the industry say a small number of negligent trainers 'buggered it' for everyone else.

Greyhound racing sprints toward the finish line

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Believe it or not, this is not a joke headline.

Auckland Council opposes new housing because motorists won’t be able to see a hill

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Move over meat and dairy – these are our highest quality exports. 

How does New Zealand produce so many successful child actors?

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This year's best local fiction, nonfiction and poetry for adults and children, as chosen by our panel of readers. 

The Spinoff’s best NZ books of 2024

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New documentary gives insight into what is driving the country's youth to carry out ram raids and why prison might not be the answer.

Review: Ram Raid Mums provides a blueprint for breaking the cycle

Covering everything from the fingernail red carpet to Ryan Seacrest’s hair, because we can.

The Spinoff

ExperientialFebruary 23, 2015

The Spinoff Oscars Liveblog: Our Televisual Take

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The Spinoff Oscars Liveblog: Our Televisual Take

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