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GamingJanuary 18, 2017

Welcome to San Francisco. Let Marcus Holloway of Watch Dogs 2 show you around

By José Barbosa

Senior Content Creator

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If you’re planning a trip to San Francisco, you’re in luck. Using Ubisoft’s open world hacker-fest Watch Dogs 2, which is conveniently based in the city, The Spinoff has compiled a grand tour of the city with plenty of tips for the new visitor. May contain scissor lifts and banjos.

Claire Mabey’s patron saints of beautiful clothes, from top left: Hildegard of Bingen, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Vivienne Westwood, Rita Angus (Image: Archi Banal)

The patron saints of material girls

I can't help it – I really, really love clothes. And I'm in good company.

By Claire Mabey

Image: Archi Banal

Hear me out: We need more out-the-gate names

Why wouldn't you give your child a name that's theirs and theirs alone?

By Taualofa Totua

Image: Archi Banal

How an abortion saved my life

Abortion is not just about the life of a fetus, writes one woman who got an abortion to save to protect her own life.

Kamahl Santamaria (Photo: Supplied)

TVNZ admits it didn’t follow proper protocol when hiring Kamahl Santamaria

Documents released to The Spinoff show TVNZ already knew it hadn’t conducted proper reference checks when it announced an internal review into his recruitment.

By Stewart Sowman-Lund

Live updates editor

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The Friday Poem: ‘Ophiocordyceps unilateralis’ by Rushi Vyas

A new poem by Dunedin poet Rushi Vyas.

Wellington writer Rachael Herron (Photo: Supplied; Design: Archi Banal)

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending July 1

Go on, have a nosy, what's a few more for the to-read pile?

By The Spinoff Review of Books

It’s PC gone baaa’d (Image: TVNZ / Archi Banal)

What did Country Calendar do to make farmers so mad? An investigation

Absolute scenes on everyone's favourite show about shearing and silage.

Rugby league’s coming home (Image: Getty Images / Archi Banal)

Hear me out: 2024 is the Warriors’ year

The first step to the Premiership in 2024? Lose this weekend.

By Calum Henderson

Production editor

What’s new to Netflix NZ, Neon and other streaming services in July

What’s new to Netflix NZ, Neon and other streaming services in July

With thanks to our friends at Nando’s, we round up everything coming to streaming services this month.

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