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Revisiting childhood memories in Christchurch’s red zone

Sometimes my childhood memories try to sketch buildings onto the big empty plots in the central city. Am I disoriented, or just rebuilding what used to be there?
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By Shanti Mathias | 22nd February, 2026
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At the Push Push reunion show, everyone was old - and that was OK

Mikey Havoc and co go trippin' down a memory lane 35 years in the making.
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By Chris Schulz | 21st February, 2026
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Fashion designer Tom Conway can talk about his neck-breaking accident now

In fact, he’s thriving.
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By Emma Gleason | 21st February, 2026
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Leather & Chains: excerpts from Kate Camp’s 1986 diary

'In the pantheon of bad teenage writing, this surely rates among the greats.'
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By Kate Camp | 21st February, 2026
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New Zealand, stop saying the n-word 

In our schools, it’s being used casually, often by people who are not Black, but who are themselves marginalised. Each time Gamaliel Ramos Oliver hears the word, it lands like a slap.
By Gamaliel Ramos Oliver | 21st February, 2026
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Huge and true: Rachel McKenna is back on Shortland Street

Huge and true: Rachel McKenna is back on Shortland Street

Welcome back, queen.
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By Tara Ward | 21st February, 2026
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaves the police station. (Photo: BBC screenshot)

The picture of Andrew leaving the police station makes me rage

His posture and expression hits as symbolic.
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By Veronica Schmidt | 20th February, 2026
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Good Week/Bad Week: Christopher Luxon’s bedtime in the spotlight

When asked if he would attend the 9.30pm State of Origin match at Eden Park, the prime minister's office referred all bedtime-related questions to Kathleen Luxon.
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By Joel MacManus | 20th February, 2026
Wuthering Heights has finally made the charts.

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending February 20

The OG Wuthering Heights has arrived.
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By The Spinoff Review of Books | 20th February, 2026
There’s some scary stuff lurking beneath your funny AI caricatures

There’s some scary stuff lurking beneath your funny AI caricatures

The latest trend poses some big questions about privacy, environmental damage and creativity.
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By Alex Casey | 20th February, 2026
Why I’ve watched Schitt’s Creek 43 times (and counting)

Why I’ve watched Schitt’s Creek 43 times (and counting)

'Am I an obsessive time-waster? Or have I found something beneficial to my life? I vote for the second option.'
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By Tusiata Avia | 20th February, 2026
The cost of being: A government worker with a ‘support local’ mindset

The cost of being: A government worker with a ‘support local’ mindset

'I'm not sure if the pension will still be around when I retire in 20+ years time, so I would like to build up a reasonable nest egg.'
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By The Cost of Being | 20th February, 2026
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Auckland’s density dial turned down as election-year politics intrudes

A scaled-back housing target for Auckland has exposed the political nerves beneath the city’s intensification debate.
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By Catherine McGregor | 20th February, 2026
Shane Jones and Winston Peters. It be your own people.

Echo Chamber: All aboard the racist express to parliament

Everyone’s talking about immigrants and Māori. It must be an election year.
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By Lyric Waiwiri-Smith | 20th February, 2026

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