TelevisionDecember 21, 2016

Urgent: The Champagne Lady has released a Christmas song

Staff writers

Click the image below or head straight here to enjoy a musical Christmas miracle courtesy of Anne Batley-Burton from The Real Housewives of Auckland.

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27th November, 2021

The Spinoff Covid tracker: the live graphs that tell the story of delta in Aotearoa

Everything you need to know about how the Covid-19 pandemic is tracking in New Zealand.

By Harkanwal Singh

Head of data

Stuck for what to buy your loved ones for Christmas? Look no further than this. (Image Design: Tina Tiller)

27th November, 2021

The super Spinoff goat-free ethical Christmas gift guide

How to shop consciously this Christmas without donating a farm animal on your giftee's behalf.

By Sarah Paterson-Hamlin

Guest Writer

Deadly Ponies co-owners Steve Boyd and Liam Bowden (Photo: Supplied; additional design: Tina Tiller)

27th November, 2021

Deadly Ponies just wants to be honest with you

The New Zealand company is on a mission to be world's most responsible handbag brand.

By Reweti Kohere

Staff writer

Illustration by Toby Morris, additional design by Tina Tiller

26th November, 2021

Siouxsie Wiles explains the Omicron variant of Covid-19

All there is to know about the new Covid-19 variant detected in South Africa.

By Siouxsie Wiles

Contributing writer

26th November, 2021

New Zealand’s 20 best advent calendars, ranked

We all deserve to start opening gifts now, actually

By Tara Ward

TV writer

Proposed light rail on Ian McKinnon Drive (Photo: greaterauckland.org; additional design by Tina Tiller)

Opinion

26th November, 2021

Auckland light rail will be far from cheap, but the cost of inaction will be higher

Failure to properly invest now will result in the city choking on its own growth in the future, argues the transport minister.

By Michael Wood

Guest Writer

“Black Map” of Christchurch, 1850. (Image: Archives New Zealand, reference CAYN 23142 CH1031 Box 179/ 273.)

26th November, 2021

The Friday Poem: The City Fathers, by Tusiata Avia

A new poem by Tusiata Avia.

By Tusiata Avia

Guest Writer

26th November, 2021

An ode to puddings in big bowls

Tis the season for second helpings.

By Charlotte Muru-Lanning

Staff writer

Back at the hostel, after tramping the Abel Tasman (Photo: Matthew Micah Wright via Getty)

26th November, 2021

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending November 26

Wellington flocks as one to a new treatise on wealth disparity.

By The Spinoff Review of Books

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Television

21st November, 2021

Jaquie Brown: ‘I’m not an opinion giver and I’m quite comfortable with that’

Jaquie Brown made a name for herself on C4 and Campbell Live. But, for the last decade, she’s been less visible.

By Stewart Sowman-Lund

Live updates editor

Zoë Robins, the New Zealand actor who stars as Nynaeve in Amazon’s new series The Wheel of Time. (Photo: Amazon Prime Video, Getty; Image Design: Tina Tiller)

20th November, 2021

The Wheel of Time’s Zoë Robins was already a star

Three years ago, the young New Zealand actor won a lead role in the hugely anticipated adaption of one fantasy literature's most famous series. We talk to her on the eve of its debut.