OCTOBER 2025

Caring for Kahurangi: charismatic kiwi and other legends

16th October 2025

A new book explores the history of a tiny portion of Kahurangi National Park looked after by volunteers for 25 years. Naomi Arnold talks to Caring for Kahurangi authors Sandy and Robin Toy.

Tāme Iti: The taking of the Colin McCahon painting

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In this powerful excerpt from Mana by Tāme Iti, the artist and activist reflects on his early encounters with Colin McCahon’s work, the symbolic power of the Urewera Mural, and the political motivations behind its 1997 disappearance. Blending art, protest, and identity, Iti reveals a deeply personal story about whenua,…

The Strip – Santi, Sapphire and the clubs that started a craze

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The Strip - Santi, Sapphire and the clubs that started a craze 16th October 2025 In this series, true crime author Scott Bainbridge revisits the heyday of Auckland’s Strip Club and Sauna scene from its origins in the 1960s. Pink Pussycat Strip Club exterior. Karangahape Road, or K-Road was synonymous…

Catherine Chidgey

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Catherine Chidgey in conversation with North & South 11th October 2025 Internationally lauded and best-selling Aotearoa author, Catherine Chidgey, has published her ninth novel, The Book of Guilt. Set in Britain in 1979, it’s a dystopian and sinister story about 13-year-old triplets - Vincent, Lawrence and William - who live…

The Sport Column

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A wry reflection on the state of modern rugby and the All Blacks’ endless test schedule. Greg Bruce explores how fans, like tight-five forwards, must find meaning in the absurd grind of the game they can’t quit.

AOTEAROA: LAND OF THE SQUARE BLUE TUB

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A charming, funny, and deeply Kiwi reflection on the humble Tip Top ice cream tub — once a vessel for dessert, now a national symbol of practicality and creativity. From frozen soup to car parts and compost, it holds the everyday essence of New Zealand life, revealing how the ordinary…

Not Given Lightly: the mischief, spirit and struggle of Chris Knox

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A rich, insightful review of Not Given Lightly, Craig Robertson’s biography of Chris Knox — the provocative, brilliant heart of New Zealand’s Flying Nun scene. From punk icon to painter, Knox’s story captures the evolution of indie music, artistic integrity, and contradiction in a changing Aotearoa.
9 October 2025 in Cover Story, Feature Article, Food & Wine

Exclusive offer for wine lovers with North & South

Exclusive offer for wine lovers with North & South 14th August, 2025 North & South's new column, By the Bottle, with wine writer Timothy Giles, is an edgy, funny and insightful glimpse examining wine labels (Why do they look like that? Why do they say that? What is this I'm…
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2 October 2025 in Cover Story, Feature Article, North&South

How big business is poisoning our health

Tobacco, alcohol, fossil fuels and ultra-processed food drive one-third of global deaths, hitting the poorest hardest. For decades, New Zealand health leaders have sounded the alarm. Yet instead of curbing industry power, the coalition government has opened the door wider — to lobbyists, donors and policy sabotage. Dr Renee Liang…
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2 October 2025 in Cover Story, Feature Article, North&South

Hoani Hotene: Finding the funny in tough times

Hoani Hotene (Ngāti Hauā) is a Billy T Award winning comedian with his show It’s Getting Hot-ene, So Tell Me All Your Jokes, fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the Nelson Arts Festival in October. He talks with Michelle Duff about finding the funny in the difficult, being heckled…
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26 September 2025 in Culture Etc

Culture Compass

No one with a half decent tour manager crosses the globe to our little island nation in winter, which means over the coming months there’s a preposterous stream of big names touching down, including Priscilla Presley, Oprah Winfrey, Doja Cat, Cliff Richard, Teddy Swims, and Lenny Kravitz - none of…
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Culture Compass

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Consuming culture is as much about seeing and connecting with others and their experiences as it is about feeding our insatiable appetite for stimulation. It’s an intimate act that allows us to see inside the hearts and minds of artists. Doing that – consuming arts and culture – is a…

Culture Compass

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Consuming culture is as much about seeing and connecting with others and their experiences as it is about feeding our insatiable appetite for stimulation. It’s an intimate act that allows us to see inside the hearts and minds of artists. Doing that – consuming arts and culture – is a…

Culture Compass

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The Culture Compass 10th July 2025While film fanatics patiently bide our time waiting for the New Zealand International Film Festival to roll around (tickets are on sale now), we must find other ways to keep dark existential musings at bay and the creative synapses firing. Here is our selection of…
20 March 2025 in Around ngā motu, North&South

Ocean Odyssey

Growing up in the eighties, “a little girl with buck teeth and red pigtails”, Megan Dunn didn’t dream of becoming a Project Manager. She wanted to be Madison, the mermaid played by Daryl Hannah in Splash. By Theo Macdonald.
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Auckland’s rise

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As New Zealand’s largest metropolis braces for unprecedented growth, the race is on to transform the city and its infrastructure into a liveable, sustainable urban paradise. By Sasha Borissenko.

Auckland kayak

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See Auckland like never before with Auckland Sea Kayaks’ City Lights Night Tour! Newly launched, this is New Zealand’s first inner-city kayaking experience.

Farming Futures

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Cultivating Tomorrow’s Leaders with Innovative Master of Environment and Agriculture.

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