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A feminine-looking man's face like Zac Efron is more likely than a rugged-looking Gerard Butler type to capture the eye of Kiwi woman.

Kiwi women prefer womanly men

Who's hotter: Pretty boy Zac Efron or rugged Gerard Butler?

Apocalyptic visions

The Press

The Road screenwriter Joe Penhall talks about unfilmable books, frightening visions and Neil Finn, with JAMES CROOT.

How to spot Grumpy Old Women

The Press

A trio of women of a certain age are currently on stage bemoaning and celebrating the perils of growing older.

A beautiful life

The Press

Every week in a Christchurch community arts centre, Joanne McGimpsey uses paint and paper to communicate a remarkable inner world

Gender Bender

A label for men is borrowing from women's wear, writes Amy Parsons-King .

More feminine styles on show at iD

Men, hide your wallets because your wives and girlfriends will be looking for them if they attended the iD Fashion show at the Dunedin railway station last night.

Croatian designer wins fashion prize

Climate change chic at Chanel

Vintage Mediterranean

vintage Mediterranean style The days of vintage Mediterranean holidays are back in force.

Facing the fear of skiing

Got a post-Winter Olympic urge to take up skiing? Craig Platt finds it can be an exercise in fear and embarrassment.

Surviving kids in cars

Guidebooks or travel apps?

Universal opens new theme park

The world's fourth Universal Studios theme park has welcomed its first visitors with a lavish ceremony in Singapore.

The big cheese

Hank Littink The NZ cheese awards saw the champion of champions award go to Fonterra.

Excellent eggplant

Eggplant, aubergine or brinjal: it is all the same depending on where you live.

Farming firm-fleshed fungus

Apple of summer's eye

Nice nectarines

Nectarines are best when picked ripe and ready from the tree.

Family of balloonists

Peter and Nola King inflate his balloon The Kings float together over the Wairarapa plains in their own castles.

Courier loses licence in first day farce

A courier driver on a learners licence crashed into a colleague's vehicle as they fought over who would get to a job first.

Europeans are big cheeses

Runabout fit for a queen

Raw talent for special calendar

Bluff fishermen have posed in the buff in support of the town's floundering swimming pool.

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