Time to tag in your best festy friends and start filling your summer diary. Here’s our guide to 10 of the season’s most essential music and food festivals.

Ōtautahi O.G. Ladi6 tells Cityscape about the importance of a good team, especially her ‘fairy godmother’ stylists, and following in her family’s footsteps in a counselling career.

When he is not writing about Christchurch’s urban delights, Cityscape editor Mark Wilson will likely be up a river valley or exploring the high country in his trusty 4WD. And after 30 years of...

Rising star Wiri Donna is as spiky as her mānuka namesake, with plenty she wants to say. Behind the on-stage alter ego is Wellington artist Bianca Bailey, whom we chatted to ahead of her...

Movies to catch, books to read, television to bingewatch, music to dance to and podcasts to fill your spare time.

The culinary legend behind Christchurch’s White Tie Catering, Tina Duncan draws on a lifetime’s experience of cooking for a crowd with her cookbook Plated. Here, she shares one of...

Lineups are dropping and tickets are selling for this summer’s bounty of music, food and drink festivals. There are some comings and goings from the fare of the last few summers, with...

Comedy legend Eric Idle’s career is so much more than just Monty Python. There’s his Tony-winning musical ‘Spamalot’, his Beatles parody series ‘The Rutles’, and of course, the...