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Amanda Laird: Chilled rice noodle salad with melon, prawns and cucumber
Serves 2150g rice noodles12 cooked prawns, peeled1/2 honeydew melon peeled and sliced with seeds removed1/3 telegraph cucumber, finely sliced, seeds removedFresh coriander and mintDRESSINGGreen chilli, thinly sliced2...

Matthew Wright: Two Peoples, One Land; The New Zealand Wars
Few periods in any national history have been picked over, sifted through and reported on as thoroughly as New Zealand's 19th century. The reasons are that this is a small, compact country with a highly literate population, and the...

Fit for someRotorua fun
Rotorua's popular Ekiden relay is on October 14. In this 42.2km event, teams of six runners or walkers join forces to circumnavigate Lake Rotorua, each person covering 5km to 10km. Sections are available for schools, clubs, corporate...

Flying Nun fave together again
The latest Kiwi band to catch reunion fever is Superette. The Flying Nun band are celebrating 10 years since the release of their excellent album, Tiger . They're joining up with their old buddies Voom and Mestar and playing...

Kate Moss a miracle of science
A year ago, I was having lunch with the editor of Vogue , Alexandra Shulman.The Daily Mirror pictures of Kate Moss snorting cocaine through a Ł5 note had been running and the overwhelming view was the world's most famous model...

Anna Nicole's ex tells Stern to get real
Photographer Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, says he is the real father of the reality TV star's newborn girl - and he is seeking a DNA test to prove it.Smith's lawyer, Howard Stern, told CNN's Larry...

Disco fever is back
Panic! at the Disco are from the strip club capital of the world - so these Las Vegas punk-pop newbies know how to put on a show."I was born there and I didn't know anything else," says the band's songwriter, guitarist and lyricist,...

Julian Thompson: The 1916 experience, Verdun and the Somme
The 90th anniversary of New Zealand's involvement in the Battle of the Somme was commemorated this month at the National War Memorial in Wellington.A poignant moment in the proceedings came when Prime Minister Helen Clarke read...

Agonising aunt serves up bad gags by the bucketful
So Joan Rivers, who has made a living being rude, but not too rude, about what American celebrities wear, has a talk show.The Joan Rivers Position (TV2, 9.30 tonight) - the title is intended to be rude, but not too rude - casts...

Keen eye for Italian
The survival of the annual Cathay Pacific Italian Film Festival, the 11th incarnation of which opens at the Rialto and Bridgeway Cinemas on Wednesday, is testament to the persistence of its director Tony Lambert.Mounting a programme...

A music contest for true talents
Longbefore NZ Idol, the Smokefreerockquest was the bastion of true talent-spotting. Everyone from the Datsuns, Bic Runga, Anika Moa, Steriogram, King Kapisi and last year's winners, the Electric Confectionaires, have competed...

Dresses make a glitzy and glamorous comeback
London is basking in the success of the dress. It's already been a strong look on the New York Fashion Week runway and it has emerged again as the key piece.A-line shapes and minimal luxe fabrics with strapless tops and other...

Newton-John guest judge for American Idol auditions
Olivia Newton-John spent her birthday this week as a guest judge for American Idol auditions and came away impressed by the singers."Some of them are very young and they're green but you can see their potential," she said. "They...

Kylie eagerly anticipating comeback show
Singer Kylie Minogue, 38, diagnosed with breast cancer in May last year, is eagerly anticipating her comeback show in Sydney on November 11 and says her ordeal made her embrace her musical career even more."I'm not a year out...