The Life
The Life is a BusinessDesk section for people with an appetite for living well, who like to celebrate the good things in life – whether that’s investing in your health and wellness or a weekend at a lodge.
Travel
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Living the luxe life at The Farm, Cape Kidnappers
When you're going to a mega-expensive luxury resort, you don't expect the journey there to feature highly. But this one does. It's 6km of highly engineered road weaving away from the Hawke’s Bay coast up through a gully, swapping places with a stony creek bed, buildin...
Culture
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Power play - conductor Gemma New is poised to become New Zealand’s most important classical musician.
Gemma New was 12 and playing in the violin section of a Wellington youth orchestra when she heard a sound so perfect, so overwhelming, that she knew what she wanted to do with the rest of her life. The sound was The Great Gate of Kiev, a brassy, percussive tour de force, written...
My Net Worth
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My Net Worth: Jason Paris, CEO, Vodafone NZ
Welcome to My Net Worth, our regular column on the lives and motivations of our top businesspeople, in their own words.Vodafone NZ chief executive Jason Paris has formerly held leadership roles at Spark, MediaWorks, Television New Zealand and Nokia. I’m a proud Southlander. My mu...
Good Food
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Review: Do the latest batch of chef-prepared meal kits step up to the plate?
In true Kiwi number-8 wire fashion, restaurants are adapting to the lifestyle changes caused by the covid-19 lockdowns, particularly in Auckland. Le Chef restaurateur Ed Le Goff recently entered the fray with his thefoodies.nz high-end meal deliveries (which we can attest are ver...
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