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Men seemed to rival the women in red carpet fashion with many adventurous outfits that went far beyond the tuxedo.

What will The Necks play at their Auckland Town Hall show on 7 March? No one - including the three band members - will know until they're actually playing it. Video, Audio

A scheme to foster talented young Māori writers is a "mighty mentor programme," Witi Ihimaera says. Audio

LISTEN: Duo Enharmonics specialise in Piano Four Hands - music played by two performers on one piano. Nicole Chao and Beth Chen formed Duo Enharmonics in 2017 and they’ve been playing virtuosic and emotionally-thrilling music ever since.

Anora dominated at the Oscars, 2025, taking out five wins including Best Director, Best Editing, Original Screenplay, Best Picture, and Best Actress (Mikey Madison). The award winning director, Sean Baker, spoke to Culture 101 in December. Audio

The Academy Awards were a three-hour marathon of awards, speeches, performances and celebrity moments.

Holidays, cosmetics and home renovation vouchers were amongst the lush loot.

The red carpet at this year's Academy awards served structure, silver and lots of brooches.

The 97th annual Academy Awards is here - check out who took the big awards.

The Chills' final album Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs was late frontman Martin Phillipps' mission to render his songs as he originally "heard them in his head," the band's manager says. Audio

Medicine has a dark history of acquiring bodies for students to learn on. The University of Auckland's Māori-led ceremony introducing students to their cadaver is changing that, writes Serena Solomon. 

A twisty awards season rocked by LA wildfires and a racist tweet scandal reaches its climax with the 97th Academy Awards gala on Monday.

The Kiwi has needed soothing recently since becoming embroiled in a "horrific" catfishing scam in which countless people have been contacted by someone claiming to be him. Video, Audio

"You become more grateful for what you have now. That's important to do during Ramadan, to be grateful for what you have, not greedy for what you want."

There was plenty of grooving to be had at British duo Groove Armada's Saturday night show, writes Katie Fitzgerald.

The late Dunedin musician Martin Phillipps' unintended swansong is a full-circle rediscovery of his musical genius, says Tony Stamp.

People under 18 are invited to share what they think adults might be missing about harmful content in a new anonymous online survey.

Social media has become a safe place to learn more about sex - but digital literacy is essential when you're deciding who from.

Alex Hillary says he's had great opportunities but also feels "an enormous amount of duty" having the legendary mountaineer as his grandad. Audio

"Get your coffee head to the park, head to the beach, head to a creek, head to a paddock, head to anything, and just allow them to do what is biologically wired in them" - parenting expert Maggie Dent. Audio

The beloved 79-year-old chef is upskilling cooks in Australian rest homes. Video, Audio

You can hear a song by NZ hymn writer and composer Cecily Sheehy O.P. in this week’s programme, from her collection ‘Larksong’. And we mark Transfiguration Sunday with hymns including Immortal, invisible and Christ, whose glory fills the sky. Audio

Feeling helpless to keep up with demands is usually at the heart of burnout while clinical depression is more about feeling hopelessly self-critical.

Ahead of his performance in Rotorua's Opera in the Pā, Kiwi Samoan bass-baritone Eddie Muliaumaseali'i remembers how a meeting with a Māori music legend galvanised his singing career. Video, Audio