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Summer reads: The best of Canvas - part 1 5 minutes to read NZ Herald The New Zealand Herald is bringing back some of the best premium stories of 2020. Today we look at five of the best Canvas stories of the year. Other people's holidays - what's it like to grow up in a motor camp? When I was 9 years old, my family moved to a motor camp. We left Marlborough for the West Coast and, for the next eight years, other people's holidays came to us. Friends imagine this time in the halcyon tones of a perpetual summer. It's true West Coast sunsets are pretty but, when asked to imagin...

Face Masks & Formal Fridays: The Fashion Lessons Gleaned From 2020 What we wore this year coincided with one of the most remarkable times of our lives. We summarise the year in style from trackpants to Zoom-ready earrings - and everything in between By Dan Ahwa Wednesday Dec. 16, 2020 Change the system How do you fix a broken fashion system no longer conducive to the changing ways we buy clothes? In March, Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten organised a series of Zoom brainstorms with the industry, calling into question discounting in seaso...

David Farrier talks about the songs he loves.

The Queen's Gambit and the next big thing in chess 13 minutes to read Greg Bruce goes in search of something interesting about chess. A few weeks ago, like every other magazine writer in the world, I was tasked with finding a story to cash in on the massive success of The Queen's Gambit - the show that's made chess cool again, despite filling the majority of its running time with close-ups of its star resting her chin elegantly on her hands. My big break arrived in the middle of the annual report by the president of the New Zealand Chess Federation, where I discovered the wi...

One marriage, two movie reviews: Miracle on 34th Street 11 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read Miracle on 34th Street. Photo / Supplied By: Greg Bruce, Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie Greg Bruce and Zanna Gillespie debate the merits of one of history's most beloved Christmas films. SCORES Shamelessness of corporate advertising: 5 Shakenness of faith in Rotten Tomatoes: 0 SHE SAW I cannot in all good conscience review Miracle on 34th Street without being fully transparent about my raging New York-o-philia. I'm not entirely sure when it set in properly but it was probably some...