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Jan 12, 2025 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Catherall
Home / The Listener / New ZealandBy Sarah CatherallNew Zealand Listener·12 Jan, 2025 04:00 PM16 mins to readSaveShare this articleReminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read. Kathy Procter spent the long drive back from Wellington Hospital to her Kāpiti home sobbing.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Catherall
Vivienne Westwood: Punk, political and caring about the planet. Westwood is pictured at the first retrospective of her work at London's V&A in 2005. Photo / Getty Images The grande dame of British fashion Vivienne Westwood died two years ago aged 81, but the fashion empire that bears her name rolls on, carrying its near 50-year history with it. Some of that legacy arrives in New Zealand this month in the exhibition Vivienne Westwood & Jewellery, opening at Te Papa.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Catherall
Home / The Listener / HealthBy Sarah CatherallContributing writer·New Zealand Listener·2 Dec, 2024 04:00 PM11 mins to readSaveShare this articleReminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read. Is it possible to feel well while you’re dying?
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Catherall
Despite shifting messages about sexuality and safety across generations, some fears remain the same. Photo / Getty ImagesOpinion: Messages about sexuality shift over generations. I’m in my 50s, part of a generation of women who grew up fearing strangers but thought men with power were – somehow – allowed to take advantage of us. My three young adult daughters have grown up in a time of #MeToo yet share some of the same “stranger danger” fear I did.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
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Mark Manson: Online dating is backfiring massively. If the title of Mark Manson’s first book didn’t catch your eye, then talk about the advice contained in The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck would have. Here was a self-help book full of unconventional and candid advice that turned orthodox guidance and recommendations for “living a happy life” on their ear.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
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Bottom (Harry Skinner) and Titania (Tonia Looker) in the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s 2021 Covid-disrupted A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Photo / Stephen A’Court Nine years ago, Shaun James Kelly was a new dancer with the Royal New Zealand Ballet when choreographer Liam Scarlett cast him in the role of Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Scarlett did something relatively unusual – he cast from throughout the company rather than just choosing the stars for solo roles.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Catherall
Photo / Getty ImagesIn Part I of the Listener’s breast cancer series, Sarah Catherall wrote about how our one-size-fits-all breast cancer screening programme continues to miss cancers and keep women in the dark about breast-tissue density. Here, she tells of her own experience. I never imagined I was at risk of getting breast cancer. I was flat chested – often I didn’t even wear a bra – and my mammograms over the years were always clear.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Catherall
SUBSCRIBEHome / The Listener / HealthBy Sarah CatherallContributing writer·New Zealand Listener·20 Oct, 2024 04:00 PM18 mins to readSaveShare this articleReminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read. Part I: Our one-size-fits-all breast cancer screening programme continues to miss many cancers and keep women in the dark about breast-tissue density. Could AI usher in a more tailored approach that saves lives?
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Catherall
And the Lochburns stars Peter Hambleton, seated centre and flanked by (clockwise) Kali Kopae, Jthan Morgan, Simon Leary, Hannah Kelly and Stella Reid. Photo / supplied Married Millennials William Duignan and Andrew Paterson are of an age where they’ve started thinking about what might happen if their parents need to go into care. Duignan, a 35-year-old playwright and actor, watched his late grandmother become ill with Alzheimer’s.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
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SUBSCRIBEHome / The Listener / LifeBy Sarah CatherallContributing writer·New Zealand Listener·6 Oct, 2024 04:00 PM17 mins to readSaveShare this articleReminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read. Sharon Ackerley flashes her phone around to show views of lush rice paddies and a swimming pool at her budget accommodation in Vietnam.
