New Zealand Listener

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In this week's New Zealand Listener

July 4-10 2009 Vol 219 No 3608

Features

  • Cover story Think again by Mary Jane Boland
    New research into brain function gives hope to those with degenerative diseases – and sends a message that we can improve our brains within days.

  • Feature Dumb and dumber by Jane Clifton
    Within 10 years, celebrity culture has become all-pervasive, and the recession is likely to make it even more dominant.

  • Feature Kiwi fame game by Jane Clifton
    Celebrity power seems to work differently here than in the US and UK, but it can still go horribly wrong.

  • Feature State of tension by Shabnam Dastgheib
    When Iranian New Zealander Shabnam Dastgheib visited family and friends in Iran, she found a youthful country struggling to define itself under heavy government repression. But discontent is growing and protests over alleged voter fraud in the recent election are getting louder, despite a harsh official crackdown

  • Feature What's cooking? by Ruth Nichol
    Whitebait fritters and pavlova are appearing on posh restaurant menus as Kiwis embrace their culinary roots. Is this interest in traditional food here to stay or just another fad?

Arts & Books

  • Arts Fresh blood by Stephen Jewell

  • Books Game master by Paula Morris

  • Books Ghost world by Siobhan Harvey

  • Books Lift off by David Larsen

  • Books Bottle blonde by Lydia Wevers

  • Art The world(s) in one place by Logan Sisley

  • Cultural curmudgeon Pooh, petrol and galleries by Hamish Keith

  • DVDs Minor to major by Guy Somerset

  • Classical Sometimes more is less by Ian Dando

  • Film In the swim by David Larsen

TV & Radio

Columnists

  • Editorial Abuse of the system

  • Interview The Interview: Louie Psihoyos by Sarah Barnett

  • Television Plattitudes by Diana Wichtel

  • Life I spy by Bill Ralston

  • The Internaut All the rage by Deborah Hill Cone

  • Politics The shipping news by Jane Clifton

  • The Black Page To a ridiculous degree by Joanne Black

  • Health Every breath you take by Linley Boniface

  • Nutrition Radical thinking by Jennifer Bowden

  • Sport Winning ways by Richard Becht

  • Inbox Rules and Reg by David Hill

  • Business Coming clean by Rebecca Macfie

  • Ecologic All fired up by Sarah Barnett

  • Food Winter tales by Martin Bosley

  • Wine Going cheap by Michael Cooper