Stories by Katie Parker

Has another week passed you by with nary a fleeting glance at the weird and wonderful world of online content? Get the goss with another handy dandy instalment of Keeping up with the Kontentsphere.

Gin Wigmore is back and she’s also fed up with an industry that, once fawning, has grown frigid. Can Gin carve her own path?

Overwhelmed with options? We're here to help.

It's the largest haunted attraction in the Southern Hemisphere, an Auckland institution and, now, a film. We talk to director Florian Habicht about the people and the past of Spookers.

In a few days, Google's Gchat will be no more. We pay tribute to the home of inane online chat.

Has another week passed you by with nary a fleeting glance at the weird and wonderful world of online content? Get the goss with another handy dandy installment of Keeping up with the Kontentsphere.

With their new video, Wellington act Mermaidens show that the domestic dream is rotten to the core

Thank you Aaradhna.

It's a new era for Lorde - but why does it feel like her staying power is being tested?

Kiwi legend Stan Walker is back again with new music and an insane new video that signals a radical new direction for the pop star.

*Including New Zealand!

The Queen's Birthday Honours have been announced and the people’s Prime Minister finally gets his due.

With a newly released album, has the Ferndale Strangler left his throttling days behind him?

Superhero origins and kick-butt girl power are two of the tiredest tropes in cinema. Wonder Woman is here to bring them back to life.

If it bleeds, it leads, or so the saying goes. But with death knocks being practised daily, what is the impact on the living?

As everyone's favourite never-ending soap celebrates its 25th anniversary, two patriots take a trip down memory lane.

She is neither plaintiff nor defendant in the current Colin Craig trial - so why can’t the media leave his former press secretary alone?

According to his new song - maybe!

At times like this, all you can do is laugh. But should you?

We talk to five of the game-changing young women who make the Auckland institution what it is today.

The trial of the century has begun!

Auckland Libraries say they will save $1.8 million by cutting 5 percent of staff. But what about the human cost?

Hear me out.

What does the right to freedom of speech really entitle us to? We asked political theory expert and University of Auckland senior lecturer Dr Kathy Smits to shed some light.

With a bit of hard work, anything is possible!