Life & Style

Ben Allan recalls PlayStation 2’s out-of-this-world arrival in 2000.

Laine Priestley explains a handful of the magical Harry Potter theories circulating around the real-world wizarding community. 

In the years immediately following the Otago gold rush, readers of the ODT were treated to a series of lively accounts of ‘‘rambles’’ around Dunedin and its hinterland by Peter Thomson. In this excerpt, he's contemplating a trek to Orepuki.

Mike Houlahan looks back at how the ODT covered burning issues of yesteryear. Today we look back at the rise of Kaikorai rugby great James Duncan to his sport’s pinnacle in 1901.

For the past 38 years, ADInstruments has been creating high-quality, easy-to-use data acquisition software and equipment in Dunedin.

Laine Priestley explains the series of events that conspiracists believe has turned Beyonce from a singing superstar to a god-like supernova scaring the celebrity world into submission.

With the new century entering its 25th year, Summer Times looks back at events of 2000 and sees how we’ve fared since. John Lewis talks the price of petrol.