Queen's Birthday has been the long weekend of choice for punk rock to congegrate for a bit of anti-establishment action. Some saw the punks as the outcasts of society, while others feel it was the start of a significant youth culture movement. We look at where it all began, and if there's any truth in the old joke: punk's not dead - it just smells funny.

English journalist Tim Vickery lived in Rio De Janiero. He tells us about how much the World Cup means to the country, how it influences society and politics, and which player could be Brazil's public enemy number one when its all over. And after living there for twenty years, would he turn out for Brazil or England if he got a call-up?

The football World Cup's about to start and the Rio de Janeiro Olympics are just two years away. The spotlight's on Brazil like never before - and it's not all samba, sun, carnival and the Copocabana. We get a Kiwi perspective on modern Brazil from William Wattie, formerly NZ's trade commissioner in Brazil - and a selection of contemporary Brazilian music you won't have heard before.

Zac is the writer of two financial and self-help books and at 24 (and barely of out college) he released his third Good Advice from Bad People; Selected Wisdom from Murderers, Stock Swindlers, and Lance Armstrong, which tells us why we should be wary of the books written by big names who promise that their words will improve your life.

Best-selling author Amy Dickinson's Ask Amy advice column is syndicated in more than 150 papers an estimated 22 million people pore over her advice to desperate correspondents. So no pressure, then. How does the successor to the late great Ann Landers approach the task?

A look back at how writer James Frey wrote a top-selling memoir which captured America's readers and even captivated Oprah Winfrey. But his tale turned out to be more fiction than fact.

Last month the US was rocked by a racist outburst from billionaire basketball businessman Donald Sterling. What happened next? One month on, San Francisco radio host Brian Murphy updates us on that, how Sterling's not the only owner with extreme views - and why NFL cheerleaders are suing their owners.

Is Queen's Birthday a doomed holiday? If so, it wouldn't be the first time that days marking our ties to Britain have vanished from the calendar. Massey University history professor Peter Lineham explains the forgotten history of Empire Day and Dominion Day.

Two of New Zealand's most celebrated contemporary dancers and artistic directors of Okareka Dance Company, Taiaroa Royal and Taane Mete, tell some of the personal stories that make up their new production: K'Rd Strip - A Place to Stand. It traces the history of Karangahape Road - one of this country's most famous (and infamous) streets.

Author Maureen Johnson writes young adult fiction - among her works are novel The Key to the Golden Firebird, and the Shades of London series. She's calling for an end to gender-specific book covers, saying that the "chick lit" covers automatically given to books by female authors is limiting who ends up reading them. She explains why it matters, in a world where readers really do judge a book by its cover.