I have a confession to make: I was once in love with Lenin. I grew up in a house with my grandfather, who was an avowed communist. He’d been in the 1932 Queen St riots, seen blood on the streets, ...

In the Autumn 2024 issue of Metro we celebrate the best of Tāmaki Makaurau — 100 great things about life in Auckland, including our favourite florist, furniture store, cocktail, basketball court, tree ...

We find ourselves in a deeply unimaginative time in cinema. Then there’s Fast X. What a strange place the Fast & Furious series holds in the modern blockbuster sphere. It’s hard to imagine anyone, ...

OPINION: Trade unionist and disillusioned millennial leftist Justine Sachs says we need to give the Labour Government credit where it’s due after yesterday’s $12.1 billion coronavirus relief package ...

Celebrate the start of the festival with our extraordinary opening event at The Civic Wintergarden. Te Tīmatanga features a new work built within te ao Māori that intertwines dance, performance art, ...

In the Autumn 2025 issue of Metro: Cheap Eats is back with the top 50 places to eat in Auckland for under $25. Delight your eyes with a bumper Contemporary Art Special including Emma McIntyre, Ann ...

Hearts were broken and mournful Instagram posts were published when Acho’s closed its doors in St Kevins Arcade last year. After months in the wilderness, however, it’s back, taking over the old ...

Critic and dramaturg Kate Prior talks to Sophie Roberts, the artistic director of Tāmaki Makaurau-based theatre company Silo Theatre, about its decision not to stage any shows in 2023 in order to ...

When the Guardian Essential poll released its first New Zealand results in August, there were few surprises, bar one: National (at 44%) was murdering Labour (23%) in Auckland. Even adding in the Green ...

It is midnight in Antarctica, and the sky is the foamy yellow-blue of a summer afternoon. I’m in the front seat of a helicopter, its doors and windows flung open to the icy air, four pairs of eyes ...

What makes a good school? Is it a school that gets the best results in NCEA or some international qualification from some elite university on the other side of the world? Is it a school that bests ...

When I was growing up in the pre-deregulated 1980s, it seemed like the only restaurants Auckland had to offer were Chinese or Italian; every suburb had one of each. Up the road from my house was ...