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 ...

Hela Rahman, an Auckland University of Technology law student and Kiwi-Iraqi Muslim migrant, reflects on the Christchurch mosque shootings three weeks on, warning that we need to acknowledge the ...

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, ...

It’s Saturday night in central Auckland and trouble is brewing. In a deserted food court, four teens take over an abandoned ice-cream shop. Egging each other on, they jump over countertops, kick ...

Words from Samoan and Tongan have morphed into terms you’ll hear used by young New Zealanders. This article was first published in the October 2015 issue of Metro. Illustration for Metro by Tane ...

In May 1940, just as the German army was crossing into Luxembourg and Belgium (and just, for that matter, as the Japanese army was launching its gas attacks on Zaoyang), Faber & Faber published A ...

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, ...

Last month, I was sitting next to a Pākehā man at a dinner who was complaining about Three Waters. Like many other Pākehā opposing the reforms, he wouldn’t listen as I tried to explain why they’re so ...

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 ...