Bringing together the soul-stirring vocals of Aotearoa’s most-awarded solo artist with a 50-piece professional orchestra, Bic ...

As the temperature in Tāmaki Makaurau drops, puffer jackets take over. Emma Gleason considers what they say about the city’s ...

In the first few months after my wife and I became home owners, the algorithmic puppeteers at Instagram and YouTube started showing me more and more videos — made primarily by men in their 30s, ...

An onlooker — that’s me — can sense the freedom. The students navigate the landscape of the strip without batting an eyelid, engrossed instead in adolescent chatter and the intense friendships forged ...

In my twenties, I was at a party talking to a guy I didn’t know. Mid-conversation this guy stops and goes, “You have autism, ...

Jul 28, 2025 Society . Every year when we present the results of Auckland’s high schools, we are forced to ask ourselves the same question: what truly constitutes a ‘good scho ...

Join Coastal Signs in popping the cork on their new Karangahape Road location (312 Karangahape Rd) on Wednesday 13 August at 6PM with a show of paintings from Maggie Friedman and Ammon Ngakuru that ...

Lorde reports from Antarctica, a childhood obsession reawakened by a fear of climate change. Visiting is thrilling, but should she even be there?

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, ...

Metro N°446 is Out Now 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 ...

The best places to get a drink in Auckland, including in the city, Ponsonby, K'Rd, Kingsland and more.

Efficiency. Performance. Perfection. These sound like specs for a high-performance car, not the aspirations of a young writer. Yet in Auckland’s classrooms, they’re increasingly held up as the ...