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    Dear Metro
    Got issues with work, love, sex, family, friendships, money or the crushing existential angst of modern life? Each week on metromag.co.nz, our Metro advice columnist answers a reader’s query and solves all their problems. Dear Metro, My downstairs
    Metro NZ2 min read
    Aucklandness
    If you haven’t noticed, Metro loves lists. And we’re known for them — Top 50 Restaurants, Auckland’s Best Schools, Cheap Eats, Top 50 Cafes. But to begin the year, we wanted to celebrate Auckland in a way Metro hasn’t for a few years: by making a lis
    Metro NZ2 min read
    20 Questions
    01-What’s riskier, Covid-19, or sneezing in public while Asian? 02-Remember how we were all going to “Give nothing to racism”? 03-“Cruise ships a nightmare of discomfort, claustrophobia and potential infection” - so, no change there, then? 04-So
    Metro NZ4 min read
    What’s On
    This year the Arts Festival have introduced special under-30 tickets which are cheaper than the adult prices (by about 20-30%) for a portion of their shows. Thanks, AAF! Some of our highlights from those events: First Nations and Maori comedy Black T
    Metro NZ4 min read
    Picture Perfect
    Bo is a six-month-old cavoodle puppy with an adorable caramel-coloured shagpile coat and big brown eyes. He’s a tiny ball of energy and irresistible Instagram bait. He belongs to 14-year-old Cruz Erdmann, an award-winning photographer who has never t
    Metro NZ2 min read
    Drive, She Said
    On a steep backstreet in Manurewa almost 20 years ago, my heart raced as cars backed up behind me. My left hand shook as it gripped the gear stick, and my foot planted on the brake was almost cramping from fear and stress. I was a learner driver att
    Metro NZ3 min read
    Sex In The Grey Zone
    Lisa, a 30-year-old writer living in Auckland, recalls a difficult sexual experience that took place when she was 18. “I went home with somebody I met in a bar, and we had pretty average drunk sex,” she says. “Then I woke up in the morning, and he wa
    Metro NZ3 min read
    Fake It Until You Make It
    Nothing drives left-wing nerds wild like a graph that isn’t to scale. Twitter lights up when a television news poll makes it seem as if the Labour-led Government’s lead over the opposition is smaller than it really is. The same thing happened when a
    Metro NZ4 min read
    Money Games
    The good news is that people associated with parliament’s biggest party, National, and its most powerful, New Zealand First, are under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Charges have already been laid against the former lot. This is a
    Metro NZ4 min read
    Pink Moon
    They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I just still don’t know why I chose to take mine in the ladies’ toilets at work. I was, for the first time, attempting to install inside myself a Mooncup: a bendy silicone vessel that
    Metro NZ21 min readDesign
    Aucklander OF THE year!
    We’ve chosen 100 Aucklanders leading the way in 220- a tall order in a city of nearly 1.7 million people. You may not like or agree with all our picks -it would be stange if you did -but whether they’re making waves or ruling them, designing clothes
    Metro NZ14 min read
    Iron Sharpens Iron
    Towards the end, exhaustion seemed to almost win: the bodies dragged themselves up from the floor as if gravity had tripled in strength. But, in an instant, a new opponent appeared, and the fighters collapsed into tackles, the weight of their shoulde
    Metro NZ6 min read
    The Floating Suburb
    On a hot Friday afternoon, the queue for the boat to Waiheke stretches back to the Ferry Building. There is one line for tourists and another for locals. They are worlds apart. The backpack-toting tourists are happy, sun-kissed and laughing; the loca
    Metro NZ14 min readCooking, Food & Wine
    Top 50 Bars 2020
    OPEN LATE (PAST 1AM) ESPECIALLY GOOD FOR DATES ESPECIALLY GOOD FOR GROUPS The drinks list here is a leather-bound bible, the clasp opening up to a long list of curated cocktails that showcase the passion of the in-house expert, Sahil Patel.
    Metro NZ4 min read
    Alcohol Free
    Despite news reports (and trend reports) suggesting a cultural shift towards drinking less, the truth is more complicated. Binge drinking might be downward trending (which is great) but casual drinking — a glass of wine to unwind after work, for exam
    Metro NZ6 min read
    More Than Skin-deep
    At my grandfather’s funeral, we feasted on 10 whole pigs, roasted on the spit before being expertly chopped up by men whipping knives through the air so fast, you felt sure the tip of a finger must end up on your plate. The generous servings of glist
    Metro NZ3 min readCooking, Food & Wine
    Serving Aces
    82 FOOD NEEDS IMPROVING, SERVICE IS TERRIFIC. A confession. When a colleague suggested I review Ozone — the Taranakivia-London coffee roaster’s newish all-day eatery in Grey Lynn’s Westmoreland Precinct — I didn’t really take them seriously. I just
    Metro NZ2 min readCooking, Food & Wine
    No Great Heights
    68 INCREDIBLE VIEW, DELICIOUS COCKTAILS, DISAPPOINTING FOOD. They say the better the view, the worse the food. And The Sugar Club, the fine dining restaurant at the top of the Sky Tower, has one hell of a view. On my first visit, I spent half of m
    Metro NZ9 min read
    Metro’s 20 Favourite Beers
    Ten years ago – hell, even five years ago – Auckland was a bit embarrassing on the beer front. In Wellington, you could barely move for hoppy IPAs, rich stouts and tongue-tingling sours, but in Auckland, the odd craft-beer bar aside, a Peroni on tap
    Metro NZ4 min readFashion
    LOOKS & GAZES
    It’s a hard road finding the perfect leather jacket, especially secondhand. I could go and get one from Stolen Girlfriends Club that would be amazing and really well fitted but I still do like the thrill of trying to find something from an op shop. I
    Metro NZ3 min readCooking, Food & Wine
    Best In Town? Mais, Non
    66 FORGETTABLE FRENCH FOOD, WEIRD VIBES. GREAT WINE, THOUGH. Le Bistro des Gourmets is the best restaurant in Auckland. At least, that’s according to TripAdvisor, where, at the time of writing, it’s at #1 after a comparatively small amount of revie
    Metro NZ3 min read
    A Taste Of Italy
    Prolific coffee consumption is part of Italy’s DNA. From that first morning cappuccino in a stand up bar, through to the last espresso of the evening with friends around the dinner table, it’s an essential part of Italian life; every bit as important
    Metro NZ2 min readCooking, Food & Wine
    Fiji For Thought
    Located in one of Fiji’s Mamanuca Islands, Likuliku Lagoon Resort has perfected the art of simplicity and escapism by marrying traditional culture with modern ease. The wilderness island retreat at the foot of vibrant green slopes is Fiji’s exclusiv
    Metro NZ8 min read
    North Of The Border
    The flatbed just clipped us. A peck on the nose. Not enough to spin us or flip us, but enough to send our tuk-tuk driver into a fury. He pulled up to the truck at the next traffic lights, slapped the driver’s door, and started screaming in Urdu. The
    Metro NZ3 min read
    Room Service
    The first thing Joel Bray would like you to know about his deeply intimate play about the alienating experience of racism in Australia is that it’s actually “a bit of a romp”. The overarching themes — heartbreak, racism, and lack of belonging — beli
    Metro NZ3 min read
    Finger Tapping
    You don’t quite know where to look. Two pairs of dancing fingers dressed in thimbles tap across the crystal floor in a Fred-and-Ginger-style number, while camera operators and lights do their own strange dance around them. The cameras act as your bin
    Metro NZ2 min read
    The Human Factor
    Those who have seen Wellington musician Estère Dalton perform may be surprised to learn the “powerhouse band” billed to appear on stage with her for Into the Belly of Capricorn will be composed of human beings. It’s a change for Dalton, who during he
    Metro NZ4 min read
    Bringing Art To The World
    The art world loves to hate an art fair. From the VIP parties, to the admission prices, to the outright commercialisation of art — it is really the perfect balance of things to get under the skin of an arts worker on a moral high horse (and we love o
    Metro NZ7 min read
    Signs Of The Times
    Quinn Cox and Stella Starsky have not read The Luminaries. They confess to this with the same faint air of apology as many did after it won the Man Booker Prize in 2013. “Is it really 848 pages?” asks Cox. He and Starsky, New Yorkers partnered in lo
    Metro NZ2 min read
    Heady Issues
    There’s nothing like reading about other people’s problems. It puts things, if not in perspective, at least in a wider context of futility. Perhaps it’s a lazy categorisation to say everything I’ve been reading lately has heavy ‘mental health awarene

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