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Max Key: Party Animal

Is Max Key an indulged crown prince or a talented young DJ? Is he a social gadfly, seen at all the right parties, or a powerful new weapon ...
On April 15, 2016 / By Tim Lambourne
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Metro exclusive: Rhysently Granted have something to say about jandals – video

Almost 20 years ago Rhysently Granted released their ode to footwear on the unsuspecting public. No one knows how many people knew the song, there was no YouTube, ...
On April 15, 2016
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A guide to the Auckland Writers Festival: Part one

With 150 authors, 60,000 attendees, snapping synapses and coffee-cart queues, the Auckland Writers Festival returns in May. Our coverage begins with profiles of three of the authors. Gloria ...
On April 15, 2016
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People to watch this month: Mike Murphy, Caffeinator

Over a cup of soft-brewed Ethiopian Guji (bright with notes of lemonade, honey and berry), Kokako Cafe and Roastery owner Mike Murphy is excitedly describing the moment he ...
On April 15, 2016 / By Anna King Shahab
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Eye in the Sky – review

Eye in the Sky is an ethical thriller about drone assassination. By this I mean that it’s a thriller about a topical and smartly constructed ethical conundrum — ...
On April 15, 2016 / By David Larsen
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New Opening: Kiss Kiss

When we heard the trio behind Metro Top 10 Cheap Eat Chinoiserie and Top 50 Cafe L’Oeuf were opening a new all-day Thai eatery in February, we legged ...
On April 14, 2016 / By Alice Harbourne
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Phoenix – review

Having been imprisoned in a concentration camp, shot in the face and left for dead, a Jewish woman finds herself miraculously alive at the war’s end. She’s taken ...
On April 14, 2016 / By Catherine McGregor
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Comedy Fest hot pick: Beth Vyse

When you think of someone, two or three defining characteristics generally spring to mind — tall and bubbly, or sporty, perhaps. If, like Beth Vyse, that person has ...
On April 13, 2016 / By Frances Morton
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Comedy Fest preview: Cori Gonzales-Macuer interviews Natasha Hoyland

Cori Gonzales-Macuer has been in comedy professionally since 2003. Natasha Hoyland, 18, is just starting out. Both have dads with Westlife obsessions and both have shows in this ...
On April 13, 2016 / By Frances Morton
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Comedy Fest hot pick: Aunty Donna

Aunty Donna is a high-energy, filthy and absurd sketch comedy troupe from Melbourne. Their stage show has won four- and five-star reviews in every city in Australia, their ...
On April 13, 2016 / By Henry Oliver
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Win tickets to see That Bloody Woman

Kate Sheppard’s successful campaign to win the vote for women changed the world. But it wasn’t easy. Her battle for equality is brought to glorious life as “that ...
On April 13, 2016
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Win a double pass package for WINETOPIA

WINETOPIA presented by Singapore Airlines promises to be a wine event like no other, where visitors can literally taste their way through the major wine regions of the country all ...
On April 13, 2016
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Meals that matter: What every diner brings to the table

Dawn in Darlinghurst, Sydney, 1997. It’s both very early and very late. We’re still up, still out. But before we sleep, we need to eat. Our straggly band ...
On April 13, 2016 / By Susannah Walker
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At the 2016 Metro Peugeot Restaurant of the Year Awards

Held at Shed 10, Auckland on April 12, 2016. Photos by Angie Humphreys and Rebekah Robinson. Read more: The Metro Peugeot Restaurant of the Year Awards 2016: All ...
On April 12, 2016
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The Metro Peugeot Restaurant of the Year is Cassia!

The judges said: “Walk down the steps and into Cassia and immediately you feel a little special, as if you know something no one else does. It’s a ...
On April 12, 2016
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The Metro Peugeot Restaurant of the Year Awards: All the Winners

Judging the restaurant awards gets harder every year. We had six or eight restaurants on our list that had a reasonably strong claim to the title this year, ...
On April 12, 2016
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People to watch this month: Hollie Smith, Soul Diva

When Hollie Smith steps onto the stage in Auckland on April 15, it could go one of two ways. Struggling with pronounced mood swings and lacking former collaborator ...
On April 11, 2016 / By Gary Steel
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Suburban Man: Growing pains

Non-gardening had always seemed the more appealing option. Illustration: Angela Keoghan. It started with a lawn. This time last year we got a four-tonne digger in to dig ...
On April 11, 2016 / By Simon Farrell-Green
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The last supper: An era ends at Pizza Hut

After 42 years, the last of the all-you-can-eat Pizza Hut restaurants is closing. Metro visited the condemned West Auckland icon one final time. Photos: Adrian Malloch for Metro. ...
On April 8, 2016 / By Peter Malcouronne
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What to do this weekend, April 8-10 2016

Fresh from a sell-out Melbourne series, Karma Dance’s In Plain Sanskrit blends classical and contemporary Indian dance forms to explore the meaning of tradition. Poetic and no doubt transfixing, ...
On April 7, 2016 / By Alice Harbourne
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Why I wrote WHITE/OTHER

Above: Alice, Anna and Angela Canton in 1990. Alice Canton’s forthcoming play WHITE/OTHER is an exploration of racial identity in New Zealand today. It follows the actress/playwright on her ...
On April 6, 2016 / By Alice Canton
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Strange magic: The story behind Auckland’s Temple of Higher Thought

As an icon of Kiwi occultism goes up for sale, Greg Roughan delves into the bizarre history behind Auckland’s Temple of Higher Thought – and its links with ...
On April 6, 2016 / By Greg Roughan
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Why I choose to work from home

There are downsides to working from home, notably the “pit of distraction”, but Sharon Stephenson wouldn’t change places with your office-and-commute if you paid her. Well, maybe if ...
On April 5, 2016
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Cheers, Baz

Above: Hagley Oval, Christchurch, February 20: Brendon McCullum walks off the field after his last toss of the coin, at the start of the second test between New ...
On April 1, 2016 / By James Borrowdale
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12 reasons to be happy the clocks are going back

The end of daylight savings may signal the end of summer proper, but there are plenty of reasons to look forward to the cooler months to come. Morning light! If ever ...
On April 1, 2016 / By Alice Harbourne
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople – review

This Kiwi odd-couple tale is designed to charm both here and overseas, and it certainly deserves to. Read more: An interview with Hunt for the Wilderpeople star Sam Neill. ...
On March 31, 2016 / By David Larsen
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50 ways to relive your youth in Auckland

Easter’s messed things up: what night do the bins need to be put out? Is it recycling week? When will I be able to afford a trip to ...
On March 30, 2016 / By Alice Harbourne
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Rooted in New Zealand: An interview with Sam Neill

We’re voiceless without the arts, warns our first real movie star and co-lead of Hunt for the Wilderpeople. This article is published in the April 2016 issue of Metro, ...
On March 24, 2016 / By Henry Oliver
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Thousands at stake: What it’s like to compete in NZ’s biggest poker tournament

One wrong move can make all the difference between snaring the huge purse and crashing out in the country’s richest card tournament. This article was first published in ...
On March 24, 2016 / By Anthony Byrt
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Where to eat this Easter weekend

The cafes, restaurants and cheap eats open and surcharge-free this Good Friday-Easter Monday. Cafes Open all weekend (no surcharge): Best Ugly Bagels City Works Depot, 90 Wellesley st, central ...
On March 24, 2016 / By Alice Harbourne
Columnists 0
Metrolols: The Easter break, regrets of summer and when to take a break from social media

Regrets of Summer That this was the year you invested in prescription sunnies, only to lose them while crossing a swollen creek on the way out of the ...
On March 24, 2016 / By Ruth Spencer
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Flag it

What a fiasco the whole thing turned out to be. Tomorrow, we’ll know if the silver fern was merely beaten by the Union Jack or completely smashed. Either ...
On March 23, 2016 / By Matthew Hooton
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L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres Perform Tom Waits – review

I was really looking forward to this show. So what went wrong? Why was it the worst thing it could be…boring? I previewed L’Orchestre and I interviewed the ...
On March 23, 2016 / By Simon Wilson
Columnists 0
The obituary of Ian Wishart, died 2058

Ian Wishart was just three years old when he worked out the whole joint was crooked. ...
On March 23, 2016 / By David Slack

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