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Uneasy Money: Under the Hammer

In the third of a series on the ways arts are funded in Aotearoa, we look at the secondary market — fine art auctions, the new resale royalty and the commercialisation of taonga.

Pot Luck — Friday 1 March

The Metro Dining Newsletter

Metro Eats! Friday 1 December

With thanks to Stella Artois!

IN THE BEGINNING

Smuggling booze, full-moon parties and sex in the pohutukawa grove: BOB HARVEY reports on a transformational decade for Auckland’s nightlife. With thanks to Campari

No, you can’t pay in values

How the politics of kindness came up empty.

Osteria Uno on opening up and Bon Appetit

Metro x Stella Artois

Great Import — A trip to Spiga, Remuera's local Italian

There is nothing stuffy or old-world about this thoughtfully playful Italian restaurant in this thoughtfully playful alleyway in Remuera.

Lessons learned growing up among the rich and the poor in Cambodia.

Being Good in a Grim World

Cafe Style: five Auckland cafes and their style tribes

Cafes play host to the city’s vibrant and distinct microcosms — entire eras of my life can be matched to the hospitality institutions that served me at the time.

Metro Eats! — Friday 11 August

So long to The Caker and new things to eat!

CYCLEWAY SABOTEURS!

How a small but loud minority delayed — and tried to completely kill — one of the rarest things in local politics: an almost universally popular plan to install cycle lanes.

Review: “100% not authentic” tacos at Ragtag in Westmere

Sign O' the times.

Uneasy Money

In the first of a series on the ways arts are funded in Aotearoa, we journey into the world of philanthropy and ask: does money still flow from the mansion on the hill?

The Places We Live — How to Loiter in a Turf War and Greta & Valdin

How to great novels portray life in Tāmaki Makaurau.

THREE STARS

What we lost when the neighbourhood record store died.

Poet, playwright, teacher and novelist DOMINIC HOEY

...on loser musicians, trying hard, and his new book, Poor People With Money.

The Case for Abolishing Councils

Local democracy in New Zealand is broken. It focuses disproportionately on the concerns of a remote, ageing, property-owning segment of the population, and that bias has resulted in a series of continuing catastrophes, from sewage bubbling up in our streets to house prices spiralling out of reach. This election, it’s probably not going to get much better. Is it time to overhaul councils, or even do away with them entirely?

Metro Eats — Friday 2nd December

Ice Cream! Gifting! Ironclad Pans! + New and old things to eat!

Cazador

854 Dominion Rd, Balmoral

Nanam

178 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna

The Engine Room

115 Queen St, Northcote Point

Casita Miro

3 Brown Rd, Waiheke

Waku Waku

415 Remuera Rd, Remuera

Tokki

87 Kitchener Road, Milford, North Shore

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Metro N°442 is Out Now.

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, make-out spot, influencer, and psychic. The issue also includes the Metro Wine Awards, the battle over music technology company Serato, the end of The Pantograph Punch, the Billy Apple archives, a visit to Armenia, viral indie musician Lontalius, the state of fine dining, and the time we bombed West Auckland to kill a moth. Plus restaurants, movies, politics, astrology, and more.

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