In the neighbourhood
Photo: Susannah Walker and the birthday girl. On change, constancy and community. It’s late Sunday afternoon when we trickle into the back yard. Neighbours, friends and family bearing sandwiches,...
View ArticleSame same but different
Questions arising from a morning meander along Karangahape Rd. The post Same same but different appeared first on Metro Magazine.
View ArticleGlittering city
On leaving and returning. The eve of a long weekend and Auckland is primping, preparing to gorge on this regatta and that music festival. Good things, but on this late summer’s day, something beyond...
View ArticleThis theatre company wants you to care about Pacific deforestation
Visual storytelling turns the spotlight on the impact of deforestation in the Pacific. This article was first published in the March 2016 issue of Metro. Nina Nawalowalo is schlepping a faux forest...
View ArticleAAF Hot Pick: Not in our Neighbourhood
Heard the one about the guy who works at a women’s refuge? Jamie McCaskill probably has. In 2013, the comedian, actor and playwright was working in his dad’s fish and chips shop in Thames when the...
View ArticleEmily King – review
“It’s the first time we’ve done it this way,” Emily King confided near the start of her acoustic show in the Spiegeltent last night. The diminutive American singer-songwriter was referring to the fact...
View ArticleOur liquid heart
Memories of the Kestrel float to the surface. This editorial is published in the April 2016 issue of Metro, on sale in Auckland 17 March. Wayne from Waitakere City is advertising a painting for sale...
View Article360 Allstars – review
B-boys on stage at The Civic? Hell, why not? 360 Allstars brings high-energy entertainment typically enjoyed on the streets to this most traditional of theatres. The performers, from Australia, Europe,...
View ArticleMeals 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 of six slinks along Darlinghurst Rd and into a...
View ArticleArj Barker: Get In My Head – review
Near the end of his show, US comic Arj Barker shares a joke many in the audience seem to relate to. It’s about smoking weed and how it’s so much stronger today than it was in the 70s, when the late Bob...
View ArticleIsmo Leikola: Observing the Obvious – review
He’s bewildered, is Ismo Leikola. He’s bemused by the subtleties of the English language and confused by the cultural differences between his homeland and countries he’s been. And such is the...
View ArticleJames Malcolm: Marry Me Chris Warner – review
“It’s 2016, you can no longer give a bad review to a man in a dress!” is James Malcolm’s parting shot as he flounces offstage in a nasty froufrou bridal gown at the end of Marry Me Chris Warner. It’s a...
View ArticleA New York photojournalist on what it’s like to live in a war zone
Above: The Forgotten Mountains of Sudan, by Adriane Ohanesian, 2015. Adriane Ohanesian was in the mountains of central Darfur when she heard about a boy in the nearby village of Burgu who had suffered...
View ArticleThe female gaze: 5 films by women to see at this year’s NZIFF
This year’s NZIFF programming defies its shameful global context to celebrate the emergence of international female voices telling the stories of women’s lives. Above: Kristen Stewart stars in Certain...
View ArticleThe walls between us
Above: A photo taken from Verity Johnson’s story on Cash King, a South Auckland pawnshop. Photo by Alex Burton. As Aucklanders, we share the same city but live in increasingly disparate worlds. Is the...
View ArticlePeople to watch: Vincent Ward, painter and film-maker
Photo by Adrian Malloch. “It’s crazy here,” says Vincent Ward, glancing around his St Lukes office, a scribbly whiteboard (“Script. Sam Neill.”) propped against one wall, paper everywhere. Ward was...
View ArticlePlaying with razors: Stuart Maunder on New Zealand Opera’s Sweeney Todd
If he’s at all fazed by directing New Zealand Opera’s Sweeney Todd while also steering the ship as the company’s general director, Stuart Maunder isn’t showing it. “I wasn’t employed to direct,” he...
View ArticleBoots and all: Madeleine Sami steps behind the camera on Funny Girls
Long known for her versatility in front of the camera, Madeleine Sami is stepping up to a new role behind it. For a hint of Madeleine Sami’s approach to her first gig as a television director, just...
View ArticleAuckland property special 2016: On the benefit of hindsight
Illustration by Angela Keoghan. You bought a house! Of course you did. Back then — not so long ago, when you think about it — it’s what most of us did. You bought a house because you needed one,...
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