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Dear parents, Welcome to the schools issue of Metro. I assume that’s why you’re here — parents love this one. Always a pleasure to have you with us (I think you’d like our other issues, too!). Remember high school, or college as you may have called

Hi Metro, As we did last year, thank you for your request but we will not, with the greatest respect, be participating in the Metro school data production. The reasons are many and varied. An education is so much more than examination statistics. Th

1 If Christopher Luxon goes into politics, will Simon Bridges still be allowed to hand out the lollies? 2 Cuddle-class for all? 3 Does David Hisco realise we’d have looked after his wine collection for free? 4 Is John worried his Teflon might be

This new event on the winter calendar is a crazily ambitious region-wide festival, and its mammoth programme is a little bit more than intimidating to look at. It is sectioned loosely into four categories — dazzling light shows, cultural spectaculars

When I was sick, or pretended to be sick to get out of school, there was a 98% chance my lunch was going to be congee (pronounced with a soft ‘g’), or, as I knew it then, “porridge”. No one called congee “congee” in Malaysia, where I’m from, as Engli

In case you hadn’t noticed, kombucha is the new craft beer. And, in the same way as home brew once transitioned out of the garage and into the supermarket beer fridge, commercial buch has transitioned the glorious scobie from your fridge to a plethor

Over Skype, Animals director Sophie Hyde and I are listing off all the films with prominent female friendships we remember. There’s Thelma and Louise. Beaches. All About Eve. Frances Ha... We laugh. The truth is, there just hasn’t been that many. An

To avoid disturbing blokes and the patriarchy in general, lesbians in Auckland in the late 1950s and 60s needed to keep things on the down-low — much like present-day London, where teenage boys recently beat up two women on a bus for refusing to kiss

Be your own barista with De’Longhi’s new La Specialista manual coffee machine. For the coffee-obsessed Kiwi, La Specialista consistently delivers the perfect cup of espresso. Equipped with a range of innovative technologies, De’Longhi introduces the

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