In the latest Summer 2026 issue: Edge City.

Objectspace director Kim Paton explores the city frontier at Westgate, Flat Bush and Paerātā to assess what makes a successful suburban neighbourhood, and just who is being welcomed therein.

Photography by David Straight.

Where to go for lunch while everyone else is out of town?

In our new Summer issue, Sunita Patel talks to the restaurateurs who are working while others relax.

It’s a perfect guide for locals staying local and places to take friends and whānau visiting from overseas.

Photography by Sacha Stejko
Graphics by Sheahan Huri

While record crowds watch Australia v England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Aotearoa’s biggest city hasn’t hosted test cricket since 2018.

In Metro’s summer issue, @jamesborrowdale.bsky.social analyses the state of the game and our national stadium as Auckland Cricket plans to leave Eden Park.

Pick up our People’s Guide to the City summer issue and let Metro plus 75 contributors fill your holidays with all that’s weird and wonderful about this beautiful city we live in. Where to eat, drink, play, explore and relax.

Metro Summer 2026 is out now in shops and from the Metro online store.

Just in time! Amanda Jane Robinson’s bumper gift guide full of ideas to foster love and goodwill this festive season. See more in our Summer 2026 issue, out now in shops and from Metro’s online store.

Plus: Bumper holiday gift guide, cricket and Eden Park, exploring Auckland’s edges, where to eat this summer, festive sparkling wine and art, books, comedy, music, film, Metro crossword and more.

Hot in the city: Metro Summer 2026 is out now! In our new redesigned summer issue: A People’s Guide to the City, presenting local recommendations and slices of Auckland life, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, from more than 75 contributing voices. Available in shops and from our website!

New season, new look. We’ve been working hard to bring you Metro’s summer issue. Out Monday 15 December.

Metro — No, you can’t pay in values How the politics of kindness came up empty.

"To misquote educator Seymour Skinner: It was us, the children who expected that an apology came with the obligation not to do it again, who were wrong."

Haimona Gray eulogises the politics of kindness, online now at Metro.

Metro — Metro Eats! — Friday 18 August Stadium food, a new wine bar, a new Daily Bread, and what's good this week in food.

Things to eat in Auckland this week: www.metromag.co.nz/food/metro-eats/metro-ea...

Metro — The Lost Kids Last July, high school rolls were down by 476 students across Auckland. Where did the missing students go? And what are schools doing to keep the rest?

Another story from the Metro Schools Special! - Gabi Lardes goes looking for the kids missing from school roles post-lockdown and also at what schools are doing to try and keep them.

https://www.metromag.co.nz/society/the-lost-kids

Metro — Report Card 2021 The year's results for every Auckland School

Schadenfreude season! — Exam results from every Auckland school are now online at metromagazine.co.nz.

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Metro — Metro Eats! — Friday 11 August So long to The Caker and new things to eat!

In this week's Metro Eats! — Jean bids farewell to the Caker, PLUS what's happening, what's good and what's new in Auckland food.

In the city's finest email inboxes and online now!

www.metromag.co.nz/food/metro-eats/metro-ea...

Metro — SOFTLY SOFTLY Using ASMR videos to try, finally, to get some sleep.

The great Abby Howells tries to get to sleep using unnatural means in the latest Metro (available now at your favourite supermarket, bookshop, airport and some dairies) and online now.

Illustration by Natasha Vermeulen

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Metro — The Beleaguered State of Auckland’s Stadiums. The Neverending Story.

Jamie Wall bemoans the sad life and now possibly ignominious end of North Harbour Stadium 🏟

Metro — Metro is Hiring! Join the team and help our subscriptions grow.

Metro is hiring!

www.metromag.co.nz/city-life/city-life-what...

Metro — HORROR STORIES Labour and National will try to scare you into voting for them — you should vote for more than fear.

"There’s no more chance of a libertarian nirvana, Gaian utopia or Tiriti-based state than a Luxon-led Republic of Gilead — and everyone, in all five parties, knows it. But at least Act, the Greens and TPM aren’t insulting you with bullshit."

Metro — STATE OF THE ART In the second of a series, we look at government support and what duty the state has to keep art forms and artists alive.

In the second part of his three part series on arts funding in Aotearoa, Emil Scheffmann gets deep into the weeds on state funding for the NZSO, Te Matatini and much, much more.

www.metromag.co.nz/arts/arts-music/state-of...