Photographer Guy Coombes wears black so he doesn’t reflect any light on his subjects. With thanks to R.M.Williams.

In the first few months after my wife and I became home owners, the algorithmic puppeteers at Instagram and YouTube started ...

An onlooker — that’s me — can sense the freedom. The students navigate the landscape of the strip without batting an eyelid, ...

Abigail Dell'Avo sits down with Matariki Bennett to discuss her debut poetry collection.

Join Coastal Signs in popping the cork on their new Karangahape Road location (312 Karangahape Rd) on Wednesday 13 August at 6PM with a show of paintings from Maggie Friedman and Ammon Ngakuru that ...

South Indian ...

Jul 28, 2025 Society Every year when we present the results of Auckland’s high schools, we are forced to ask ourselves the same question: what truly constitutes a ‘good school’? Is its excellence ...

Efficiency. Performance. Perfection. These sound like specs for a high-performance car, not the aspirations of a young writer. Yet in Auckland’s classrooms, they’re increasingly held up as the ...

BurmeseYou don’t come across many Burmese eateries in this country. In fact, until Moe Palae’ opened late last year, Tāmaki Makaurau had spent eight years without a single representation of the ...

IndianFor one reason or another, restaurants like this — often described using the extraordinarily broad-brush term ‘Indian’ and preoccupied, for the most part, with serving ‘curry’ — tend to earn ...

Nepali/IndianOn your first visit you might puzzle over the menu here — it’s extensive, roams over various culinary traditions and includes a fair number of terms which might cause intimidation if ...