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• eating, gossip, interwebs

  I’ll have it on toast, thanks

  04.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  So it seems we’re not the only ones who have an assortment of issues with Metro. Spare Room reports that Restaurateur Richard Sigley (proprietor of Wellington’s Shed 5 and Pravda and Auckland’s Jervois Steak House, Pasha Bar and Euro) had a hissy fit over not making it into Metro’s Auckland’s top 50 Restaurants and [...]

• Aucklandista, interwebs, politics

  Metro is like, totally down with the kids

  04.03.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  So,Unkie Metro has got itself a blog now. How can we tell it’s a blog rather than just the usual editorial? 1. You can add comments, although no one has yet and 2. They’re suffering from that Wordpress bug of a severe lack of paragraphs (like us, occasionally, I must admit). Oh Unkie, you’re so [...]

• anecdotal, sport

  The lanes, they are a’changing

  03.02.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Auckland is not a cycling town. Turn up to work on a bike, and people assume you ‘flat’ with your parents, and aren’t moving out anytime soon. Auckland’s city councils are trying to push cycling with a network of new cycle ways, but come on – this is Auckland, it’s all Beemers, drive through [...]

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