7 ways to incorporate healthy eating habits into your day to day life
Regularly maintaining healthy eating patterns can often be a challenge, particularly in especially busy times in your life when grabbing a quick tasty snack is just too tempting to resist. If you suspect that you may have given in to this temptation a few times too many recently, there are plenty of […]
Ending on a high note: Ali Cat Productions
Award-winning Canterbury performer Ali Harper is not letting a year of pandemic postponements stop her. She is determined to end the year on a high note by performing two shows in December. The first show, Christmas Joy will be held on December 5, followed by four performances of The Look […]
The king’s coming to town
Tūranga is set to become alive with the sound of music when the New Zealand Opera’s critically acclaimed Eight Songs for a Mad King comes to town. The rescheduled season is positioned for December 3, 5 and 6 at the Cathedral Square library, where audiences will be treated to the […]
Fun for all, and all for fun: Chipmunks Playland and cafe
The Christmas school holidays are coming up and so too are the empty days in the calendar which need filling with activities. Enter the Holy-day Grail; Chipmunks Playland and café in Wigram. Metropol caught up with Anna Dai from the purple-loving play area to hear why you can have fun […]
Style insider
Canterbury’s Bridget Hope is behind beloved boutique Magpie Style, and her Cup Day look inspired our cover. She chats with Metropol about all things style. Magpie Style stylist and model, Marga Bastings, wearing hat by Seventh & Fig, outfit by Paula Ryan. Wardrobe Director, Bridget Hope in Neil Grigg hat and […]
Hallelujah! Chch City Choir
For 30 years Christchurch City Choir (CCC) has enchanted audiences with its annual performance of Handel’s Messiah, and following a year of disruption, this exultant masterpiece returns to the stage – with the presence of some returned overseas talent. NZ based soprano, Anna Pierard, and mezzo-soprano, Catrin Johnsson, will perform alongside […]









