Stories by Luke McPake

"There's a work ethic that I think the bread is teaching me."

Tihei mauri ora!

'That’s a good thing for me, to come out of that shell.'

Watch the tiny community of Karekare Beach come together to put on something big.

We visit singer Ria Hall in beautiful Tauranga Moana

Coffee, but no cigarettes…

The art, and artists of Christchurch Men's Prison.

In a few days, Google's Gchat will be no more. We pay tribute to the home of inane online chat.

Ma'au i lou ofaga, maua'a i lou faasinomaga: Keep your identity alive to thrive.

We thought Mohamed Hassan’s poem was so good, we made a video with him.

A$AP Ferg delivered a chaotic and dizzying set last night at The Powerstation.

Flocking Kiwis is a series about young New Zealanders living abroad and how they transition into life away from home.

Getting by on a student budget is hard enough without being paid less than minimum wage.

There’s a group of hip hop stars in Korea who love mince pies and recall barefoot childhoods in Auckland’s suburbs. Mava Moayyed reports from Seoul.

Suicide bombing is seen by most New Zealanders as a terrorist act that happens overseas. But 33 years ago, an anarchist punk blew himself up trying to destroy “New Zealand’s Big Brother”.

Out of thousands of amateur K-poppers all over the globe, a handful travelled to the “Mecca” of K-pop to battle it out for the world title.