Current Issue - Issue 48 Jan/ Feb 2012

Welcome in the New Year with SPASIFIK Magazine!

In our COVER STORY we go on set with the cast of Sione’s 2: Back in Business and see what the latest movie has in store for the Duckrockers.

We get our running shoes on, and cook books out, to help you on the path to a healthy lifestyle with our 27-page HEALTHY LIVING GUIDE.

In SPORTS we’ve got coverage of the Maori, Samoan and Pacific Island sports awards (with photos in BROWN & AROUND), Benji Marshall reveals his chequered past and we meet Vodafone Warriors General Manager Donn Mann.

And we revisit PATTERNS OF THE PAST with a new book about Cook Islands tattoo.

In POLITICS Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga talks about National’s return to parliament .

In EDUCATION BEST’s leadership academy celebrates its first year.

In TRAVEL we fly to Samoa to show why now is the best time for New Zealand-based Samoans to take a trip home.

In MUSIC and BOOKS we meet Funkommnity and share an extract from the Poly-flavoured novel Telesa: The Covenant Keeper.

And Paea Wolfgramm tells us why the grass is greener across the ditch in PIECE OF PAEA.