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Love Is Blind | Issue 21

Posted 5:55pm Sunday 31st August 2014 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mismatched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Di Lusso, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this sounds like you, email Read more...

Too much screens | Issue 21

Posted 5:55pm Sunday 31st August 2014 by Sam Fleury

It's the 1980s, and prolific (if not actually talented) horror author Garth Marenghi is at the height of his fame. Naturally, he makes the move to the small screen. But his envelope-pushing scares are, for whatever reason, pulled from the schedule before airing. Until now. The network has uncovered Read more...

Defending the kingdom | Issue 21

Posted 5:55pm Sunday 31st August 2014 by Elisabeth Larsen

For all of us over at the Law School, the Honourable Michael Kirby requires no introduction. He served as a Justice of Australia’s highest court from 1996 until 2009. Though he is well into his 70s, Michael is now chairing the UN Human Rights Commission of Inquiry, investigating human rights abuses Read more...

Queer Eye | Issue 21

Posted 5:55pm Sunday 31st August 2014 by Harlequin

Warning for graphic surgical trauma/abuse The first words that will have been heard by most of the people alive on this planet today — statistically, about 99.95 per cent — are a triumphant “it’s a boy!” or “it’s a girl!” But what about the others: that one child in 2,000? Intersex is Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 21

Posted 5:55pm Sunday 31st August 2014 by Hannah Twigg

So why would I bother talking about the naked mole rat – a pink, hairless, toothed rodent from eastern Africa? Perhaps you better know them as the species that charismatic sidekick from your child/teenhood was (Kim Possible, anyone?). Have you ever Google image searched for a naked mole rat? If not, Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 21

Posted 5:55pm Sunday 31st August 2014 by Kristen Stewart

Why has this never happened to Dan Carter?! “Error” of epic proportions: TVNZ aired a raunchy condom advertisement during a TV movie about New Zealand’s most high profile rape trials. Sometimes unfortunately placed advertisements can be hilarious … not so much in this case. Anything Read more...

Editorial | Issue 21

Posted 5:55pm Sunday 31st August 2014 by Zane Pocock

The great Oil spill of 2014 has spread to the students, with recent email conversations released by the anonymous Twitter account @whaledump indicating a conspiracy by Cameron Slater and his buddy Aaron Bhatnager (who is inextricably tied up in Judith Collins’ latest of many headaches) against an Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 20

Posted 12:53am Monday 18th August 2014 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mismatched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Di Lusso, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this sounds like you, email Read more...

Too much screens | Issue 20

Posted 12:53am Monday 18th August 2014 by Sam Fleury

The Larry Sanders Show is set in a very particular time and place, namely the world of US late-night talk shows between 1992 and 1998, when the show was airing. The formula has remained largely unchanged for decades now: a man (it’s always a man) wears a suit, and sits behind a desk for an hour, Read more...

Queer Eye | Issue 20

Posted 12:53am Monday 18th August 2014 by Sir Lloyd Queerington

I like to think that I give a crap about people living in poverty. I give monthly to charities, I sign petitions, I educate myself and try to help educate others. I am pretty much a saint, but I don’t know what to do to help queers in poor countries. I sometimes wonder what motivates me to Read more...