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Coq au Vin

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Ines Shennan

Arich, wine-based sauce slowly tenderises chicken drumsticks as it bubbles away with garlic, thyme, bacon and mushrooms. As you may deduct from the name, the dish is of French origin, translated as “rooster with wine”. The name has been subject to numerous “coq” jokes in our flat, a sign of the Read more...

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Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Beaurey Chan

So what I’ve been trying to do by writing this section this year is emphasize the burgeoning Dunedin arts culture, emphasis on burgeoning - not just cause I like that word (I really do, is the English major geek in me showing?) but because it’s so true that there’s a quietly growing arts scene here Read more...

Memories Of My Melancholy Whores

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Louise Pearman

Memories of my Melancholy Whores is the story of an unnamed, lonely, 90-year-old man who decides to treat himself to “the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.” He then finds liberation in his decision not to take the drugged 14-year-old’s virginity, and proceeds to fall in love Read more...

Stupid Walls

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Danny Goodwin

Brought to you by: Stage South Next Performance : May 26 The theatre scene is back on again this week in Dunedin, bringing with it some awesome work from Read Out Loud. This series of play readings is a whole new way to experience theatre and gives some choice New Zealand work the chance Read more...

Lord of The Rings: War in the North

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Markus Ho

Developer: Snowblind Studios Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PS3 As video game adaptations of movies go, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Lord of Rings: The Return of the King are among the best. It may have been a while ago, but nothing beats the feeling as you watch the “perfect kills” Read more...

American Pie: Reunion

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Taryn Dryfhout

American Pie: Reunion is yet another installment in this series of films, with this one being much anticipated due to most of the original cast returning in their more adult roles. It opens with American Pie’s golden couple, Jim and Michelle, who have been married for years and have a Read more...

Mysteries of Lisbon

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Feby Idrus

Mysteries of Lisbon is a long movie – as it should be. Based on the nineteenth-century classic Portuguese novel Os Mistérios de Lisboa, this film adaptation’s length enables the novel’s full scope to be explored – in particular its intertwining stories, multiple locations and fabulous, romantic Read more...

Tono and The Finance Company

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Isaac McFarlane

Characters can be people who stand out from the crowd, or symbols of writing systems. They can be found in the pages of comic books and on the screens of Cartoon Network-addicted children with absent parents and televisions for babysitters. They can also be found in almost every one of Anthonie Read more...

Beef Tagine with Couscous

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Maeve Jones

This week we have a slightly different but incredibly delicious way to cook your cheaper cuts of meat, sure to beat all other beef stews. Tagine is a North African dish where meat is cooked slowly in various spices until it is fragrant and tender, usually in the clay pot that goes by the same name. Read more...

Haunts of Dickens

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Taryn Dryfhout

Haunts of Dickens is a collection of almost 60 watercolours painted by British artist Paul Braddon (1864-1937). The exhibition is part of Charles Dickens’s 200th birthday celebration and contains scenes from Dickens’s novels, ranging from Great Expectations to The Old Curiosity Shop. The Read more...

Pets! Dead Or Alive!

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Bradley Watson

Marina Lewycka’s Various Pets Alive and Dead delves into the development of a slightly dysfunctional family who have taken very different lives after growing up in a left-wing liberal commune. Set in 2008, the novel moves between Doncaster and London, exploring both the present lives of the Read more...

The Girl in Stillettos

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Lauren Wootton

Dunedin’s own Girl in Stilettos is in town next week and playing at Sammy’s on her national tour. Annah Mac will perform on April 28 as part of the tour to promote her single, as well as her album released in September last year. I caught up with her to find out all about her bowls skills, and how Read more...

RED

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Bronwyn Wallace

Written by John Logan Directed by Lara Macgregor Starring John Bach and Cameron Douglas Performing until May 5 The Fortune Theatre’s latest award-winning production RED is a fierce and intriguing look in to the life of Mark Rothko and his assistant, over the space of two years, as he Read more...

Avernum: Escape From the Pit

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Toby Hills

Remember when, in well-supervised playground games, you had to take turns? Avernum taps into all that nostalgia, as well as all the comfort that comes from navigating a series of isometric cubes. This RPG is deliberately generic – so it’s equal parts charming and predictable. After Read more...

Must-sees at the World Cinema Showcase

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Sarah Baillie

The World Cinema Showcase is back in town, and boy are there a lot of good movies to be seen! The baby version of the New Zealand International Film Festival, the WCS is running from April 19-May 2. The great thing about film festivals, apart from being able to go to the movies in the middle of the Read more...

Footnote

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Sam Allen

Footnote is a comedic satire that explores the awkward rivalry between two Talmudic Scholars, Eliezer Shkolnik and his son Uriel Shkolnik. Director Joseph Cedar pieces this award-winning film together beautifully, rendering it extremely engaging and surprisingly insightful. In the process of Read more...

Titanic (3D)

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Michaela Hunter

Titanic appreciators should definitely go and experience this classic film in 3D. Seeing Titanic for the first time in years was enjoyably nostalgic, despite the slight cringe factor of the cheesy lines and the accompanying Celine Dion soundtrack. I got far more involved in it than I thought I Read more...

Vietnamese Salad

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Ines Shennan

This colourful, crunchy and tangy salad is of Vietnamese inspiration. A piquant dressing coats finely sliced vegetables, poached chicken (if you so wish), honey-roasted peanuts and fresh mint. You can substitute the lemons for limes for a more authentic flavour, though they will set you back a few Read more...

Get Your Performance On

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Bronwyn Wallace

After a week off I’m sure it’s safe to say that, for most of us, we’re not at all rested. Cramming in working on assignments between crazy nights out? It’s what the break is really for. Now that we’re back in the swing of things, however uninvited it may be, it’s time to get serious. It’s time to Read more...

The Women of the 6th Floor

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Becky Ruthers

A Cinderella story in reverse, Jean-Louis Joubert is a successful stockbroker living a life of upper-middle-class refinement in early 1960s Paris. He works the same job and occupies the same lavish apartment as his father and grandfather did before him, expecting to do so for the rest of his life, Read more...