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The Grand Budapest Hotel

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Rosie Howells

Rating: A There is no way to adequately summarise The Grand Budapest Hotel’s plot in a couple of sentences, but it must be done for the purposes of this review, so please keep in mind the following paragraph does not remotely do the film justice. The Grand Budapest Hotel follows the eponymous Read more...

The Observer

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Emma & Liam

Bryn (Commerce and Law) is wearing a Commoners t-shirt, J.Crew shirt, AS Colour pants, River shoes and an ASOS bag. Brianna (Communications and Design) is wearing a Mad Love cardigan, Sass and Bide top, Bec & Bridge shorts, Nike shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and Marc by Marc Read more...

How to: Not look like a fresher

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Emma & Liam

College residence t-shirts are not to be worn in public. Nobody cares that you did enough extracurricular activities to get into Arana. Leave those awkwardly fitted t-shirts, along with your school leaver’s hoodie, for all of the lazy, hungover Sundays. Dunedin is not the Coromandel. The Read more...

Style Watch

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Emma & Liam

Good Bassikes - The philosophy behind Australian brand Bassike is covetable everyday wardrobe staples with longevity. These organic cotton treasures are more adaptable than bacteria and can be dressed up or down for any occasion. In Dunedin they can be found at Slick Willy’s. Read more...

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Chelsea Boyle

Philip K. Dick depicts a desolate and battered San Francisco in his post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Earth, post-World War Terminus, has been swathed in radioactive dust causing the eventual death of many species we have today. Most people have been Read more...

Zine of the week: What She Said

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Anonymous Bird

24 A5 Pages Available at Blackstar Books If only there were some kind of space dedicated to celebrating the creative and diverse voices of young feminist women in New Zealand ... that’s What She Said. What She Said is essentially the literary embodiment of a new intersectional Read more...

Stretching Time

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014 by Hannah Collier

Dunedin Public Art Gallery Exhibited until 15 June 2014 Auckland based artist Steve Carr is currently exhibiting a new series of work at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery as a result of his ten-week residency under the Gallery’s Visiting Programme. Carr was awarded the 2013 Dunedin Public Art Read more...

Interview: Ron Hanson - Founder of White Fungus

Posted 4:31pm Sunday 13th April 2014 by Zane Pocock

White Fungus magazine began in Wellington as a photocopied publication delivering political messages. Nine years on, brothers Ron and Mark Hanson are still creating their magazine and last year released its 13th issue. Zane Pocock and Loulou Callister-Baker chatted with Ron Hanson over Skype to Read more...

Tycho - Awake

Posted 4:31pm Sunday 13th April 2014 by Adrian Ng

Rating: A- Tycho is Scott Hansen, a San Francisco based visual artist and producer. Having released music since the early 2000s, it wasn’t until 2011’s Dive that Hansen’s music started gaining considerable attention. Awake, like Dive, is a sleek, electro-ambient record with an undercurrent of Read more...

Download of the week: Mermaidens - Bones (NZ)

Posted 4:31pm Sunday 13th April 2014 by Adrian Ng

Mermaidens are Lily Paris West, Gussie Larkin and Abe Hollingsworth, a three-piece, psych-pop outfit from Wellington. Combining dirty, looming riffs and impassioned vocals, their three track EP Bones is available for name-your-price download from mermaidens.bandcamp.com. Read more...