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Leek, Chicken And Balsamic Pasta

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Ines Shennan

Pasta is easy to prepare and always filling – cheers carbs. Chicken and leek paired together with a splash of cream makes for a comforting and indulgent meal, with balsamic vinegar offsetting the richness with a slight tang. It’s easy to adjust the quantity to feed a large group of people too, and Read more...

Six60 Interview

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Basti Menkes

Six60 is everybody’s favourite New Zealand roots band. Born and bred right here in Dunedin, the whanau-loving, roots-remembering bunch of bros have recently been enjoying some international success, with audiences in the US and UK reportedly finding them “amazing,” “awesome,” and “incredible” Read more...

Broken City

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Tim Lindsay

Having recently seen Russell Crowe’s sensitive side in Les Miserables, my inner Crowe-Bro yearned for the gladiatorial, UFO-spotting, phone-throwing Russell that we have all come to love over the last 10 years. Crowe teams up with Mark Wahlberg in a gritty political thriller that disappointingly Read more...

Liberal Arts

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Jonny Mahon-Heap

Hollywood doesn’t tend to capture the “university experience” (for lack of a less cringeworthy term) with much accuracy or success. Mostly consisting of American Pie-esque comedies or 90s trash like The Skulls, the genre doesn’t quite work. Liberal Arts (the stateside term for a BA) succeeds where Read more...

Wuthering Heights

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Ailis Oliver-Kerby

To physically represent the angst at the heart of the story, the opening of Wuthering Heights shows Heathcliff banging his head against a brick wall. This is precisely what I felt like doing for the first half of the movie. The characters are unlikable, the shaky camera technique made me nauseous, Read more...

God of War vs Gears of War

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Back in the days of Playstation vs. Nintendo N64, when choosing a console most people would pick the opposite console to what their friends had, so that you and your mates had access to all the games being released. Now, in the age of PS3 vs. Xbox 360, factors such as online gameplay have created a Read more...

On the Road

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Josef Alton

In the autumn of 1957, Jack Kerouac picked up an early edition of the New York Times from an all-night newsstand in the Upper West Side, Manhattan and read Gilbert Millstein’s review of On the Road. Millstein declared the novel “the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important Read more...

Grilled Pepper, Squid and Sesame Salad

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Ines Shennan

Squid is incredibly easy to incorporate into exciting dishes due to its tender texture and ability to be complemented by a range of flavours. You can pick up 500g of squid from the supermarket for $7 on special and when accompanied by the udon noodles, this meal will stretch out to feed three or Read more...

Slow and Spicy Chicken

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Ines Shennan

A few weeks ago I bought a slow cooker and am now left wondering how I have survived four years of student life without one. The benefits are twofold. Firstly, slow cookers allow you to haphazardly throw a selection of ingredients together and leave them gently simmering for half a day or longer – Read more...

Frontier Ruckus - Eternity Dimming

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Tom McCone

Over this now-fading summer I’ve discovered and fallen for a few bands, but the one that caught my heartstrings and plucked them the strongest was alt-folk-Americana-country-something quartet Frontier Ruckus. After listening to their 2008 effort Orion Town Songbook on repeat for days and sinking Read more...