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Smokin’ Seventeen

Posted 11:37pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Sarah Maessen

Author: Janet Evanovich Smokin’ Seventeen is the latest instalment in the long-running Stephanie Plum series, a series that is a classic example of when an author didn’t know to stop. Evanovich jumped the shark long ago, as each book is more ludicrous and less plausible than the Read more...

Lure Gallery, 130 Stuart Street

Posted 11:35pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Hana Aoake

Located just down from the Octagon, Lure Gallery features the work of approximately twenty-five jewellers from around New Zealand. The space itself is a tranquil escape from the busy streets below, creating a strong sense of intimacy and warmth as golden light filters through its windows. Lure is a Read more...

IMPROS 11 – Late Night Improv

Posted 11:25pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Jen Aitken

Fortune Theatre Studio, (4/5). Comedy/Improv/General GCs Antisocial Tap have provided the Dunedin scene with a much needed injection of funny over the past few years. Their improvisation wing has really taken off, so to speak, and now has a new home at the Fortune Theatre Studio. Being Read more...

Do You Want to Hear a Secret?

Posted 11:23pm Monday 8th August 2011 by Jen Aitken

Directed and devised by Jacob McDowell. Devised and performed by Abby Howells, Dianne Pulham, Trubie-Dylan Smith and Jerome Cousins, (2/5). This is the first impression I had of Do You Want to Hear a Secret? -  ‘This weeks [sic] Allen Hall production is an experiment into the Read more...

Battles – Gloss Drop

Posted 5:09am Monday 8th August 2011 by Basti Menkes

It's 3 a.m. I'm 11 years old, sleep-deprived, watching C4. 'Battles – Atlas' appears onscreen. “What the fuck, Atlas? That Kiwi band who wrote that annoying song ‘Crawl’?! Wait. Ohhh, I see. What a stupid band name.” The thumping drums, alien keyboards and ultra-distorted vocals amuse me for a Read more...

Fair Ohs: Everything is Dancing

Posted 5:04am Thursday 4th August 2011 by Sam Valentine

Providing a down to earth, stylized and heavily Californian take on the choppy afro-rhythms and chiming guitars recently made popular by Vampire Weekend and Abe Vigoda, most listeners would be surprised to discover that rather than polo shirt-wearing upper class rich kids, Fair Ohs are simply three Read more...

Dungeons of Dredmor

Posted 5:02am Thursday 4th August 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: PC, OSX, (4.5/5). “Congratulations! You have died.” What a positive spin Dungeons of Dredmor places on every conceivable game consequence. It's never “game over” in Gaslamp Games' dungeon crawler; every hero who is mauled to death by bats, or dissolves their Read more...

Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters

Posted 4:58am Thursday 4th August 2011 by Toby Hills

Platforms: PS3, Xbox 360, (2.5/5). Thank goodness Hal Jordan's ring is “the most powerful weapon in the universe”. If it were, say, the mere “best piece of murder-jewelry in the Virgo supercluster” then Rise of the Manhunters would be a bad game. Thankfully, the Read more...

Plenty 'o' Polenta

Posted 4:54am Thursday 4th August 2011 by Ruby the nutritionist

"I'm making polenta." "Placenta? What the FUCK man, I'm not eating an abortion!" The sweet response of my ultimate food critics; my flatmates. In fact, polenta has nothing to do with human reproduction. It is cornmeal, and it is epic in its golden deliciousness. You can get cornmeal from Read more...

African Cats

Posted 4:48am Thursday 4th August 2011 by Maddie Wright

Directed by: Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill, (4/5). Disney Nature’s African Cats is outstanding; think David Attenborough combined with The Lion King. The exquisite naturalness of the African savannah and its exotic inhabitants render digital animation and manipulative Read more...