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Pink Flamingos (1972)

Posted 3:36am Tuesday 5th April 2011 by Ben Blakely

Directed by John Waters. Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, and Danny Mills. A movie based on a battle for the ‘Filthiest Person Alive’ is bound to push the boundaries of cinematic taste; this film is not suitable for those weak of stomach or Read more...

Urgent Competition Update

Posted 5:30am Monday 4th April 2011 by Mahoney Turnbull

Now, just to clarify, the beautiful Madame Hawke journal giveaway was not a hoax. It is as real as ever. And you can of course get your hands on a copy by sending in a little piece of fashion literature, a snippet of your style thoughts on anything you like! Unleash some serious love/hate/utter Read more...

International names set for Dunedin Fashion Week

Posted 5:18am Monday 4th April 2011 by Mahoney Turnbull

In case you’re not completely up with the iD goss, Akira Isogawa is an outstanding designer, hailing from Oz, who will be making an appearance as an international guest designer at iD Fashion Week. Hoorah! But that’s not all. Mr Stefano Sopelza will also be gracing Dunedin with his sultry Read more...

Day Walks of New Zealand – Canterbury and Kaikoura

Posted 4:34am Monday 4th April 2011 by Stefan Fairweather

Author: Mark Pickering. Publisher: Penguin (3/5) Most New Zealanders take it as a given, if not a birthright, the access we have in this country to a plethora of walks (aka tramps for the newbie foreign students reading this). But it would be interesting to ask somebody, say in Read more...

Master of Reality

Posted 4:31am Monday 4th April 2011 by Johnny Panadol

Author: John Darnielle. (4/5) Master of Reality is part of the long-running 33 1/3 series, in which each new entry is written by a different author about classic album of their choosing. John Darnielle has written his tribute to the Black Sabbath album in the form of a diary kept by a sixteen-year Read more...

Art and Fashion

Posted 4:23am Monday 4th April 2011 by Hana Aoake

Historically speaking, art and fashion vastly overlap and often seamlessly influence each other. What initially comes to mind is Manet’s portraits of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, Salvador Dali’s extensive collaborations with fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, Andy Read more...

Hullapolloi

Posted 2:49am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Jen Aitken

Footnote Dance Company (Wellington), 5/5. This beautiful and unsettling collaboration between Footnote Dance Company, Jo Randerson and Kate McIntosh dissected the child-like and self-conscious dynamics of a group. The figures, covered from head-to-toe in different coloured lycra bodysuits, Read more...

Once Was

Posted 2:45am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Lauren Enright

The Theatre As Is (Dunedin). By Jimmy Currin and Dell McLeod assisted by Richard Huber, 3.5/5. Once Was is presented in a cosy upstairs space, with chairs or couches as seating options. The stage space has the lighting exposed and is bare except for one chair and two layers of mesh that is hung to Read more...

Mates and Lovers

Posted 2:43am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Jen Aitken

Fabulous Arts Aotearoa (Wellington). Directed and written by Ronald Trifero, 4/5. Mates and Lovers (inspired by the book Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand by Chris Brickell, a lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Otago), invites us to ponder how the past speaks to the Read more...

Love You Approximately

Posted 2:42am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Maya Turei

The Clinic (Christchurch), 3/5. Love You Approximately (with the really cute tagline “a virtual love story”) was all about long distance relationships. The play consisted of two characters using Skype, Facebook and phone calls to grow and nurture their budding relationship. Pere Read more...