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Killer Condom (Kondom des Grauens) – 1997

Posted 3:53am Monday 21st March 2011 by Ben Blakely

Directed by Martin Walz. Starring: Udo Samel, Marc Richter, Leonard Lansink, Peter Lohmeyer. Something strange is afoot at Hotel Quickie. A professor takes his student to the hotel and blackmails her into sleeping with him; he leaves without his penis. It appears that it has been bitten off by Read more...

A fabulous free journal to lust after

Posted 3:22am Monday 21st March 2011 by Mahoney Turnbull

Emily Miller-Sharma and photographer Guy Coombes worked with Chelsea Metcalf and Chelsie Preston-Crayford to document the interaction between their two personalities. Henrietta Harris submitted illustrations to a verbal brief of “Just paint some beautiful pictures like you do. Some Read more...

Bloodlines

Posted 3:01am Monday 21st March 2011 by Pippa Schäffler

Author: T.K. Roxborogh. Publisher: Penguin Books (3.5/5) “Do not feel guilty that you do not love me like her. Our union will be another story, Fleance. I will be a good wife and an excellent queen”.     With this, the reader of Bloodlines is immediately propelled Read more...

The Bed of Procrustes

Posted 2:59am Monday 21st March 2011 by Kari Schmidt

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Publisher: Penguin Books (NZ) (3/5) The outer aesthetic appeal of The Bed of Procrustes is equal to that of its content. A short book, charmingly presented (with a classical sculpture adorning its cover), it consists of chapters on various aspects of living Read more...

Fringe Festival

Posted 2:49am Monday 21st March 2011 by Hana Aoake

The eleventh annual Dunedin Fringe festival is on this week and I encourage you to go along and see some of the great locally produced events. Pattern and paradox by Dunedin artist Jenny Longstaff is on at the Blueskin gallery in Waitati. If you have a car or want to jump on a bus (don’t Read more...

Phillip James Frost

Posted 2:47am Monday 21st March 2011 by Hana Aoake

Works on paper, A Gallery. The work of elusive Dunedin artist Phillip James Frost is noted as being tactile and messy, yet retaining a sense of delicacy. His practice involves dispersing and recycling fragments of life and imagined worlds, as well as reincorporating motifs featured in previous Read more...

The Glean

Posted 2:45am Monday 21st March 2011 by Kari Schmidt

Contemporary jewellery and other stuff: Richard Scowen, Kelly O'Shea and Shagpile. None Gallery Upon entering None last Friday night, one encountered a diverse variety of work by The Glean. Kelly O’Shea’s pieces largely consisted of found objects such as stones and branches - a Read more...

The road has no name

Posted 2:09am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Jen Aitken

Written & directed by Feather Shaw. Staring Luke Agnew, Rachel Foerg and Alex Ross. (3/5). The programme reads; “Enjoy the play, have a laugh”. Done. This was a great way to kick off 2011’s LTT programme. To write and direct a play all by your lonesome is a big task, the Read more...

Dunedin Fringe Festival: FIND YOUR FRINGE!

Posted 2:08am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Jen Aitken

17-27 March The 2011 Dunedin Fringe Festival has attracted over 50 comedy, music, dance, theatre and visual art acts, including its biggest ever line up of comedy acts! Have you heard of Wilson Dixon? Raybon Kan? Irene Pink? Justine Smith (my personal fav)? Ben Hurley or Steve Wrigley? If you Read more...

Salmonella Dub

Posted 1:24am Tuesday 15th March 2011 by Lisa McGonigle

Urban Factory, March 5 2011. On March 5 Salmonella Dub, those stalwarts of the NZ music scene, played at Urban Factory in a gig which had been postponed from its original February 26 date. Since 1991 Salmonella Dub have been pioneering that fusion of dub, reggae and drum’n’bass Read more...