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The Girl Who Played With Fire

Posted 4:31am Monday 23rd August 2010 by Aleksandar Vuckovic

Directed by Daniel Alfredson Rialto (3/5)       The Girl Who Played with Fire is a Swedish crime thriller and sequel to the highly acclaimedThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.    The film picks up where the original left off, with Lisbeth Salandar Read more...

Mirror

Posted 4:13am Monday 23rd August 2010 by Jonathan Jong

Author: Jeannie Baker Publisher: Walker Books (4/5)  There is something unspeakably happy-making about illustrated children’s books that are unapologetically forthright in their social messages. Jeannie Baker’s latest – Mirror – tells what is Read more...

How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

Posted 4:12am Monday 23rd August 2010 by Jonathan Jong

Author: Chad Orzel Publisher: Oneworld (4/5) Particle-wave duality is not the doctrine that photons and elections (etc.) are simultaneously waves and particles. Neither are they really particles with wave-like properties or really waves with particle-like properties. Rather, Read more...

A Life on Gorge River – New Zealand’s Remotest Family

Posted 4:11am Monday 23rd August 2010 by Brittany Travers

Author: Robert Long Publisher: Random House (2/5)      This book tweaked my interest ever since the author, Robert Long, was given a rock star’s welcome at the Dunedin Public Library, where he launched this début book. It’s the sort of story Read more...

Inherent Vice

Posted 4:10am Monday 23rd August 2010 by Henry Feltham

Author: Thomas Pynchon (4/5)    When you are famous for writing difficult books, there will always be a handful of people who are going to be put off when you write a noir detective thriller, set in seventies surf-hippie Los Angeles (where, incidentally, Pynchon – age Read more...

Interview with Larry Matthews - Owner of {lanyop} lagniappe small art gallery

Posted 4:06am Monday 23rd August 2010 by Staff Reporter

Tucked away behind Mou Very bar on George Street is {lanyop} lagniappe small art gallery, an offbeat and unique art space that is only open when the sun goes down. Gallery-goers view works by candlelight while being serenaded by live piano. Critic talks to owner Larry Matthews. What was the Read more...

Something Quartet - preview

Posted 5:01am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Logan Valentine

This week I had the pleasure of hearing the track ‘Toilet Doorhandles’, an advance release from the Something Quartet’s forthcoming album. Just to fill you in, the Something Quartet are usually a Septet who squash half of Dunedin’s music scene into a band. Bugs is the lead music director of the Read more...

The Twitch - Time For Change

Posted 5:00am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Raymond Sawkins

Rangi Records / Border Music (4.5/5) Well, if you know anything about The Twitch, you will know they are experts at putting maximum attitude into everything they wave their wand at. This piece of pure Rock ‘n’ Roll magic is no exception. Just looking at the cover will Read more...

Crackdown 2

Posted 4:54am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Damien Khalsa

Platforms: Xbox 360 ( 3/5)       Crackdown 2 is a sequel to Crackdown, one of the first sandbox games on the Xbox 360. Crackdown was an odd game in that few reviewers gave it better than average reviews, but it nevertheless appeared on their lists of personal Read more...

Chilli, Garlic & Prawn Vermicelli

Posted 4:49am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Tien-Yi Toh

I think it’s time for another pasta recipe. This is the dish that I am most proud of, even though I am not sure that I have the right to be proud of something that isn’t an original idea. I watched Jamie Oliver make something like it on TV once so I just followed the basic rules and Read more...