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Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism

Posted 12:18am Monday 26th July 2010 by Sue Hui Ong

Author: Jim Stanford Publisher: Pluto Press 4/5 Let’s be honest: reading about economics is not really my idea of a leisurely Sunday afternoon activity. However, in an attempt to expand my horizons, I picked up Economics for Everyone: a Short Guide to the Economics of Read more...

Do Llamas Fall in Love?

Posted 12:14am Monday 26th July 2010 by Jonathan Jong

Author: Peter Cave Publisher: One World 4/5   There’s been a spate of these popular philosophy books recently. I guess it was just a matter of time before philosophers capitalised on this phenomenon. It makes me wonder, though, if the market for popular philosophy and popular Read more...

Nigel Bunn and P. F. Pieters - Media Povera

Posted 12:11am Monday 26th July 2010 by April Dell

Blue Oyster Gallery Until August 7 The works of seven artists currently on show at the Blue Oyster explore alternative yet ever-increasingly familiar artistic media, such as audio, film, transmission, and appropriation of ‘expired’ technology and art methods. The show Read more...

Romeo and Juliet

Posted 1:05am Monday 19th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Samuel Irwin Starring Angus McBryde, Abby Howells, Finn Sigglekow, Miriam Noonan, Alex Wilson, and Jacob McDowell Allen Hall Lunchtime Theatre 4/5 Six actors, all alike in distinction,  In fair Allen Hall, where they lay their Read more...

Generation Kill

Posted 12:54am Monday 19th July 2010 by Paul McMillan

TV ONE 8.30pm Monday 4/5 Like most of you, I try not to turn over to Channel One lest a cloud of depression in the form of Coronation Street or some other retirement-home-friendly drivel descend on me and make me feeble and old before my time. But recently, I have to say these guys have Read more...

ARTISAN GUNS

Posted 12:43am Monday 19th July 2010 by Sam Valentine

Formed in its members’ final years of high school, Auckland quartet Artisan Guns has achieved much in its short existence. Now with two EP’s behind them (their debut effort Bird & Bone and the excellent new Hearts), the band has also been recently nominated for an APRA Silver Scroll award. Critic Read more...

Tono And The Finance Company - Fragile Thing EP

Posted 12:35am Monday 19th July 2010 by Adrian Ng

Self-Released 4/5 Ditching the economic themes prominent in the songwriting of his previous release (Love and Economics), Tono presses on, not forgetting to bring his wit and dry sense of humour to this new set of tunes. Lyrically this latest effort excels, with Tono proving to be Read more...

Mass Effect Series

Posted 12:29am Monday 19th July 2010 by Damien Khalsa

Platforms: PC and Xbox360 4.5/5 I am not a huge fan of role -playing games. I've played around with them; however, I've rarely gotten really excited by one. I got the first Mass Effect because my brother was interested in it, and only started playing it because I was bored and out of Read more...

Americans In Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944

Posted 12:21am Monday 19th July 2010 by Anne Ford

Author: Charles Glass Publisher: HarperPress 3.5/5   “What would I have done as an American in Paris under Nazi occupation during World War II?” This was the question that led veteran war correspondent Charles Glass to research the different responses of fellow Read more...

Maps and Legends

Posted 12:16am Monday 19th July 2010 by Charles Nell

Author: Michael Chabon Publisher: Fourth Estate 3/5 Maps and Legends weaves a delicate and very personal group of essays into a book extolling the virtues of reading and writing. Michael Chabon is a bestselling author of novels and short stories; he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for Read more...