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Top 5 Secondhand Bookstores in Dunedin

Posted 12:19pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jonathan Jong

I can’t remember the last time I bought a book from a chain bookstore. With several online shopping options (check out goodbooksnz.co.nz: it’s often cheaper than Amazon, and proceeds go to Oxfam), and UBS so close, there seems to be little reason to leave campus for books. Besides, even Read more...

Blue Oyster Art Project Space

Posted 12:09pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by April Dell

Dunedin’s dynamic art scene owes much to the efforts of establishments like the Blue Oyster Art Project Space. Nestled in the basement of the Moray Chambers building, down a rather inconspicuous, dark, graffitied alleyway off Moray Place, you’ll find the Blue Oyster gallery. This modest, Read more...

Against the Tide: Back pain treatment – the breakthrough by Robin McKenzie

Posted 4:01am Wednesday 23rd June 2010 by Kathy Young

Publisher: Dunmore Publishing 3/5 My first introduction to the McKenzie Method was when I hurt my back and upper leg a year ago while running. I have had recurrent back pain for years, but serious training tipped it into an intolerable degree of pain. The physiotherapy clinic talked me Read more...

Martin Thompson - 5 New Works ( Brett McDowell Gallery )

Posted 3:56am Wednesday 23rd June 2010 by Critic

Hours of meticulous labour, complete concentration, and mathematical genius are the artistic virtues currently on display at the Brett McDowell Gallery. New Zealand artist Martin Thompson is showing his five newest works, which exhibit his fanatical obsession with systemised geometric drawing, his Read more...

Play

Posted 4:23am Tuesday 18th May 2010 by Jen Aitken

Written by Samuel Beckett Directed by Benjamin Blakely Allen Hall Lunchtime Theatre March 4 and 5, 1pm A man, a wife, and his mistress individually reflect on their love triangle from the confines of three urns. They are interrogated in a never-ending cycle until they are shadows of Read more...

My Name is Rachel Corrie.

Posted 4:22am Tuesday 18th May 2010 by Jen Aitken

Directed by Stuart Young Starring Nadya Shaw Bennett Allen Hall Theatre March 3 – 6 at 7.30pm, Sunday March 7 at 4pm Taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie and edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, this piece of documentary theatre, directed by the head of the Theatre Studies Read more...

HOMEGROWN - February 20, 2010 Wellington

Posted 3:21am Tuesday 18th May 2010 by Tim Suggate

4/5 Glazed eyes, smiles, and high-fives all round. Midway through their bone-jarring set, Laughtan Kora stops and asks the Homegrown crowd, “How good it is to live in this beautiful country called Aotearoa?” And he’s right, our little nation in the middle of the South Read more...

Sacha Vee EP (Independent)

Posted 3:20am Tuesday 18th May 2010 by Dave Eley

4/5 Dutch/West Indian neo-soul artist Sacha Vee is a distinctive vocalist who is making waves in the New Zealand music scene. Alongside soulful collaborations with Pacific Heights, Oval Office, and P-Bass Expressway, she has been focusing on her own original sound. 2009 saw the release of her Read more...

The Brian Jonestown Massacre Who killed Sgt Pepper?( A Records)

Posted 3:19am Tuesday 18th May 2010 by James Barlien

4/5 Who killed Sgt. Pepper? by The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a breathtaking album, and despite what may have been said of Anton Newcombe in the past, he has undeniable talent.    The album is a step forward from their previous work, as shown by the opening track ‘Tempo Read more...

Various Artists Womad New Zealand: Sounds Of the Planet 2010 (Shock Records)

Posted 3:17am Tuesday 18th May 2010 by Phoebe Harrop

3/5 If WOMAD were a person, it would probably be a pot-smoking, prayer-chanting, bongo-playing hermaphrodite with knee-length dreads and no shoes. It’s no surprise, then, that this year’s WOMAD compilation is about as eclectic as it’s possible to be, encompassing all reaches Read more...