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Roast Tomato, Pumpkin and Capsicum Soup

Posted 2:47pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by Sophie Edmonds

It’s that time of year again when the electric blankets come out, the hot water bottles get cradled in lectures and your washing takes a week to dry. Soup starts to become a viable option for most meals as your bank balances become as miserable as the weather. When I was scrounging a free Read more...

iD2k16

Posted 2:38pm Sunday 19th April 2015 by Mya Middleton

iD2k16 is a #lifestyle choice. It is a #fun and #sexy brand expo. iD2k16 equates #health with wealth; be the healthiest you that you can be. iD2k16 explores a complex collection of issues including consumerism, fashion, brand and lifestyle culture, retail and art. It also critiques the authority Read more...

Horoscope | Issue 7

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Madame McMystery

Do you struggle with making basic life decisions? Worried about never bumping into your campus soulmate, or whether to eat two-minute noodles for every dinner this week? Fear not, chums, for I, Madame McMystery, have gazed deep into the cosmos to reveal the secrets the planetary alignments hold in Read more...

InFamous: First Light

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Brandon Johnstone

Rating: 2/5 InFamous: First Light is presented in an odd format. A tie-in to the larger title, InFamous: Second Son, and available for download and use without the player having to own the primary title, it’s not quite its own game yet it’s more than just a piece of downloadable content Read more...

The Grand Hotel

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Bridget Vosburgh

Scott Kenemore’s novel, The Grand Hotel, is narrated by a desk clerk who makes it clear to the reader that he has a sinister ulterior motive when he volunteers to show a group of tourists around the mysterious hotel he works for. The first guest he takes the tourists to see is a desiccated Read more...

Theatre review: The War Play

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Gini Jory

Rating: 4/5 In 2005, Private Jack Braithwaite and five other soldiers were pardoned and awarded medals for their service by Prime Minister Helen Clark under the Pardon for the Soldiers of the Great War Act 2000. The War Play focuses on the relatives of writer, Philip Braithwaite, and the scandal Read more...

Heathers

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Mandy Te

Cult 80s coming-of-age films often deal with detention, skipping school, finally getting Jake Ryan to notice you and making your own clothes. However, Heathers breaks this mould with a plotline that is darker and deadlier than any John Hughes film. While Mean Girls is often hailed as Read more...

Infinitely Polar Bear

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Ngarangi Haerewa

Rating: 4/5 On the spectrum of action-packed thrillers, Infinitely Polar Bear doesn’t even register, but it is in no way unremarkable. On the contrary, Infinitely Polar Bear fills a certain void that no amount of green-eyed anger ever could. Set in 1978, the film takes place at the Read more...

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Maya Dodd

Rating: 1/5 Filled with terrible puns, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water is a complete disaster that falls incredibly short of the beloved children’s cartoon that we all cherish and adore. Furthermore, with strange live-action and animation effects, I had to wonder if the director Read more...

Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Basti Menkes

In the last twelve months, African-American identity has been debated particularly fiercely. Coinciding with the horrors of Ferguson, we have seen a distinct whitewashing of what was previously considered “black” music. More so than ever, African-American experience needs to be culturally documented Read more...

Daft Punk: Human After All

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Basti Menkes

Daft Punk’s third studio record, Human After All, recently celebrated its 10th birthday. After being praised as innovators in the dance-music world for the now-legendary albums Homework and Discovery, the French duo were met with mixed reviews for Human After All; the Guardian even went so far as to Read more...

Roasted Tomato and Red Onion Spaghetti

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Sophie Edmonds

Vine-ripened tomatoes are in full swing at the moment. Finding them at my local veggie shop for $1.99/kilo got me inappropriately excited as I thought of making my own pasta sauce. This is for those of you who are finding store-bought pasta sauces or the homemade ones made out of budget tins of Read more...

The Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection Aliens, Androids & Unicorns

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015 by Loulou Callister-Baker

On the first poster that catches my eye as I enter the room, a blonde woman disinterestedly adjusts the strange, alien-gun weapon she is holding. The red swimsuit that adorns her toned body looks like a beast has clawed at it; it doesn’t cover much — in fact, it almost looks like a red tiger stripe Read more...

Horoscope | Issue 6

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Madame McMystery

Do you struggle with making basic life decisions? Worried about never bumping into your campus soulmate, or whether to eat two-minute noodles for every dinner this week? Fear not, chums, for I, Madame McMystery, have gazed deep into the cosmos to reveal the secrets the planetary alignments hold in Read more...

Lightning Bolt: Fantasy Empire

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Basti Menkes

Lightning Bolt are a noise-rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island. Everything about the band sounds far-fetched: both members are called Brian and one of them plays drums and sings through a gas mask while the other shreds a bass guitar strung with banjo strings. Their music is a technicolour Read more...

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Basti Menkes

When The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released in 1998, it was hailed by many as a masterpiece. Seventeen years later, it still regularly tops Best Video Games Of All Time polls. It has the same cultural legacy and enduring appeal in the world of video games as the original Star Wars movie Read more...

Vivienne’s Blog

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Bridget Vosburgh

Stephen K. Leaton’s novel, Vivienne’s Blog, is described by its blurb as a psychological thriller and, to a certain extent, this is true. The titular Vivienne is seemingly delusional and dangerously obsessed with her ex-boyfriend, Callum. A court order prevents her from having personal contact with Read more...

Insurgent

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Mandy Te

Rating: 3/5 Even though we’re well into 2015, it seems as though the dystopian film fad just can’t be shaken off. Insurgent picks up where Divergent left off, but this time with Robert Schwentke as director and Akiva Goldsman as the script writer. After the attack on Abnegation’s Read more...

X+Y

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Simon Kingsley-Holmes

Rating: 4/5 X+Y is a smart drama that rides the fine line between movie and TV-drama-of-the-week by juxtaposing the life-changing events thrust upon the film’s young autistic protagonist and maths genius, Nathan Ellis (Asa Butterfield), with the everyday hassles of his condition for those Read more...

Cinderella

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015 by Rachael Hodge

Rating: 3/5 With a $95 million dollar budget and an iconic fairytale storyline, you’d assume that the directors would spice up Cinderella just a little bit. However, if you were looking for a dramatic plot twist or anything remotely original, you won’t find it here. Ella (Lily James) Read more...