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A Space To Create

Posted 4:11pm Monday 15th August 2016 by Lucy Hunter

Artsenta is a place where people using mental health services can go to do art. The studio is based on an ethos that everybody should be able to access art materials and to use them in any way they want to. Artsenta kindly let Critic in for a chat with the staff. A group of people sat quietly Read more...

Roving Woman

Posted 3:57pm Monday 15th August 2016 by Ceri Giddens

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OUSA City Gallery Crawl

Posted 3:05pm Monday 15th August 2016 by Critic

Every year OUSA hosts the City Gallery Crawl. It is a night to explore the diversity of the visual art scene in Dunedin. Galleries open late, many have free drink and food, and every one has a feast for the eyes. You can either wander round the galleries at your leisure, or meet at the Dunedin Read more...

Mistakes I made That You Can Still Avoid

Posted 11:49am Sunday 7th August 2016 by Chelle Fitzgerald

This year marks my return to uni, at 31 years of age. It’s a bit daunting to realise that now I’m going to be akin to one of those weird mature-aged students who sit up the front, infuriatingly punctuating the lectures with waffling stories of “life experience” that bear Read more...

Why Local Politics Actually Matter

Posted 11:32am Sunday 7th August 2016 by Jarred Griffiths

At the moment most students see the Dunedin City Council (DCC) as a body that does not serve their interests. And ultimately, that’s the point: it doesn’t. Only one fifth of the elected Councillors are women, none are under the age of thirty, and in photos the lack of diversity is Read more...

Sensational Seagulls

Posted 12:18pm Sunday 31st July 2016 by Mikayla Cahill

When people ask you what your favourite animal is, they definitely aren’t expecting to hear the word seagull; but that is exactly what my favourite animal is. The seagull is an ethereal being, with wonderful powers of persuasion and a cunning attitude. From their snow white and charcoal grey Read more...

Putin's Nonsense Media

Posted 12:06pm Sunday 31st July 2016 by George Elliott

George Galloway, the abrasive former British MP and leader of the leftwing Respect Party, was once a prolific moonlighter. In 2014 he made as much money working for dubious state-run news broadcasters than he did as a British Member of Parliament. Two years later, after a failed bid at becoming Read more...

Coming Up Short

Posted 11:50am Sunday 31st July 2016 by Joel MacManus

In February of 2016, a post on the reddit forum r/newzealand entitled “Are You My Future Baby Daddy?” caused something of a stir. Rather than an inelegant attempt at internet dating, it told the story of a young couple looking for someone, anyone, who was willing to meet up in Wellington Read more...

From devotion to debauchery

Posted 11:42am Sunday 24th July 2016 by James Tregonning

When you think about it, it’s a bit weird that Monkey Bar used to be a church. It seems kind of disrespectful. I sat down with Trevor Geddes, one of the leaders of Dunedin City Baptist Church – the folks that used to be in that building – and asked him what he thought about the Read more...

Drunk Me Is The Poor Man’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Posted 11:33am Sunday 24th July 2016 by Michelle Fitzgerald

Anyone who knows me, the eternal party girl, will be aware that this is going to be a pretty massive change of pace for me. Although I’ve tried to cut down a few times in the past, placing certain limitations on myself (never at home alone/only once a week/only classy booze that doesn’t Read more...

Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer

Posted 11:15am Sunday 24th July 2016 by Carys Goodwin

The year was 2016. The month, February. And against all rhyme or reason, a poll released by Public Policy Polling confirmed the worst: 38 percent of Floridians genuinely believed Ted Cruz could be the Zodiac Killer-a serial killer who operated in northern California in the late ’60s and early Read more...

The 2016 Darryl Kerrigan "My House My Castle" Awards

Posted 11:51am Sunday 17th July 2016 by Hugh Baird

Since Jesus wore sand shoes, students in Dunedin have been subjected to living in cold, damp and unkempt flats. As part of the OUSA flatting week festivities we decided to run a competition to find those flats and showcase some of the best, and worst of what Dunedin has to offer. Winners of the Read more...

Teaching Kids to Love Learning

Posted 11:36am Sunday 17th July 2016 by Amber Allott

If you, much to your great misfortune, happen to be born poor, there are a lot of opportunities that you are going to miss out on that your more well-off peers will receive. While the differences between the rich and the poor appear much more overt in third-world, they are still very tangible and Read more...

Help, my flat is haunted!

Posted 11:24am Sunday 17th July 2016 by Amber Allott

Dunedin is reputed to be the most haunted city in New Zealand. You could end up living in one of New Zealand’s oldest, most fascinating residential buildings, in various states of disrepair, with a unique and possibly tragic history. You may, like many before you, end up hearing footsteps Read more...

Fairies are scaries

Posted 11:09am Sunday 10th July 2016 by Anonymous Bird

Fairies (or Faeries) are a massive part of our popular culture. The first image that comes to the minds of most people is of Tinkerbelle, or perhaps the fairy godmother in Cinderella. Fairies are seen as cute, pink, little people who exist to help and serve humans. They’re magical Read more...

Why won’t aliens visit us?

Posted 11:03am Sunday 10th July 2016 by Connor Fry

“So I’m certainly not a reptile. I’ve never been in a spaceship, never been in outer space, and my tongue’s not overly long either.” In 2014 a fellow human-being submitted an Official Information Act request for proof John Key wasn’t a reptilian enslaving us, Read more...

Abominable Stories

Posted 10:53am Sunday 10th July 2016 by Anthony Marris

Cryptozology is the study of hidden and mainly mythical animals that mainstream science pays little attention to. Mention cryptozoology in a conversation and people automatically deride you, if they know what the word means. When you can be bothered explaining that it is so much more than the Read more...

An actual real legal high

Posted 11:45am Sunday 29th May 2016 by Sam Fraser-Baxter

I thought I would smell J-Day before I would be able to see it. Like the police burning off a colossal stash of confiscated plants, I imagined Dunedin’s J-Day creating a haze of smoke so large that it would hot box the wider Octagon, a blaze so impressive that it would send a great political Read more...

Personal Statement

Posted 11:35am Sunday 29th May 2016 by Carys Goodwin

When I picture graduate school selection panels, I picture the iconic scene in every genre of movie from Billy Elliot to The Shawshank Redemption – a large, old hall or room; a long desk, with a row of glasses-wearing middle aged examiners sitting behind it; and a single chair, placed Read more...

Breaks & Skates - the revolution of Roller Derby

Posted 11:28am Sunday 29th May 2016 by Jean Balchin

There I stood, gingerly extending my right foot as the wheels rolled across the ground. Clad head to toe in battered protective gear, I resembled a second-rate Stormtrooper, and like the infamous head-bumping guy from Episode IV, I was just as clumsy. I had always envisaged Roller Derby as a sexy, Read more...