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The Strange Phenomenon of Christian Flatting

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Brittany Mann

With Easter behind us and the mid-year break just around the corner, soon it will once again be the time of year to embark on that perennial venture we all love to hate: the flat hunt. For some, particularly newly-rounded freshers, decisions on flat group formation will involve fraught, Read more...

U Late

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013 by Bella Macdonald

The launch of U late on 1 April sent a flurry of joy to insomniacs who have been deprived of late-night entertainment ever since That Guy vanished off our screens. Critic reporter Bella Macdonald caught up with U late presenters Guy Montgomery (Left) and Tim Lambourne (Right) to ask them about the Read more...

Dunedin Gives Birth to Fashion

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Loulou Callister-Baker

Writing an entire feature about events that you, the reader, either couldn’t afford to go to or would never be seen at is difficult. Fashion is also difficult, but then again, fashion is a fundamental part of all societies and completely governs the way we interact and progress. Arguably, Read more...

The Ends of the Earth

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013 by Josie Adams

One way or another, the world is doomed. Josie Adams got apocalyptic and assessed the most likely causes of the Earth’s inevitable demise, from the Robot Revolution to catastrophic climate change. In the past, our planet has had mass extinctions (dinosaurs R.I.P.), And it could just be a Read more...

What/Wear/Why???

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Elsie Stone

In honour of iD Fashion week, Critic hit the pavements in search of Dunedin’s answer to Alexa Chung. Instead, we found these guys. Honestly, I do not know why someone would want to wear something that makes them look puffier than they already are. But on cold days in Dunedin it Read more...

In The Company Of Style

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Loulou Callister-Baker

With iD Fashion week recently catwalking by, Critic took the chance to get a further insight into the fashion world. Loulou Callister-Baker ventured out into the city to interview four Dunedin designers who are each at different stages of their careers, from studying at Otago Polytech’s Fashion and Read more...

Marriage 101

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013 by Brittany Mann

It may be 2013, but plenty of students are still getting engaged, married, and even divorced. Brittany Mann tracked down six married Otago students to ask them the why, when, and why? With my debut as a bridesmaid for a friend’s wedding looming menacingly on the horizon, I have found myself Read more...

Sequencing The Feminazi Genome

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Anonymous

In 1869, DNA was discovered. In 1953, the first correct double-helix model of DNA structure was proposed. In 2012, the existence of the Higgs Boson was proved. But this year comes a scientific breakthrough of far greater complexity and more global significance than any of them. Finally, in 2013, the Read more...

The Critic Legal High Review

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Matty Stroller

Yesterday afternoon I was surprised by an unusual proposition from Critic: consume and review five different types of legal highs over the course of a night. After two minutes of mental deliberation – involving some ninja-like backwards rationalising my way out of prior commitments – I decided that Read more...

Two Straight White Males Talk Politics

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013 by Sam McChesney

Political talk is 99% bullshit. Nobody ever tells the real truth about their political views, for fear of damaging their reputation or being labelled an “EXTREMIST”. Sam McChesney tracked down two hardcore politicos from both ends of the spectrum, promised them total anonymity, and asked them the Read more...

The Three Worst Threesomes

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Anonymous

The threesome demands respect. Like yoga pants it has the potential to go very, very well, or very, very badly. Unlike yoga pants, though, a bad threesome has the potential to induce trauma far more serious than the eyeball-searing sight of a sagging labia and cascades of dimpled flesh vacuum-packed Read more...

Lex: Coffee Cowboy

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Ines Shennan

For almost two decades Lex has been making strong, hot coffee at the University of Otago, currently in the East Lane of the Information Services building. Ines Shennan had a yarn with the man himself and extracted a goldmine of opinions, ranging from the political to the unusual personalities of his Read more...

What We Really Mean

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 3rd March 2013 by Ines Shennan

With a critical and cynical eye, Ines Shennan elaborates on her deeply-held concern that media campaigns rely on and exploit social norms in order to achieve their corporate agendas. The ability of broad media campaigns to reinforce cultural hegemony is enormous and we must scrutinise the Read more...

The Coolest Otago Uni Papers You've Never Heard Of

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 24th February 2013 by Zane Pocock

It’s lucky that you’re allowed to change subjects within the first two weeks of study. If you suddenly realise that no one really becomes a doctor, or that LAWS101 is a waste of time, check out Critic’s guide to setting up an interesting and varied six-paper year that will make you both a master of Read more...

#Pride #Prejudice #Hashtag @Critic

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 24th February 2013 by Loulou Callister-Baker

Where the fuck is the city? I whispered to myself as the airplane landed in a patchwork of green and yellow fields. Were we still in New Zealand? How much more land can there be south of the Bombay hills? Was Kim Jong-un actually the world’s sexiest man? Questions filled my head. While I panicked Read more...

Three Dunedin North MPs

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 24th February 2013 by Brittany Mann

Michael Woodhouse Michael Woodhouse is a Dunedin North-based National MP. So it has been about a year since you last chatted to Critic and I understand you’ve undergone some professional changes. You’re now a minister, congratulations. Thank you. So when I spoke to Read more...

How Wack Is Crack?

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 24th February 2013 by Anonymous

Poor, poor methamphetamine. It’s the Tourism of the drug world – condemned, stigmatised, and used by the dregs of society. Despite a vast array of fresh-faced, apple-cheeked ambassadors, including the Luftwaffe, Antonie Dixon, and that dilapidated whore from Breaking Bad, it’s been Read more...

New Zealanders of the Year

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Staff Reporter

Bromance Of The Year Harlene Hayne and Logan EdgarHarlene Hayne and Logan Edgar, BFFLs. As the only two people who would deign to let me interview them, I thought they should be given the privilege of telling you about their awesome friendship themselves. How does it feel to be selected as Read more...

The Future Freaks Me Out

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Zane Pocock

Over the next 20 years, a lot is set to change in the world of technology. Electric cars will drive themselves, robots will interact with us better than humans do, and augmented reality (the interaction between computer-generated sensory input and our visible reality) will become commonplace. Chief Read more...

The Little Scarfie Who Could

Posted 5:59pm Sunday 7th October 2012 by Joe Stockman

When Harriet Geoghegan mysteriously resigned as OUSA President in the middle of 2011 (Critic has always suspected it was following a failed illicit affair with a fellow execie, or possibly some sort of Dan Stride-Francisco Hernandez-related love triangle), no one thought that the self-proclaimed Read more...