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Debatable: Is differing music taste a relationship deal breaker?

Yes It’s all about compatibility, baby! POV: you love late ‘60s psychedelic rock, while your partner froths Ed Sheeran. No hate to Ed, but those two genres have nothing in common, and chances are neither do you and the person you’re in a relationship with. Sure, a relationship is about learning to love someone for everything that makes them uniquely themself. But music is indicative of more than just what someone...

Editorial: I Don’t Need to Defend My Music Taste

The debatable topic this week asks whether or not music taste can be a dealbreaker in a relationship. The topic was put forth as a light-hearted suggestion, tapping into the vein of Gen Z culture where relationship “icks” are as trivial as how he ties his shoes or whether he calls urine “wee” instead of “pee”. Bad music taste is one of those icks, apparently. When I put up my hand to argue against it, it was...

Mi Goreng Graduate: Toblerone Cocktail

Tossing up between an alcoholic tipple and a decadent dessert to follow your flat dinner? Why not have both with the Toblerone. Inspired by the titular chocolate bar, the Toblerone tied together caffeinated, nutty, and velvety sweetness from a homemade honey syrup is (the star of the show). With a smooth, silky texture courtesy of fresh cream, this dessert cocktail is the natural graduation from your liquor store Mudshake. Just like...

Booze Review: Toblerone

Critic went homemade this week. After last week’s adventure tackling a box of Hard Rated Alcoholic Lemon and some questionable decisions to attend an uneventful but expensive night in the Octagon, Critic’s alcohol budget was blown on unnecessary Ubers, vodka sodas, and a guilty attempt at a Fruber. The spree has left us in a worse financial state than your parents when you asked for an Xbox 360 mid-fall-out of the 2008 financial...

In The Cage: Can I enjoy movies anymore?

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is probably only notable for the fact that it is another period piece so the Cage has an Italian accent that is more Mario than Chris Pratt was. It is devastatingly long and watching it after Sinners – one of the best films to come out this year, by the way – makes it an even more painful experience. Merry Cage-mass again with A Christmas Carol: The Movie, an animated film where the Cage...

Local Produce: Te Kahui

Kahui is an Ōtepoti Hip-Hop and R&B band that has been reinventing the solo work of their frontman's Spotify tunes for a live audience. Opening up for Kiwi legend Mā at Pearl Diver on the 12th of April has been the band's most recent accolade. The group is made up of rapper Te Kahui (AKA TK), guitarist Brian, keyboardist Josh Bottz, drummer Seth Sinclair, and bassist David Pickard. Te Kahui has been uploading songs...

Pisces Invest in fruit during this week's grocery shop. Your memory and mind is stronger than ever and you will definitely not forget about the fruit and let it rot in the back of your fridge for three weeks. Now is also a good time to pick up a new hobby...

OUSA Exec: Flatting Quality Survey

We all know flatting in Dunedin can be a wild ride; from absolutely abusing free hours of power to keep the place warm, to seeing more fungi on your wall than at a bush doof. It has become a right of...

Activist Rodent Learns What Neoliberalism Means

Thousands of people in the Southern Region were left without internet access on Wednesday 16 April following an incident of a rodent chewing through a fibre cable after being radicalised into an...

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