How To: Be a Muso

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012

Breaking into the music scene is a huge challenge, especially in a country as small as NZ. You need the right sound, the right look, good timing, and that certain something that sets you apart from the crowd. But fear not aspiring musicians! Critic has put together an easy guide on how to be a muso Read more...

Howl (an excerpt)

Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, Read more...

Diatribe | Issue 11

Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012

Every week a small group gathers on the Otago Union Lawn to openly smoke cannabis as a group. Many people can’t understand why we do this. Some people support us, but think we are crazy for putting our necks on the line and risking arrest. Others just think we are degenerate criminals. Either way, Read more...

ARE DRUGS COOL?

Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012

THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF PEOPLE AT OTAGO UNIVERSITYThe first type, often a Castle Street resident, is septum-deep in their “drug phase” – that sacred, rarefied time in most people’s lives in which drugs are the pinnacle of cool, and the user believes themselves to be equally cool by association. They Read more...

Proctology | Issue 10

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012

It was belting down with rain when Critic went along to the Proctor’s office last Tuesday; we must have been the only people to ever want to stay in his office longer than absolutely necessary. Campus Watch have been on the lookout for a persistent peeping tom (what is it about guys named Read more...

The Adorable Mr Hughes

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012

Last week Critic caught up with Green MP Gareth Hughes, who was travelling the country holding huis with fellow MP Catherine Delahunty to discuss the impact of drilling, mining, fracking and coal extraction in the hopes of rallying an urban Greenie force. Drilling, mining and coal are Read more...

Not Enough Youth in Asia?

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012

Over 300 people filled the Colquhoun lecture theatre at Dunedin Hospital on April 26 to hear a panel discuss whether euthanasia and assisted suicide should be legalised. The panel discussion, entitled, “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A discussion we need to have”, was prompted by Labour MP Maryan Read more...

Sign of the coming apocalypse: Drinking age to twenty

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012

The National Government has expedited the third reading of the Alcohol Reform Bill, which will introduce a raft of changes to the way that alcohol is sold in New Zealand. One of the more noteworthy changes is a split age for the purchasing of alcohol, which would allow 18-year-olds onto Read more...

How To: Get Yourself Off

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012

You don’t have to have a partner in order to get off: Hours of pleasure are available at the end of your fingertips … literally. The desperate hours spent trawling the d-floor at Metro or Monkey can all be avoided if you simply take things in hand, and claim responsibility for your own good times. Read more...

LILF | Issue 9

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012

“What’s in a name? That which we call ‘Dr Jonathan Marshall’ by any other name would smell as sweet.” Dr Marshall’s hunky, hunky man smell was as sweet as a clear day after rain. The heat from the limelight was never so strong as it was in a Dr Marshall class. Supporting the arts had never Read more...