The art of faking hypochondria

Posted 1:58pm Sunday 27th April 2014

With limitations on how much genuine clinical experience a medical student can expect to get, there exists a high demand for trained medical actors. Loulou Callister-Baker investigates Dunedin's very own Simulated Patient Development Unit. She sits in the waiting room. She feels Read more...

Interview: Ron Hanson - Founder of White Fungus

Posted 4:31pm Sunday 13th April 2014

White Fungus magazine began in Wellington as a photocopied publication delivering political messages. Nine years on, brothers Ron and Mark Hanson are still creating their magazine and last year released its 13th issue. Zane Pocock and Loulou Callister-Baker chatted with Ron Hanson over Skype to Read more...

Pixies - Indie Cindy

Posted 4:31pm Sunday 13th April 2014

Rating: B I could talk about buttoned-down shirt Dads shyly squeezing into old pairs of their black pipe jeans. I could talk about how the waistlines of their jeans pinch at their beer bellies, causing them to initially suck in for the “big gig night” with their old university buds (and how, Read more...

The Great Wall of Internet

Posted 4:50pm Sunday 6th April 2014

With the news these days constantly filled by reports of governments exercising power and influence over the Internet, Features Editor Loulou Callister-Baker takes a step back to look at a country with years of experience: China. As a tool for democracy, the Internet is a threat to Read more...

Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014

Rating: B+ Sunlight passing through a prism, creating a stretched rainbow across the floorboards. Waking up to an old pet cat purring on your face. Early morning family road trips past infinite power-poles and vast fields. Faded glow-in-the-dark stickers covering the ceiling in your old Read more...

Life at a funeral

Posted 7:01pm Sunday 30th March 2014

Loulou Callister-Baker explores the burial ritual and current, sometimes bizarre, trends within funeral industries around the world We reached Hamilton the day before Christmas. It was a reflective time - the drive was long and stuffy, another year was coming to an end and both of my parents’ Read more...

Opinion entitled to hearing?

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th March 2014

Troubled by recent stories of embezzlement in both government and university communities around the country, Loulou Callister-Baker addresses issues of corruption within New Zealand – ultimately advocating for the maintenance of transparency and for a turn away from complacency in the voting Read more...

Interview: Chloe Geoghegan, Director of the Blue Oyster Art Project Space

Posted 4:44pm Sunday 2nd March 2014

With her first exhibition opening as Director of the Blue Oyster Art Project Space just last Tuesday; Chloe Geoghegan is set to bring an exciting, fresh breath of life to Dunedin’s art scene. Loulou Callister-Baker caught up with Chloe to discuss Oxford, irrigation and Read more...

Happy Avatar; Dead Human?

Posted 4:44pm Sunday 2nd March 2014

Frequently jolted awake by the various early morning sounds of her brother, Loulou Callister-Baker takes a deeper look at the misunderstood phenomenon of gaming addiction. It is 3pm. My parents are still at work; the house is silent. A tired groan suddenly reverberates throughout the house. Read more...

Yu-Gi-(Makes Me)-Oh

Posted 6:57pm Sunday 23rd February 2014

He had straight, shoulder-length blonde hair and iridescent blue eyes. He was tall and slender. His feminine facial features were offset, but also strangely complimented, by his voice (later I learned it was the voice of Christian Bale). His name was Howl and when I saw him for the first time I was Read more...