Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 12

Posted 1:24pm Sunday 19th May 2013

For those who have never made the quad-burning hike past the town belt, who don’t really understand the concept of suburban Dunedin, or who simply have an aversion to leaving the North Dunedin bubble, I’ll let you in on a delicious little secret. Be warned though; it will change the way you spend Read more...

Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 11

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 12th May 2013

Aramoana is more than just the site of New Zealand’s deadliest criminal shooting (how’s that for a tempting opener?). If you’d like the details of that particularly gruesome and disturbing event, detailing the massacre of 13 Aramoana residents by AN UNEMPLOYED GUN COLLECTOR in 1990, watch the movie Read more...

Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 10

Posted 4:00pm Sunday 5th May 2013

Dunedin is not just a Scarfie mecca of couch-burning occasions, Hyde St shenanigans, bars with floors so sticky you can’t even dance, and ten-day long spells of rain. Ho no! It has a secret cultural underbelly of which many young students are not aware. Down towards (and beyond) the Octagon, things Read more...

Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 09

Posted 3:14pm Sunday 28th April 2013

The Dunedin Farmers Market is such a stalwart event of weekly awesomeness and deliciousness that I wouldn’t have thought that it even needs introduction. But it seems that this Saturday morning ritual goes on under many Otago students’ oblivious noses. Early each Saturday, under the Read more...

Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 08

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 21st April 2013

Tunnel Beach is Dunedin’s best worst-kept secret. It’s one of those places that makes every local nod if you ask them about it. Magically, though, Tunnel Beach never attracts the tourist hordes like St. Clair or even Sandfly Bay. The beach is located around eight kilometres from the Read more...

Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 07

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013

You don’t need me to tell you that New Zealand is beautiful. Everyone from Prince Charles to Bear Grylls can tell you as much. But just because you grew up here and you occasionally holiday in the Coromandel doesn’t mean you’ve truly appreciated New Zealand’s crazy-good nature bits. So, during your Read more...

Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 06

Posted 4:40pm Sunday 7th April 2013

If your only means of getting out of the ghetto any time soon is the old waewae express, look no further than Dunedin’s local Mount Lee (that’s where the famous Beverley Hills Hollywood sign calls home). Signal Hill is a prominent finger of hilly goodness that rises sharply up from the Harbour, just Read more...

Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 05

Posted 6:30pm Sunday 24th March 2013

If you feel like getting out of the ghetto in pun-tastic style, look no further than OUTram (get it?). This fine town lies not far OUTside Dunedin City – in fact, Wikipedia reckons it’s actually a suburb of Dunedin, despite being 30km along the road towards Middlemarch. There’s not Read more...

Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 04

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013

Come young fresher, I’ll let you in on a little secret. The best thing about living in Dunedin actually has nothing to do with Dunedin at all. The real treat lies a bit to the West and a touch to the North of our fine city: the magically hot-in-summer, ski-perfect-in-winter, Lord-of-the-Rings Read more...

Get Out Of The Ghetto | Issue 03

Posted 4:23pm Sunday 10th March 2013

The heady exploits of O-Week are now a hazy memory, lectures aren’t preliminary any more, and the icy charms of a Dunedin autumn have well and truly arrived here in the student ghetto. You may think it’s time to curl up in a ball, survive exclusively on mi goreng and milo, and await the release of Read more...