Letters | Issue 13

Posted 12:45am Sunday 27th May 2018

Letter of the Week Hello, On behalf of the Board of Directors of the 40 year old international Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, I write to express our extreme dismay at the University of Otago’s censorship of the student magazine Critic’s Menstruation Issue, and our support of Read more...

Critic Blind Date | Shakira and Kanye

Posted 7:44pm Thursday 24th May 2018

The hopeful lovers on the Critic Blind Date are provided with a meal and a bar tab, thanks to the Dog With Two Tails. If you’re looking for love and want to give the Blind Date a go, email critic@critic.co.nz     Shakira  On a chilly Thursday night, Read more...

We Crashed The Beatles

Posted 7:33pm Thursday 24th May 2018

Well, we did it. We sent two of our intrepid, expendable reporters to the City Hotel – not to join the rest in the boozer – and told them to “see the Beatles.” What actually rocked us on our heels was that they did. Our newspaperman and news hen walked in between the Read more...

An Open Letter On The Removal and Destruction of Latest Issue of Critic Magazine by the University of Otago

Posted 11:10am Wednesday 23rd May 2018

Dr Royden Somerville QC Chancellor University of Otago   BY EMAIL: registrar@otago.ac.nz   Dear Sir   RE: Removal and destruction of latest issue of Critic magazine by University of Otago   We are writing to express our deep concern over the recent Read more...

Critic Blind Date | Meghan and Harry

Posted 5:44pm Thursday 17th May 2018

The hopeful lovers on the Critic Blind Date are provided with a meal and a bar tab, thanks to the Dog With Two Tails. If you’re looking for love and want to give the Blind Date a go, email critic@critic.co.nz     Meghan Well blow me sideways and strap in for the Read more...

The Mystery of The Disappearing Fuckboi or: The Narrow Escape In The Hyde Street Sex Attic

Posted 10:55pm Friday 11th May 2018

OK boys and girls, ladies and gents, strap yourself in because boy do I have a story for you. I am a first-year health science student who has recently been freed from a messy relationship, and I’ve been looking to get back on the horse - so naturally I turned to Tinder. Armed with a witty Read more...

Popular Mark Ruffalos

Posted 9:56pm Friday 11th May 2018

The definitive list of the most popular Mark Ruffalos in North Dunedin this week Don Hewitt: Divorced, but still has a good relationship with your mum. Weirdly ripped. Runs a landscaping business. Bruce Banner: Obsessed with World War Two history. Sometimes you think he cares more about his Read more...

The Post-Fact World | Issue 11

Posted 9:55pm Friday 11th May 2018

If you laid a blue whale in Wembley stadium end to end the game would be cancelled. The shape of Shapes cracker is called a ‘shape shape’ On average a person will eat eight spiders in their life if they like eating spiders  The "average person eats 8 spiders a Read more...

Critic Blind Date | Shelley and John

Posted 9:26pm Friday 11th May 2018

The hopeful lovers on the Critic Blind Date are provided with a meal and a bar tab, thanks to the Dog With Two Tails. If you’re looking for love and want to give the Blind Date a go, email critic@critic.co.nz     Shelley When Critic’s blind date Read more...

ODT Reporter Fired After Failing To Include A Single Pun In 10 Consecutive Stories

Posted 7:29pm Saturday 5th May 2018

Otago Daily Times local news reporter Barry O’Barrigan was terminated from his position last Thursday following reports that he had been deliberately and maliciously refusing to include wordplay or puns in any of his story headlines. Editor-In-Chief Barry Stewart pointed out one egregious Read more...