Summer Lovin' - 24

Posted 5:56am Monday 19th September 2011

Minnie My good friend was supposed to be going on this week’s date, but after breaking into hot sweats and vomiting due to nerves an hour before she was supposed to go, I kindly stepped up to the plate. I walked into Toast at 8pm and managed to walk right past my date. This could be Read more...

No Rush- the intriguing world of Poet David Merritt

Posted 5:35am Monday 19th September 2011

It’s a brisk spring day in Dunedin, and David Merritt sits on a bench by Rob Roy, flanked by Bonita boxes. His hair is grey, his face weathered, a woollen beanie warms his head. He’s self described as “creased and crinkled in all the wrong places but pleased”. He could be homeless, save for the Read more...

Hone Harawira

Posted 3:27am Monday 12th September 2011

Hone Harawira is all about triple constructions. Vini, vidi, vici; I came, I saw, I conquered, and so on. One suspects, however, he has taken his cue just as much from his mother, Muhammed Ali and Syd Jackson as from Julius Caesar. When Harawira got on the stage in front of the audience for Read more...

Chad VanGaalen – Diaper Island

Posted 2:58am Monday 12th September 2011

  With a prolific musical and illustrative output only matched by his passionate cult following, Chad VanGaalen seems on a mission to induct listeners into his own insular, idiosyncratic world. Populated with melancholy, melody and wonderfully off-kilter compositions existing on a musical Read more...

Beastwars with Soulseller and Idiot Prayer

Posted 2:56am Monday 12th September 2011

Once again returning to Dunedin after a spectacular May performance, the Beastwars Winter Tour saw some true sonic weight hit Re:Fuel. Friday September 2 Re:Fuel  Opening proceedings, Idiot Prayer played an unfamiliar set comprised of new material. With almost industrial Read more...

SARAH LUCAS: NZU SPIRIT OF EWE

Posted 2:01am Monday 12th September 2011

Sarah Lucas was a central figure among the wave of young British artists (YBAs), such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, who took the international art world by storm in the Nineties. Lucas is an artist whose practice spans from photography, sculpture and installation. Her works are Read more...

WARNING: The Following Contains Rugby

Posted 5:31am Monday 5th September 2011

Some of you will be giddy as a school girl over the arrival of the Rugby World Cup. The rest of you will be burying your head in your textbooks waiting for the whole bloody thing to be over so New Zealand can stop being a one dimensional man cave. The ever-considerate Joe Stockman has put together a Read more...

A to Z of weird sports & sports Events

Posted 5:27am Monday 5th September 2011

Maybe you were always the last picked for teams at school. Maybe you (shh, not too loudly) hate rugby. Maybe you’ve never quite found your athletic niche. Never fear! Phoebe Harrop has compiled an alphabet of unusual sports and sports events is here to match-make even the most unusual individual Read more...

Dues Ex

Posted 4:25am Monday 5th September 2011

  Choice. That, fundamentally, is the purpose of interactivity. 2000’s Deus Ex opens with a simple choice made by the player on an understated wharf on Liberty Island. The rickety wood panels are rendered in graphics that were archaic even when the game was released, but Read more...

Blocks That Matter

Posted 4:22am Monday 5th September 2011

Platforms: PC, OS X, (2.5/5 Computers, even laptops, are bulky and cumbersome. You need to wrestle with the lid, then patiently wait as the internal programming of ‘the hive from 2005’ trips over itself, straining to open its own operating system. That’s the problem with Read more...