Interview: Steve Drain of The Westboro Baptist Church

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013

Westboro Baptist Church has become infamous over the past twenty years for its stridently anti-gay messages and picketing of soldiers’ funerals. Steve Drain is a former documentarian who joined the Church in 2001. Drain featured heavily in Louis Theroux’s documentaries The Most Hated Family in Read more...

Monopoly: The Poor Man's Arsenic

Posted 1:51pm Sunday 8th September 2013

Nerds like video games, everybody likes drinking games, and nobody likes board games. I wish that sentence had come naturally, but it’s taken a week of Facebook rejections, face-to-face rejections and people “losing their phone” to teach me that no matter how much beer is on offer, it’s not worth Read more...

Student Culture Is Fucked

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 24th February 2013

Castle Street has officially become lame following the completed transformation of the former Gardens Tavern (“Gardies”) into a $3.3 million University-owned and operated student study centre. The building, located at the north end of Castle Street, was a much- loved and notorious student night spot Read more...