Cos It's All About The Play

Posted 12:07pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Victoria Ransom

The smell of makeup, face paint and coloured hairspray fills the air. Masses of people are all flocking to one place for a day of excitement, laughter and all out craziness.  For those of you thinking these are the sights and smells of the annual Hyde Street party, you are sadly mistaken. We Read more...

Intercontinental Drift

Posted 11:55am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Norman H. Maclean

“They change their sky but not their soul who cross the ocean.” When Roman poet, Horace penned these words over two millennia ago, he could scarcely have envisaged the chaos unfolding in our time as hundreds of thousands clamour for salvation in the West, carrying with them both faith Read more...

A Week In The Life Of A Sex Store Employee

Posted 11:41am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Chelle Fitzgerald

“Wow, that is so cool! What’s it like? Are all the customers hella kinky?” This is the most common response I hear when people find out what I do for a living. To be fair, it’s a natural reaction, as so many people have never set foot inside an adult store. Many people Read more...

The Human Garbage Receptacle

Posted 12:05pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Anthony Gordon

You haven’t seen the nasty side of human nature until you’ve worked a job dealing with hungry people who do not give a fuck about who you are. The little social niceties that stop people from succumbing to their momentary anger and verbally abusing their mate’s girlfriend Read more...

Reiki’n It In

Posted 12:22pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Lucy Hunter

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that adherents believe also promotes healing. Reiki (rhymes with nakey) was developed in 1922 by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui. It uses a technique often called “palm healing” or “hands-on-healing”. Read more...

The Path To Fashion Week: OP to iD

Posted 12:45pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Brittany Pooley

iD Fashion Week is Dunedin’s own annual celebration of New Zealand fashion. It presents two major Fashion shows; the iD International Emerging Designer Awards and the iD Dunedin Fashion Show otherwise known as Railway Each year designers from all over the world are invited to put forward their Read more...

The Secret Life Of Bees

Posted 1:26pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Amber Allott

The leader of the group got to her position of power by violently murdering her sisters. She was born in a cell and fed nothing but jelly by thousands of identical nurses. The bodies of her dead children are picked up and tossed outside the institution they were born in. When she is too old to work Read more...

No Pain, No Gain

Posted 1:36pm Sunday 13th March 2016 by Jean Balchin

It wasn’t until I felt the sharp sting of lemon juice trickling down into my eye made me realise I had made a terrible mistake. Inelegantly slumped over the bathroom sink, I squinted through my tears at the woebegone girl in the mirror and vowed never to bleach my freckles again. Although only Read more...

Student Flats Or Student Slums?

Posted 12:28pm Sunday 6th March 2016 by Joe Higham

Much criticism has been levelled at the condition of many student flats in North Dunedin, and countless solutions have been proposed, but who is the blame for the situation? Is it the landlords’ fault for not caring for properties enough and allowing the condition of their property to slowly Read more...

What's The Deal With Christian Science?

Posted 12:38pm Sunday 6th March 2016 by Lucy Hunter

Heal the sick. Raise the dead. Cleanse the lepers. Cast out demons,” reads the proud emblem of the Church of Christian Scientists. No wonder a man at the first service I went to told me that being a Christian Scientist is “very difficult”.  Most people who have heard of Read more...