Five time sink mobile game apps

Posted 12:43pm Sunday 10th July 2016 by Anonymous Bird

Neko Atsume Rating: A- Neko Atsume is an adorable cat collection game. You start off with a small yard, and you are given some fish. You use this to buy goodies, to deck out your garden with cat food and toys. Leave the app open in the background and do something else. Slowly but surely, cats Read more...

Lawrence Arabia — Absolute Truth Tour

Posted 12:03pm Sunday 10th July 2016 by Lucy Hunter

One of New Zealand’s finest songwriters is coming to Dunedin to play for us at the Maori Hill Coronation Hall on Friday. Lawrence Arabia has won two of New Zealand’s most prestigious music awards: the Taite Music Prize and an APRA Silver Scroll. His fourth album “Absolute Read more...

Discordia, Hair, & Bondage

Posted 12:48pm Sunday 10th July 2016 by Lucy Hunter

Spartan, fit-for-purpose separates, uncanny fetishism, and bondage elements make for a bold first step into the industry for this emerging designer. Julia Palm graduated in the top of her class at Otago Polytechnic School of Fashion. Julia is heading to New Zealand Fashion Week in August to take Read more...

Bad Neighbors 2 — Sorority Rising

Posted 12:19pm Sunday 10th July 2016 by Jessica Thompson

Rating: B+ Let’s call this a progressive comedy for a modern age. Neighbors 2, In the spirit of the first film, opens with tubby wubby Mac (Seth Rogen) and his wife Kelly (Rose Byrne) attempting sex as exhausted parents.  The film begins gross, gets grosser, and ends kinda Read more...

Lemon & Yoghurt Cake

Posted 12:53pm Sunday 10th July 2016 by Kirsten Garcia

In high school we had cake Fridays and we would eat cake during the last spell of the week. I think we should make that a thing at Uni. This modest recipe has a beautiful pairing of ingredients with a sweet lemon syrup soaked through the sponge of the cake. It’s the kind of slice that’s Read more...

The Conjuring 2

Posted 12:23pm Sunday 10th July 2016 by Alex Campbell-Hunt

Rating: B+ The Conjuring 2 is by the same director who made the Insidious movies, so as you’d expect, it scores very high on the shit-my-pants-o-meter. The trailer alone made me lose some sleep, and apparently someone actually died of a heart attack while watching the movie. If you like Read more...

The Birds

Posted 12:25pm Sunday 10th July 2016 by Andrew Kwiatkowski

Rating: B+ Ka-KAW!! Hitchcock created this enduring 1963 classic that is still quite scary by today’s standards. The action centres on the Californian town of Bodega Bay, whose residents find themselves being attacked by (spoiler alert) birds. It starts with people only being pecked by a Read more...

Skyfall

Posted 12:30pm Sunday 10th July 2016 by Andrew Kwiatkowski

Rating: A+ Skyfall is like one of those optical illusions - do you see a duck or rabbit? In Skyfall, people see what they want to see. Fans of the old school see only betrayal of the core Bond formula, with no gadgets in this film other than “a gun and a radio.” But many, like me, Read more...

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Posted 12:34pm Sunday 10th July 2016 by Hayleigh Clarkson

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is the ultimate page turner. Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize as well as being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Joshua Ferris writes with fluidity, clarity and with a unique voice unlike any I’ve read before.  The novel settles around Paul Read more...

Why Do We Need...Transhumanism?

Posted 12:20pm Sunday 29th May 2016 by Anthony Marris

Transhumanism is both a philosophy and a movement which explores how technology can be used to enhance people, essentially to better mankind. These enhancements include surgically inputting processors on the brain to increase cognitive function, or replacing lost limbs with vastly improved bionic Read more...