Why do we need..MOOC?

Posted 1:52pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Anthony Marris

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online university based courses that allow anybody with a decent internet connection and an interest in knowledge to learn about something new. The courses are structured and typically range from 4 weeks to 3 months, some with fixed start dates and others Read more...

Firewatch

Posted 1:55pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by James Tregonning

Here’s a quick history of popular video games. It starts with the arcade, with players putting quarters into machines over and over, beating high scores and paying for the privilege. These arcade games developed out into what is now arguably the largest entertainment industry in the world. For Read more...

What to do with beetroot and rainbow chard

Posted 2:08pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Kirsten Garcia

Welcome to autumn everyone! In honour of this cold and colourful time of the year let’s make something warm and vibrant with some veggies from our local farmer’s market. I confess I haven’t really cooked with either of these ingredients fresh before. I think of rainbow chard as Read more...

The Chimes


Posted 1:34pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Hayleigh Clarkson

I had high hopes for this novel. Anna Smaill’s The Chimes was long listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015 and the New Zealand media went crazy for it, touting Anna as the next Eleanor Catton. Despite everyone else loving this novel, I found it to be dull and tedious with a shallow Read more...

Charlotte Parallel - Ecologies Of Transduction

Posted 2:16pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Ted Whitaker

A low rumble of a freight train or the colliding of steel on a container ship occurs in a layered reality at The Anteroom, an artist-run space in Port Chalmers. Three recent works by Charlotte Parallel make up Ecologies of Transduction that aptly culminate a careful trajectory of geo-specific sound Read more...

The Lady In The Van

Posted 1:39pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Lucy Hunter

Rating: A When Lady in the Van opened with Maggie Smith driving a van in the ‘70s in England, I was clawing at my seat with the claggy white smugness of it. It seems like every year Maggie Smith does a twee, baby-boomer-bait comedy piece to drag a group of people to the cinema who will only Read more...

A Sit Down with Raiza Biza

Posted 2:20pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Sam Fraser-Baxter

The illustrious Raiza Biza is a rapper spearheading a promising renaissance of hip hop music in our country.  Following a prolific string of releases since 2012 and the success of his last album ‘The Imperfectionist’, Raiza has slowly risen from the underground and become a Read more...

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

Posted 1:43pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Andrew Kwiatkowski

Rating: A I’ll be up front - I loathed the character that is the subject of this documentary. However, it must be said that the film itself is very, very well made. If, like me you had never heard of Peggy Guggenheim, the short version is that she was the real-deal rock’n’roll Read more...

New Track: “Your Best American Girl” - Mitski

Posted 2:23pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Millicent Lovelock

I’ve come to know Mitski as the princess of propulsive sadness, and her new track, “Your Best American Girl” doesn’t disappoint. Like most of her songs, it’s a slow burn running into a scorching, explosive chorus. Mitski slips us into the body of the song with a soft, Read more...

Mahana

Posted 1:45pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Lisa Blakie

Rating: C+ Mahana is the New Zealand film adapted from Witi Ihimaera’s novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies. Successful New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison plays Tamihana aka. the World’s Grumpiest Grandpa, who is the patriarch controlling literally every aspect of the Mahana Read more...