Quesadillas
Posted 11:38am Saturday 30th September 2017 by Liani Baylis
Quesadillas hold a special place in my heart - a drunk cult-classic as far as I’m concerned. I will forever owe my drunk nights on exchange to my friend Lucy, who somehow composed herself enough to loosely monitor a bit of molten cheese on the stovetop. Get someone like that; absolute Read more...
Half a Yellow Sun
Posted 11:42am Saturday 30th September 2017 by Jessica Thompson Carr
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is truly a master of words. She combines history with fiction beautifully, and brings us close to the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), which I knew nothing about beforehand. The book follows the lives of five characters: Ugwu, a boy from a poor village; Olanna, an Read more...
Video Game Books
Posted 11:48am Saturday 30th September 2017 by Lisa Blakie
“Lisa, why don’t you review a REAL game for once”. Uh, no! Hey, you know what you should be doing instead of spending so much time playing your silly video games like Zoombinis and Call of Duty and the Mario? Maybe try reading a book? A book about… Video games! Haha! Gotcha! Read more...
Ai Weiwei: Rarely Apologetic
Posted 11:23am Saturday 30th September 2017 by Waveney Russ
Ai Weiwei has been arrested, surveyed, interrogated, abused and exiled by the Communist Party of China (CPC). His contributions to the political-artistic discussion dominated the 2017 global art scene. The son of a denounced Chinese poet, political retribution has been part of Weiwei’s life Read more...
Review: Michael Houstoun & Bella Hristova
Posted 1:01pm Sunday 24th September 2017 by Isaac Shatford
There’s nothing quite like live chamber music. I’m not just saying that because I don’t have tickets to Ed Sheeran. There’s something magical about seeing two or more instrumentalists in musical conversation. I can’t think of a better example of this than Read more...
Review: From Chamber Music to Echo Chamber...
Posted 1:13pm Sunday 24th September 2017 by Bianca Prujean
Person L – Stacian from Night School Records On 9 September 2017, Night School Records dropped ‘Person L’, the latest full-length offering from Stacian. The call and response vocals on opening track ‘Volx’ may have you mistaking Stacian for your new favourite Read more...
INK at Railway St Studios, Auckland
Posted 1:19pm Sunday 24th September 2017 by Peter Dornauf
The art world, though it would deny it, has its own set of well-established hierarchies. It needs to look down on something and that something is print works, which is ironic given that Pop Art, one of the major revolutions in the history of art, employed printing techniques. Both Warhol and Read more...
itch.io and Indie Games
Posted 1:26pm Sunday 24th September 2017 by Lisa Blakie
Itch.io is a website that has 100s of games, both free and premium, to download. You can also donate to creators of games and choose what to pay for purchase! How incredible is that? Game accessibility has been hugely increased through mobile free to play games, however it is extremely rare that iOS Read more...
Paris Can Wait
Posted 1:45pm Sunday 24th September 2017 by Gem MacDuff
Rating: 1/5 I really, really wanted this to be the Eat, Pray, Love we all deserve, but all this film made me feel was hungry. Eleanor Coppola’s Paris Can Wait follows Anne (Diane Lane), the wife of a loving but distant movie producer and his business partner Jacques (Arnaud Viard) as Read more...
Rough Night
Posted 1:50pm Sunday 24th September 2017 by Gem MacDuff
Rating: 2/5 Amped for a kick-ass, unabashedly feminist film about a bunch of fierce yet comic women fighting the good fight, I have to say I was disappointed. Wonder Woman was sold out. Instead I was ushered into a nearly empty cinema to see Lucia Aniello’s “Rough Night”. In a Read more...
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