Jess Wilson |    New Zealand Fashion Week shined its pretty head just over a week ago. After completely ignoring it for that past few years, I’m starting to like it again. When I was a fashion blogger, I never ignored NZFW. I remember, six years ago, sitting at the dinner table at 9pm anxiously… Read more »

His favourite movie is The Intouchables. She replied to all our emails in Comic Sans. The last “book” she “red” was Nexus. He knows all the words to Wake Me Up by Avicii. She knows all the words to Trumpets by Jason Derulo and any Bruno Mars song. We put them on a date where… Read more »

Cooking 4 StudentsYet again I am late with this column. It must be because I have had to put my big boy pants on and have to work full time since I have finished my Masters. Word from the not so wise; grown up life aint much fun. Wake up, work, eat, sleep. Repeat. I’m… Read more »

Tahangawari Tangitu-Huata |  ” All you fellas that are supposedly too shy to seek help, but not shy to seek loose change from your neighbour, go and ask for help.”  Tukua mai tō aroha e te kaihanga ki runga ki ēnei tauira e inoi nei ki a koe. Kei te whakahōnoretia tō tātou Kīngi Māori… Read more »

Queenie Tan Pou Eian |  “…I sincerely admire your tolerance for pain.”  Having been born in an Asian country, seeing Caucasians on the streets in Asia is a very rare thing. Maybe some of you have been to an Asian country before, and maybe, you have been approached by a tiny Asian lady who was… Read more »

Jules Craft |  “Granted politics are boring as fuck but this is only because we don’t vote.”  Politics is out of it, and so damn unappealing. You know what is a real pity though? Politics control everything that happens to our country and society. When you understand how much control politics has over our lives… Read more »

” …you do not want to be known as the person who fucked themselves into an ‘A’…”  Dear Aunty Slut,  I got really wasted last week and went home with what I thought was a random. I don’t remember much except that the sex was pretty good considering how drunk we were. But I went… Read more »

Jessica Wilson |  “This liner is no-bullshit, industrial strength.” Applying liquid eyeliner needn’t take years to master. A good liquid eyeliner can be applied quickly and easily. After close to a decade of wearing a cat-flick, only recently have I discovered how and what to apply to perfect the classic look — and it’s quite… Read more »

Emma Nygard |  The last dick you saw was a photo of John Key. There are only two types of people in this world: people who are single and people who are single as fuck. Oh and of course people who are in relationships or whatever — but you generally can’t drink too many tequila shots… Read more »

Scott Granville and Ben Woollen |  “If your film is good enough it will find an audience.” We’re Scott Granville and Ben Woollen, the co-founders of Chasing Time Productions. In 2008 we completed our first feature film, Pictures of You, the first digital film to be shot entirely in Hamilton. Our short films have screened… Read more »

Jared Wooldridge |  “…it’s getting harder and harder to defend Transformers as nothing more than Michael Bay printing his own money from explosions and models…” Is Hollywood creatively bankrupt? Are movie-goers mindless drones? Are critics pretentious snobs? 42? Questions the film community is having to ask itself more and more these days, and we all know… Read more »

Janine Swainson |  “Warning. The following film is the annual oh-my-God-I’m-so-hungry-after-watching-this-film film.”   At Auteur House the only night more exciting than Christmas Eve is the opening night of the Film Festival. Like children carefully wording their wish lists for Santa, Dr Ezy and I spend hours poring over the programme, ticking, highlighting and trying to… Read more »

Janine Swainson |    As someone who took ballet classes twice a week for 11 years, it’s no surprise I love me some dance docos. Here are seven of my favourites that you can rent from Auteur House to (re)awaken your inner hoofer. First Position (2011) People who have never done ballet can never really… Read more »

Peter Dornauf |  August is Hamilton Book Month, which overlaps with Wintec’s, Spark Festival. The latter will have already been and gone by the time you read this. The University’s contribution to Spark came in the form of glitter man, artist Ruben Patterson, whose exhibition, Tougher Than Diamonds, is still running on campus at the… Read more »

Like most people, I have a rich history of watching films. From humble beginnings hiring the latest Adam Sandler movie at the Cambridge United Video, to hiring the latest Scary Movie at the Hillcrest Video Ezy, to today, semi-illegally downloading every movie I’m vaguely interested in — but only watching one in five of them…. Read more »