Features

Damaged Cells Aotearoa’s Prison System

This issue contains plenty of discussion on crime itself, its social and political foundation, and even its distortion into entertainment, but very little on its consequences. Aotearoa has 18 prisons. Under a Labour Government, our prison population dropped more than 25%, however under our right-wing coalition, has exceeded 10,000 inmates

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Features

The Department of Information 

Noah: A few mates making documentaries on things we’re interested in.  Noah: Louis and I met at uni. Gryffin’s my cousin.  Louis: We were all helping out at 95bFM and John Campbell came in one evening to give a talk. He told everyone off for only speaking with pundits, politicians

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Columns

Covered with Amy Durant

1. What inspired your art for this issue?   My art is almost always inspired by what I’m listening to when I make it which is fitting for this issue haha. I was listening to a lot of Vocaloid while doing the cover and less digital sounding music when I

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News

STAR WAAAAHHHHS: What have the Geeks Become?

We can all picture a geek, no matter how inaccurate the caricature might be. The archetype has persisted, pimple faced and spectacled, through the public consciousness. But when you look outside… WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE GEEKS? We put out a question asking people if they consider themselves geeks, which

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Columns

“Its substances as flatmates cool”

Ever lived in a trap house? Now you don’t need to. I am proud of this incredibly original and unique idea of humanising drugs, unless you’ve seen college humour or sausage party, in which case I’ve done it better. We’ve all had that flatmate, but now you’ll know how much

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Features

Popping Pills

Prescription Abuse and The Pharmaceutical Black Market Unlike most of our writers who spend their time writing on Substack or Wattpad, turns out someone had a friend outside of our writer’s room. Some friends have different struggles to you, and some struggles have more stigma, consequences, and are harder, if

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News

New roadside drug testing in Aotearoa

The roads of Aotearoa are about to undergo perhaps the largest change of our lives so far, at least for Gen Z stoners. For at least a generation or two, we have all known the score. Driving after a few too many drinks could have you calling home from a

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Features

Kickflipping in Palestine

Skateboarding means the world to skaters from everywhere. Skating is a radical, inclusive, and interconnected community with a philosophy of Fuck You to anyone who tells us what to do, how to live, or where we can skate.  It’s a small world in skateboarding but also a spread out one

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Waikato University New Medical School?

After a seemingly endless parade of red tape, government interventions, political grandstanding, elections and Otago being Otago, the University of Waikato finally got the answer to the question of a third medical school in New Zealand. That answer was a resounding YES / NO   The abiding reality is that

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Features

Stod Smash – An Interview with the Pineja Drummer

I interviewed an old mate from high school who just so happens to drum for Pineja. Super talented, smart, nice, & funny dude, but he supports Chelsea so there’s definitely room to be cooler. Stod got me into Songs for the Deaf & The Strokes so fair to say he’s

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What’s the Buzz: The search for a new Queen Bee

What year is it? Because I thought it was 2026, three years after New Zealand’s last election, making it an election year. The behaviour of our political leaders does not seem to line up with this.  There’s no denying that as idyllic as the world would be if we all made educated votes

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Revealing Reviews #2

This educational game is excellent for teaching children about the economic state of the world right now and the oppressive system of capitalism. It starts off with an excellent metaphor in which you arrive on an island, expecting to start a new life, but the island is deserted. This is a specific

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My Sister Brought Home a Scientologist 

My sister has brought home another date. This one seems fine, but after Evan the fascist—anyone would seem fine. I look him up and down, and out of the corner of my eye, I see Mum and Dad giving him the same scanning stare.   Daniel had arrived exactly on time. He wore

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GAME OF PRICKS ONE 

I’m in Raglan now instead of the same couple suburbs of Hamilton and the street I live on in Cambridge which have been my only routine sights out of a sense of complacency for the past whatever.  Alsatia splashes water over herself on the front porch of her cousin’s bach and I’m leaning against the yay-high chainlink fence strangling

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Bring back Radio alarm clocks.

I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life waking up to the dreaded sound of Apple’s radar alarm sound. Dididi-dididi- dididi-dididi DIDIDI-DIDIDI. And I never stopped to think about why. Why was I torturing myself this way every morning, letting this sonic harassment continue. I decided enough was enough. I’d had it. After literally 2 minutes on Facebook

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Bacchanalia: The Human Factor. 

Bacchus is an imported god. Not only was Bacchus (under the name Dionysus) influential in the golden age of Greece and Rome he regained a great deal of popularity during the High Renaissance in Neo-Platonic and humanist artwork as a symbol of pleasure and celebration and holds an important place in modern

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Power, Grief, and the Making of the Taj Mahal

In 1606, a 15-year-old prince named Khurram returned in the city of Lahore. He did not know that this visit would become a major turning point in his life. For amid the colour and festivities of the Meena Bazaar during Nowruz, Khurram crossed paths with a young girl who would change the fate of

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Fun Things to Do at Your Flat #3: Red Cards 

This week’s boredom killer is simple, chaotic, and guaranteed to create stories you’ll be hearing about all year: Red Cards.  Here’s how it works. Every flatmate (or anyone in the group) gets one “red card.” You can play it at any time, for any reason. When you pull your card, everyone has to drop what they’re doing and commit to whatever you’ve called no questions

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Fun things to do at your flat #2 – Library Box

This one isn’t actually at your flat and you don’t need a flat to do it you just need some willing friends and some alcoholic ambition  What you need :  Method:  This is an ideal red card for study week or just whenever you’re bored, it is a good way to be productive, and also get fucked up. The rules are simple: you can’t leave

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Revealing Reviews 

This gripping, action packed show is one that touches the depth of your soul and reminds you of the importance of found family. It starts off with very high stakes, as the main character is exiled from her highly privileged society by its ruler to gain a larger fellowship. As the first episodes unfold

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sonspotter daughter  

do I have to tear my brains out   do I have to break to remember what broke me   do I have to face the broken vase of facts  I cant be a plastic bag, sacrificed for turtle’s fad of suicide  so I just cry  I will be polyethylene, I  ‘ll make you miss me,

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REST, RAJAB

Hind Rajab was five years old when she, after witnessing the killings of six of her family members, was herself murdered by members of the

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THE ALMIGHTY ALGORITHM

Swipe.   Next reel.  Swipe.   Next Tik Tok.  Again. Again. Again. Again. It never ends. The algorithm feeds you more. It gives you what you want.

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Beating Endo

By Maya Trotman Nearly every evening I would be sitting on the couch with a heat pack on my stomach holding painkillers with a glass

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Sterling Point 

Rating: 5/5 Released just last month on Prime Video, Sterling Point is an effortless teen drama that includes comedy, mystery, and one-too-many Camp Rock 2

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Lost Weekend – Phoebe Bridgers

Rating: 4/5 Phoebe Bridgers’ new record, Lost Weekend, continues her evolution as an artist, remaining relatively mainstream, yet her music reflects an uncompromising originality we

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OBITUARIES 

Towards the end of August, we were rocked by a string of high-profile deaths.  On the 25th of the month, the Queen of Country, American

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Horoscopes – Issue 19

Aries: Just an idea… Start that assignment before 11:47pm. Your future self will thank you.  Taurus: Treat yourself, but maybe check your bank account first.

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