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Issue 13
theatre talk with ryan
Today I am meeting with a couple of young actors fresh out of Toi Whakaari: The New Zealand Drama School in Wellington, who are about to unleash their ambitious double-header upon our fair city. Meet Dan Musgrove and Natalie Medlock. Their show, A Horse Story: Blinkers and Spurs, consists of two one hour
two handers (theatre speak for a show with two actors). The first is
Blinkers, an odd love story between the fastidious, horse obsessed
Monty and his upstairs neighbour Amy, a Patti Smith lov...
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The 2008 Subaru Imprezza WRX STI
It’s no secret. Oil prices around the world are going up, and they’re subsequently forcing car sales down by doing so. It’s this sort of economic climate that’s looking to back the performance car sector into a corner. So what’s needed? A samurai sword wielding, full-blown attack to force performance-focused vehicles back into the limelight. Subaru, one of the privileged children of the Fuji Heavy Industries Japan family has delivered just that in the form of the 20...
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The Upside of Petrol Hikes
As I type this, unleaded 91 octane is selling at $2.10.9 a litre. If you consider yourself a bit fancy you can pay $2.15.9 for 95 octane and diesel guzzlers are forking out $1.83.9 per litre. And the Government reckon they’re going to put forward an inquiry to scrutinise the pricing structure by the big oil companies too. What a load of shite! Who the fuck are they kidding?! Oh so NOW you’re beginning to understand the strain on New Zealander’s pockets, NOW you’re think ...
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3 ways to scare the shit out of a certain magazine editor:
- Pull a gun on him
- Just mention cockroaches
- Volunteer him for a climb to the top of the harbour bridge
As people who know we will attest to, I am not exactly the most adventurous person in the world; I won’t even go skiing. So when President Jan told me he, me and Events guru Dave would be spending a Friday scaling the bad boy that links the city to the shore, I was torn.
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PM Gives New Manukau Campus Her Blessing
Prime Minister Helen Clark and Minister of Tertiary Education Pete Hodgson took time out their busy schedules to visit the future site of AUT’s new campus in Counties-Manukau on July 3rd. The new campus is located in the former Carter Holt Harvey complex on Great South Road, near Rainbow’s End. AUT purchased the 7.8ha site with a $25million helping hand from the government, with the intention of renovating the existing buildings to house around 190 full-time students in the next or t...
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AUT Team with International Business Proposal
Being the one team who dared to challenge the status quo set by other university case teams, Team AUT presented an International Expansion Strategy to address the challenges of China’s biggest dairy product producer in becoming the world’s No.1 by the year 2015 at the Christchurch Leg of the Deloitte Case Competition last 30th of May. Judges from Deloitte quoted the team’s approach as being ‘Risky yet
Innovative’, and praised the team for having the detailed busine...
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Auckland students migrating south
Many students continue to leave Auckland to study in Dunedin because of
the high price of student living. Andrea Howard of Otago University
says approximately 2555 Otago students originated from Auckland schools
in 2008.
Seventy five per cent of all New Zealand students studying at Otago University are from outside Dunedin.
An Otago student originally from Auckland, Rachel Howard says she
moved to Dunedin to experience the ‘student lifestyle&rsq...;
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