It ain’t moss, it ain’t algae, it’s LICHEN!

ComedyPatrick McKenzieApril 1, 2023USU, USyd, STEM, botanic gardens, lichen, plants, nature, Kate Moss, algae, april foolz 23

What’s On this week at USyd? April 1st to 8th

With this handy guide, you won’t miss out on all the activities and events on offer.

ComedyHarry GayApril 1, 2023USU, USyd, University, activities, boar, april foolz 23 RIGHT

Review: Euterpe EP launch at the Factory Theatre

With their shaggy hair and electric sound, the quartet seemed like a relic from the 1970s rock scene blended with 21st century anxieties.

MusicMae MilneMarch 28, 2023review, gig, Sydney music, rock, factory theatre, EP launch, live music

Review: SUDS' Arcadia makes the pendulum swing

Binary opposites become whole in SUDS’ vibrant reimagining of the play, and though its discussions of thermodynamics, aesthetics, and sex may at first seem arbitrary, they have profound intention.

CampusLameah NayeemMarch 15, 2023SUDS, student theatre, review, romanticism, gothicism, castle, manor, estate, Tom Stoppard

Tote bags suck, so why are we still so obsessed with them?

Exploring my complicated relationship with the tote bag: a symbol of the modern intellectual elite.

Culture, FashionLizzy KwokMarch 8, 2023fashion, tote bags

Review: SUDS' The Glass Menagerie - celebrating Australia's diaspora

Danial Yazdani’s adaptation of the American classic honours the complexities of Australian immigrant experiences.

CampusLizzy KwokFebruary 26, 2023SUDS, student theatre, review, Tennessee Williams

The water of life

My beloved has gifted us this water of life / This ocean which has the power to create or destroy / Yet in it we blindly place our trust

LiteratureElla AvniFebruary 23, 2023poetry, poetry collection, father, mother

It's tee time

Unravelling the mysteries of the graphic tee.

“Martin Gregory”, “Anthropoid” and more

I am obsessed with the extremes: the extreme of glamour, erotica, and beauty.

Fashion, ArtZak KalivasFebruary 23, 2023blender, computer generated art, CGI, beauty, glamour

'Mollah' and 'It's Myself that I Crave'

Self portraitures express our creative and romantic partnership and journey and the way it mingles with our identities as queer and POC couple.

Art, CultureEstelle YoonFebruary 23, 2023gender, art, bodies, film photography, label, queerness

An ode to the ceiling fan

Yes, that’s right. The ceiling fan. The understated — in fact, overlooked — hero of the Australian household; the saviour of the school classroom on a summer afternoon.

CultureAidan Elwig PollockFebruary 23, 2023ceiling fans, Australiana, nostalgia

Zine within a zine

Off on a trip?

ComedyHarry GayFebruary 23, 2023collage, zine, tourist guide, travel guide

The Coke cans article

An illusory aspect of the Fisher Road Store, and mixed business stores in general, had always been its decoration.

Remembering Nookazon: a DIY recipe for disaster

I was shocked to discover that this cottage-core fantasy would turn into a tale of exploitation, cult worship and most surprisingly, potential animal rights violations.

CultureChina MeldrumFebruary 23, 2023capitalism, video games, trading, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo, nostalgia

3vergard

Lost promises of an information-age childhood animate the pages of 3VERLAND, the first dive into a universe previously seen only in glimpses.

Place, ArtAnonymousFebruary 23, 2023nostalgia, information age, illustrations, lore

Sydney will be nice when it's finished

The construction site immediately became a constant in my life.

PlacePatrick McKenzieFebruary 23, 2023WestConnex, construction, trains, development

The hands that speak

My fascination lay in the transformation of something otherwise unremarkable: a pedestrian curve of the wrist turned her hands into blooming lotuses; a careful bend of her fingers turned her hands into birds.