Love unscripted: The culture industry’s romantic reel dance

Business is business, what else are you supposed to do?

Culture, Film, ISSUE 10Mia RetallackSeptember 25, 2023culture, film, romance, comedy, art criticism, politics

Waking up down

Still, time does this funny thing of moving on.

ISSUE 09, ArtLong Huỳnh and Sandra KallarakkalSeptember 20, 2023identity, art, coming of age, life, mundanity

Let's pretend

On that Friday afternoon, we revisited those shy little girls that met for the first time, tangled hair from climbing trees and crayon smeared hands that reached out to hold, toothless grins whispering ‘Let’s pretend...’

ISSUE 09, ArtJustine HuSeptember 20, 2023art, girl, girlhood, photography, australia, nature, identity

I was caught walking home with a pep in my step: 'Make Love, Not Instruments' by Hat Trick Review

‘The Spare Keys’ in Make Love, Not Instruments take you by the hand on a vocal journey, sonically stunning with a rich setlist of showtunes, mid-century love songs and modern belters.

Culture, MusicHugo HaySeptember 19, 2023review, a capella, sydney fringe festival, the spare keys

people

I’m not very good at keeping things alive.

ArtSonal KambleSeptember 19, 2023reflection, comic, art, coming of age, virgo, moons

World's Best Son

The Cowboy returns in ‘World’s Best Son'

ArtHuw BradshawSeptember 18, 2023cartoon, cowboy, son, father, comic, art

When you appeared in my dreams, I thought I saw you in the field.

An ode to past relationships and the ghostly apparitions of memories that are ever present as time goes on.

ArtBonnie HuangSeptember 18, 2023identity, photography, art, memory, desires, transient, liminal

Definition of Man

I am terror, peril, and spectre, all at once.

ISSUE 09, LiteratureJoan de la KagsawaSeptember 17, 2023man, identity, queer, literature, art, opinion, coming of age

On the Chinese campus canteen

The Chinese campus canteen is an overlooked institution, providing sustenance and representing the deep-rooted tradition of communal eating.

Place, RecessLizzy KwokSeptember 13, 2023chinese, food, chinese food, food writing, campus, canteen, culture

The dark economy of McBucks

In conclusion, fuck McDonald’s. Never work there. Never encourage your kids to work there either. If I’m ever desperate for cash, would I go back? I wouldn’t bet on it.

Culture, ISSUE 09Edward GaySeptember 13, 2023sydney, mcdonalds, maccas, mcbucks, corporate greed, corporate, labour

Sandstone Futurism

Sandstone Futurism is neither a proposal, nor a hypothetical solution, but rather, an inevitable utilisation of our environment.

Culture, ISSUE 09Felix AshfordSeptember 13, 2023architecture, sydney, sandstone, futurism, visionary

Hard times for Mr Dickens

Eventually, he was lost to the mists of time, and a Charles Dickens Statue diaspora sprawled across Sydney.

CultureAriana HaghighiSeptember 13, 2023Charles Dickens, statue, sydney, literature, art, forgotten, ariana, haghigi, ariana haghighi

Building Morticia

Unlike Vampira and Elvira, Morticia is a wife and mother, but it goes without saying that she represents much more than that. She wants it all, and refreshingly, she never asks why she shouldn’t have it.

FilmChloe AtkinsonSeptember 13, 2023Vampires, Morticia, gothic, Elvira, Vampira

Uncloaking witchcraft: exploring Paganism as a Muslim

Real-life paganism is beyond the blood, drama, and telekinetic miracles on television and is rooted in natural connection to the Earth’s seasons.

CultureMisbah AnsariSeptember 13, 2023australia, wiccan rituals, witch, self-reflection, perspective, islam, paganism, muslim

tape-eater

what it is to become a dream.

Literature, ISSUE 09Leon KaragicSeptember 11, 2023creative writing, poetry, clare, philosophy, dreams, prose, leon, karagic, leon karagic

Twinning

Talk to any twin long enough and you find shared experiences emerge — the same plot points and canon events that carry across people and shape who they are.

Film, ISSUE 09Harry GaySeptember 11, 2023twinning, siblings, film, family, comedy