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Warming To The Idea
A (truncated) interview with climate change guru Dr. James Hansen
Classics : A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
Madeleine L’Engle’s nutty politico-religious parable for children still has its admirers
Love Amid The Ruins
Auckland singer songwriter Hollie Fulbrook (aka Tiny Ruins) makes her debut
From The Hood : Goff Disappointed As World Fails To End
Rapture no-show deals serious blow to Labour’s election plans
Milestone Movies : The Silent House (2010)
Horror, in one 79 minute long take
The Complicatist : Tyler the Creator, Tegan and Sara and Lars von Trier
Where to draw the line on when enough’s enough
Superhero Narratives and Social Values
The role of globalisation and the avant–garde in Grant Morrison’s Batman
Cartoon Alley
Reviews, commentary and comics from local artists
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 22, April 2011 * * * * *
The April 2011 Edition of Werewolf
Gordon Campbell On The Budget – And Petrobras
Cartoon by Trace Hodgson While Deficit Phobia provides the rationale for the austerity and privatisation measures contained in this year’s Budget, the government’s stance is […]
On the lead-up to the Budget
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Throughout his government’s first term, the role of Prime Minister John Key has been to be the bringer of […]
On the government’s latest handout to agri-business
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Given the bumper earnings from commodity prices, you might think agriculture would be the last sector in need of […]
On the alleged threats to John Key
The “explanation” by Police Minister Judith Collins for the $800,000 cost blowout in the diplomatic protection squad budget – there have been threats, she says, […]
On declaring victory in Afghanistan, and getting out
No doubt, Prime Minister John Key will be waiting on his instructions from Washington and Canberra about the final timetable for the withdrawal of NZ […]
On Bin Laden, Petrobras and Jon Stephenson
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com So now that he’s dead, we can bring the troops home now, can’t we? Because the only reason our […]
Scavenger City
Christchurch, and the politics of subsistence
Sleight of Hand
With 90 day trials, the government has broken its decades-long bargain with workers
Left Coasting : Becoming, Herself
An interview with Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs
From The Hood : Learning To Read The PM
Politics is child’s play
The rise of Islamophobia in Europe
As Europe officially separates its anti-Islamic tendencies from racism it becomes more culturally intolerant of Islam
Classics: Diana Wynne Jones R.I.P.
Celebrating the author of Archer’s Goon, Howl’s Moving Castle etc.
The Complicatist : Music for Stoners
Drugs and music, pros and cons, highs and downers
Milestone Movies : The Killer Inside Me (2010) and Coup de Torchon (1981)
Film violence against women, via the ‘dimestore’ novelist Jim Thompson
Images of Womad 2011
Womad is a world unto itself…
* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 21, March 2011 * * * * *
The March 2011 Edition of Werewolf
On the Brash coup attempt, and Sean Penn
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com For now, the attempt at a hostile takeover of the Act Party by former National Party leader Don Brash […]
On the oil lobby’s claims about the Petrobras protests
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Nice of petroleum industry lobbyist John Pfahlert to offer to correct “the number of media inaccuracies” that he feels […]
On the government’s lead in the polls, and Labour’s response
Illustration by Tim Denee – www.timdenee.com Now that National have gained – according to the latest TV3 poll anyway – a further huge lead in […]
On legal aid, and the definitive account of the Hobbit saga
For a party that made the Nanny State such a big part of its 2008 election campaign, today’s cutbacks to legal aid are merely National’s […]