The Conspirator
Posted 3:04am Thursday 28th July 2011
Directed by: Robert Redford, (3/5). The Conspirator is a fantastic historical legal drama. Based on the 1915 drama The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith, it tells the story of Mary Surratt, the only female co-conspirator charged with the Abraham Lincoln assassination and the first woman to be Read more...
New cancer research from Otago
Posted 11:58pm Tuesday 5th July 2011
It is possible that a new anti-cancer therapy could be developed based on research coming out of the University of Otago. The research builds on the University’s earlier discovery that PAX genes, important in embryonic development, also allow cancer cells to grow and divide in adult Read more...
More scholarships
Posted 8:07am Thursday 19th May 2011
University of Otago students have received a total of $34,000 in Freemasons’ scholarships. Postgraduate student Phillipa Struthers gained a $10,000 scholarship, and four undergraduate students - Yeri Kim, Leah Hamilton, Chris Bloomer and Griegan Panckhurst - all received $6000 each. Struthers is Read more...
Polytech Library re-billed as plain Robertson. People shitty about that, and also at terrible pun in this title.
Posted 6:54am Thursday 14th April 2011
Otago Polytechnic deputy chief executive Robin Day said that the name change of the Robertson Library (formerly the Bill Robertson Library) last year has made some of the staff at the institution unhappy. The University of Otago, who own the library, made the decision to change the name. Read more...
The Names of Love
Posted 6:19am Thursday 14th April 2011
Directed by Michel Leclerc. (2.5/5). The Names of Love (Le Nom des Gens) is a story of how people can bridge opposite sides of the political spectrum through human relationships. Sara Forestier plays Baya, a French girl with an Algerian father. She was brought up by her mother to have left wing Read more...
Once Was
Posted 2:45am Tuesday 29th March 2011
The Theatre As Is (Dunedin). By Jimmy Currin and Dell McLeod assisted by Richard Huber, 3.5/5. Once Was is presented in a cosy upstairs space, with chairs or couches as seating options. The stage space has the lighting exposed and is bare except for one chair and two layers of mesh that is hung to Read more...