The Handmaid’s Tale – Film Review Friday
Where will you be at the end of the world? Will you be at home with your family, defending with a double-barrel shotgun?…
Where will you be at the end of the world? Will you be at home with your family, defending with a double-barrel shotgun?…
Written by Kirsten Hammermeister and illustrated by Sash Lynch *This was originally published in the ‘Tertangala: Horror Issue’ (2023)
Indie-pop trio San Cisco will be on the road heading to the UniBar this May. All that month San Cisco will be showing…
Amidst a wave of electronic synths and amorphous pop sounds, newcomer folk artist, Joseph Vieira, digs his heels into the more modest, rustic…
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There once was a boy named Craig who was very unfortunate. One of these misfortunes was that his name was Craig, and not…
Tonight, I am ethereal, and I glow. With a midnight blue light stretching across my skin, I am an alien. Tonight, you ask…
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it’s fresh when I pass it by guts glistening in the dim headlights, a red smear of viscera across the dewy morning concrete….
I rocked up to the UniBar’s Open-Mic around quarter to ten all tired and jaded, but walking into the UniBar around this time…
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TW: Pedophilia By Chloe Payne The shit and piss soaked rug burns into my nostril hairs late in the night. It gurgles and…
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TW for unpleasant eating experience/gagging Harry held his pinky out as he drank, pursing his lips to sip a shy mouthful of tea….
You are not your mistakes, you are not your past, you are not your failures. You are your future. We all deal with…
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“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscious; this is the ideal life” -Mark Twain Welcome back, readers, to this week’s edition of…
Romance and dating may come quite easy to us. However, in the drug-haze known as love, our judgement could be clouded, we may…
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” -Aristotle Welcome back to my travel column. The first day…
‘It’s in the sway of her hips I can see her sins. Like a an STD; it crawls through her blood. Her lips…
Dating is hard, there’s a whole world out there, with only a small percentage of people in the world who could be your match….
Hello again… I am now settled into my room at the University of Nottingham. Granted, all my stuff is still in my suitcases…
How to be a good leader? That has been one of the most difficult questions that our society struggled with throughout the years….
What was your last dream about? Can you remember it? Was it dangerous or weird or maybe wholesome? Was it absurd or horrific…
To his alarm, great purple hammocks hung beneath his eyes, sore to the morning sun. Wrestling house keys to the car, it had…
Image credit: University of Nottingham “New year, new me” is a cliche for a reason. Welcome to the first part of my weekly…
The storm is chaos. Flashes of light streak sporadically through the creases of your blinds – shining the tiny shoebox of a bedroom…
Family portrait 1 by Helen Norton, from the series of paintings “ Once Upon a Time there was a Man”, published in 1995. …
I know those eyes. The cold unfeeling blue. I know that malicious smile. The grinding and retching of the teeth. I know those…
No matter what part of the world you live in, whether it be the sandy beaches of the Bahamas, the tranquil water villages…
We can throw ourselves into the belly of the beast and work ourselves to the bone to achieve our goals, but it’s all…
Here squats a sandstone city, its streets choked by motley cloth, Crowd River; bank brimming over toes tucked beneath dark waters cloaked by…
I arrive at the Pavilion at 7:30pm in my best maroon suit. Stressing about my fingers. I’ve parked, engine’s off. Unfurl my fingers,…
Welcome back to high school, take a seat at your desk before all the good spots are taken. Just make sure you choose…
I. In the deep woods, the decaying and overgrown world, the twisted vines snap, frail from whips of wind. I am consumed, by…
One of the most satisfying things to experience in film is a character’s ultimate downfall. Their entire world crumbling around them, leaving them…
“We want to create a circle, a community that can bring us together, so that you can get feedback from people that understand…
The Quaint residence abides around a cold street corner at 92 C Gosemer Rd, Meralvile, where tall apartments tower over a red door….
The effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind: Obstruction of the liver, Jaundice and dropsy of every cavity in the…
n 1963, Alfred Hitchcock sought to villainise the beasts of the air in his film The Birds, showing the aerial demons can be…
I’m no blushing bride when it comes to a good snog sesh, but someone’s stank ass breath can really kill the vibe. This…
Imagine a tower not too far away from your home, the endless hours wondering what purpose it served. There was always some building…
There are rats nesting beneath the stairwell bordering the doorway to our little shared house. Their little fingers scratch in the dirt, and…
The following statements represent my personal reflections on Friedrich Nietzsche and his work, ‘Beyond Good and Evil’. The aim is to deepen my…
Merrigong Theatre Company presented A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Wollongong’s Botanic Gardens Merrigong Theatre Company was thrilled to present Wollongong’s first Shakespeare in…
Feature image: Members of Socialist Alternative leave the conference early after a chaotic end to NatCon 2023. Photo courtesy of Lachlan White. …
By Max Mandile Mount Keira harbours dark secrets. I’ve often felt a sense of unease in the area… a sense of wonderment. Living so…
Perhaps one of the most dangerous possessions are grudges. The past can be held in the hands of people you would never guess….
(Feature image) Muawiyath carries this chair as a “symbol of rebellion against indifference to our needs.” Photo courtesy of Lachlan White. A disability…
(Feature image) delegates line up for the most important session of the day, Dinner Conference (DinCon). The nation’s student politicians have gathered…
I am the woman who disappeared into the mist in her last life, The one who ran off the lip of the cliff,…
If you happened to walk by Federation University’s Q2 building at 9am on Tuesday morning, you would have noticed a sorry sight. Hungover…
The National Union of Students’ National Conference descended on a cold, grey and rainy Ballarat on Monday, arguably a fitting tone for the…
Truong wakes up to the sound of his phone ringing, unwilling to touch it. He tries to ignore the sound and turns his…
For the Spooky Edition, I’ve decided to shine a light on the members of our uni’s Spooky community. While they might be easy…
This week, I dedicated my time to experiencing, what I was told to be, one of the most disturbing film adaptations to be…
It’s late morning, and the paterfamilias has donned his formal attire. The toga cloaking the loose folds of his chiton is blue with…
Well, it’s that time of year again. Christmas lights are beginning to colour the streets, Mariah Carey is playing in the shops again…
By Jacob Wood When the Dark was in control, Lester had little idea of his surroundings; could see nothing but shifting shadows. For…
The table is set, the cutlery’s shining, everybody’s gathered around the glazed, fatted turkey, you can just smell the sweet meat as the…
‘The Flu Season’, written by Will Eno and directed by Michelle Fry as part of their honours course, was a fascinating and deeply…
Friday 10th of November, I had the pleasure of attending UOW’s Music Gradfest. This event was hosted by the third-year creative arts, music…
A couple weeks ago we had a chat with UOW third year music students Tom Price, Ella Grace, Jess Anderson and Daniel Munro…
Last weekend, indie-rock legends Interpol and Bloc Party co-headlined two shows in Sydney at the Hordern Pavilion for the first time post-COVID. The…
As we approach the new year, we yearn for more freedom and independence, we’re another year older and wiser. We want to explore…
Merrigong X presented Landed by Frumpus at the IPAC All-women performance group, Frumpus, returned to IPAC with their new show, Landed. Their…
Wollongong, a city I love. Wollongong has been more than just a location; it’s a community where I’ve forged meaningful connections, found a…
DISCLAIMER: As a reviewer and writer, I feel it is my duty to disclose my closeness to this play to maintain reviewer integrity….
First, Woody Harrelson starred alongside Wesley Snipes in ‘White Men Can’t Jump’, a comedy film in which Harrelson is a conman, teaming up…
You wake up to your ringtone, eyes blurry, you reach out and grab it to see it’s work. Your manager or your co-worker…
‘The Iphigenia Project’ follows the production of two plays, Iphigenia and Clytemnestra by Suhayla El-Bushra and Lulu Raczka, respectively, that independently and correspondingly…
The Scream is a painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The Scream is one of the five most famous paintings in the…
UOW’s theatre season is pumping this year, with some exciting performances that will be blowing the roof off of the Julian Broadbent building….
You’re in bed, you just woke up from a sudden sound you can’t exactly remember, but it almost scared you to death. You’re…
Merrigong Theatre Company presents Sydney Theatre Company and Moogahlin Performing Arts’s The Visitors by Muruwari playwright Jane Harrison, at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre…
Walking down a dirt road, through bushes and abundant trees, you come across a sign. It’s clearly misspelled, you look beyond and see…
UOW graduate Irelish Barker and 2nd year student Anna Krywyj Moore are both emerging artists working with Shopfront Arts Co-Op and Q Theatre…
Martinus Dwi Marianto, ‘Looking at Rainbows Through Kluak,’ (55cm x 55cm, direct file transfer on canvas, 2023). According to historian and Indonesianist, Dr…
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The WUSA elections have ended and all the stupol hacks have scuttled away from campus. Provisional results have been released and tears of…
You’re strapped to a chair, you don’t know where you are or what time it is. You feel like you’ve just come back…
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A Theatre Review by Paige Jenkins and Skyla Yorke. Theatre lovers filled the foyer of UOW’s Jillian Broadbent building on Friday night to…
It’s the coke-fueled era of the 1980s, ‘Scarface’ is in theatres bursting with gratuitous violence, everybody’s tuning in for the Live Aid concert…
Clearly Festival and Clearer Workshop will be making waves in Kiama next month. We had a chat with co-founder Dom Furber about the…
The first string was violet, as many were. A co-worker I rarely spoke to, apart from telling her coffee orders. I refused to…
It’s a Friday night at 6PM, you have work in the morning and your friends are all out drinking at the club. They…
I sit in the empty public bus, my brightness up, my ears submerged in Michael Jackson while delving into an array of Buzzfeed…
My transformation began with a single wiry hair—long, grey, jagged at the end—sprouting from under my chin where the flesh is doughiest. I’d…
The sky will be here soon. Parts of it have arrived early, embracing the outer neighbourhoods, Where the lawns were quilted in cockatoos. …
The university’s very own radio station was formed last semester and features a diverse range of news, music and entertainment hosted by students…
Afternoon. It is almost the close of the quiet café– The boy waiting waits for the ticking of time. But the hope…
All morning he twined the coarse rope through his hands. But now he was just trying to ignore the agonising thudding beneath the…
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