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In the Red - Salient
In one week, the New Zealand Labour Party will have a new leader. As the candidates tour the country touting their credentials to the Party faithful, pronouncing their loyalty and otherwise waving their CVs about, Salient took the opportunity to find out why one of New Zealand’s two major political parties has spent five years in the political doldrums, with no escape seemingly imminent. Ollie Neas investigates. The choice facing the Labour Party is a choice between three.
The Salient International Film Festival Diary Part 2
THE TASTE OF MONEY Dir: Im Reviewed by Adam Goodall Im Sang-soo’s latest festival film is a pseudo-sequel to the enthralling and laudably bugnuts The Housemaid, sharing a character, an actress (playing a different role), and the themes of upper-upper-upper-class excess and the casual contempt for the disempowered that such power cultivates in those that possess it.
Freedom of Mind - Salient
Why you have a right to do drugs In the summer of 1953, when Francis Crick stumbled through the front door of his home announcing to his dear wife that he had uncovered the double-helix structure of DNA, he brought about the single greatest leap in the field of genetics in history. At the time of this epiphany, he was tripping on LSD.
Until the end of time-one day, maybe
Opshop front man Jason Kerrison is building an ark. No, not the biblical, two-of-every-animal kind of vessel that Noah took to the seas in. Rather, the ‘ark’ is his pet name for a state-of-the-art, dome-shaped, monolithic structure, in which he intends to survive what he terms “the end of the great cycle”. Kerrison believes that life as we know it will undergo a dramatic transformation on 21 December, 2012, as the ancient Mayan civilisation prophesied.
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