Outlook Festival tells attendees to ‘pay-what-you-can’ for tickets
As we enter festival season, some party people will be choosing between dipping into their overdraft or missing out on some of the best setlists of the summer. Outlook festival wants to help them out. It seems like every time summer rolls around, tickets to our favourite festivals are more...
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Love Island is coupling up with second-hand fashion
Love Island – which has faced backlash for promoting fast fashion brands – has collaborated with eBay to dress this year's contestants in an entirely pre-loved wardrobe. Since it exploded onto our TV screens in 2015, reality hit ‘Love Island’ has drawn as much attention as it has criticism. The show...
‘Annie Mac Before Midnight’ is redefining the night out
For the elder half of Gen-Z, staying out until 3AM may already mean tomorrow will be a complete write off. A new event hosted by DJ Annie Mac has got you (and your precious sleep) covered. I’m sure I speak for many when saying it’s been marvellous to embrace the...
Kendrick’s latest single utilises advanced deepfake tech
Kendrick Lamar’s music video for his new album teaser incorporates deepfake tech to portray the perspectives of various cultural icons. It’s an example of how realistic and advanced deepfake technology has gotten. If you’re a music fan, you’ll no doubt have seen and heard about Kendrick Lamar’s imminent album...
Is being partially deluded the key to maintaining happiness?
The world is burning, our phones are making us depressed, and the cost of living is rising exponentially. Could adopting a slight sense of delusion be the only way to make it through? If someone was to call you delusional, it’d be perfectly normal to be offended. At the very least,...
Opinion – Britney’s pregnancy marks happy end to tragic story
Spears’ pregnancy announcement was welcome news. It also marked the end of her 13-year-long conservatorship, which forbid her from having more children. Sadly, Britney’s story of fertility control is not uncommon. When the ‘Free Britney’ movement emerged with a vengeance in 2019, many were quick to slander members as conspiracy...
Netflix’s editorial division hit with layoffs
Four months ago, the streaming service ‘aggressively’ recruited a small army of journalists – primarily women and people of colour – to run its new fan site, Tudum. This week, it abruptly axed a significant portion of those hires. After posting disastrous results for its March quarter – the loss of 200,000 subscribers after having only seen sustained growth since 2011 – Netflix has reportedly laid off...
Opinion – why Julia Fox is the perfect celebrity throwback
From being relatively unknown to becoming a household name in just a few weeks, let’s explore why Julia Fox is the celebrity Hollywood has been missing. As we jump from one global crisis and (unwillingly) right into the next, it can feel like the only collective source of mindless escapism we have left is celebrity culture. When all is wrong in the world, the glitz and glamour of award show season...
Opinion – Why assuming celebrities are pregnant is damaging
Though watching our favourite celebrities venture into motherhood is both exciting and weirdly humanising, can sensationalising their pregnancies be damaging? Society has had a fascination with Hollywood couples for as long as celebrities have existed, but where our adoration really takes hold is when they’re expecting a child together. In recent months many beloved icons have coupled up, gotten engaged, or made the decision to become parents. Kravis (Kourtney & Travis),...
Milked is a tea-spitting look at dairy’s dark reality
Now available to watch for free on environmentally-focused streaming service Waterbear, Milked offers a magnified look at New Zealand’s dairy industry and the damage it's inflicting on the country and world as a whole. Why are we still drinking cow’s milk? This is the question that Milked, a new documentary available on Waterbear, wants you to ask. Fair warning, be prepared for every conceivable pro-dairy argument to be debunked during the...
