10:30am, arriving early to claim my patch of grass under a tree, marking it with my complimentary deck chair. Then a trip to the bar for elevenses. Iggy Pop was my target today, after having to leave the Big Day Out 2007 early and missing his headline set with The Stooges on that occasion. So, […]

Normally, I like to grab a couple of features from the latest issue and use them to make some sweeping comment about whatever macroeconomic or political drama is playing out at the moment. I have just checked LinkedIn though, and it turns out there are already more than enough experts telling us what to think […]

At 25 years old Chase Infiniti might have a vanishingly thin list of credits to her name, just an episode of Presumed Innocent, but the talent scouts could obviously spot enough raw potential in her to have her cast alongside the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro in One Battle After […]

EA Games, publisher of Battlefield, Apex Legends, The Sims, Fifa and every other sports game you’ve ever played recently agreed to be acquired for US$55 billion, the second largest industry buyout ever. It sits behind the Activision Blizzard buyout Microsoft made in 2022 for 75.4 billion. Where it does hold a record though is for […]

‘Oh my, Standards have sure slipped’, ‘that’s not up to Standard’ and; ‘that’s the Gold Standard’. Talk to anyone over the age of thirty and you’ll hear such comments soon enough. But what are they actually wahing on about? What Are Standards? Standards are like those other invisible things that surround us like radio waves, […]

Image Above: Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. Comet – or was it alien spacecraft?! – 3I/ATLAS barged its way uninvited through […]

So Israel has been popular recently huh? Tensions have been running so high that even here in little New Zealand some have been catching heat. Some have even had to pay the ultimate price, namely Winston Peters’ window and his dog which was suddenly garnished in broken glass. At the heart of all this is […]

So Keir Starmer has just resigned as British PM? Well, no he hasn’t – but he is proposing a universal digital ID which sounds very, very similar to the ‘Poll Tax’ which Margaret Thatcher tried busting out back in the 80s. And though she was tough as old boots, the Iron Lady was melted down […]

There are two types of people in Melbourne in January and February. The ones who know exactly why Jannik Sinner’s second serve is suddenly biting harder under the lights, and the ones who nod politely and change the subject to the weather. Photos courtesy of Rolex This guide is for the second group. The Australian […]

Jason Momoa doesn’t enter a room so much as change its air pressure. One moment it’s small talk and canapé maths, the next it’s a six-foot-five wall of hair, ink and laughter. On paper he’s the shorthand we all know, Baywatch, Khal Drogo, Aquaman, Dune, the blind warrior from See. In reality he’s something far […]

Building a new home is one of life’s biggest adventures, but before you dive into floor plans and colour schemes, there’s some important groundwork to do. Think of this as your pre-planning phase – a chance to really visualise what you want your new home to feel like, not just look like. These moments set […]

The Sony World Photography Awards have wrapped up again for another year celebrating the photographers capturing the dramatic everyday life this planet delivers. Whether it’s the quiet contemplation of rivers patiently slicing through Iceland mountains or the excited screaming of soccer fans in Indonesia something is happening somewhere always. Over almost two decades, the Awards […]

And in more hot Guinness Book of Records news; Turkmenistani capital Ashgabat has finally lifted the prestigious title of World’s Highest Density of White Marble-clad Buildings. After a fierce competition that’s raged for at least a couple of millennia, Ashgabat wrenched the title from the grasp of divisional heavyweights like Agra, Washington, Athens and Rome. […]

If there’s one person we weren’t expecting to see mooching around the Prada Spring Summer 2025 catwalk it was Hideo Kojima. Although it makes a whole lot more sense knowing he was there in the context of recently collaborating with Danish movie director Nicolas Winding Refn and using Prada’s Aoyama Tokyo space to host their […]

Do you want to feel real old? The PlayStation 1 is now 30 years old. To celebrate, Reebok, the king of 90s culture has generated an exclusive range of region-specific sneakers to honour their combined legacy. This drop is being done in conjunction with PlayStation’s other 30th anniversary collection, a limited run of PS5 consoles […]

Logitech has a wave of new kit coming out, my favourite of which is the Logitech G Astro A20 X Lightspeed, here on out called the A20 X for brevity. I’ve been hunting for a new headset to wear at work to block out bosses and coworkers and using the A20 X for this purpose […]

HBO continues to chase the breakout success of Game of Thrones, but can it ever harness that spark ever again? The GoT universe has plenty of fertile content to work with, George RR Martin may be a serial procrastinator when it comes to finishing off the original books but there are plenty of short stories […]

In the last issue of the mag I hand-wrung over the difficulty Tron has always had as a concept. It has never been appreciated in the time it comes out in and Tron: Ares is no different. Tron is anathema to critics who spend too much time reflecting on the décor of their colon. But […]

Is it too much to say Timothee Chalamet is a once in a generation actor? Name me one bad movie he’s been in… Wonka? Ok you got me on that one. But his latest film coming out from A24 costars Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, and Tyler the Creator among others. Chalamet plays Marty Mauser in […]

Fackham Hall introduces itself proudly as being “From the studio that watched the first two seasons of Downton Abbey” and doesn’t look back as it delivers physical, visual, and literal gags one after the other. After a year where we’ve already been blessed with a fresh Naked Gun movie, it feels like we’re back to […]