Review: SUDS' Off-Offstage — A Band 6 for Off-Offstage

Off-Offstage is structured as a variety show, featuring monologues, group performances, and songs performed by its motley cast of SUDS members who have (presumably) suffered through the epic highs and lows of HSC Drama themselves.

CampusLucy BaileyJanuary 29, 2023SUDS, drama, HSC, ONSTAGE, Off-Offstage, student theatre, performance

From Underdogs to Favourites: A snapshot of African success

African football teams have, on multiple occasions, performed brilliantly, despite not necessarily having advanced as far as their European and South American counterparts on the world stage.

CultureSLDecember 21, 2022FIFA, World Cup, Qatar, Morocco, Africa, football, Cameroon, Algeria

MICROBABE

“Look,” Dad says, “she’s smiling at you!”

CultureSonal KambleDecember 4, 2022halloween, teeth, digital horror, creepy girls, creepy

Who's shouting the next Meriton?

A hotel room seemingly for business people, travelling interstate during the week, can be seamlessly transformed into a scene fostering drug and alcohol consumption over raucous weekends.

CultureNandini DhirNovember 16, 2022parties, Western Sydney, Meriton, high school

QueueAnon

My life cannot help but be filtered through the eyes of the queue.

CultureHarry GayNovember 16, 2022queues, lining up, bus stops, roller coasters, small bars

Cold suns in water

A reflection on the Botanic Gardens; or, my little childhood park.

Nepotism Babies

“You’d do it too if you could.”

ComedyMia FreelandNovember 16, 2022nepotism, candy, lollies

Maxibon Wrapper Design Latest Victim of Cancel Culture Mob

The woke, cancel culture mob has raised their torches to the heels of an icon and incinerated it beyond recognition.

ComedyDavid SingletonNovember 16, 2022maxibon, ice cream, wrapper, woke', cancel culture

What Freud would say about your new vices?

I have risen from the dead to see how the human psyche has been tracking.

ComedyAriana HaghighiNovember 16, 2022phone addiction, vaping, Europe, freud, Sigmund Freud, psychology

The Moon

A comic.

ComedyNiamh RelihanNovember 16, 2022the moon, nature, feeling sad, dickface

162 neptune house

Art by Jorja Rynne.

CultureJorja RynneNovember 16, 2022art

What of the walls of Frankie's Pizza?

This photo series questions what will happen to the thing that makes up the very essence of the bar: the walls.

PlaceHarry GayNovember 16, 2022Frankie's Pizza, pizza, bars, nightlife, Sydney

The Old Teachers’ College apostrophe catastrophe

A secret war is being waged on campus. In, around, and upon the very buildings we use everyday.

PlaceMarlow HurstNovember 16, 2022Sydney, USyd, University, education, grammar, english, Old Teachers' College, apostrophe, campus

The city as a garden of earthly delights

Although Australia’s natural landscape has been decimated by concrete and industry since colonisation, if you know where to look, the city remains a rich supermarket of edible delights.

RecessMae MilneNovember 16, 2022Sydney, nature, local, Inner West, food, Indigenous Australians, lemon myrtle, dandelions, mulberries, figs, foraging

I visited Esperanto House: Now I know world peace

Headquarters, lodging, and museum all hide modestly on the Redfern Run. Dressed in camouflage, they escape the ocular frisk of students rushing to Abercrombie.

Mash or pass: An abridged history of mashups

Though it’s gone through periods of both mainstream success as well as being on the fringes, mashups have exploded in online popularity in recent years.

MusicMatthew ForbesNovember 16, 2022mashups, tiktok, remix, history, music history, meme culture

Tits out for PULP

Big tits are awesome until you’re the person who has them.

CultureKate SaapNovember 16, 2022breast reduction, perspective, tits, body

Quaroutine

As cases spread beyond the gates and walls of our camp, an unlikely sense of community bloomed from the confined freedoms we enjoyed.

PlaceKhoi DangNovember 16, 2022COVID, COVID-19, quarantine, Vietnam, film photography

Why is Chinese popular music so sad?

Themes of loneliness, heartbreak, and loss are commonplace, but for some reason they felt more sorrowful and melancholic than their English-language counterparts.

MusicLizzy KwokNovember 16, 2022China, pop music, melancholy, sadness

Bourdainification

Bourdain’s overbearing influence on food writing inscribed all the marks of the ‘real’ into the show as much as any set designer or method actor.

CultureHuw BradshawNovember 16, 2022food writing, Anthony Bourdain, The Bear, TV, television, cooking