The Spinoff Weekly: Did everyone spontaneously applaud Amanda Palmer in a Havelock North cafe?
January 18 – January 25, 2021
Who polices the police: Trash Facebook comments edition
Why are there so many offensive comments on the New Zealand Police Facebook page and are they breaking the law? Janaye Henry investigates.
Did everyone spontaneously applaud Amanda Palmer in a Havelock North cafe? A Spinoff investigation
Right now, our most fiery national debate is over whether New Zealanders were nice to the singer Amanda Palmer in a cafe. Desperate to restore peace in our nation, Hayden Donnell went in search of the truth.
The rise and fall of New Zealand’s largest water park
How Waiwera Hot Pools went from New Zealand’s most visited water park to dereliction and decay.
Why we should cheer the grounding of the annual helicopter cannabis hunt
This commendable and realistic decision again underlines that it is the police, not government, who are largely responsible for the reduction in cannabis prosecutions over the past 15 years, writes Russell Brown.
Someone is making terrible Jacinda Ardern deepfake videos and they must be stopped
Can you figure out which of the above is the real Jacinda Ardern? Probably! But one day, that might not be true.
An exciting high school reunion was actually a Facebook scam, and I fell for it
Think twice before you accept that surprise school reunion invite, writes Chris Schulz.
The rise and rise of the merino wool shoe
Varieties of merino wool footwear are emerging faster than Netflix series about British aristocracy. Michael Andrew takes a look at the rise of the shoe that almost everyone – including his 95-year-old grandma – is wearing.
PSA: You might not need to pay that parking fine
Pinged $65 for overstaying 10 minutes in a parking block? Put away your hard-earned cash and read this first.
Please stop ruining summer and turn off that godforsaken music
We are drowning out the natural world with synthetic sounds, and it’s getting worse, writes Michelle Langstone.
Reviewing the Dawn Raid movie, and our lost youth
Duncan Greive and Leonie Hayden were young hip hop heads and music journalists during the era captured in a new documentary about the rise and fall of South Auckland hip hop label Dawn Raid. Here they discuss the film and their memories (what’s left of them) of that time.
