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Best Design Awards: 20 years, 43 Black Pins, 40 men, 3 women
The conveners and judges of this year's Best Design Awards nominations are overwhelmingly male. In the past 20 years, its top award has only been awarded to three women. Why?
The best of The Spinoff this week
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NZIFF: Happy As Lazzaro, Ancient Woods, Zama, Mega Time Squad, Juliet, Naked
Including a David Attenborough documentary without David Attenborough and a Nick Hornby adaptation,
Do teenagers even use Pornhub, and other questions about children and porn
We've largely moved beyond moral panics about teens' consumption of books, television and movies, but worries about the effects of online pornography remain. But are we concerned about the wrong things?
Nine ways to help break your addiction to the internet
Keen to cure your addiction to the small screen? Alex Beattie has nine quickfire suggestions.
NZIFF: Ash Is Purest White, Little Woods, [CENSORED]
The good, the bad, and the unexpected in our latest film festival reviews.
A friendly reminder that reverse racism is still not a real thing
Was the exclusion of Pākehā students from a Joseph Parker event ill-conceived? Yes. Was it racist? No.
Zucklander: a journey into the Mark Zuckerberg dress code
Being boring is not just an unfortunate side effect of being Mark Zuckerberg, it’s a strategy, and nowhere is that more apparent than in his choice of clothing.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi: the comic book
Toby Morris has illustrated a new publication in the School Journal Story Library that tells the story of the Treaty of Waitangi
NZIFF: Leave No Trace, Merata, Donbass, Capharnaüm, Raise the Red Lantern
Is Leave No Trace, starring New Zealand's next big star, all it's cracked up to be?
Peasville: the bizarre story of one man’s obsession with anthropomorphic peas
David Farrier delves into the 30-year-old mystery of Richard A Kontos, a man with a dream of a better world. A man obsessed with anthropomorphic peas and the tiny town of Peasville.
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One simple hack to (maybe!) cure your phone addiction
After years of watching powerlessly as his iPhone took over his brain, Duncan Greive found a way of getting it back.
NZIFF: Woman At War, Blue My Mind, Angels Wear White, Minding The Gap
The ninth installment from our team film critics swarming the cinemas of Auckland and Wellington for the 2018 NZ International Film Festival.
NZIFF: Last Child, Bisbee ‘17, Dog’s Best Friend, Mandy, Skate Kitchen
The eighth installment from our team film critics swarming the cinemas of Auckland and Wellington for the 2018 NZ International Film Festival.
What the new public interest defence really means for media and defamation
Steven Price, who argued against Māori Television in their defamation case this week, explains exactly what the new defamation defence actually means, and who really won the case.
10 takeaways from NZ on Air’s shocking new audience survey
We've been waiting for the tipping point, where online really surges against broadcast media. It just arrived
‘Why are you like this?’ A deeply awkward interview with David Farrier
The Spinoff's not at all embittered reporter Hayden Donnell grills Dark Tourist creator David Farrier about why he didn't go to his wedding.
What makes the perfect NZ snow story? (WATCH)
Veteran news pro Pete Export (Ra Pomare) has some tips for making a classic 'winter hits New Zealand' news story.
NZIFF: Burning, An Elephant Sitting Still, Thelma, Border, The Atlantic
The seventh installment from our team film critics swarming the cinemas of Auckland and Wellington for the 2018 NZ International Film Festival.
NZIFF: The Green Fog, Island of the Hungry Ghosts, Mirai, Let the Corpses Tan & more
The sixth installment from our team film critics swarming the cinemas of Auckland and Wellington for the 2018 NZ International Film Festival.
Announcing the relaunch of the Spinoff app, and now it’s FREE
Thanks to Meredith Connell, you can now download your friendly local website's mobile application for zero dollars.
NZIFF: The Cleaners, The Heiresses, Searching, Liquid Sky
The fifth installment from our team film critics swarming the cinemas of Auckland and Wellington for the 2018 NZ International Film Festival.
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