5 apps for a Melburnian: the sequel
Were you ‘appy with our first instalment of reviews? Did you think they were absolutely app-tastic? Yes? Well you’re in luck! Let us present you with part two of 5 Apps for a Melburnian; another five potentially useful (maybe one not-so-useful) applications for your trusty iPhone, courtesy of your adoring friends at Melbourne RiffRaff Sci + Tech. Dropbox...
5 Apps for a Melburnian
It is without a doubt the age of the smartphone – those pocket-sized, portable computers that essentially run our day-to-day lives. It even seems hard to think of a time before their omnipresent existence. With this in mind, RiffRaff Science + Technology thought it would be timely to string together a little list of smartphone...
Be First, Be Smarter, Or Cheat
Margin Call could not be released at a better time. Zuccotti Park protests of 2011 and the recent release of Goldman Sachs employee Greg Smith’s New York Times op. ed. have ensured that attention is once again back on Wall Street. Everything the public thought about investment banks is crystallized in less than...
Culinary Crusade: Attica
When I mentioned to a friend that my partner and I were going to Attica, he immediately asked what we were celebrating… It was too far between our birthdays to use that as excuse, so I came to the realisation that there really was no occasion. This discovery prompted a brief existential food crisis. Did I have...
Excess what?!
Channel 9 thought they would be set for success with their new show Excess Baggage. Unfortunately it flopped. The original 7pm time slot had running success with The Block and Celebrity Apprentice last year, but Excess Baggage failed to deliver as its predecessors did. The ratings were falling below The Biggest Loser on Channel 10...
Football Manager 2012 Review
Standing on the touchline, I feel almost helpless. Twenty minutes to go, 1-0 down. The lads have played so well this year, in fact, it’s been a three year process, but this next twenty minutes will define them, and it will decide whether or not I’m in a job next year. We’ve played 41 games...
The Local’s One-Day Guide To Singapore
“Wandering aimlessly around Singapore’s retail hub isn’t the sole option of someone who only has one day in the shiny city-state. Read on for some of Singapore’s best-kept secrets.” Sentosa, the Merlion, and Orchard Road come to mind when Singapore, the little island poised at the south of Malaysia is mentioned. But for those weary...
High Calibre
As Melbourne enters into spring, there’s a lot to look forward to; warm weather, rejuvenation and the emergence of colour; yes, Spring/Summer fashion collections are here – fresh, light and colourful. As Calibre enters its twenty-second year of setting the benchmark for Australian men’s fashion, will their SS11 collection flourish? Calibre is known for...
Smashing a Vaudeville Boogie
There was a wild man on stage let loose on a microphone – his legs were a tangle of untamed bounce, his arms flying freely to a cheeky tempo of common time beat. Even a flute became airborne. These on-stage antics bantered a crowd of die-hard fans who furiously kept rhythm through a fist-punching count....
Book Review: To Kill A Mockingjay
“In the pursuit of entertainment, are reality television shows set to become even more extreme, even going to the extent of staging death matches?” Imagine channel-surfing and stopping at a reality television program that pits child against child in gruesome death matches. Suzanne Collins’s dystopic trilogy The Hunger Games blurs the lines between reality television...
Review: Peter Pan and Wendy
Growing up always seemed to be a foreign, and sometimes bleak outcome of childhood, but it’s something we all must go through. Well, all but one. J.M. Barrie’s original tale of Peter Pan is the story of that exception. Rewritten, reorchestrated, and redesigned by Jonathan Ware, International House Theatre Group presented their account of the...
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