From the New Zealand Listener archive
September 20-26 2003 Vol 190 No 3306
Features
Upfront James Fallows by Gordon Campbell
The trick of ageing gracefully, as Sherwood Anderson showed in his novel Winesburg, Ohio, means having zero tolerance of your...Castles in the air by Mark Revington
When all anyone talks about is real estate, you know there’s something going on. The danger is that fear and greed are over-inflating a speculative housing bubble, driving first home buyers to desperation and naive investors to overreach. Is it time for a realty reality check?Ten tips for first home buyers by Bruce Ansley
1. UNDERSTAND that you will probably not be in this house forever...Mob rules by Alistair Bone
The flashmob phenomenon – so now, so hip, so essentially superficial – may be over before it really starts. Perfect.Canterbury tales by Philip Matthews
Ten years ago, Canterbury University passed a controversial master’s thesis that denied the Holocaust. The student has long since apologised for the offence that it caused and repudiated some of its content, but others at Canterbury are unwilling to let the matter rest. This year, the controversy was re-ignited when the university withdrew a history department journal, a historian threatened to resign and the original student re-entered the debate. Is Canterbury University in the business of suppressing academic freedom? Or is this issue really about academic standards? And why do New Zealand academics allow themselves and their work to be exploited by Holocaust deniers?Sigmund and the sea monsters by Susan Buckland
When it came to filming Whale Rider’s crucial underwater scenes, there was one logical choice of cinematographer.The wave doctor by Alistair Bone
Aid might not have made Dave Jenkins rich, but it still beats the alternatives.
Arts & Books
I’ll buy that for a dollar by David Eggleton, Sally Blundell, William McAloon et al
Music Blackbeard rides again by Jim Pinckney
Film Beard braids ride again by Helene Wong
Art Diane Arbus is alive and unwell by William McAloon
Books
The outsiders by Denis Welch
Auckland 4, Victoria 3 by Peter Bland
Clean as milk poured out from old basins by Peter Simpson
The psychiatrist did it. Maybe by Nickei Falconer
I had a baboon in Africa by Elizabeth Alley
TV & Radio
Radio review Y ever not by Camille Guy
Radio week Oh baby by Felicity Monk
TV films Spot the dud by Philip Matthews
TV review Not Happen Inn by Diana Wichtel
TV week Live in work by James Cardno and Amy Prebble
