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    • Ciph’s Cabinet: Mina the Hollower
      • Yacht Club Games have already proven themselves with the groundbreaking Shovel Knight in 2014 and its subsequent expansions, reinventing what it meant to be retro-inspired with a genre defining staple I count among my favourite 2D platformers. Nearly 12 years later, I have seen proof that lightning can strike twice. Mina the Hollower has convinced me to burrow headfirst into the top-down adventure genre with its stellar world design, combat, music… basically everything you can think of. Puns...

    • Munch: Kajiken, Angry Ramen (The Terrace)
      • A feed for fuck-all Kajiken What: Abura Soba Price: $17.50 When: 11:00am-8:30pm, Monday-Sunday Not worth it in value or taste, in short. ⭐ As chain restaurants go, Kajiken is a cut above. The moment I stepped in the door, I was bombarded with greetings from left and right. If a mite enthusiastic, the staff were lovely. Inside, it was all pale pine panelling, paper screens, and renditions of Hokusai’s The Great Wave out of noodles, but tastefully done. Each table has a small pull-out drawer...

    • Should You Own a Cat as a Student?
      • New Zealand loves cats. We have one of the highest rates of cat ownership in the world. But is owning one realistic for students? Iona Anderson, president of Cats Protection Wellington, says there is a lot to consider before adopting a cat. “There are some things we’d want to talk through with a student wanting to adopt,” says Anderson. “How long will they be a student for? Are they intending to travel at the end of uni—a lot of people want to get out of the country, and a cat’s not going to...

    • Opinion: I Went to the SPCA and Came Home With 24 Toes
      • In 2023, I adopted my cat, Beans, from the Wellington SPCA. I had moved to Wellington from the United States the year before, and adopting her felt like a way to mark my first anniversary in the city. Wellington was beginning to feel less like somewhere I was temporarily living and more like somewhere I could build a future. With all my family still in the United States, I wanted a companion. A pet seemed like the closest thing to having family here. I was drawn to cats because they are...

    • Blind Date With a Cat
      • Te Herenga Waka student Milla Brown says there has been “so many benefits” since she began fostering Bella, a 17-year-old cat, through Cats Protection Wellington’s senior foster program last June. She described the long-haired domestic as “really good company” and a great source of emotional support as well as entertainment. “She’s very cute, she’s very cuddly. She hangs around giving people cuddles, eats, sleeps—rinse and repeat. “The good thing with an animal is that when you come home,...

    • STRICTLY 4 THE ISLANDS: WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED IN THE MOANA
      • Weekly Pacific Politics with Otis Whinney WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED IN THE MOANA The Rock’s horrific wig in the live-action Moana was not the only distressing thing in the Pacific news landscape this month. Movies I don’t plan on watching because they look AI generated aside, there is much to be discussed about the ever-changing ocean we all inhabit. So let's run down some of the significant stories from July, from further escalations in occupied West Papua to even more security agreements....

    • Fat Moon/Good Bird
      • Keira Batten Coogan Winter is swallowing my chances with you. The moon is fat in tonight's sky, and there are these dull clouds following me to each body of water I visit. I am swallowing wine from the week before and wishing you were here on this porch—then I would know where to lean, and who to laugh with, and when the night should end. I want to invite you into me, and then you would say yes and mean it, and we would both turn to rain, or grass, or something else ordinarily good. Do...

    • Grandfathered into Unc Status
      • Or, why the fuck is everyone born in the ‘90s calling themselves unc? Author: Ox Let’s roll that back a little. I was an avid reader and miniature academic as a child. I was seen as weird and different for this, but books could never judge me by my cover—and I promised to never do the same to them. Year after year, my shelves filled with new titles and new adventures. I had the highest grades in English from primary all the way to high-school graduation. Rooted beneath this was a PC...

    • New Pet Rules Give Student Renters More Rights, But No Guarantees
      • New tenancy rules make it harder for landlords to reject pets without explanation, but students wanting a pet may still face added costs, shared liability, and restrictions based on where they live. Since 1 December 2025, tenants have been able to ask their landlord for permission to keep a pet under changes to the Residential Tenancies Act. Landlords cannot unreasonably refuse a request. However, tenants must receive permission before bringing the animal into the property, unless the pet is...

    • Physical Media is Dying
      • Jake Ellis Physical media is dying. I, for one, cannot wait to purchase a temporary licence for everything I ever buy. I look forward to the day Paramount Pictures and the ghouls who run it crack open my brain and rip Transformers One from my mind because they decided it wasn’t worth running on Paramount Plus, my FAVORITE streaming service. Sony just announced that, come January 2028, they will cease making physical discs for new games released on PlayStation. This comes right after they...

    • A Cry for Beauty: A Reflection on House of the Father
      • On the 22nd of May—after the sun had gone down, the stars had begun to shimmer, and the air had turned crisp—hundreds of people found themselves treading up stairs to pack into Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. Inside, warm lights illuminated at ankle height against the light grey tiles, and wooden chairs carved a long runway down the length of the cathedral. In the centre of the runway stood a cross, commanding the audience’s attention to its presence. The event in question was House of the...

    • Critic-at-Large: Charli xcx shows no signs of stopping
      • Music, Fashion, Film Charli xcx shows no signs of stopping As I wrote earlier this year, Charli xcx has known for a while now that she needs to escape out from under the towering legacy of her 2024 opus brat. She’d been an important left-of-field pop star since at least 2017’s mixtape Pop 2, but brat was bigger than anyone could’ve anticipated. One of the more lucid pleasures of my life—and for music kids like myself—was rolling to Charli deep cuts like “Track 10” in a field full of...

    • When Music Remembers More Than I Do
      • Naomi Waxman When I talk to my friends about their relationship with music, a lot of them give a similar answer—music truly makes them feel. Whether that feeling is enlightened, tragic, nostalgic, or best described by another suitably dramatic adjective, really depends on the person. Personally, I strongly associate music with experiences that I’ve had. When I listen to those songs now, I either feel nostalgic and think back on how much fun I had, or, quite frankly, never want to hear them...

    • Salient Weekly Challenge: Everything Costs Money
      • Within the span of a week, I’ll be trying to accomplish a long-term task just to see if it’s possible, and to see what I can get out of it. Life lessons, skills, resilience training? The stimulation alone should be enough motivation. When I was in high school, I badly wanted a Nintendo Switch. The retail price was about $550, and what I discovered motivated me to save was equating everything to the value of a Switch: If you save your birthday money, that’ll be a quarter of a Switch. If you...

    • Issue 17 Puzzle Answers
      • Connections Answers: First Connection Marks/indentations: Cut, Slice, Score, Notch Second Connection Paths for movement: Channel, Filter, Thread, Pipe Third Connection Areas/zones: Field, Ring, Strip, Belt Fourth Connection Ways to attract/entice: Lead, Tip, Angle, Hook

    • STRICTLY 4 THE ISLANDS: ELECTION SEASON: KŪKI ‘ĀIRAINI AND AOTEAROA
      • Weekly Pacific Politics with Otis Whinney It’s safe to say that the Cook Islands have had their fair share of political scandals and moments of tension over the past few years. The current Prime Minister, Mark Brown, has seen the spotlight quite a bit since that very public stoush over a deal signed with China that New Zealand was not consulted on. While that might seem like us poking our nose in other islands' business, in all fairness the Cook Islands exist under a ‘special relationship’...

    • Issue 16 Puzzle Answers
      • Connections Answers: First Connection Proof of access/ID: Token, Pass, Badge, Tag Second Connection Financial instruments/documents: Note, Bill, Draft, Bond Third Connection Outer layers: Shell, Skin, Rind, Peel Fourth Connection Areas of Operation: Field, Domain, Space, Range

    • 13/07/2026
      • Em for maybe an hour we sat, she did not have to, but we sat together unscrambling famous paintings. her letters much neater than mine and in light blue rather than black. she guessed ‘the last supper’ right away. that helped us get everything else. i wore my hand-me-down boots that she said she liked and so i said i loved her braided hair- i did- i do and we found letter e finally. i messed up the order and her friend saw her and said hi, i told him my name and smiled and continued...

    • The Mindstate: 1999
      • An outrageously raunchy, funk-riddled ride into the end of the world. Taine Knox By 1982, Prince had already excited, appalled, and amazed audiences with his equally-revolutionary, equally-risqué brand of funk-heavy pop music. He was lauded by his immense and undeniable talent, having played all of the instruments on his 1978 debut For You, for his hit-making abilities (1979’s “I Wanna Be Your Lover”) and especially for his remarkable (and nearly inhuman) rate of output. But at that point in...

    • Opinion: Mauri Ora Has Gone Off the Deep End
      • If you’ve visited Mauri Ora’s reception lately, you might have noticed some changes. There’s a wall… with plants. But the lovable, joyous fish tank which soothed the room? It’s gone. As avid fish fans—In 2024, Salient proudly led a proposal for VUWSA to spend $7,000 adopting a shark—we sought to get to the bottom of this fishy business. Removing Mauri Ora’s fish tank was clearly a load of carp, so we demanded answers from Mauri Ora’s head sturgeon himself, Kevin Rowlatt. “The fish and fish...

    • The Youngest Person in the Room
      • Zara Lyne My mother and I have long observed that, wherever I go, I seem to be ‘the youngest person in the room.’ This began as a literal expression, suggesting that I was perhaps the only child at a movie screening full of elderly people. But, as I grew older, it took on a more figurative meaning: the spaces I choose to occupy are generally not shared by those alike to myself. I used to be quite embarrassed by this as a child, as most little kids are when they feel singled out. My mother...

    • Lessons on Life, Love and Other Stuff: On Acting a Fool, Hangxiety, and Sobriety
      • Dear dating diary, My new year's resolution this year was to act a fool and embarrass myself. This was originally intended as a sort of “don’t worry what other people think, put yourself out there and post whatever you want.” For example, reaching out to Phoebe about this column was a push to put work out that I maybe wouldn’t have originally taken! I would say I have most definitely acted a fool this year, but not in a good way. The truth is that I have embarrassed myself in front of...

    • Satire: Health Minister Announces New Plan to Grow Private Health Sector
      • The Public-Private Partnership That Requires Your Urinary Tract On Monday, Health Minister Simeon Brown unveiled what he called a “bold, innovative step” to grow New Zealand’s private health sector, announcing a new initiative to “legalise ketamine to all under 35s” and “give it out to anyone under 30 for free.” Officials stressed the policy is not a drug giveaway. It is, they said, “a targeted economic intervention,” designed to “unlock capacity” and “reduce pressure” on the public health...

    • Opinion: OneSushi Katsu Bowl Price Climbs 93% in Nine Years—But Remains One of Wellington’s Cheapest Meals.
      • As a high-school student, I became obsessed with OneSushi’s chicken katsu bowl. I still am. It was a cheap, reliable lunch that offered plenty of bang for your buck. I wasn’t the only one. In a 2017 post on r/newzealand, one user gushed about OneSushi’s “small” chicken katsu bowl costing just $7. Today, the same bowl costs $13.50—a 93% increase. Inflation has been brutal, and has been for years. But not that brutal. According to the Reserve Bank’s inflation calculator, $7 in 2017 is...

    • A Young Person’s Guide to Wine
      • Tom Graham Talk About Wine. It is a well-documented, if maligned, tradition—perhaps as old as academia itself—for students to get on the piss. That’s not going away, no matter what the news or your parents’ friends might be telling you. Generation Z isn’t so into Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Napa Cab, and that’s not a bad thing; there’s a whole world of brilliant quality, sustainable practice, and funky fun to be had down here in the under, for some very decent prices. Like it or not, wine is the...

    • Opinion: The Rise of Centrism: What Does The Opportunity Party Really Stand For?
      • Lauren Morley The Opportunity Party (previously known as TOP) is, for the fourth election in a row, braving the ever changing political landscape. Free from ideology and rhetoric, Opportunity is campaigning to be the next kingmaker, and the bridge builders our parliament so desperately needs. Since their recent rise in the polls, Opportunity has become subject to a wide range of scrutiny. Interestingly, their criticisms have been quite contradictory. The left-wing parties claim that...

    • Critic-at-large: Heartstopper Forever, Daughter From Hell
      • Heartstopper’s film finale is so shaky it risks toppling the show that preceded it In Heartstopper Forever, the feature-length film that closes out the eponymous TV series, things have changed. Once-bullied gay kid Charlie Spring is running for Head Boy, and, on the high of his emotional campaign speech, he clinches it. Now, it’s his gorgeous and popular jock boyfriend, Nick Nelson, who, nearing the end of his high school career, is staring down the barrel of loneliness and uncertainty. It’s...

    • Hunk Unc: hey hunk unc (long time reader first time caller)...
      • Hunk Unc: hey hunk unc (long time reader first time caller) I have a very free schedule this semester so I find myself home often and I very rarely see my lovely flatmates as they all have partners who they cannot spend a second without and of course they have busy lives, I spend some days at a time alone in my flat and it feels like I live alone. How do I talk to my flatmates about this? Hey, long-time lonely reader, first-time writer. This Unc is going to give it his best shot, but I’m...

    • Munch: Burger Liquor
      • A feed for fuck-all What: Hamburgers Price: $9.99 When: 8:00pm - 10:00pm; Friday & Saturday If you’re happy to wait, this is a delicious deal. ⭐⭐⭐ It’s been a while since I’ve featured a ‘meal deal’ here. There’s been a lot of low-cost menus, or fudging entrees and side dishes together into something satisfying. It’s high-time that I let an eatery do the fudging for me. So this week, it’s off to the Willis Street bar that sounds like a McDonald’s smut fic from 2008: Burger Liquor. Their...

    • Student Health Shelves Free ADHD Assessment Rollout After Funding Falls Through
      • Plans for Student Health to offer free ADHD assessments from trimester two will not go ahead after the service failed to secure the additional funding needed to run them without worsening wait times for other patients. Student Health Director Kevin Rowlatt told Salient the proposed service would have required extra clinical staff, with an in-house pathway estimated to cost between $200,000 and $300,000 each year. “We were not able to secure that additional funding at this stage,” Rowlatt...

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