Gigs and Festys Image sourced from Florian Bell It may not be summer anymore, but that does not mean you can’t get yourself out to a gig or a festival this month! Presented with our very own bFM, Strange Universe festival is on throughout June at heaps of different venues. You can also catch a few indie acts at UFO on the thirteenth of June with tickets as cheap as $15, or go see Double Parked at Double Whammy on June 6th. Prospalooza festival is also on at DW this Sunday, w

Do you want the House Tour? Sorry, I can’t afford it right now... Photo Source: A win for Wellington - Greens welcome more housing - Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand It was 8:00am on a miserable Wednesday morning. Ordinarily, you couldn’t expect me to be awake at such an unreasonable hour. However, Craccum had been invited to discuss the Green Party’s new housing campaign, and one faithful email chain later, there I was—bleary-eyed and blinking at my laptop screen—face-to-

Overview This marks the first instalment of Student Council Corner — a column dedicated to recapping the most important (or least stereotypically bureaucratic) updates from the University’s Student Council, co-chaired by your 2026 AUSA President, Nimish Milan Singh and Education VP Officers, Matthew Lee and Eugene Lee. Chances are you’ve never heard of such a council, and honestly, you’re forgiven; most people (including this author) are new to the concept. TLDR the Student C

May is a pretty packed month for entertainment, so I’ve put together a quick guide of all the amazing things you can get up to in Tāmaki Makaurau when you’re not too busy studying! NZ Comedy Festival May welcomes the New Zealand comedy festival to an array of venues all over the city! See crowd favourites like Guy Williams, Ray O’Leary, Abby Howells and David Correos for discounted prices, or discover some new names. The gigs are on all over the city, such as in Q theatre, th

Phones were buzzing nonstop. Emails flooded in every second. Memes, Spotify links, event promos, random arguments, and people desperately begging others to “STOP REPLYING ALL” completely took over everyone’s inboxes (because they were still sleeping). Somehow, the entire university had accidentally become one giant group chat. And at the centre of it all was Benjiman Law. So of course, I had to interview the man responsible for what might be one of the funniest moments in rec