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Pelican MagazineDecember 30, 2015

Question: How much is our national identity worth? Or rather, how susceptible are ‘Australian values’ to serious examination? Sorry if these questions are v...

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Pelican Remembers: Lesser known deaths of 2015

Pelican MagazineDecember 27, 2015

Grandpa Swift Rigby (b. 1879) Old Swifty was the oldest known Pelican Editor, serving from 1902 to 1925 in the only autocratic kingship in Pelican History. W...

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I’ve Been on Grindr for 18 Months and in That Time My Lungs Have Collapsed and the Light of Holiness Has Fled My Soul.

Pelican MagazineDecember 22, 2015

We’re all familiar with Grindr by now, the infamous hookup app that encompasses the vast panorama of Perth’s comically underwhelming queer scene. ...

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It’s a relentless, exhausting story of revenge and survival, elevated beyond mere tropes by the expert cinematography and editing of Emmanuel Lubezki and Stephen Mirrione (both of whom worked on Birdman) respectively. No one is delivering cinematic visions like these three in tandem right now.

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A Cat Named Yoda, Dark Side Flows, and Whether First Order Warriors Listen to My Chemical Romance: The Force Awakens Pelican Roundtable

Pelican MagazineDecember 21, 2015

Following the midnight screening of The Force Awakens on Thursday, Pelican approached a group of moderate to Sebulba shirt-wearing Star Wars fans to participat...

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Review: Cinderella – WA Ballet

Pelican MagazineDecember 20, 2015

Ballet is defined as an artistic dance performed to music, using precise and highly formalised set steps and gestures. I know this because I googled it in the �...

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2015: The Little Year that Fucking Couldn’t

Pelican MagazineDecember 20, 2015

2015 was without question, a shithouse year. I write this in its closing weeks and at this stage it looks like we’re going to reach the new year with neo-fasc...

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Jar Jar Abrahams Delivers: 25 Thoughts about The Force Awakens

Pelican MagazineDecember 18, 2015

Hey look the Stormtroopers learned to aim, maybe it’s because their new helmets have eye holes in the right place Jakku may be even more of a shithole ...

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Do I Make Children Cry? The Varying Degrees of Despair Induced By Perth Buskers

Pelican MagazineDecember 17, 2015

It became apparent to me the enormous power of the busker to influence mood on a Thursday afternoon in March. I was sitting sipping a badly made iced coffee and...

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Review: Carol

Pelican MagazineDecember 16, 2015

Director: Todd Haynes Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara Watching Carol is like falling in love. An intoxicating, all-consuming, forbidden love that sm...

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Pelican Remembers: Lesser known deaths of 2015

I’ve Been on Grindr for 18 Months and in That Time My Lungs Have Collapsed and the Light of Holiness Has Fled My Soul.

Review: The Revenant

A Cat Named Yoda, Dark Side Flows, and Whether First Order Warriors Listen to My Chemical Romance: The Force Awakens Pelican Roundtable

Review: Cinderella – WA Ballet

2015: The Little Year that Fucking Couldn’t

Jar Jar Abrahams Delivers: 25 Thoughts about The Force Awakens

Do I Make Children Cry? The Varying Degrees of Despair Induced By Perth Buskers

Review: Carol

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