Werewolf #10 Out Now - Food For Thought

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Hi and welcome to the latest edition of Werewolf, which leads off with a discussion about why New Zealand, virtually alone in the developed world, thinks that it’s a good idea to tax the food on the family table. Most of the rest of the world think its a terrible idea – for families, and for society. By using Australia as an example, we show just how easily a food exemption could be done, and how widely it would be accepted.

Elsewhere in this issue, Werewolf reports on the suitability of Doug McKay as the newly appointed Auckalnd Supercity CEO. We also examine theuncertain future of the Womad music festival, which is struggling to maintain an annual presence in New Plymouth. From Australia, James Robinson reports on why a fickle public in the US and Australia has been so hard on Barack Obama and Kevin Rudd – mainly it seems, because they’re doing what they promised to do. They said it would be hard, and we hate them for that, too. Whatever happened to leaders who promise us nothing and then give us easy options, and diversions? Once again, New Zealand shows the way.

We don’t do reviews on Werewolf, mainly because reviews are such a played out, reductive format. Instead, this month sees the introduction of a new film column called Milestone Movies, a series of essays on films worth writing about at length. First up, Brannavan Gnanalingham considers the fate of the French Nouvelle Vague, by focusing on the great 1973 movie The Mother and the Whore.

In the travel column, Conor MacHugh talks about his foray into the ruined city of Agdam, while on Left Coasting, Rosalea Barker traces the background to the diverse Hispanic voting bloc in California - and considers how it may respond, if and when the immigration issue returns to the fore in this year’s race for Governor. In Cartoon Alley, Leo Hupert reviews a number of terrific local and international comics, and there is new work by Ned Wenlock. The children’s book classic this month is Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, while in The Complicatist this month, Werewolf pays tribute to the late ( and surly) Alex Chilton.

Werewolf exists as a thank you’ to Scoop.co.nz supporters, and to provide a fresh outlet for writers and cartoonists. If you’d like to be part of it, email me at gordon@werewolf.co.nz and we can talk about it. Thanks as always to David McLellan for helping to edit and post this issue.

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Gordon Campbell
Werewolf/Scoop

The contents of this edition are:

Do the Right Thing
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/do-the-right-thing/
Everywhere else, countries recognise the need to exempt food from GST
by Gordon Campbell

Hating Obama, Scorning Rudd
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/hating-obama-scorning-rudd/
Why have they become so unpopular so quickly ?
by James Robinson

Womad under pressure
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/womad-under-pressure/
Can the world music festival survive in its current format and location?
by Gordon Campbell

Loss Leader
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/loss-leader/
Is Doug McKay really the leader that Auckland needs?
by Gordon Campbell

Classics: Harriet the Spy (1964) by Louise Fitzhugh
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/classics-harriet-the-spy-1964-by-louise-fitzhugh/
Looking out for number one
by Gordon Campbell

Left Coasting: Una casa dividida
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/left-coasting-una-casa-dividida/
Searching for common ground among California’s Latino/Chicano/Mexicano voters
by Rosalea Barker

Milestone Movies: The Mother and the Whore (1973)
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/milestone-movies-the-mother-and-the-whore-1973/
Relationships still feel like this, 40 years on…
by Brannavan Gnanalingham

From the Hood: Boraxing poetical
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/from-the-hood-boraxing-poetical/
Odes for the malodorous
by Lyndon Hood

The Complicatist: In praise of Alex Chilton (1950-2010)
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/the-complicatist-in-praise-of-alex-chilton-1950-2010/
I saw you staring into space
by Gordon Campbell

Travelling Light: Into the Ruined City
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/travelling-light-%e2%80%93-into-the-ruined-city/
In Agdam, the past is the only thing present
by Conor MacHugh

Cartoon Alley
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/cartoon-alley/
Reviews, commentary and comics from local artists
by Werewolf

Cartooon Alley: Reviews and commentary #5… by Leo Hupert
http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/04/reviews-and-commentary-5%e2%80%a6-by-leo-hupert/
Newave ! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s
by Leo Hupert

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