I'm a highbrow sort of guy. Last night, for instance, before bed, I took in another chapter of Emmanuel College Fellow Peter Hunter Blair's Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England. Everyone is called Athelstan or Edmund or Erik Bloodaxe or something, which is really cool.
It emerges by night from a dark damp corner of South Dunedin; a predator that kills its prey in the most sickening and horrific way.
Details of restrictions in Dunedin surrounding advertising "clean zones" and "clean routes" during the Rugby World Cup will become clear in the next few weeks.
Fire service personnel, police and locals got together on Saturday morning to save a yacht found close to sinking at the fisherman's wharf at Careys Bay.
A stove-top fire in Outram on Saturday was never going to spread far, surrounded, as it was, with a variety of fire appliances and a bevy of fire fighters.
With five months to go before the Rugby World Cup, and final decisions made on who will be playing where, the Dunedin City Council is picking up the pace of its planning for the event.
The lack of an explosive political issue - a stadium or a Dunedin Centre redevelopment, perhaps - appears to have resulted in lower than usual interest in the Dunedin City Council's annual plan this year.
Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis says holding Monday's extraordinary council meeting with no report for councillors to read beforehand is both "illegal and immoral".
A new association to fight for the interests of property developers was formed in South Dunedin last night, following Dunedin City Council moves that have galvanised the profession in opposition.
The public may have to wait another fortnight to discover the subject of a non-public meeting yesterday involving the council's group of trading companies.
It may not be something to be proud of, but when it comes to crime, Australia does it that much better than New Zealand.
Dunedin's parking machines are taking a major beating from vandals, with machines worth thousands of dollars all but destroyed.
Nearly $500,000 will be pumped into the Otago economy this year for a wide variety of events set to take place during the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Dunedin Venues Management Ltd (DVML) has teamed up with John Deere, in an arrangement with ramifications for the Forsyth Barr Stadium pitch.
A multimillion-dollar plan to reroute traffic through Dunedin is back on the agenda, and a major change to the city's one-way system is heading the list of possibilities.
Dunedin developers have the postponement they called for in developing a policy expected to raise Dunedin City Council charges for their projects.
Timaru race-goers witnessed a horrific half-hour yesterday after a multi-car crash at the Levels circuit left Osca series driver Matt Cronin trapped in his burning car.
Dunedin's new earthquake policy got the go-ahead from the Dunedin City Council yesterday; now it is the turn of the public, and the building owners who may have to pay to strengthen the city's building stock, to have their say.
Construction at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium may be rapidly reaching a conclusion, but in the shadow of the structure, the financial debate and the entrenched political tensions, continue.
A new policy to protect Dunedin from the ravages of a disaster such as the recent Christchurch earthquake could cost the city council more than $3 million over the next 10 years, and require significant work to put together a database of earthquake-prone buildings.
