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a visit to Zealandia

Over Easter, the weather suddenly went all settled and warm. This is perhaps not unusual for autumn, but given the crap summer most parts of the country have had for the past few months it was...

I’d rather be under the sea

It’s been too long since you last lost yourself on the dance floor, right? And you haven’t dressed up in ages. You can’t even remember the last time that you drank a bright blue cocktail. Oh...

WYFC first birthday party, Easter Sunday

There’s a group of truly awesome people in Wellington who do great things, and they’re having a party. Doesn’t that sound like the sort of thing you should attend? Yes! Come to the WYFC’s first...

World Cinema Showcase 2012

After a splendid Wellington Film Festival last year, the New Zealand International Film Festival might be forgiven for putting their feet up and taking it easy but instead they have gone out of...

Glee meets V for Vendetta

Musicals aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. But if said musical is set in Wellington and involves the assassinations of Glee type characters it’s hard not to want to know more. Joshua Hopton Stewart...

This fish is still fresh, even after two years

Happy second birthday to our favourite Wellington print media, Fishhead! Thanks for the fun reads, the great parties , and for giving our city a magazine and fantastic quiz host/Jam...

Captain Sergeant Major and Force Fields

Rock out at the end of summer with Wellington’s chief purveyors of sonic pop and angular rock n roll! Rockgasm! Auckland’s boutique record label, hell is now love, presents Captain...

a Jamboree… of Jam

A highlight of the Wellington foodies Calendar is  The Great Welly Jam Off.  Since the first Jam off held at The Old Bank Arcade the event’s transformed into a must make and must taste...

Another season, another reason for making coffee

How hard can it be to make a really good cup of coffee? The correct answer, as any Wellingtonian knows, is “Really bloody hard!” A good barista is a thing to be cherished, and the best of...

Wellington in a Pint (or four)

“Would you like to come and drink free beer?” the message asked. What does a self-respecting barfly say to that? ‘No’? And so the Fly found itself buzzing around the advertising types...

Notional Significance: Halfway

[See all Notional Significance posts] On one side: the beige of townhouses; the hermetic whiteness of Fletcher Construction’s offices; the twee comforts of a garden centre. On the other: a...

Wellington Bus Review

This has been cross-posted to Sustainable Wellington Transport. Greater Wellington Regional Council is currently consulting on the Wellington City Bus Review. This is mandated by the Regional...

Beautiful Burnout tasting session

Frantic Assembly and the National Theatre of Scotland are over here with their acclaimed show Beautiful Burnout. Tonight there’s a special ‘Social Media Call’ for social media users.  The cast...

Wellington Fashion Week is coming.

The first Wellington Fashion Week takes place 18th-26th April. There will be a variety of events including different shows, pop-ups, a high tea and of course lots of deeply hip people. We’re...

We like to play games

You know how it goes – you have no food or booze in your home so you need to leave the house, so you text your friends to see if they want to meet you somewhere, and so they do, and you get...

Notional Significance: Downstream

[See all Notional Significance posts] My narrative has been marooned in Johnsonville for over eight months, a fate that, if not actually worse than death, is perilously close to it. In fact, it...

we pause for some pretty

photo Phil Reid/ FAIRFAX NZ It’s Academy Award day in LA and we know the answer to the fashion question of the day “what are you wearing?” for two Wellingtonians, Jana Barrett and Jennifer...

Review: Michael James Manaia

This solo show starts with a welcome and karakia. After a serious start it flips into a madcap story.  As the action progresses we hear a man telling us the story of his life -  what his...

New Zealand International Arts Festival 2012

The New Zealand International Arts Festival opens tonight with a live event in conjuction with the launch of First Contact. It’s FREE, family friendly, and starts at 8:30pm outside Te Papa....

We also have ‘opinions’ – a protest against transphobia

If you’re on the Twitters, you would have seen yet another digusting piece of bigotry and bullshit churned out by Rosemary McLeod about how transgender people shouldn’t be parents. The @dompost...

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