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fabric-a-brilliant

Imagine if you will,  40 tables  stacked full of vintage fabric from the 1950s and 1960s  and lace from the 1920s.  Add in all sorts of delightful sewing accessories like buttons and...

Let’s help Wellington SPCA into a new home

Wellington City Council would like your views on the draft Long Term Plan 2012-22. The draft plan sets out what the Council is proposing to do over the next ten years. Public consultation on...

Something to hum about

Hummingbird has been on Courtenay Place for a long time (twelve years!), and has just undergone a complete refurbishment. The Wellingtonista was invited along to check out the revitalised space...

Review: Lucrece

An adaptation of Shakespeare’s narrative poem “The rape of Lucrece” by Binge Culture Collective. It’s a visual+audio installation at the Toi Poneke Gallery plus a live performance on Thursday...

Fashion in reflection

Fashionably late is usually a term reserved for the truly glamourous, so perhaps it is apt that this belated post is a snapshot of Wellington Fashion Week. Group A – April 19 After a...

Action! Claude Rains brings it to the Hutt.

If you happened to be cruising near the Avalon Skate Park a couple of weekends ago, you may have been lucky enough to witness a most unusual scene, local band Claude Rains were filming their...

Pirates at Roar

Shiver me timbers, prepare to enter the wicked world of pirates.  Eight artists will sail the seven seas discovering pirate treasure.  Jewellers Buster Collins, Vaune Mason and Amanda...

23 to 27 April 2012 Tech Universe Digest

Tech Universe: Monday 23 April 2012 NEW SPIN ON SOUND: At Dundee University a rubber disc in a canister of water lifts itself, floats and starts rotating for no apparent reason. Driving it is...

A super great night with Gamefroot

Last night the City Gallery played host to the launch of Gamefroot, a new platform on which to build platform games – or more specifically, a HTML5 Game Creation tool. If you can use a web...

WDCNZ Boldly Goes Forth

If Wellington is the centre of the digital creative universe, then WDCNZ  must surely be the natural focus point for the New Zealand web software developer community. And since iWantMyName is...

Sweetie darling mwah

It was with slight trepidation I signed up to cover Wellington Fashion Week. I do love clothes, but I don’t know anything about fashion shows. I’m willing to learn though, and it was a good...

16 to 20 April 2012 Tech Universe Digest

Tech Universe: Monday 16 April 2012 NEW YORK YELLOW: Nissan’s NV200 vehicle is specially designed to suit duty as a New York taxi cab. It includes features such as USB, power chargers and GPS...

A farewell

So, OMG, this is my final post for the Wellingtonista. I’m leaving this town for a more northerly location. I’m sad to leave Wellington and the W’ista, but it’s been a fun four years. I’ve met...

Binge Culture takes on Lucrece

“Audience members will be seated close enough to touch the performers and viewers will be encouraged to think about the ways they look at women’s bodies – both on film and in the flesh.” No,...

Feliz cumpleaños, La Boca Loca!

Our favourite Miramar Mexican restaurant is turning one, and to celebrate, they invited us along to learn how to make tortillas, and to taste some tequila. It’s a hard life being a...

Shifting The Economic Goalposts

Economist Brian Gaynor’s recent article on why we will never “catch up” to Australia was another sobering reminder of the hard road that New Zealand has ahead. Invoking a sporting analogy by...

Keep the skies dark in New Zealand

One of the things I’m becoming increasingly concerned about is the loss of one of our birthrights: a view of the stars and the night sky, and the right to a period of darkness every day. ...

See ALL Your Unread Gmail With One Click

Post is actually on Google Plus:The context is that you’re receiving emails, some go into your InBox and some are auto-labelled and skip the InBox. You log in to your Gmail (using a web...

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...

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