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Planet Blog
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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,...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...