Love bikes? Love frocks? Love Wellington? How about you mix all those things together on Valentine's Day by taking part in Frocks on Bikes' Love to Roll event. 

All you need is your stylish self, a bike and a sense of joie de vivre! If you don’t have a bike … never fear! Read on… 

♥ Lovers to Roll will gather at on Valentine’s Day at 1.30pm on Oriental Parade by Freyberg Pool.
♥ After ensuring everyone’s registered to be in to win our prizes, we will depart on our cruise!
♥ We will cycle at a leisurely pace, on the roads, around the beautiful Wellington bays through Kilbirnie and out to Lyall Bay, with a brief stop outside the Maranui Lifesaving Club around 3pm where any additional Lovers to Roll can join the flock.
♥ We’ll arrive at the Island Bay Festival in Shorland Park, where we will take to the Festival stage in the Pavilion to announce the winners of our fantastic prizes!
♥ After it’s all over, you can either return to the city with us or independently.If you’re currently short of a steed, don’t worry - the awesome Green Bike Trust is bringing a fleet of brand-new bikes for Lovers to Roll to hire (only $10!), but bookings are essential!

Lovers to Roll who register are in to be lucky winners! There will be intense competition for the coveted title of Best-Matched Bike & Rider Team, the Most Loved-Up Bike award, the Best-Dressed Couple award, and the grand prize – the title of R&R Supreme Frocker! Up for grabs are superb prizes from our generous donors:

 So imagine if the worst thing in the world* happens, and Wellington loses its bid to continue hosting the Sevens. What should we do? 

Simple! Just don't tell anyone. Richard Maclean at the council is great at communicating truths so surely he'd be even better at telling lies. We just pretend that the sevens are still on. Hire a couple dozen students to run up and down the field in the stadium, and who'd know the difference?  No one actually goes along for the rugby do they? People will still get dressed up, there'll be glass and vomit and extra amounts of hate crimes (hey bogans who threw cans at my friends who dared to hold hands in public: you're fucking losers) all over the streets as usual, and we get to keep that 16 million dollars or so that the games bring to the city. This fly would be well-happy, because I do love to live in shit, after all. 

*Not really

We have a double pass to a Little Moustache show at the Fringe Bar, thanks to Danni, Chelsea and Nat.

All you have to do to win, is leave us your favourite joke in the comments below. We'll pick the best and announce the winner.

Little Moustache - Laugh Experiences
Scintillating stand-up with a splash of sketch! A trio of rib-ticklers take the town in a comedy show that will leave you ROTFLing. Don't worry, that's a good thing. Danni Taylor, Chelsea Hughes and Nat Britten from Little Moustache and bring you Laugh Experiences.

 Update: Tinytawnykitten you are our winner. Flick us an email and we'll send you the details.

Formerly known as the Blue Note, the Fringe Bar is fast becoming the place to see comedy in Wellington. The bar presents a variety of comedy shows three days a week, including stand-up, sketch and improv. The best comics from Wellington, New Zealand and beyond are coming to the Fringe Bar to perform their shows.

The Fringe Bar is ramping up for a busy but friggin' awesome run of shows during the 2010 Fringe Festival. Here's the flyer with more information about each show.

After the jump, the comedians...

AC/DC - the greatest band on the planet - are playing in Wellington tonight and Saturday on the Black Ice tour, and the city has been overrun by bogans, glorious bogans.

Stuff reports on the invasion, including a quote from one fan who reckons, "I'd say every bogan from around the country will be there."

Meanwhile, the arrival of our black-T-shirted brethren has not gone unnoticed on Twitter:

@CUSTOMSBREWBAR ghuznee street is crawling with old bogans... so many black jeans and metal tshirts! "Throw your goats up"

@meganhuddleston There are a ridiculous number of bogans in town. THUNDER!

@bnolan Lol at all the bogans outside. It's awesome how you can just tell they're going to ACDC. Super nice people so far too! Rock on! #acdc #wlg

@Narelle_NZ Saw at least 15 bogans and 2 mini-bogans on the way to get lunch #acdc #wellington

@bradgallen Today wellington = So. Many. Bogans...

@missannajane The black holey jumpers and ACDC t-shirts are out en force on the streets of Wellington. Apparently, bogans drink Starbucks.

We welcome any comments or observations of the bogan invasion. Man, Wellington is gonna go off this weekend!

We noticed Davis Food Mart pop up on the corner of Taranaki Street and Karo Drive a little before Xmas, so we decided it was time to check it out to see if Mt Cook now has a proper supermarket to call its own.

It doesn't.

But, we did find some very interesting things anyway, and you can read more about them after the break. 

So, Julia Deans, singer in the TAWA-nominated Fur Patrol and all-around pretty lady has a solo album coming out this year. The first single off it is called "A new dialogue" and it has a rather lovely video. Enjoy!

NZ History have recently added an amazing tea towel, thought to be from the mid-1960s, listing the coffee houses of Wellington.

It's very cool to see such a list of classy joints that our forefathers and foremothers ran, making Wellington such a good coffee town.

Only a couple of these places are still in existence today (and the Matterhorn's specialty is no longer "Continental cakes"). I wonder what businesses can now be found in these locations.

(And it's interesting that in the days before the Beehive and the Fern Ball, the icon of Wellington was, er, the National War Memorial, and National Museum and Gallery.)

There'd been a bit of tooting over on Twitter about Customs Brew Bar, a new cafe from Coffee Supreme, so when it opened the Wellingtonista paid a visit.

It's not your run-of-the-mill cafe - as well as a lush woodern interior, Customs also sells a range of single-original coffee beans and uses less than ordinary methods of brewing the beans.

So I had a chat to Coffee Supreme's Justin, who kindly explained the concept behind Customs Brew Bar.

Hello! No time no blog. Hope you all had a good break. Just a quick note for those of us who are not attending Campus A Low Hum - there are a handful of great side shows happening but these two Melbourne bands are definately my pick of the bunch after catching them at Camp last year. Both are doing shows all over the country, and a few all ages shows as well.

East Brunswick All Girls Choir (Melbourne)

Wed 27th Jan, Dux De Lux, Christchurch
Fri 29th Jan, Wunder Bar, Littleton
Sat 30th Jan, Chicks Hotel, Dunedin w/ Ouch My Face
Wed 3rd Feb, Mighty Mighty, Wellington w/ Batrider
Fri 5th Feb, St Barnabas Scout Hall, Auckland, w/ Batrider, Ouch My Face and Nevernudes(ALL AGES)

Ouch My Face (Melbourne)

Thur 21st Jan, Mighty Mighty, Wellington w/ Thought Creature
Thur 28th Jan, Goodbye Blue Monday, Christchurch w/ Nevernudes and more
Fri 29th Jan, Franz Tormers Art Space, Christchurch w/ Nevernudes and The Body Lyre (ALL AGES)
Sat 30th Jan, Chicks Hotel, Dunedin w/ East Brunswick All Girls Choir and Nevernudes
Thur 4th Feb, Whammy Bar, Auckland w/ DHDFD's and more Fri 5th Feb, St Barnabys Scout Hall, Auckland w/ Batrider, East Brunswick All Girls Choir and Nevernudes - ALL AGES
Sat 6th Feb, Happy, Wellington

Annoyingly, Osteria Del Toro doesn't appear to have a website. However, what they do have is an awesome alternative to yum cha on Sundays (and I think it's only Sunday afternoons) called La Famigia.

For $29, you can experience their menu highlights "family-style". What this means is that you can help yourself to the lush antipasto table, piled high with salads, olives, salami and amazing foccacia, and then the very nice staff will start bringing food to your table, and they won't stop until you ask them to. You get pizzas from their woodfired oven, paella, pasta and roast chicken with crispy skin. It really is a carb-lover's paradise.

One kind of pasta has meatballs, and the other is pesto, and we got both vegetarian and meaty pizza. The paella had both chorizo and seafood in it, so it might not be the most cost-effective & welcoming option for vegetarians (and vegans - forget about it!). We were all people who love us some gluten, so we didn't ask if it was possible to get their gluten-free pizza bases instead, so I can't advise you about that. I can, however, assure you that their white wine sangria made with apricot brandy and ginger beer is a perfect accompaniment (their PDF menu says it features a "Make your own Bloody Mary bar" but I didn't see that!), and that you probably DON'T need to order churros afterwards, but perhaps you will anyway!

We've written about UP's Bloggers Predict event before, but this time, I'm one of the people doing the predicting on January 28 from 5.30pm to 8pm. I'm supposed to be making predictions in the following areas:  

• Gadgets & Games
• The Internet, Web 3.0...
• Business & Technology
• Wellington/NZ/the Universe (open slather)

I'm allowed (and encouraged) to solicit suggestions, so have at it in the comments and I'd encourage you to focus on Wellington-ish suggestions in particular, since I'm representing the Wellingtonista, after all. Oh, and make sure you register to come along to the event, there's FREE BOOZE and food, and you'll be done by 8 so you can go along to any other events that might be happening that night afterwards. 

The Unicon XV has been in town since the 28th of December, with one wheelers decorating the waterfront and what feels like the whole damn inner-city, saving us from that ghost town feel over the holiday period.  The Wellington flickr pool and the papers have been packed with photos of the action.  There is something pretty photogenic about the sheer range of unicycle enthusiasts of all nationalities that have decended on our fair (but windy) city.

Today is your last chance to check out the action, the Best Trick Contest will be held outside Mac's Brewery Bar at 2.00pm weather permitting.  

See you down there.  

This is the extended version of today's piece in the summer section of the Dominion Post.

In fact some of us right now are celebrating those awards, at the most lovely of locations, the Mighty Mighty.

But if you were unable to make it to the TAWAS here's how you all voted.

Expect a review of the night later on tomorrow, and by later on I mean after afternoon tea.

For right now many of the wellingtonista are shaking their thing to the sounds of the Klezmer Rebs.

Also hopefully Hadyn who is the king of stats will offer up some analysis of the way you voted.

And if you havn't already why not head over to the DCM and give a little. As I write at this very moment $10 has been donated to DCM. If everyone who reads this blog dontated $5 each, together  we will  make a serious difference in the lives of Wellingtonians who are most at risk and in need this Christmas.

Best Cheap Eats: Sweet Mother's Kitchen
Best un-Cheap Eats: Matterhorn
Best Drink in Town: Castlepoint at Mighty Mighty
Best Late Night Hangout: Mighty Mighty
Best Suburban Destination: Maranui Cafe
Best non-Drinking Destination: Wellington Central Library
Best Place to Shake It WINNERS: Mighty Mighty & San Francisco Bath House
Best Public Space: The Waterfront
Best Art Experience: Yayoi Kusama at City Gallery Wellington
Best Apparel: Mandatory
Best Shop: Slowboat
Most Needed: Bike lanes
Best Service: Matt at Mojo Old Bank
Best Coffee: Mojo Old Bank
Best Contribution to the Internet by a Wellingtonian: The Webstock Team
Best Regular Entertainment: The Wellington Phoenix
Best Live Performance: Question Time at Parliament
Best Wellington-based Event: The Cuba Carnival
Wellingtonian of the Year: Martin Bosley for the City Market