1. If, like Tom, you’re plan­ning on mak­ing the month of August all about whisky, there are worse things you could do than sign up for Wine­seeker­’s Whisky Tast­ing on August 21. Sure, it’s $45, but it sounds like very good value for money.

2. While we don’t con­sider the Wel­ling­tonista to be an exclus­ively het­ro­sexu­al site as such (you don’t have to have a par­tic­u­lar kind of sexu­al­ity to love bars and hate the bypass, and who you’re doing does­n’t mat­ter nearly as much as where you’re doing them), and I haven’t done a straw poll of how each con­trib­ut­or iden­ti­fies, we don’t have very much (or in fact any that I can think of) cov­er­age of spe­cific­ally queer cul­ture. And it’s Proud 07 right now, so in the interests of wider cov­er­age, we’d like com­menters to fill us in on the vari­ous scenes a little more. Who goes where? What’s hot and what’s not? Are there still monthly les­bi­an nights at Blondin­i’s? Is the ‘Lebanese’ res­taur­ant beneath Spice­ham­mer really just a spelling mis­take? Enquir­ing minds want to know!