• If you’re in town before 6pm today, sneak into the Soft­ware Free­dom Day at the Michael Fowler Cen­tre for a free Havana cof­fee. Don’t tell them that I sent you though.
  • The pre­vi­ous­ly men­tioned Kayu Man­is (you’re a manus!) — the Indonesian/Malaysian restau­rant on Cuba Street is now BYO, which makes its $18 mains much more palat­able. Also, the food is super fresh tast­ing, and the atmos­phere is much nicer than your stan­dard Malaysian joint, so we sug­gest that you check it out.
  • The fre­quent­ly apos­tro­phe-cat­a­stroph­ic Elec­tric Avenue now sports a ban­ner adver­tis­ing its music quiz on Thurs­day nights as being the only music quiz in town. Appar­ent­ly Abel Smith Street, home to the music quiz on Thurs­day nights at the Cross is a sub­urb.
  • Radio Active 89FM’s Han­dle the Jan­dal, the nation­wide DIY music video com­peti­ton, is back for 2008 and is call­ing for entries for this year’s com­pe­ti­tion, to be held Novem­ber 27 at Welling­ton’s St James The­atre. Go to Radio Active’s site for more infor­ma­tion.
  • Don’t for­get to sign up for Bowl­ing League.