Fringe show reviews: Glittery Clittery, Dry & Damaged and Missing Lids

Today’s guest reviews of three fringe shows come cour­tesy of Tony Barnes. Thanks Tony! The Fringe Wives Club — Glit­tery Clit­tery A year ago, while tour­ing sev­er­al of her shows at the 2018 NZ Fringe Fes­ti­val, Tes­sa Waters men­tioned that she had anoth­er show in devel­op­ment that she would bring to the 2019 Fringe. Fringe […]

Review: Woop Balance meal

Remem­ber when we reviewed My Food Bag a bunch of years ago? We got approached by anoth­er com­pa­ny, and offered one meal. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, they sent us shrimp. Have I men­tioned late­ly in every sin­gle food review that I’m aller­gic to shell­fish? Luck­i­ly I found a tak­er to make the din­ner instead. Thanks Megan, take it […]

Review: You do you babes — Donna Brookbanks

Guest review by Emma Maguire We are wel­comed into the BATS Stu­dio by a woman dressed in a black cloak. Illu­mi­nat­ed by the light of flick­er­ing (elec­tric) can­dles, we’re bap­tised by water poured from a men­stru­al cup, and we recite the sin­gle person’s prayer. All the sin­gle ladies… now put your hands up! Don­na Brook­banks’ […]

Review: Oikos Hellenic Cuisine, Miramar

Oikos is the new Greek Restau­rant, in the the south­ern most southest part of Mira­mar,  on the 2 bus route, and close to the cycle tun­nel. This is firm­ly in Greek ter­ri­to­ry of Welling­ton. The local fish’n’chip shops also serve a vari­ant of Greek food (yeros most­ly), which is a deli­cious alter­na­tive to fried fish. […]

Candidates 2016: Justin Lester for Mayor

1. What should the council’s role be in cre­at­ing afford­able hous­ing? WCC is the coun­try’s sec­ond largest land­lord. We’ve got decades of expe­ri­ence in pro­vid­ing afford­able hous­ing. I firm­ly believe there’s a role for WCC to… 2. What one project for Welling­ton have you been most active on so far? Over the past 6 years […]

Candidates 2016: Diane Calvert for Onslow-Western Ward

1. What should the council’s role be in cre­at­ing afford­able hous­ing? Stream­line con­sent­ing process. Open up new land with avail­able pub­lic trans­port links. Sup­port public/private part­ner­ships for new devel­op­ment. Sup­port social hous­ing 2. What one project for Welling­ton have you been most active on so far? I brought my local com­mu­ni­ty togeth­er in 2015 so […]

Candidates 2016: Troy Mihaka for Lambton Ward

We asked the ques­tions, they answered. 1. What should the council’s role be in cre­at­ing afford­able hous­ing? Welling­ton City Coun­cil needs to work with devel­op­ers to cre­ate more through a com­bi­na­tion of inten­si­fi­ca­tion in our inner-city and open­ing land for devel­op­ment. 2. What one project for Welling­ton have you been most active on so far? […]

Candidates, we want to hear from you — Election 2016

Hey, did y’all know there’s an elec­tion com­ing up? Yes, there is! And once again, we want to pro­vide you with some decent cov­er­age of the issues we care about. Local body pol­i­tics is IMPORTANT. Once again, we’re ask­ing can­di­dates to con­tact us with the answers to the ques­tions below. We’re doing things a lit­tle […]

Preview: The Blacklight Comedy Club at Moon

Hel­lo, I’m Jon­ny, and I’m about to start a com­e­dy night at Moon in New­town. It’s called the Black­light Com­e­dy Club. If you’re able to come along, please try. I think you’ll enjoy it. Jo asked me to write a Black­light Com­e­dy Club ‘guest man­i­festo’ for the Welling­ton­ista. I’ve realised that I can’t. To me, […]

Save Kate – from who?

Walk­ing my daugh­ter to school on Tues­day morn­ing, I was hand­ed a fly­er on Lambton Quay – “Keep Kate!”. As kind of a fan of the Kate Shep­pard traf­fic lights, I took the fly­er – and saw that they “were under threat of removal” with a link to a peti­tion. I’d sign that! But turn­ing […]