It’s time for the Wellington Pride Festival
Wellington Pride Festival is happening from 7 — 23 March this year and it’s time to get excited! The first Pride celebrations in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara were organised as part of campaigning for Homosexual Law Reform in 1986, and honestly you only have to read the Facebook comments (don’t read the Facebook comments) to see exactly […]
A closing pop-up sale for fat babes as yet another business closes
Remember how I promised to post more often and I haven’t really delivered on that? Well I’m trying to get less busy so I can. Truly I am. And one of the ways I’m doing that is by closing the House of Boom. Please tolerate me while I cut’n paste this in third person rather […]
Come to Coven: Uranus. You bet your ass it’ll be good.
Movies love to show nightclubs as glamorous places with dancefloors heaving with ridiculously good-looking people, all wearing the most amazing outfits — but that had never been my experience. Not until I went to Coven: Slumber earlier this year, that is. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Coven Events Wellington […]
Meet Pepper Racoon — what a ratbag!
1. Hello, who are you and what do you do? I’m Pepper Raccoon and I’m an artist and merch designer inspired by nature, magic, and internet culture. I design my own affordable art products, and produce a lot of them in my home studio as well, and have been in business for 8 years selling […]
Best of the week 7–14 July 2024
Here’s what’s good and Wellington-related this week! Best book that every Wellingtonian should read because I just did and wow Sodden Downstream by Brannavan Gnanalingam. This has sat neglected on my bookshelf for far too long after it came out in 2017, but as our public transport gets worse, terrible weather events get more frequent […]
Best of the last little while — June 2024
Hey, guess who’s been too busy with other brain things to update this for a while? That’d be me. But let’s not waste time on it. Here’s the best things for a while. Best behaved weather of the week Nice weather on a public holiday allowing us to sit outside around a fire and set […]
Best of the week: 9–16 June 2016
Best contribution to society The monthly Repair Cafe at Ngaio Union Church. How cool to have a big room full of incredibly competent humans dedicated to helping others for free (you can contribute koha and if you don’t have coins, ask them for their bank account number). I took a record player and was not […]
Meet Zoe, the Very Green Gardener
Our interviews with cool people continue! 1. Hey, who are you and what do you do? I’m Zoe and I run The Very Green Gardener, which is a little gardening company in Pōneke. We maintain people’s gardens as well as support them to do their own gardens. (Editor note: Zoe also writes an excellent newsletter […]
Best of the week: 2 June to 9 June 2024
Our weekly roundup of best things in Wellington continues and this week we’ve got contributions from Alan, Joanna, Martha and Tom. Best new place for dogs off leash We discovered that dogs are ok unleashed on the Remutaka Incline so we were able to take our fluffbeast biking with us (she’s got her own bike […]
Best of the week 26 May — 2 June
This week features contributions from Alan, Nadia, Emma and Joanna Best value lunches for those days you’re working in town and have forgotten that you’re supposed to be making your lunch or eating leftovers… I’m kinda hesitant to mention it (as I don’t want them to run out before I get there) but the $9 […]