A super great night with Gamefroot

Last night the City Gal­lery played host to the launch of Game­f­root, a new plat­form on which to build plat­form games – or more spe­cific­ally, a HTML5 Game Cre­ation tool. If you can use a web browser and if you can use mouse to click and drag – then you can use Game­f­root. The bar has […]

Binge Culture takes on Lucrece

“Audi­ence mem­bers will be seated close enough to touch the per­formers and view­ers will be encour­aged to think about the ways they look at women’s bod­ies – both on film and in the flesh.” No, that’s not the press release from Wel­ling­ton Fash­ion Week. Instead, it’s Lucrece: An Adapt­a­tion of Shakespeare’s the Rape of Lucrece, […]

Feliz cumpleaños, La Boca Loca!

Our favour­ite Miramar Mex­ic­an res­taur­ant is turn­ing one, and to cel­eb­rate, they invited us along to learn how to make tor­til­las, and to taste some tequila. It’s a hard life being a Wel­ling­tonista, but if we have to rub shoulders with mouth her­oes like Jonny and Rachel and Mar­tin, well these are the lengths we’ll […]

I’d rather be under the sea

It’s been too long since you last lost your­self on the dance floor, right? And you haven’t dressed up in ages. You can­’t even remem­ber the last time that you drank a bright blue cock­tail. Oh yes, we’re feel­ing your pain. And even more than just feel­ing it – we want to fix it. And […]

WYFC first birthday party, Easter Sunday

There’s a group of truly awe­some people in Wel­ling­ton who do great things, and they’re hav­ing a party. Does­n’t that sound like the sort of thing you should attend? Yes! Come to the WYFC’s first birth­day, and help us cel­eb­rate our first year and bring in our second. In the last year we’ve helped raise […]

This fish is still fresh, even after two years

Happy second birth­day to our favour­ite Wel­ling­ton print media, Fish­head! Thanks for the fun reads, the great parties , and for giv­ing our city a magazine and fant­ast­ic quiz host/Jam MC. Their second birth­day issue is out now in shops every­where. Here’s to lots more!  

We like to play games

You know how it goes – you have no food or booze in your home so you need to leave the house, so you text your friends to see if they want to meet you some­where, and so they do, and you get food and you get booze, and that’s a good thing, but then […]

We also have ‘opinions’ – a protest against transphobia

If you’re on the Twit­ters, you would have seen yet anoth­er digust­ing piece of bigotry and bull­shit churned out by Rose­mary McLeod about how trans­gender people should­n’t be par­ents. The @dompost rebut­tal? “The column is her opin­ion.”. Yes, and they’re the ones who paid for her to have that opin­ion pub­lished. Luck­ily, the Queer Avengers […]

It’s Shrove Tuesday, let’s talk religion!

Ha ha ha, of course we’re kid­ding. Let’s talk about pan­cakes instead.We wanna know where Wel­ling­ton’s best pan­cakes are at. Today for lunch I went to Cafe Panama (in fact, I am still there. Woo!), and this is what I ate: I thought I was order­ing stand­ard pan­cakes with banana and bacon for $11.50, but […]

Should they stay or should they go?

We receive a lot of press releases here at the Wel­ling­tonista, but few are as charm­ing as this one: Brad and Nancy are act­ors who are also a couple, and they’re try­ing to decide if they should live in Eng­land or New Zea­l­and. Nat­ur­ally, they’ve decided to do a show in the Wel­ling­ton Fringe Fest­iv­al […]