Wellington Music Week gets under way next Monday (21 Nov), with a raft of seminars, gigs and events over the course of the week. If you’re looking for one good big night out, then the Showcase gig on Thursday (24 Nov) looks the go, with OdESSA, Charlie Ash, Autumn Stone, Zirkus, Mon Ami and the […]
New Mystery Bar action over at Well Urban Is watching Parliament in action the new blogging spectator sport? Stanley Climbfall (via Gman inc.), Michael of Michael’s World and David Farrar have been watching the opening exchanges of the new Parliamentary session. The 2005 Chapman Tripp Theatre Award nominees have been announced. Good to see the […]
There’s some great snaps of the F69 scuttling over in The Sinking of the Wellington flickr photo pool, like this one from Pieter Pieterse. Thankfully this particular Wellingtonista lives just around the corner from the Bay, so didn’t have to brave the heavy traffic and sometimes incomprehensively inconsiderate parking of the many people who had […]
As spotted on the 12th of November in the grounds of the St Hilda’s Anglican Church, on the corner of The Parade and Humber Streets in Island Bay. Any claims from anyone on an early flowering?
It’s all on. The wind speeds given in the marine forecast are still vaguely border-line, but it’s nice and sunny, and the swell isn’t too big, so, why not? Indeed – too windy, so postponed until tomorrow: 3pm, Sunday 13th November. Check the official site for details.
Yes indeed, unless the wind gets up too much, this Saturday (12 Nov) at 3pm, the ex-Frigate F69-Wellington is going to be scuttled off the south coast, between Island and Houghton Bays (just to the East of Tapu Teranga – the island of Island Bay). There’s probably going to be a heap of people going […]
Pretty pictures of the weekend’s fireworks over at Flickr: Patrick’s Soapbox, Whispering Inferno, and Brainsluice. More mystery bar action at WellUrban and Drinks After Work. Outgoing VUWSA members set up their own blog to critique the incoming VUWSA exec, Salient, and local student politics in general. As they state… This is our space not to […]
WellUrban has a new Mystery Bar for you to identify. Wellington rugby legend Tana Umaga is getting a pasting from the Brits over the new footage showing he and Kevin Mealamu spear-tackling Brian O’Driscoll on this year’s Lions Tour. Check out the plethora of angry posts on the BBC rugby discussion boards. And speaking of […]
And since there seems to be a bit of a posting frenzy going on, what’s the harm in one more? Firstly, five whuffie points to the first person who can spot the grocer’s apostrophe in the ‘local news’ iframe down on the bottom left right of the homepage. And, secondly, who else wasn’t surprised to […]
Thanks to WellUrban for reminding us that the 9th Wellington International Jazz Festival gets under way tomorrow (26th October). Much like WellUrban, we’re not too au fait with the jazz end of the musical spectrum, but can make a few tentative recommendations. Firstly, the venues are great, so even if you’re neither hither-nor-thither on the […]