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 […]