Ortega Fish Shack’s Davey McDonald

This guest piece from Alex­an­der Bis­ley Dav­ey McDon­ald, the affable 29-year-old fath­er of two young kids, man­ages/co-owns Ortega Fish Shack and Bar. At the 2014 Cap­it­al Awards— the Wel­ling­ton region’s premi­er hos­pit­al­ity awards, voted by the industry— McDon­ald won Out­stand­ing Maitre’d of the Year, and Ortega won Best Front of House Team. Ortega was 2014 Run­­n­er-up […]

Hour of Code Wellington Announced

This guest post is from ex-‘ista Mike, so it may be some­thing you’ve seen else­where on the inter­net. Sorry!  Fol­low­ing on from the suc­cess­ful Hack Miramar ‘trans­port event’ the team have teamed up with Wel­ling­ton Maker­space Trust and are chuffed to announce free pro­gram­ming work­shops for all ages on Decem­ber 13th at Scots Col­lege (1 Monor­gan Rd, Strath­more Park). These ses­sions will run from 10am […]

Miramar is hacking and wants all the developers

Wel­ling­ton is run­ning its first Civic Hack­a­thon the first week­end of Novem­ber to tackle trans­port issues in and around East­ern Sub­urbs and the wider city. The Hack Miramar folks have got a bunch of people involved already and they’ve got spots open if you want to join in and they’re look­ing for freaks, geeks, and […]

Elections 2014: Tane Woodley for Ohariu

Who are you and what do you want? I’m Tane Wood­ley, Green party can­did­ate for Ohariu. I want a pint of chocol­ate port­er. Also, a fairer soci­ety, a clean­er envir­on­ment and a smarter eco­nomy. What makes you dif­fer­ent? I’m a human, that makes me dif­fer­ent to every­one. I am a sol­dier in the Greens, so […]

Election 2014: Grant Robertson for Wellington Central

1. Who are you and what do you want? I’m Grant Robertson, MP for Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral. I want a bet­ter New Zea­l­and- and your Party Vote for Labour, and elect­or­ate vote to carry on work­ing for our com­munity. 2. What makes you dif­fer­ent? In terms of being MP my point of dif­fer­ence is that I’m already doing […]

Elections 2014: Paul Foster Bell for Wellington Central

1. Who are you and what do you want? I’m Paul Foster-Bell, the Nation­al Can­did­ate for Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral, and I want to keep Wel­ling­ton and NZ mov­ing in the right dir­ec­tion. What makes you dif­fer­ent? I can be a strong voice from with­in the next John Key-led Nation­al Gov­ern­ment. I have use­ful skills gained work­ing with […]

Candidates: Malcolm Aitken in Onslow Western Ward

We’ve provided a set of ques­tions for the may­or­al and coun­cil­lor can­did­ates to answer. First 25 words to an answer get pos­ted. Check our 2013 Elec­tion cov­er­age for all responses as they come in. Here’s Mal­colm Aitken run­ning in Onslow West­ern Ward. 

Candidates: John Woolf for ?

We’ve provided a set of ques­tions for the may­or­al and coun­cil­lor can­did­ates to answer. First 25 words to an answer get pos­ted. Check our 2013 Elec­tion cov­er­age for all responses as they come in. When we con­tac­ted can­did­ates with our ques­tions, we asked them to email a spe­cif­ic email address that all the ‘ista could […]

Candidates: David Lee for?

We’ve provided a set of ques­tions for the may­or­al and coun­cil­lor can­did­ates to answer. First 25 words to an answer get pos­ted. Check our 2013 Elec­tion cov­er­age for all responses as they come in. When we con­tac­ted can­did­ates with our ques­tions, we asked them to email a spe­cif­ic email address that all the ‘ista could access so that […]

Candidates: Simon Woolf for Onslow Western Ward

We’ve provided a set of ques­tions for the may­or­al and coun­cil­lor can­did­ates to answer. First 25 words to an answer get pos­ted. Check our 2013 Elec­tion cov­er­age for all responses as they come in. Here’s Simon Woolf, candid­ate for Onslow West­ern Ward Wel­ling­ton.