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.