Questionable advertising published by the Dominion Post

Yes­ter­day, 11th of April, Wel­ling­ton’s Domin­ion Post – and the NZ Her­ald – pub­lished an advert­ise­ment that ruffled my feath­ers. Now this was not a ruffle like the tuss­ling of a child’s hair or that of an orna­ment­al lace about one’s wrists, but more of a scuffle of dis­be­lief, anger and con­fu­sion – not too […]

NZ Barista Championship 2013

UPDATE: and the win­ner is Nick Clark, Flight Cof­fee (The Hangar) UPDATE: The Semi-final­ists have been announced! Five of Wel­ling­tons finest Barista’s have made it through to the Semi-finals in the NZ Barista Cham­pi­on­ship 2013, being held tomor­row at the Michael Fowl­er Centre. Addis­on Dale, Caffe L’affare Nick Clark, Flight Cof­fee (The Hangar) Tim Nor­ris, […]

Review: [title of show] take two.

I real­ise Kris has already giv­en a review of [title of show] but I fig­ure I may as well throw my thoughts into the ring. There’s no such thing as too many voices on the inter­net right? This review con­sists the one-two punch of a guest review from my part­ner Laura, fol­lowed by my take […]

Beer what you want to beer

It’s Choice Beer Week here in Wel­ling­ton and last night The Sut­ton Group Brew­ers Guild of New Zea­l­and Awards took place at the Michael Fowl­er Centre. Har­ring­ton’s Brew­er­ies of Christ­ch­urch took out the top hon­ours and were named Cham­pi­on Brew­ery in New Zea­l­and for 2012. Wel­ling­ton, being the self-claimed and now gen­er­ally accep­ted Craft Beer […]

It’s all in the game.

Avert your eyes if you are veget­ari­an, have an aver­sion to meat products, or if you’ve had a pet bird and now chick­en is not a menu option. What fol­lows is a dis­cus­sion of a delect­able degust­a­tion din­ner con­sist­ing of game birds. Unless you belong to one of the three groups above how can you […]

Glee meets V for Vendetta

Music­als aren’t every­one’s cup of tea. But if said music­al is set in Wel­ling­ton and involves the assas­sin­a­tions of Glee type char­ac­ters it’s hard not to want to know more. Joshua Hop­ton Stew­art has writ­ten a hil­ari­ous piece of music­al theatre based on his team’s entry in the 2010 V48Hour Short Film Com­pet­i­tion, Soci­ety Slump […]

It was a very good beer

After hav­ing a great even­ing at Fork and Brew­er last week for the Offi­cial Wel­ling­tonista Unof­fi­cial Web­stock Wed­nes­day War­mup, where large num­bers of loc­al beer and large plat­ters of deli­cious nibbles were placed before us like the Web Roy­alty we wish/pretend/believe ourselves to be, I was extremely excited to hear about the event they are […]

Ladies in the House

I would have had this up soon­er but some­thing happened with the site and we lost it for a bit. But it’s back! And now I can tell you all about the event that was Ladies in the House, put on by The Wel­ling­ton Young Fem­in­ists’ Col­lect­ive. Firstly a huge thanks and con­grat­u­la­tions to the […]

Candidates: Grant Robertson for Labour in Wellington Central

We invited all can­did­ates in Wel­ling­ton elect­or­ates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restric­ted to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exactly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? I am Grant Robertson, and I want your vote to con­tin­ue to be MP […]