TAWA5 Best Thing in Wellington

This cat­egory is a bit of a mixed bag. It’s where we put things that we want to cel­eb­rate that did­n’t seem to fit any­where else, but that does­n’t mean these nom­in­a­tions are second thoughts. Indeed, they’re actu­ally the some of the first things we think of when we try to define what makes Wel­ling­ton […]

TAWA5 Best BYO

BYO res­taur­ants to us are places where you can hold a large gath­er­ing, you can eat some tasty food, and if you don’t count the cost of your bottle, you can get totally stuffed for around $25. There are a mil­lion and one place with BYO licenses in Wel­ling­ton, but these are the ones that […]

TAWA5 Best Contribution to the Internet from Wellington

Giv­en that Wel­ling­ton is the web cap­it­al of New Zea­l­and, it makes sense that it’s full of people doing awe­some things with and for the web.

TAWA5 Best Event

There’s always some­thing to do in this town we love, but these are the pick of the crop, and are circled in red on our cal­en­dars. We’re count­ing the sleeps until next year’s events!

All about this year’s The Annual Wellingtonista Awards

Hello, my love­lies! For the fifth year in a row, it’s time for The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards (#TAWA5). This post is your guide to everything TAWA-related. Time to get your vote on since VOTING IS NOW OPEN!

Christmas in Cuba? Something smells fishy

Obvi­ously, the most import­ant cal­en­dar item of the year is com­ing up on Decem­ber 3, when we hold The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards for the fifth year in a row at Mighty Mighty, but we think you might need to warm up for the event. What bet­ter way than to have a drink on Fish­Head? Come […]

Christmas in Cuba? Something smells fishy

Obvi­ously, the most import­ant cal­en­dar item of the year is com­ing up on Decem­ber 3, when we hold The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards for the fifth year in a row at Mighty Mighty, but we think you might need to warm up for the event.

A source of an open bar

Last week I rep­res­en­ted the Wel­ling­tonista at the New Zea­l­and Open Source Awards. The Masked Bar­fly had been whis­per­ing in my ear stor­ies of organ­isa­tion­al fail­ure in an attempt to make me wor­ried that I would­n’t get any­thing to eat, but apart from a press release announ­cing “Annie McCar­ron” as the win­ner of the People’s […]

From Paris to Pompeii – again

As part of Mas­sey Uni­versity’s ‘Blow’ Cre­at­ive Arts Fest­iv­al, Leimomi Oakes is once again present­ing a  a free talk and fash­ion show From Pom­peii to Par­is: the Clas­sic­al influ­ence on West­ern fash­ion See his­tory come to life with a talk explor­ing how ancient Greece and Rome have influ­enced fash­ions in the West.  The talk will […]

TAWA5 – a call for your nomination suggestions

Hello, good people of Wel­ling­ton. It is time, once again for The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards! Wahoo! This year we are refer­ring to them as #TAWA5, for all your twit­ter­ing needs. Once again, we would like your sug­ges­tions for what you would like nom­in­ated in the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies, which you will be able to vote for […]