Ooooh boy, we are very excited little puppies inside the Wellingtonista Towers today because it’s exactly one month until the Fourth Annual Wellingtonista Awards (or the TAWAs for short, and specifically #T4WA on twitter).
Nominations will start appearing this week so you can go and check out who we’re recommending, and then voting will be open from December 1-14.
On the night of December 17, you’ll want to get your ass down to Mighty Mighty, pay your $10 on the door, and let the good times begin. The awards presentation should be happening around 7.30pm, and then at 9.30pm we are very excited to have the Klezmer Rebs playing tunes for us all to shake our tuchasses to!
If you’d like to help us make the night even more awesome by providing goodies for giveaways to our lovely readers, flick me an email – johubris at gmail.
And if you’re feeling nostalgic or you didn’t manage to make it along last year, relive the Third Annual Wellingtonistas event here.
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhfEffnLC-s]You have one more week in which to make suggestions about who should be nominated in the TAWAs this year, so hop to it!
The Wellingtonista drink a lot together, so it’s natural that at times we will end up blowing each other’s trumpets. Let us show you what we mean:
Go get yourself a big thick permanent marker and put this date in your diary right now: Thursday December 17 will be the Fourth (The) Annual Wellingtonista Awards. Yes, that’s right, it’s TAWA TIME! As is tradition, the awards will be at the lovely Mighty Mighty, and there will be all kinds of other goodness on the night that we have yet to announce. For now though, it is safe to say that we recommend taking the Friday afterwards off.
And what would the awards be without nominations? We want you to suggest who you would like to be nominated in each of the categories. This is where I break out the bold tags. This is your only chance to say who should be nominated. By the time we open up voting, it will be too late. Leave us your comments and suggestions now. Suggestions for nominations will be open until November 1, then we will take your ideas under advisement, and come out with our final lists. Voting will open in early November.
Categories for this year are after the jump.
On Wednesday night, our next door neighbours were burgled. On Friday night, my house was burgled. A couple of weeks ago someone tried to climb in my window while I was sleeping. My flatmate’s car has been restolen from outside our house, but ha ha, sucks to be them because the previous thieves had used up all the petrol in it. It’s times like this that I need to be reassured of the good things in Newtown. Things like:
What are your favourite things about Newtown right now?
f you’re going to the Montana World of WearableArt and you want to make sure that you eat first, WellingtonNZ have put together a handy list of nearby-ish restaurants that offer express menus to make sure you get to the show on time. We’re particularly fond of Trade Kitchen. Naturally, even if you’re not going to the show, you can still indulge yourself with these dinners…
We’ve written before about the fire at the Maranui Surf Cafe, and how bloody sad that was, but it’s kind of bloody lovely to see the way that this city can be all small-town-like and good-hearted, with yet more events planned to raise money for the cause.
Shipwrecked! Maranui Staff Benefit Concert Party is happening this Saturday September 5 at the Tug Boat, and $20 will get you in to see the Eggs, Lonesome Cowboy and other bands, as well as chances to win prizes from Madame Fancy Pants, Real Surf and Joug Design
And if that’s not quite enough partying for you, there’s also the afterparty at SFBH where koha on the door will get you a free shot.
We’ve been particularly lax in not covering Wellington on a Plate, in my case because I am drastically short of funds and if I wrote about it I’d just get sad that I can’t eat every single thing on offer. But luckily, we can outsource the work to a third-world country instead. My favourite food blogger from Sydney – Helen at Grab Your Fork – has been in Wellington as a guest of Wellington Tourism, and she’s been doing some fantastic posts about what she’s been eating, along with taking some very tasty photos like the one at the right of the baking class at Floridita’s. You should check her out, and also check out the festival itself. If you’re short of a dining companion, feel free to extend an invitation to me…
Remember when Abel Smith Street was full of monsters recently? Here’s the ad that was the cause of it all.
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(In which we let you eat cake)
Ekeltus Inc are going for baroque with a lavish event this Saturday – The Affair of the Diamond Necklace: an evening with Marie Antoinette in the Gardens of Versailles – a dinner, ball and theatre experience all joined together in one sumptuous affair. It sounds rather excellent, and we can heartily recommend dressing up as Marie Antoinette, so perhaps you should find out more right now, oui?