Author: Joanna

Blowing each other’s trumpets (Part I)

 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:

• Martha has opened up a new branch of the fab­ulous Wanda Har­land at 24 Eliza­beth St. Mt Vic­tor­ia.
• Sue has anoth­er Craft 2.0 com­ing up on Octo­ber 24.
• Joanna has star­ted yet anoth­er blog. You are so entertaining.com is all about host­ing events. The Pret­ties are also hav­ing anoth­er party/clothing swap that you’re invited to. 

Newtown: it’s sometimes more than a bit shit

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:

• The otters at the zoo!
• The haloumi at Cafe Kial­is
• The mac­a­demia & chick­en salad at Bao­bob

What are your favour­ite things about New­town right now?

Eat before you WOW?

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…

Wellington is a good place to get shipwrecked

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.

Wellington on a plate on the web

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…

Monsters attack!

Remem­ber when Abel Smith Street was full of mon­sters recently? Here’s the ad that was the cause of it all.

Have you seen this necklace?

(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?