Author: Joanna

2AWA:Best Non-Drinking Venue?

It does­n’t hap­pen all that often, but occa­sion­ally the Wel­ling­tonis­tas will plan excur­sions with friends from out of town that don’t entirely revolve around a bar. And on those times, we want to do things that are a little bit touristy, but not overly so, so this is how we do it.

How I enter­tain those from out of town who might not want to drink all day:

After the jump, tour­ist activ­it­ies ho!

2AWA: Best Suburban Venue

It prob­ably would­n’t be an unfair call to say that the Wel­ling­tonista focuses most of its atten­tions on the inner city, des­pite the fact that some of us live out in the wilds, like Hataitai, Karori and Petone. But that does­n’t mean we’re not aware that there are many awe­some things going on out­side of Te Aro, and so this cat­egory is all about pay­ing trib­ute to them.

Good things hap­pen in the sub­urbs too, hon­est – like this place:

Places after the jump…

2AWA: Best 2007 Wellington-based Event

There’s always some­thing going on in Wel­ling­ton, and we try our very best to keep you informed. Being only human, there are plenty of things that we miss, but there’s no way in Hell we would have missed any of the things below:
The event that made me get off my arse the most:

Events after the jump…

2AWA: Best Building

We have the ser­i­ous hots for some of the archi­tects archi­tec­ture around town. Build­ings that not only func­tion as they were inten­ded but also make the streets a more excit­ing and pleas­ant place to be make us happy people.

Put on the Barry White because if this build­ing was a per­son, I would be mak­ing sweet sweet luuurve to it right now:

After the jump, we present the build­ings…

2AWA: Best Public Art

Here are the nom­in­ees for the Best Pub­lic Art cat­egory for the 2nd Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards (2AWA).

What is that?:

Art is what sep­ar­ates Man from Beast (apart from those mon­keys with type­writers who came up with the screen­play for Melody Rules, of course). There­fore it’s only fit­ting that we recog­nise the pub­lic art around the city that makes Wel­ling­ton the col­our­ful, vibrant place that it is. Of course, it’s a sub­ject­ive area, but these are the pieces that really make us do double-takes as we move around.

(nom­in­ees after the jump)

2AWA: Best drink nominations

Here are the nom­in­ees for the Best Drink cat­egory for the 2nd Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards (2AWA).

When I am not hav­ing a mar­tini, I like to drink a___

There are many many places offer­ing many many cock­tails in Wel­ling­ton, but we want to know what the very best of them is. There’s a party in our col­lect­ive mouth, and these drinks are invited…

(nom­in­ees after the jump)

Announcing the Second Annual Wellingtonista Awards: nominations

The Wel­ling­tonista is ridicu­lously pleased to announce the Second Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards. We’ve cut down the pre­vi­ously insanely long title because of all the excite­ment and adven­ture that we need to fit in. And hooooooooooo boy, we’ve got some excit­ing things going on. Here’s what’s going to hap­pen:

1. Over the next week, we’ll announce the cat­egor­ies and the nom­in­ees in a series of posts, with a little bit of a blurb about why we chose them. We’ll also make sure to provide you with a handy map and dir­ec­tions so you can get out there and check out all the nom­in­ees.
2. We’ll open up online vot­ing on Novem­ber 19, Vot­ing is now open, so you get to have your say. We’ll ask you to include a name and email address so that a) you don’t cheat and b) if you come along to the awards night, you;ll be up for some fant­ast­ic prizes.
3. We’ll close vot­ing on Decem­ber 4.
4. On Thursday Decem­ber 6, we’ll announce the win­ners at a huge big stonk­ing party, in asso­ci­ation with some oth­er very very awe­some people who we’ll tell you about as soon as everything is locked down (and let me just say, I’m kinda wet­ting my pants in glee about it all). We’d love you to come along to our awards and party with us, please. You won’t regret it. Except for in the morn­ing. But after you’ve had anoth­er cof­fee you’ll be fine with it.

Also, this year, at the awards, we will be ask­ing those of you who can to make a dona­tion to the Down­town Com­munity Min­istry, and here’s why:

• We love this city, right? And so there­fore, it is import­ant that we actu­ally do good things for it, as well as talk­ing about it all the time.
• We eat and drink to excess, and it’s awe­some that we cel­eb­rate that, but it might be nice if we think about the people who have dif­fi­culty eat­ing, or who have prob­lems with drink­ing.
• Blanket Man was voted Favour­ite Wel­ling­to­ni­an at the Wel­ling­tonista Awards last year. How about we give some atten­tion to the not-so-vis­ible home­less people?

So get out there and start check­ing out our nom­in­a­tions as we put them up, and then come back and vote when we open it up on Novem­ber 19. Yay!

Nom­in­a­tions cur­rently include:

• Best drink
• Best shop
• Best late-night ven­ue
• Best pub­lic art
• Best cof­fee beans
• Best Wel­ling­ton Web Writer
• Wel­ling­ton Supervil­lan of the Year
• Best build­ing
• Most Needed
• Best cul­tur­al ven­ue
• Best appar­el store
• Best uncheap eats
• Best break­fast
• Best pub­lic space
• Best cheap eats
• Wel­ling­to­ni­an of the year
• Best non­drink­ing ven­ue
• Hot­test hospo of the year
• Best sub­urb­an ven­ue
• Best Wel­ling­ton-based event