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