A bunch of reasons to get outdoors

Look at that weath­er. Just LOOK AT IT. Woah! We’re going to assume from all the cars parked in Thorn­don that you’re already going to Gar­den Mag­ic events in the dell as part of  Sum­mer City,but here are some oth­er things you might wan­na con­sid­er: Pos­i­tive­ly Pasi­fi­ka: The win­ner of New Zealand Idol is going, […]

Open for the holidays?

As a town of pub­lic ser­vants, it seems like much of Welling­ton shuts down for a month from Christ­mas until Anniver­sary Day. Peo­ple deserve hol­i­days, sure, but if they have the mis­for­tune of being back at work in the sum­mer, they got­ta be able to get cof­fee, right? We’re com­pil­ing a list of bar/cafe/restaurant hol­i­days […]

Coffee for John Key and America’s Cup fans

Tonight we went to the open­ing of the Nespres­so “bou­tique” on Lambton Quay, because frankly, we’d go to the open­ing of envelopes if they involved Louis Roed­er­er cham­pagne(1) (although a num­ber of peo­ple we know turned down the invi­ta­tion, sent us links to a Buz­zfeed arti­cle about dis­pos­able pods and then com­mis­sioned haikus) and it was […]

To be Pacific, it’s Beer Expo time again!

Get­ting to try lots of beer in a nice warm space that’s not a con­crete tun­nel sounds like a bloody good idea, which is why I’m look­ing for­ward to the Pacif­ic Beer Expo which will be on Sun­day Octo­ber 27 at the St James The­atre. In typ­i­cal fash­ion for organ­is­er Dom from Hashigo Zake, he […]

Eat, greet and learn how to cook

You know from our drunk­en con­ver­sa­tion that we love Beth of Eat & Greet Blog, and we have writ­ten many times about our love for La Boca Loca too, so when Beth invit­ed me along to one of the Eat&Greet cook­ing class­es, this time taught by Will from La Boca, it was an instant yes, even […]

Candidates: Rob Goulden for Mayor and Eastern Ward

We’ve pro­vid­ed a set of ques­tions for the may­oral and coun­cil­lor can­di­dates to answer. First 25 words to an answer get post­ed. Check our 2013 Elec­tion cov­er­age for all respons­es as they come in. When we con­tact­ed can­di­dates with our ques­tions, we asked them to email a spe­cif­ic email address that all the ‘ista could access so that […]

Our food bag(s)

There was more than the usu­al grum­bling on Twit­ter this week when the Welling­ton­ista (slash some of the indi­vid­u­als con­tained with­in) tweet­ed about the food bags they received from My Food Bag. Here is the thing: in order to be able to review some­thing, we have to see it/hear it/taste it/use it. So yes of […]

Everything you need to know about our local body elections coverage

It’s fan­tas­tic that we’re get­ting so many answers to the ques­tions we sent out to can­di­dates, but we were flood­ing our home­page with them, so we’re now tidy­ing respons­es away under­neath the Elec­tions 2013 cat­e­go­ry. You can also check out respons­es by area, assum­ing the can­di­dates actu­al­ly men­tioned where they were run­ning, AND there’s a […]

Wellington on the other side of the world

We all know that Welling­ton is the cen­tre of the uni­verse, but did you know there’s a Welling­ton that’s the cen­ter of the uni­verse as well? Not so long ago, we got an email from Rick of Walk about Welling­ton. Yup, that’s right, there’s a Welling­ton in Flori­da, USA as well. We answered some ques­tions about […]

WOAP: what I’ve dined on so far

It’s been a week of eat­ing, and I tell you, I’ve def­i­nite­ly got the meat sweats. I do it for you, gen­tle read­er. Here’s some advice about what you should and should­n’t be eat­ing over the next week. The burg­er at The Gen­er­al Prac­tic­tion­er (We already reviewed Par­rot­dog + La Boca Loca. Based on that, […]