Treaty2U

For those of you inter­ested in neither the Sev­ens, nor loc­al music… How about this? An oppor­tun­ity to see the Tour­ing Treaty exhib­i­tion TREATY 2 U, the Treaty of Wait­angi tour­ing exhib­i­tion which is trav­el­ling around New Zea­l­and over the next few months will be in the Wel­ling­ton region over Wait­angi week­end. It will be […]

The Chinese New Year is coming soon

Janu­ary 28 until Feb­ru­ary 11. And listen up folks, it’s the Year of the Dog! What we’re par­tic­u­larly look­ing for­ward to is the Asi­an Mar­ket (11am-3pm) at the Events Centre on the water­front on Fest­iv­al Day (Feb 11). The food! The crowds! But mostly the food. Fest­iv­al day will also sport a parade from Cour­tenay […]

Midweek Fantasy Costume Night! Slick Music! Half Price Entry! $5 Drinks!

I’m sorry, no pic­ture, this is a fam­ily site. So I’m strid­ing pur­pose­fully along Lamb­ton Quay, mind­ing my own busi­ness, head down… Sud­denly I am forced to pause for a moment by the unex­pec­ted obstruc­tion of what can best be described as some­what gen­er­ous cleav­age. I look up into the eyes of an absurdly young […]

The Dockside Christmas Menu

This par­tic­u­lar Wel­ling­tonista was lucky enough to be invited to an asso­ci­ate’s Christ­mas lunch at the Dock­side. It’d been a while since we’d been there, and last time it was a wintry even­ing & we huddled some­where upstairs. Yes­ter­day how­ever, was as trop­ic­al as it comes & we were delighted to dis­cov­er that our table […]

Final Wellington Film Society Update for the Year

Thanks to Dav­id Lind­say, WFS Pres­id­ent, for send­ing these notices through­out the year. Poster Sale How many times, when you have been to the Wel­ling­ton Film Fest­iv­al, have you wished you could have one of the posters that were on dis­play in the foy­ers – even some of those that were moun­ted on card. Well […]

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Of Importance to the Paramount?

I just wanted to mangle that last title sorry. but if Play­sta­tion 3 comes with a free pop­corn maker, I’ll wager that it’s all over.… …The cinema industry has been whinging at the down­turn in cinema tick­et sales for the last few years, and the advent of High Defin­i­tion TV & DVD isn’t going to […]

The Coastal Highway and Transmission Gully

The Wel­ling­tonis­tas received this email yes­ter­day & giv­en the import­ance of safe & effi­cent trans­port routes in & out of the region, we think it’s a good idea to pass it on to our read­ers to con­sider, and even make a sub­mis­sion if you so desire. The Coastal High­way and Trans­mis­sion Gully Dear Wel­ling­tonis­tas The […]

Wellington Film Society for November

Wel­come to our final month of the 2005 sea­son. The whole month (if we can include Monday 31 October)features the work of Ger­man film pro­du­cer Artur Brau­ner. Argu­ably the most influ­en­tial film pro­du­cer of post-war Ger­many, he was also driv­en to pro­duce films about vic­tims of the Nation­al Social­ist regime (when the Nazis invaded Lódz, […]

The New Zealand Film Archive

This lunch­time, I popped down­stairs & around the corner from the Wel­ling­tonista Towers, to the NZ Film Archive & spent a fas­cin­at­ing wee while brows­ing their cata­logue of VCRs & DVDs. I tried pick­ing the brain of the tech­ni­cian on duty in the Media Lib­rary, but he was just reliev­ing & had sketchy inform­a­tion at […]