I’d rather be under the sea

It’s been too long since you last lost your­self on the dance floor, right? And you haven’t dressed up in ages. You can­’t even remem­ber the last time that you drank a bright blue cock­tail. Oh yes, we’re feel­ing your pain. And even more than just feel­ing it – we want to fix it. And […]

WYFC first birthday party, Easter Sunday

There’s a group of truly awe­some people in Wel­ling­ton who do great things, and they’re hav­ing a party. Does­n’t that sound like the sort of thing you should attend? Yes! Come to the WYFC’s first birth­day, and help us cel­eb­rate our first year and bring in our second. In the last year we’ve helped raise […]

This fish is still fresh, even after two years

Happy second birth­day to our favour­ite Wel­ling­ton print media, Fish­head! Thanks for the fun reads, the great parties , and for giv­ing our city a magazine and fant­ast­ic quiz host/Jam MC. Their second birth­day issue is out now in shops every­where. Here’s to lots more!  

A jamboree… of jam

A high­light of the Wel­ling­ton food­ie’s cal­en­dar is  The Great Welly Jam Off.  Since the first Jam Off held at The Old Bank Arcade the event’s trans­formed into a must-make and must-taste event.  At 10.30am this Sunday (March 25th)  The Great Welly Jam Off.  brings the jammy good­ness to The City Mar­ket.   The City […]

Another season, another reason for making coffee

How hard can it be to make a really good cup of cof­fee? The cor­rect answer, as any Wel­ling­to­ni­an knows, is “Really bloody hard!” A good barista is a thing to be cher­ished, and the best of the best come togeth­er every year for the Huhta­maki New Zea­l­and Barista Cham­pi­on­ship to show off their skills […]

Wellington in a Pint (or four)

“Would you like to come and drink free beer?” the mes­sage asked. What does a self-respect­ing bar­fly say to that? ‘No’? And so the Fly found itself buzz­ing around the advert­ising types at the Fork & Brew­er last night for the launch of Clemenger’s new Wel­ling­ton in a Pint cam­paign. Advert­ising types are not the […]

We also have ‘opinions’ – a protest against transphobia

If you’re on the Twit­ters, you would have seen yet anoth­er digust­ing piece of bigotry and bull­shit churned out by Rose­mary McLeod about how trans­gender people should­n’t be par­ents. The @dompost rebut­tal? “The column is her opin­ion.”. Yes, and they’re the ones who paid for her to have that opin­ion pub­lished. Luck­ily, the Queer Avengers […]

Island Bay Festival 2012

The 28th annu­al Island Bay Fest­iv­al kicks off tomor­row (Sat 11 Feb), with a heap of events and activ­it­ies planned for the com­ing week. All the favour­ite events are back: Bless­ing of the Boats, the parade down the Parade, Bands in the Park (fea­tur­ing Fam­ily Cac­tus, Ryan Preb­ble, Joe Blos­som, and New­town Sound and MC Israel […]

Get Mr Gay Wellington to Mr Gay World!

This week­end in Auck­land is the Big Gay Out. Now that wouldn’t be of much interest to us here at the Wel­ling­tonista because Out In The Square, the capital’s own queer fest­iv­al is big­ger and bet­ter, but at the Big Gay Out they’re also run­ning the Mr Gay New Zea­l­and com­pet­i­tion and Wellington’s Mar­cus Fen­son […]

Less than a week til Webstock ’12!

Can you feel the excite­ment in the air? Hear the squeak of glasses being polished,Threadless pack­ages being opened, plaid shirts being ironed and beards being fluffed? Next week, Wel­ling­ton plays host to the greatest most awe­some con­fer­ence in the world. Fact! We’ve already made some recom­mend­a­tions of things for Web­stock attendees to do in Wel­ling­ton, […]