Our movies have gone to the dogs

Remem­ber Footrot Flats? Of course you do. You prob­ably did­n’t even need that link, unless you’re a wee little thing or new to the coun­try. Mur­ray Ball’s car­toon strip about farm life and a dog named Dog ran every day in the Even­ing Post for nearly 20 years. In fact, in 1987, Footrot Flats: A […]

Snow in Cuba

You might not have noticed, but it’s pretty cold in Wel­ling­ton right now. In fact, let us be the very first people to tell you: it’s snow­ing in some parts. Woah! Now we have dis­pensed with the usu­al sar­casm, please enjoy this beau­ti­ful video by Ro Tier­ney of the snow in Cuba Mall. Snow on […]

Cos we ain’t not no hollaback girls

You know what sucks? Get­ting yelled at on the street (unless it’s someone yelling “Hey Wel­ling­tonista, you’re awe­some, come and have some free drinks in my bar if you like” in a non-threat­en­ing way. Please do that). So Hol­laback! wants to do some­thing about it. We’ve got your back!  Hol­laback! is an inter­na­tion­al move­ment to end […]

Pie time

Many fin­gers in many pies and bunny men of the moment, The Nudge have their album release gig this Fri­day night at San Fran­cisco Bath House.  You’ll recog­nise these three from a con­coc­tion of oth­er incarn­a­tions: Ryan  Preb­ble, James Coyle and Iraia Whakamoe with spe­cial guests War­ren Max­well  and DJ Elect­ica.  $15 on the door  

The bookworms be out in force

One rather delight­ful advant­age of the Rugby World Cup is the arrival of the Down­town Com­munity Min­istry Book Fair in July, two months ahead of its nor­mal tim­ing. One might feel a little put out that rugby is screw­ing with your life, but this Wel­ling­tonista thinks it’s the reverse. Per­son­ally I turn into a bit […]

Wellington on a delicious plate

It has been a couple of weeks now since the launch of the Visa Wel­ling­ton on a Plate pro­gramme, and we have been very remiss in not telling you about it. Your cred­it card, how­ever, will thank us, as many of the events are now sold out. The launch was held in Mojo’s roast­ing premises […]

The insider’s guide to shopping at Craft 2.0

This guest post comes dir­ect to us via the very tal­en­ted Emma of Emma Makes This Sat­urday it’s Craft 2.0 time again and I’ll be selling. I thought I’d also share some of my inside tips to mak­ing the most of the fair… Become a friend of Craft 2.0 Sign­ing up to become a friend […]

What year is St. Patrick’s College living in?

When I was 15,  I had my first ever pash. I was at Onslow, but my best friend’s boy­friend went to St Pat’s (Town) so one New Year’s, we got to hang out with some of the boys from there. There was a party in Strath­more, a New Year’s Count­down in a tun­nel, a Haka […]

NZ Country Blues

I’m post­ing this as I’m amused this band’s appear­ance on Good Morn­ing is lis­ted on their poster! Play­ing the San Fran Bath House tonight, $10

Two marches you might want to join

Wel­ling­to­ni­ans have two great oppor­tun­it­ies in the next couple of weeks to join import­ant causes and demon­strate that you are decent human beings. On Thursday June 9,  a march will be held through Wel­ling­ton city to help stop homo­pho­bia and trans­pho­bia on our streets. Then on Sat­urday June 25, a Slut­walk is hap­pen­ing. Queer the […]