Solo 22 – Voyages

Of course, we here at the Wel­ling­tonista would nev­er blow our own trum­pets, but we’re happy to blow our fam­il­ies’ – in a non South­land kind of way, of course – so we’re pleased to tell you about the new exhib­i­tion on at the Academy Gal­lery called Solo 22. There’s paint­ings and sculp­tures by oth­er […]

World, meet Cortina

As James poin­ted out yes­ter­day, there’s a lot going on in Wel­ling­ton at the moment. I don’t know about any of it, because I live in Auck­land. But there is one par­tic­u­lar upcom­ing Wel­ling­ton event that I am aware of. Tomor­row night, Fri­day 24 Feb­ru­ary, much-lauded Wel­ling­ton-via-Palmer­­­ston-North band Cor­tina will per­form at Indigo along­side Dis­astera­dio, […]

The Little Day Out

For those of not inter­ested in (or without tick­ets to) the Sev­ens, and an appre­ci­ation of fine loc­al music and the joys of a BBQ on a nice day, may we recom­mend the Little Day Out, tak­ing place today (Fri 3rd Feb) at 42 Old Pori­rua Rd, Ngaio. Wel­ling­ton blues-rock­­ers Con­nan and the Mock­as­ins are […]

Wellington Sevens Fever!

If you hap­pen to see a group of large, fit, young lads wan­der­ing about the Wel­ling­ton streets this week, chances are you’ve either stumbled across the cast of Down­stage’s latest play ‘The Boys in the Band’ , or, and more likely, one of the Rugby Sev­ens teams that are in town for this week­end’s tour­na­ment. […]

Kirk’s Sale, now on

Wel­lUrb­an prob­ably sums up the effect of the annu­al Kirk’s Sale best when he writes… Expect worse than usu­al queues of SUVs between Karori and Lamb­ton Quay this morn­ing: the Annu­al Kirks sale is on. From the look of some of the ladies queueing out­side the doors this morn­ing, it could be said that they […]

Bunnies on Ponies @ Cabaret

Amongst the usu­al info accom­pa­ny­ing the email alert­ing us to a rare Bun­nies on Ponies per­form­ance, was a brand new word – nos­far­i­ous. To quote… The nos­far­i­ous Bun­nies On Ponies are mak­ing a rare appear­ance at Cab­aret (ne Chow) this Sat­urday night from 11pm. We like it. If one of the Bun­nies (or, indeed, one […]

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 […]

A date for the prom

When’s the last time you stood by the wall hop­ing that someone would ask you to dance, and then they did, and you put your hands on their shoulders and they put their hands on your waist and you stepped left, and then you stepped right and oh man, it was so excit­ing, and you […]

Happy 2006

Wel­ling­to­ni­an flickr-ites Feli­city and Philip were nar­rowly pipped at the post for first pic­ture of 2006 to hit the Amer­­ic­an-based mega-site Flickr and the 2006firstpix pool (with their snap [above] of New Years rev­el­ries in Civic Square), by Mas­ter­ton’s curi­ouskiwi (who has taken enough fine pic­tures of Wel­ling­ton to qual­i­fy as a loc­al any­way), who […]

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 […]