More Auckland vs Wellington malarky

Recently menus.co.nz put up a piece called Auck­land is the cap­it­al of cuisine – not Wel­ling­ton, and then asked a num­ber of Wel­ling­ton food blog­gers to respond. The Auck­land inter­net seems to be very short of space, as our response was edited quite heav­ily(*) des­pite stick­ing to the word lim­it (and links changed to pro­mote […]

Give pottery for Xmas gifts, gain a mother’s love

You know what’s a nice thing to do? Buy­ing pot­tery to give to people as gifts. You know what else is a nice thing to do? Pimp­ing your moth­er out. Awww yeah. It just so hap­pens that my moth­er is a pot­ter, and she’s hav­ing her annu­al pre-Christ­mas open house at her studio/gallery this week­end […]

Data without borders

They say that know­ledge is power, and when it comes down to it, know­ledge often comes from data. But how do you get the most out of your data? Or how do you get your hands on someone else’s? Find out on Thursday June 28. Data Without Bor­ders NZ is gath­er­ing a net­work of non-profits, […]

Beware, Wild Animals!

Wel­come to the jungle – it’s time to dance. The Jo Sand­wich is proud to present Wild Anim­als, a night of dan­cing and may­hem to raise money for Wel­ling­ton SPCA. On July 20, the Bur­gundy Room under­neath Bar Bodega will be host to a roar­ingly good time. Trust your anim­al instincts on this one and […]

Ladies & gentlemen, start your salivating

The Visa Wel­ling­ton On A Plate fest­iv­al was launched last night at the Saint James, in amidst lash­ings of Ruth Pretty’s whipped but­ter, ginger beer-battered fish and Whit­taker­’s chocol­ate creme bru­lee. Oh lordy, we ate like roy­alty and were still made even more hungry by read­ing about some of the events on offer. Tick­ets go […]

Let’s help Wellington SPCA into a new home

Wel­ling­ton City Coun­cil would like your views on the draft Long Term Plan 2012–22. The draft plan sets out what the Coun­cil is pro­pos­ing to do over the next ten years. Pub­lic con­sulta­tion on the Wel­ling­ton City Coun­cil Draft Long Term Plan runs from the 16th April to 18th May 2012. This is your chance to have […]

Something to hum about

Hum­ming­bird has been on Cour­tenay Place for a long time (twelve years!), and has just under­gone a com­plete refur­bish­ment. The Wel­ling­tonista was invited along to check out the revital­ised space and new menu, and what we found was very very good. In their own words: The site was once, many dec­ades ago, a butcher­’s shop […]

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 […]

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, […]