My personal Wellington highlights of 2011

We did­n’t have the TAWAs this year, but lots of awe­some­ness still took place. Here’s a very self-indul­­gent look at what I par­tic­u­larly loved and did­n’t – hope­fully oth­er Wel­ling­tonis­tas will add their own posts too.

TAWA6: not this year

Let’s get the bad news out of the way quickly: we’re not going to be able to bring you the The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards this year. This makes us sad. But Decem­ber is always a damned awk­ward month, and col­lect­ively this year we’re short of sort of avail­able time required in abund­ance to get the […]

The TAWAs are coming!

Grab your­self a great big vivid and mark off Decem­ber 8 as the day of The Sixth Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards. Now go ahead and scribble out the day after as well, as you will be too partied out to do any­thing then. Obvi­ously, we’re quiet because we have all kinds of plans afoot, but for […]

The carrots! They are mobbing!

Con­scious Con­sumers is organ­ising New Zealand’s first Car­rot­mob.The basic idea of a Car­rot­mob is to organ­ise con­sumers to shop at a par­tic­u­lar busi­ness, if that busi­ness pledges to use the money to adopt more envir­on­ment­ally and socially respons­ible prac­tices.  The busi­ness that wins the ‘mob’ of con­sumers is the one that pledges to use the […]

TAWA5: The Winners!

So, we’re still party­ing at Mighty Mighty right now. Tom’s prob­ably on his sev­enty-fifth mar­tini, Martha is telling us all how much she loves us, and Jo is prob­ably try­ing to cause a boob­quake all by her­self, but we figured we’d come back from the future to tell you all who the win­ners on the […]

Voting is closed, time to party!

Well con­grat­u­la­tions Wel­ling­to­ni­ans & wan­nabes, even with a short­er vot­ing peri­od we saw a record num­ber of votes for the fifth The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards. Now that vot­ing is closed, let’s pay atten­tion to tomor­row night. OMG, what are you going to wear? Here’s what’s going to hap­pen on the night tomor­row, Decem­ber 3rd. The […]

Voting is now open in fifth annual Wellingtonista Awards

We’re exhausted from a mam­moth day of post­ing all the nom­in­a­tions (bloody good work, team!) so we just wanted to let you know that vot­ing is now open. Go read our sticky post for links to all our nom­in­a­tions, and make sure you check them out before you cast your votes. Then we’ll see you […]

TAWA5 Best Thing in Wellington

This cat­egory is a bit of a mixed bag. It’s where we put things that we want to cel­eb­rate that did­n’t seem to fit any­where else, but that does­n’t mean these nom­in­a­tions are second thoughts. Indeed, they’re actu­ally the some of the first things we think of when we try to define what makes Wel­ling­ton […]

TAWA5 Best BYO

BYO res­taur­ants to us are places where you can hold a large gath­er­ing, you can eat some tasty food, and if you don’t count the cost of your bottle, you can get totally stuffed for around $25. There are a mil­lion and one place with BYO licenses in Wel­ling­ton, but these are the ones that […]

TAWA5 Best Drink in Town

Wel­ling­ton is full of bars, and those bars are full of drinks (and drunks). But if you only want the very best in your mouth, this is what you’ll be order­ing.