Category: Transport

So we had some awards

In fact some of us right now are cel­e­brat­ing those awards, at the most love­ly of loca­tions, the Mighty Mighty.

But if you were unable to make it to the TAWAS here’s how you all vot­ed.

Expect a review of the night lat­er on tomor­row, and by lat­er on I mean after after­noon tea.

For right now many of the welling­ton­ista are shak­ing their thing to the sounds of the Klezmer Rebs.

Also hope­ful­ly Hadyn who is the king of stats will offer up some analy­sis of the way you vot­ed.

And if you havn’t already why not head over to the DCM and give a lit­tle. As I write at this very moment $10 has been donat­ed to DCM. If every­one who reads this blog don­tat­ed $5 each, togeth­er  we will  make a seri­ous dif­fer­ence in the lives of Welling­to­ni­ans who are most at risk and in need this Christ­mas.

Best Cheap Eats: Sweet Moth­er’s Kitchen
Best un-Cheap Eats: Mat­ter­horn
Best Drink in Town: Castle­point at Mighty Mighty
Best Late Night Hang­out: Mighty Mighty
Best Sub­ur­ban Des­ti­na­tion: Maranui Cafe
Best non-Drink­ing Des­ti­na­tion: Welling­ton Cen­tral Library
Best Place to Shake It WINNERS: Mighty Mighty & San Fran­cis­co Bath House
Best Pub­lic Space: The Water­front
Best Art Expe­ri­ence: Yay­oi Kusama at City Gallery Welling­ton
Best Appar­el: Manda­to­ry
Best Shop: Slow­boat
Most Need­ed: Bike lanes
Best Ser­vice: Matt at Mojo Old Bank
Best Cof­fee: Mojo Old Bank
Best Con­tri­bu­tion to the Inter­net by a Welling­ton­ian: The Web­stock Team
Best Reg­u­lar Enter­tain­ment: The Welling­ton Phoenix
Best Live Per­for­mance: Ques­tion Time at Par­lia­ment
Best Welling­ton-based Event: The Cuba Car­ni­val
Welling­ton­ian of the Year: Mar­tin Bosley for the City Mar­ket

More exciting stuff to do with #T4WA

Holy crap­sticks, there’s less than a week to go until the Fourth Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards! You already know, of course, that you need to vote before Decem­ber 15, and that the doors to the Awards Cer­e­mo­ny open at 6.30pm on Decem­ber 17 at Mighty Mighty. We’ve told you about the Klezmer Rebs who are play­ing, but we haven’t men­tioned that there’ll be a secret musi­cal inter­lude. And we also haven’t told you about the awe­some spot prizes we have to give away on the night, so let’s do that now: 

• Ponoko Vouch­ers
• Craft 2.0 mon­ey!
• Jew­ellery from Super­very!
• Cof­fee from Mojo!
• A lim­it­ed edi­tion print by Amie McCar­ron
• “I’m a bit of a geek” and “I’m blog­ging this” neck­lace from Cup­cakes and Mace. 
• We’d also love to give away things from your com­pa­ny, so get in con­tact if you think you’d be a good fit.

Tick­ets are just $10 on the door, and we can promise you that it will be a rol­lick­ing­ly good time, so you’re com­ing along, right? 

Vote for the T4WAs!

In the last month or so we’ve col­lect­ed nom­i­na­tions for the var­i­ous cat­e­gories in the Fourth Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards; we’ve writ­ten them all up for you to read; we’ve hand­ed out cer­tifi­cates to (most of) the nom­i­nees (if you’ve been nom­i­nat­ed and haven’t got yours yet, hold tight, I’ve been some­what occu­pied else­where — Jo); and we’ve gen­er­al­ly been liv­ing in antic­i­pa­tion of This Very Moment.

For now… [drum roll please] …it is your turn.

You need to vote, in each of the cat­e­gories, for whom you think should win one of the cov­et­ed T4WAs.

And you need to do that, right here, right now. But only one com­plet­ed sur­vey per per­son, please!

VOTE HERE (Vot­ing has closed).

Vot­ing is open from now through to mid­day on Decem­ber 15th. And once you’ve vot­ed, you should clear a space in your cal­en­dar for the Awards Cer­e­mo­ny, which will be at Mighty Mighty on Decem­ber 17th (Add the event on Face­book if you roll that way). The awards pre­sen­ta­tion should be hap­pen­ing around 7.30pm, and then at 9.30pm we are very excit­ed to have the Klezmer Rebs play­ing tunes for us all to shake our tuchas­s­es to!  

Last­ly, in case you need to check back on the details of some of the cat­e­go­ry nom­i­nees, here’s each post­ing:

• Best Appar­el
• Best Art Expe­ri­ence
• Best Cheap Eats
• Best Cof­fee
• Best Drink in Town
• Best Event
• Best Live Per­for­mance
• Best Non-Drink­ing Des­ti­na­tion
• Best Place to Shake it
• Best Reg­u­lar Enter­tain­ment
• Best Ser­vice
• Best Shop
• Best Sub­ur­ban Des­ti­na­tion
• Best UnCheap Eats
• Best Late Night Hang­out
• Most Need­ed
• Best Pub­lic Space
• Welling­to­ni­an’s Con­tri­bu­tion to the Inter­net
• Welling­ton­ian of the Year

T4WA nominees: Best Service

Vot­ing in the Fourth Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards is open from Decem­ber 1–15. Then come find out the results at our Awards Night at Mighty Mighty on Decem­ber 17!

To vote, vis­it this page.

It does­n’t mat­ter how good the food is at a restau­rant or how com­fort­able a bar’s stools are if the staff scowl at you and dump your order down grumpi­ly in front of you. What makes us loy­al cus­tomers is the inter­ac­tion with the peo­ple on the oth­er side of the cus­tomer, and these men and women are the shin­ing stars in their field. Being served by them real­ly does make the day bet­ter.

T4WA nominees: Best Drink in Town

Vot­ing in the Fourth Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards is open from Decem­ber 1–15. Then come find out the results at our Awards Night at Mighty Mighty on Decem­ber 17!

To vote, vis­it this page.

When we want the best thing to wet our whis­tles with, we will seek these drinks out.

T4WA nominees: Public Spaces

Vot­ing in the Fourth Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards is open from Decem­ber 1–15. Then come find out the results at our Awards Night at Mighty Mighty on Decem­ber 17!

To vote, vis­it this page.

Welling­ton is made up of lots of pri­vate spaces, but it’s the pub­lic spaces that real­ly bring the city to life. These are the places that you’ll find us loi­ter­ing in.

T4WA nominees: Best Non-Drinking Destination

Vot­ing in the Fourth Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards is open from Decem­ber 1–15. Then come find out the results at our Awards Night at Mighty Mighty on Decem­ber 17!

To vote, vis­it this page.

Although we might not always cel­e­brate them as much as we would a new bar or great restau­rant, we know that there are times when you need to get out and do things that don’t revolve entire­ly around a drink. These are the places we like to head at those times.

T4WA nominees: Best Event

Vot­ing in the Fourth Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards is open from Decem­ber 1–15. Then come find out the results at our Awards Night at Mighty Mighty on Decem­ber 17!

To vote, vis­it this page.

There are things that hap­pen in Welling­ton that make us break out the big thick per­ma­nent mark­ers to cir­cle those dates on the cal­en­dar, and these are the pick of those events.

T4WA nominees: Best Shop

Vot­ing in the Fourth Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards is open from Decem­ber 1–15. Then come find out the results at our Awards Night at Mighty Mighty on Decem­ber 17!

To vote, vis­it this page.

Ah con­sumerism, we wor­ship at your tem­ple and wish to sub­scribe to your newslet­ter. These are the places in town that we hap­pi­ly spend our hard-earned dol­lars in.

T4WA nominees: Best Suburban Destination

Vot­ing in the Fourth Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards is open from Decem­ber 1–15. Then come find out the results at our Awards Night at Mighty Mighty on Decem­ber 17!

To vote, vis­it this page.

Sure, the city cen­tre is hip and hap­pen­ing, but some­times it’s fun to take a trip out to the sub­urbs — well, as long as you’re vis­it­ing one of these places any­way!