Review: The Second Test

Jonath­an Brugh’s one-man play The Second Test returns to Wel­ling­ton, this time play­ing at Circa. The Second Test tells the amaz­ing true-life story of New Zea­l­and crick­eter Bob Blair, whose fiancee Nerissa Love was tra­gic­ally killed in the Tangi­wai dis­aster while Bob was in South Africa on tour with the New Zea­l­and crick­et team (also […]

Win a Most Wanted voucher

Edit: Con­grat­u­la­tions to Com­ment #3 who the ran­dom­izer selec­ted – Laura, I will email you to get your address. In all the con­fu­sion, fun and booze at the TAWAs last week, I com­pletely for­got that we had anoth­er prize giveaway to do, a vouch­er for Most Wanted Vin­tage at 81 Aro Street. Most Wanted Vin­tage […]

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 […]

JUST GOOD STUFF is back for 2010

Craft mad­ness!  Cre­at­ive cre­ations!  6 days to solve all your Christ­mas shop­ping needs, while sup­port­ing loc­al cre­at­ives – it’s prac­tic­ally guilt-free! Fea­tur­ing JUST GOOD STUFF from: Genevieve Pack­er, Gabby O’Con­nor, Lucy Adams, Phil­lipa Cow­drey, Ala­nah Gib­son, Wendy Neale, Ngaere MacKin­non, Flora Way­cott, Isel Greta Jane, Her­mon & son, Flora Gray, Tess & Gab, Mary Adams, […]

Wellington’s new route

It’s been a long time com­ing, but finally the buses are run­ning through the thor­ough­fare formerly known as Man­ners Mall. With clipped bus wing mir­rors, bowled down ped­es­tri­ans, and gen­er­al chaos pre­dicted by some, I decided to get down to Man­ners Street and check out the new bus route.

Waterfront Fiesta

There are many nice cas­u­al lunch places in town. What we don’t seem to have though is an abund­ance of nice cas­u­al lunch places on the Water­front. We need more places like Kaf­fee Eis, and Fiesta. Fiesta has a small and reas­on­ably priced range of bur­gers, hot dogs, and nachos; not your greasy spoon vari­ants […]

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 […]