Petone Fair
Petone Fair is this Saturday (20th February) 10am-4pm. Jackson Street is closed for the fair from Cuba to Victoria Street.
Word on the (Jackson) street is that there are genuine Lower Hutt made gingernuts for sale with a cuppa at the Rotary tent.
If the gingernut doesn’t fill the gaping void in your tummy, the Wellingtonista recommend grabbing a delicious Rush Munro icecream and New Zealand made artisan cheese from Cultured, under the clock tower.
There are many great ethnic food stalls, and the samosas from outside Curry Heaven are brilliant. Go Bang is a Wellingtonista favourite for a sit down feed and a coffee, and if you’re sticking around until evening, Gusto Bistro is a great choice.
Where are your favourite Petone food spots?
I for one welcome our new mirrorball overlords
Te Papa’s forecourt may look as if it’s under attack by giant glittery space balls, but it’s actually the start of a two-year kinetic sculpture installation called "The Mimetic Brotherhood", by Peter Trevelyan.
There’s not much kinesis evident at the moment, but once the installation is complete, expect the plinth-eating monsters to start pulsating in their full hydraulic glory.
A well named cafe
Newtown: It’s a bit shit. Hence it attracts flies, like myself.
I love Newtown. It’s full of dive bars and not-so-dive bars, great cafes and restaurants with food from all over the world. I mean, why travelt he world when you can go to Newtown? (as the Tshirt says).
But Newtown’s a little rough, to say the least. And that’s what makes it more interesting than other southern suburbs. That and photo opportunities like the one (after the jump) that got sent to us yesterday.
Orientation 2010
Hey guys.
Below is the line up of Orientation events this year, with thanks to The Victoria University of Wellington Students Association and the VBC88.3FM. Not just for students, tickets are also available to the general public. (For full disclosure: I had a hand in this years line up. I hope you like it!)
VUWSA 2010 ORIENTATION LINE UP
STEVE WRIGLEY, BEN HURLEY AND JAMIE BOWEN
Union Hall
Tuesday March 2
Students $10/ Public $15 + booking fee
6PM
THE CHILLS
With support from SECRET KNIVES and JOE BLOSSOM
Students $20 Public $30 + booking fee
Tuesday March 2
San Francisco Bath House
8pm
*Tickets for this show also available at undertheradar.co.nz
Anthony McCall Drawing with Light
Late night at the gallery w/ KazaamBLAM!!
Adam Art Gallery
Wednesday 3 March
FREE ENTRY
OPEN UNTIL 9PM
HAWNAY TROOF
With support from SETS and 47 DIAMANTES
Wednesday March 3 2010
Mighty Mighty
Students $10/ Public $15 + booking fee
9PM
*Tickets for this show also available at undertheradar.co.nz
THE GREAT DEBATE
Thursday MARCH 4
UNION HALL
$5 DEBATING SOCIETY $10 STUDENTS + booking fee
6PM
ALL AGES SHOW with STREET CHANT + NEVERNUDES
Friday March 5 2010
THE MOUNT STREET BAR – CAMPUS
FREE ENTRY
5:30PM
Kilbirnie gets some extra love
Someone (or someones) has got their outdoor knit on at Kilbirnie Park. Hurray for loves! I wonder what the council’s take on this kind of graffiti is…
Pasifika Cancelled (but Newtown gets all the taro)
Pasifika was cancelled this morning due to high winds making it unsafe for perfomers and stall holders. Safety first eh.
So no Cindy of Samoa or Yandall Sisters and tasty food for us.
Well actually, I think you will find that if you head to a certain Pasific Island Community Church in Newtown you will find the food and the odd act has relocated (rumor has it that the Yandall Sisters are keen to belt out a few tunes).
A group of stall holders from the Cook Islands have flown over especially so if anyone knows of somewhere they can sell their wares tomorrow let us know in the comments. They would really appreciate it.
Warmups, Webstock, Wrestling.
Holy crap, next week is going to be insane. It’s WEBSTOCK WEEK, baby! Expect a proliferation of smart sexy people with smart sexy satchels to be taking over your favourite bars (especially the ones we recommended to them) and discussing mindblowingly awesome concepts. You’re going, right?
And because we don’t want you to get injured from having your mind (and liver) blown without stretching first, we here at the Wellingtonista are super pleased to be hosting an Official Wellingtonista Unofficial Webstock Warm-up on Wednesday 17th at Hashigo Zake from 5pm. Expect lovely people, great prices on some beers thanks to Dominic and perhaps some other special treats. Feel free to come along even if you’re not going to Webstock, although we may point and laugh at you.
If you can’t afford to go to the whole conference, there are still a couple of tickets left to the ONYAs party, which we are assured will be amazing even if we’re not up for any awards.
Or, if none of this floats your boat, you should go to the RASSLIN!
Land of the Long White Cloud
"The brain is a multi-faceted thing that thinks about all sorts of things, mostly bullshit. Whereas a fish doesn’t. A fish only thinks about eating, reproduction, and staying alive. A bit like the kiwi male, probably….” local fisherman Neil Moody.
Florian Habicht’s latest documentary Land of the Long White Cloud is full of fishing and philosophy and definitely worth a peek. Currently screening at the Film Archive for three weeks it’s a look into the hearts and minds of fishermen and women, as they compete for $50,000 in the 90 Mile Beach ‘Snapper Classic’ – the world’s largest snapper fishing contest.
"Must be seen" – National Radio
"An injection of Awesome" – 95BFM
Wednesday to Saturday nights at 7pm until 27 February
at the Film Archive cinema, corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Sts.
Tickets: $14 adult, $12 concession, $10 seniors, $9 children
Love to roll?
Love bikes? Love frocks? Love Wellington? How about you mix all those things together on Valentine’s Day by taking part in Frocks on Bikes’ Love to Roll event.
All you need is your stylish self, a bike and a sense of joie de vivre! If you don’t have a bike … never fear! Read on…
♥ Lovers to Roll will gather at on Valentine’s Day at 1.30pm on Oriental Parade by Freyberg Pool.
♥ After ensuring everyone’s registered to be in to win our prizes, we will depart on our cruise!
♥ We will cycle at a leisurely pace, on the roads, around the beautiful Wellington bays through Kilbirnie and out to Lyall Bay, with a brief stop outside the Maranui Lifesaving Club around 3pm where any additional Lovers to Roll can join the flock.
♥ We’ll arrive at the Island Bay Festival in Shorland Park, where we will take to the Festival stage in the Pavilion to announce the winners of our fantastic prizes!
♥ After it’s all over, you can either return to the city with us or independently.If you’re currently short of a steed, don’t worry – the awesome Green Bike Trust is bringing a fleet of brand-new bikes for Lovers to Roll to hire (only $10!), but bookings are essential!Lovers to Roll who register are in to be lucky winners! There will be intense competition for the coveted title of Best-Matched Bike & Rider Team, the Most Loved-Up Bike award, the Best-Dressed Couple award, and the grand prize – the title of R&R Supreme Frocker! Up for grabs are superb prizes from our generous donors:
A plan for 2012
So imagine if the worst thing in the world* happens, and Wellington loses its bid to continue hosting the Sevens. What should we do?
Simple! Just don’t tell anyone. Richard Maclean at the council is great at communicating truths so surely he’d be even better at telling lies. We just pretend that the sevens are still on. Hire a couple dozen students to run up and down the field in the stadium, and who’d know the difference? No one actually goes along for the rugby do they? People will still get dressed up, there’ll be glass and vomit and extra amounts of hate crimes (hey bogans who threw cans at my friends who dared to hold hands in public: you’re fucking losers) all over the streets as usual, and we get to keep that 16 million dollars or so that the games bring to the city. This fly would be well-happy, because I do love to live in shit, after all.
*Not really