We’ve writ­ten about UP’s Blog­gers Pre­dict event before, but this time, I’m one of the people doing the pre­dict­ing on Janu­ary 28 from 5.30pm to 8pm. I’m sup­posed to be mak­ing pre­dic­tions in the fol­low­ing areas:  

• Gad­gets & Games
• The Inter­net, Web 3.0…
• Busi­ness & Tech­no­logy
• Wellington/NZ/the Uni­verse (open slath­er)

I’m allowed (and encour­aged) to soli­cit sug­ges­tions, so have at it in the com­ments and I’d encour­age you to focus on Wel­ling­ton-ish sug­ges­tions in par­tic­u­lar, since I’m rep­res­ent­ing the Wel­ling­tonista, after all. Oh, and make sure you register to come along to the event, there’s FREE BOOZE and food, and you’ll be done by 8 so you can go along to any oth­er events that might be hap­pen­ing that night after­wards. 

The Uni­con XV has been in town since the 28th of Decem­ber, with one wheel­ers dec­or­at­ing the water­front and what feels like the whole damn inner-city, sav­ing us from that ghost town feel over the hol­i­day peri­od.  The Wel­ling­ton flickr pool and the papers have been packed with pho­tos of the action.  There is some­thing pretty pho­to­gen­ic about the sheer range of uni­cycle enthu­si­asts of all nation­al­it­ies that have decen­ded on our fair (but windy) city.

Today is your last chance to check out the action, the Best Trick Con­test will be held out­side Mac’s Brew­ery Bar at 2.00pm weath­er per­mit­ting.  

See you down there.  

Sydney Fest­iv­al : Kora @ Becks Bar, Hyde Park Bar­racks Museum – 19th Janu­ary, 2008 (Photo © 2008, Joel Court­ney)

Bloody hell this is going to be intense!  One show only this Fri­day.

Last time I saw Kora play I was in field at Pari­haka and the earth moved, in fact the earth pos­sibly got packed down too hard to grow grass for awhile, due to hun­dreds of people jump­ing and writh­ing in uni­son.  Way to freak the sheep man.

More after the jump.

Remem­ber this guy and all of those drums? (Incid­ent­ally, all of those drums will be turn­ing Kora up loud this Fri­day). 

Or per­haps you remem­ber him as that crazy, sexy, cool guy play­ing veget­ables at Fringe last year (win­ner Best Music and Best Solo Show at 2009 Fringe Fest­iv­al).

Adam Page is back at Down­stage this Sunday along with three more sax­o­phon­ists, as the Adalaide Sax Pack, fea­tur­ing some silky vocals from Welly’s Lisa Tom­lins (Shape­shifter, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Rhom­bus, Trin­i­ty­Roots).

Billed as:

4 world class Sax­o­phon­ists, 1 HUGE quar­tet sound, stacks of the chees­iest music you know you love but choose to hate.

This girl is look­ing look­ing for­ward to the cheezy ’80s cov­ers and being a vocal mem­ber of the rauc­ous fun-time crowd.

Come along, it isn’t that expens­ive and will be down­right fest­ive (in a good way).

Details and a taster after the jump.

 So recently we asked you where you would drink Montana’s new-label Sav Blanc, and you told us. The randomizer.org threw the num­bers 2 and 8 at us, so con­grat­u­la­tions to Cat and Mar­shall. If you could please send an email to johubris at gmail with your address, I’ll get your wine out to you. Cheers!

People say, some­times with even a hint of con­cern in their voices, that we at the Wel­ling­tonista are overly con­cerned with drink­ing.

And it’s true. We are very con­cerned. In fact we’re writ­ing now to warn you about an upcom­ing event that may well involve some drink­ing. What’s worse, it’s the the sort of thing atten­ded by the Boys Your Moth­er Warned You About and the Girls Your Fath­er Snuck Looks At When He Thought Your Moth­er Would­n’t See.

Not that we want you to wear yourselves out before the T4WAs on Thursday, but we thought it would be only fair to tell you that Enjoy Gal­lery is hav­ing a cut-price art bash in time for Christ­mas. 

One hun­dred and twenty five dol­lars or less for a nice piece of what you fancy at the annu­al Enjoy gal­lery art sale, fol­lowed by the “unof­fi­cial Wel­ling­ton X‑mas ART BASH”: X‑mas party at Watusi.

What: Enjoy gal­lery’s annu­al art sale Buy Enjoy (details of artists on the face­book invite)
When: Tues­day 15 Decem­ber from 6.00pm
Where:  Enjoy Gal­lery on Cuba (map) and after party at Watusi (map)