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Zombie Prom III: Dress To Distress

The grave­yard’s alive and danc­ing.….

Spacething presents the third annu­al Zom­bie Prom at Hap­py (cnr Tory and Vivian Sts.) On Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 10th open the crypt door and shake your dead moves to fleshed-out tunes.

Zom­bie Prom III fea­tures live dead music by Voodoo Sav­age and His Sav­ages, Knife Fight, The Death-Rays, New­town, The Ghastlies, Mar­ket Val­ue and DJ Bride of Pin­bot, as well as the crown­ing of the best-dressed Zom­bie King and Queen of the Prom with prizes galore gore!

Hap­py. Fri­day 10/10/08, 8:00pm.
Tick­ets $10

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What were they thinking? (#45587 in a series)

We all know that the only good part of the Cap­i­tal Times is the film reviews, but this week, it’s also fun to play “what exact­ly is their sub edi­tor smok­ing?”.

Exhib­it A: a sto­ry about chore­o­g­ra­ph­er Michael Par­menter, diag­nosed with HIV near­ly 20 years ago,titled “Still peg­ging away”. Nice work.

Exhib­it B: a piece about the Wors­er Bay School cel­e­brat­ing Dance Your Socks Off unof­fi­cial­ly. The title? “Kids do it bet­ter”. Umm.….…

’tis the season!

… and if you like movies, then why not come along to Wednes­day nights at the Film Archive and check out the sea­son of films that the Welling­ton­ista fought over demo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly chose from the Archive’s col­lec­tion of NZ fea­tures — all 6 movies are rough­ly relat­ed to, shot or set in our fair city.

7pm Wednes­days from tonight until the 5th Novem­ber, tick­ets are $8 on the door (or $6 con­ces­sion), and if you’re over 18 you get a free glass of wine with your tick­et pur­chase. Because we like wine with our movies. ‘Nuff said!
Tonight’s movie is I’ll Make You Hap­py… the rest of the sea­son’s details are after the jump.

If you want 24 hours of madness, you’ve gotta pay for it!

There’s a par­tic­u­lar kind of per­son who likes to watch movies for 24 hours in a row, and it’s quite like­ly that you’re that per­son. Luck­i­ly for you, Ant Timp­son puts on a fes­ti­val to pro­vide you with exact­ly what you need. Unluck­i­ly for him, and ulti­mate­ly for you, tick­ets for the Welling­ton event aren’t sell­ing as well as they should, so unless you hur­ry up and buy your tick­ets for the Decem­ber 13 event now from Tick­etek, it may not hap­pen at all! Full email after the jump.

Montana World of Wearable Art: Get your barbed-wire frock on!

This week should see an influx of vis­i­tors in town to WOW and be WOWed at the Mon­tana Wear­able Arts Awards being held at TSB Are­na from the 22nd of Sep­tem­ber until the 5th of Octo­ber.

The show was Nel­son’s baby for 16 years but shift­ed to Welling­ton in 2005 because, accord­ing to WOW founder Suzie Mon­crieff, “We knew we need­ed to be in a city with more pro­duc­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties, audi­ences, cor­po­rate part­ners and an inter­na­tion­al air­port.”

WBL 2008 Round One: Results and a new table

So much love to every­one who showed up last night (and espe­cial­ly to X who bowled for the Bowl­ing­ton­ista as we were a mem­ber down).

The Fur­ry Fer­al Black Balls of Fury from Click­suite (bid on their auc­tions!) end­ed up beat­ing the Bowl­ing­ton­ista by just a cou­ple of points at 462 vs. 281, and the Pur­ple Cobras took the Mighty Boost 402 vs. 338. The league point for top score obvi­ous­ly went to the Fer­als, and although the Pur­ple Cobras had sash­es, in the end the Fer­als won best dressed too, for their ties and one play­er’s gold satin shirt. Xero were on their by-week, and as I had­n’t decid­ed until now that you can get a league point in your by-week by some mem­ber of your team show­ing up to hang out with the oth­er bowlers, they’re cur­rent­ly at the bot­tom of the league, but I’m sure they’ll pick up next week when the extra league bonus point will be for the sin­gle fastest bowl on the night.

So this is how things stand at the moment, point­wise:
Bowl­ing­ton­ista:2
Fur­ry Fer­al Black Balls of Fury: 8
The Mighty Boost:2
Pur­ple Cobras:6
Xero: 0

After the jump, there’s a new table of games, since Xero have joined, includ­ing by-weeks, in which you’re encour­aged to exper­i­ment with your sex­u­al­i­ty, or come along to cheer for the oth­er teams.

Bare at Downstage — special offer

Nip in quick for one of those rare Down­stage-Welling­ton­ista spe­cials. The 10th Anniver­sary sea­son of Toa Fraser’s Bare is in Welling­ton for a very short time and Welling­ton­ista read­ers can go tonight for a dis­count some­where between 100% and 25% (depend­ing on how quick off the mark you are). As time is short, it’s a phone offer: The first two callers to (04) 801 6946 are eli­gi­ble for a free dou­ble-pass to tonight’s per­for­mance, the next two callers can get two-for-the-price-of-one and the next two callers can get a fourth tick­et free if they buy three. Bare stars Cur­tis Vow­ell and Mor­gana O’Reil­ly and this pro­duc­tion was first per­formed at Auck­land’s Silo The­atre last year. The orig­i­nal pro­duc­tion of Bare in 1998, launched the careers of Toa Fras­er and Made­line Sami and won the Best New Play and Best New Play­wright Awards at the Chap­man Tripps. More infor­ma­tion can be found here.

Spring Festival at the Botanic Gardens

Tulips, tours, art, “Crafty Fifi”, the leg­endary Fairy Tri­na and more at this year’s Spring Fes­ti­val in the Botan­ic Gar­dens. Run­ning from 28 Sep­tem­ber until 12 Octo­ber. I can con­firm that the recent (and typ­i­cal for this time of year) gales have not denud­ed the tulip gar­dens & so weath­er per­mit­ting, Tulip Sun­day on the first day of the Fes­ti­val, should be a beau­ti­ful way to spend an hour or two com­muning with nature. Accord­ing to the offi­cial pro­gramme:

Spring Fes­ti­val is the time to rev­el in the glo­ri­ous riot of spring flower colour and fra­grance at the Welling­ton Botan­ic Gar­den.

Spring Fes­ti­val is proud­ly brought to you by Welling­ton City Coun­cil, with gen­er­ous sup­port from the New Zealand Com­mu­ni­ty Trust and the Welling­ton Cable Car.

Steakout

Look­ing for a good steak in Welling­ton? A week or so ago this Welling­ton­ista was & after con­sult­ing my col­leagues, I can report back on two of the finest steaks I have tast­ed in this city (yes, two).

First up, it was one of those notable occa­sions (although not a sig­nif­i­cant one) that prompts thoughts of a nice lunch and/or din­ner.

First off lunch:

I had expressed to my loved ones, a par­tic­u­lar desire to sam­ple either a great steak, or a great cas­soulet.

So imag­ine my delight on arriv­ing at Copi­ta to find they had “Fil­let steak on a bed of Cas­soulet”! It was meant to be obvi­ous­ly.

It was love­ly, as was the squid entree.

Copi­ta itself was quite under­pa­tro­n­ised that day, but there was some sport to be had lis­ten­ing to a very loud par­ty con­sist­ing of two old­er gen­tle­men lunch­ing with two much younger women. Because they were so loud we soon ascer­tained the gen­tle­men were wine­mak­ers from the Hawkes Bay. It was­n’t obvi­ous who the women were, but we decid­ed that if the women paid, they were prob­a­bly wine dis­tri­b­u­tion reps, and if the men paid, hook­ers. As it hap­pens, we left before them so we’ll nev­er know!

And onto din­ner:

We decid­ed to take the tip from the team & try the Steak Frites at Le Met­ro­pol­i­tain in Cuba St. This was served with a red wine & bone mar­row sauce & we accom­pa­nied it with a green sal­ad & copi­ous glass­es of a French wine whose name I can’t recall.

And once again, I can rec­om­mend a win­ner!

Le Met­ro­pol­i­tain on this evening was well patro­n­ised but not packed, in addi­tion, it’s a love­ly lit­tle spot to watch passers by from. The staff were atten­tive & infor­ma­tive, the menu offered plen­ty of vari­ety & the evening was a rous­ing suc­cess.

I’m hap­py to take any oth­er decent steak rec­om­men­da­tions for next year, in the com­ments.

In the Museum of Curious Intent

When Arlo Edwards approached an art deal­er with his work at the age of eigh­teen, the deal­er told him to “come back in 10 years, and then maybe we’ll look at your work”.

Not con­tent with such a response, Arlo embarked on a some­what unortho­dox cura­to­r­i­al career, and has been putting on exhi­bi­tions when and wher­ev­er he could for more than a decade.

Toi Pōneke Gallery is the next venue for one of his projects, an exhi­bi­tion of work by 10 local estab­lished and emerg­ing artists. The show, enti­tled In the Muse­um of Curi­ous Intent, includes work by Chris Lundquist, Free­man White, William Hed­ley, James Fly­nn, Jay­mi Biz­zo Lawrence, Roger Mor­ris, Mar­i­anne Mug­geridge, Gareth Moon, Rupert Ever­est and some of Arlo’s own work.

In the Muse­um of Curi­ous Intent opens at 6.30pm on Fri­day 26 Sep­tem­ber and runs until 25 Octo­ber at Toi Pōneke Gallery, 61 — 63 Abel Smith Street.

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