And something else tonight worth a mention

The Cos­bys are Auck­land’s undis­put­ed kings of North­ern Soul — a hyper­charged R&B revue thun­der­ing through uptown, down­town, deep soul, dance and bal­lad sounds, and most impor­tant­ly, doing it with impec­ca­ble style.

Appar­ent­ly dis­sat­is­fied with the groove­less, under­sexed state of mod­ern rock­’n’roll, The Cos­bys found the answer by smash­ing togeth­er four-on-the-floor Motown rhythms with a two-fist­ed Stax-style horn sec­tion and a singer — “Papa” Craw­dad­dy — who is so damn good he made James Brown just give up and die.

So cut loose, ladies and gen­tle­men — shake those hips, jive with the Hot Cos­by Horns, be touched by “Papa”. Do the jerk, watch them work, do the Mashed Pota­to, do the Alli­ga­tor. And do it on Cos­by Street, or even bet­ter — tonight (Fri­day 18th April) at Mighty Mighty.

10pm — $5 — good times

Web­site here

RASSLIN!

Sure, it’s a bit late notice, but hey, what are you doing tonight? Don’t do that. Instead, you should come to THE RASSLIN! Doors at Welling­ton High open at 6.45pm for a 7.30pm start, but if you’re a first time goer and you need a sup­port group, meet us at the South­ern Cross from 5.30 for some stiff­en­ing drinks first. We’ll be the loud group wear­ing lots of pur­ple in sup­port for Pur­ple Haze, “New Zealand’s Sex­ist Masked Man” ™. Seri­ous­ly, I’m sure you don’t believe me, but wrestling is quite pos­si­bly the most awe­some thing ever. Read my account of the last time I went if you need fur­ther con­vinc­ing!

Congestion Charges — what do you think?

The Welling­ton Region­al Coun­cil is con­sid­er­ing charg­ing all motorists who enter or leave Welling­ton dur­ing “rush hour”, a con­ges­tion fee.

The mon­ey raised will go towards improv­ing the region’s bus­es and trains.

How­ev­er, May­or Ker­ry Pren­der­gast is not keen on the idea at all. We’ll spec­u­late here, that if the mon­ey raised was pro­posed for build­ing a link road between Koroko­ro & Tawa… she & the two motorists who would reg­u­lar­ly use it, might be more favourable to the sug­ges­tion.

Full sto­ry here.

Over at Kiwiblog, DPF sug­gests that rev­enue should be used for oth­er pur­pos­es than mere­ly pub­lic trans­port, such as improv­ing the Bypass. If any­one would like to com­ment about pos­si­ble Bypass improve­ments, feel free.

Most of the Welling­ton­ista walk, bus or Seg­way to & from the office & so we’ll not be affect­ed, but how about you tell us what you think of the idea in the com­ments?

Three equations

3C = sausage­fest

El Horno = El Porno (that’s a hot bit of ladylove in the mur­al)

Con­fit duck rice­burg­er at Chilli Jam = (nom)³

Life in the City

I know we all love trol­ley bus­es (and can’t wait for the flash new three-axle job­bies to start rip­ping it up along Kent Ter­race) but this must have been hor­ren­dous to be involved in at 5.15 yes­ter­day after­noon. And deeply amus­ing for those of NOT involved, of course.

The bus slipped off its wire (not unusu­al) and then slid back so the pole-thingy got caught in the wires. Could­n’t go for­wards (no pow­er), could­n’t drift fur­ther back with­out rip­ping the wires apart. And right, slam bang in the mid­dle of Cam­bridge Ter­race dur­ing after­noon rush hour, dis­abling all the trol­ley bus­es behind in the process. Leg­end.

[Pho­to tak­en from the Han­nah Play­house. Click for a larg­er ver­sion.]

The secret of your success.

Dress for Suc­cess Welling­ton Autumn Cloth­ing Sale

On this week »> Wed 16 & Thu 17, 11.30am — 6pm each day

Hel­lo fel­low bar­gain hunters,

This week is the Dress for Suc­cess Welling­ton Autumn Cloth­ing Sale. If you fan­cy your­self in Karen Walk­er but think you can’t afford it — Dress for Suc­cess Welling­ton has the answer!

We have some amaz­ing labels for sale at rock-bot­tom prices. You and your mates can scoop up bar­gains from design­ers includ­ing Karen Walk­er, Trelise Coop­er, Zambe­si, Wal­lace Rose, Veron­i­ca Maine, World and even Ver­sace. Of course there will also be lots of chain-store sta­ples that your wardrobe can’t do with­out!

Noth­ing is above $50, with most items as low as $5 for tops, $10 for skirts and suits at around $25.

The sale helps us clear out items that are not suit­able as inter­view or work wear, and clears space for incom­ing win­ter stock. It also helps raise cash so we can con­tin­ue to pro­vide our much-need­ed ser­vice.

The sale is open to you — my friends, also to our clients, client refer­ral agen­cies and the gen­er­al pub­lic – be in ear­ly to catch a bar­gain from our packed racks! The sale is held at the Dress for Suc­cess Welling­ton Office and Show­room, Ground Floor, 84 Willis Street, Welling­ton.

Please note, we don’t have an eft­pos facil­i­ty, we will be accept­ing cash or cheque sales only.

Please also, pass on the word — spread it round!

Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO!

Super­hero comics fans should press their best uni­tards this week in prepa­ra­tion for Armaged­don, and like­wise indie and under­ground comics fans should pull out their copies of Hicksville for sign­ing, as the NZ Comix Week­end is set­ting up shop on the 19th-20th April at the South­ern Cross, Graph­ic and Spacething.

There are talks, jams, stalls, sem­i­nars and exhi­bi­tions — pro­vid­ing a home­grown coun­ter­point to the big bud­get pulp cul­ture-fest over at the TSB Are­na (although some of the Comix Week­end artists are also rep­re­sent­ed at Armaged­don)
Details and links after the jump…

Council e‑Petitions

For those who weren’t aware of it, the Coun­cil has a nice online ser­vice that allows peo­ple to “peti­tion the Welling­ton City Coun­cil, via the inter­net, on mat­ters rel­e­vant to the Coun­cil’s busi­ness”.

Any­one can cre­ate one, so, if there’s some­thing bug­ging you that you think the coun­cil should be look­ing into, just go right ahead. (Remem­ber though, if it’s some­thing that needs fix­ing as opposed to some more sub­stan­tial infra­struc­tur­al prob­lem, just use their Fix It ser­vice).

A major­i­ty of the cur­rent peti­tions cov­er one of Welling­ton­ista’s favourite top­ics, name­ly urban trans­port (they’re remov­ing cycle lanes!?), so, if you’d like to add your weight to those issues, or raise one of your own, rock on over and have your say.

(Note: this ser­vice is bought to you by the excel­lent­ly enti­tled ‘Demo­c­ra­t­ic Ser­vices’ coun­cil depart­ment).