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).