The Wellingtonista

April 25, 2007

WBL Round 1: the results

So we met, we bowled, great epic bat­tles were fought, and drink­ing was the win­ner on the day. And also Xero. Here’s the league points so far.

  Played Won Drawn Drink bonus Points Bonus Total
Bowl­ing­ton­ista 1 0 0 1 0 1
Bowl­tron 1 1 0 1 0 5
Clemenger 1 1 0 1 0 5
Click­suite 1 0 0 1 0 1
Sil­ver­stripe 1 0 0 1 0 1
Xero 1 1 0 1 1 6

Team bowl­ing scores are after the jump.

Joanna
Events / Sport / Wellingtonista
6 Comments
April 21, 2007

When you come back home

OK Road, 8 March 2007 7:18:29amSome­times there comes a time when you must leave this town, your town for a break — it could be a hol­i­day; it could be your OE; it could be that career move; it could be to do a geo­graph­i­cal and just get away.

What’s that? Your favourite barista moved to West­port, and you had to fol­low? (Yeah, OK. There’s always an excuse.) But soon­er or lat­er, you must come back. And when you do there is always a moment when you know you are home.

Here’s one such:

Com­ing down the Ngau­ran­ga Gorge there’s that long sweep­ing curve where the Hutt and Porirua motor­ways meet. Look up from the road and you’ll see Welling­ton arrayed in full panoply before you. There are our small clus­ter of tall build­ings stand­ing proud, feet in the sea and backs to the hills. There are the hills them­selves, steeply car­pet­ed with hous­es in defi­ance of tec­ton­ics and plain good sense, look­ing on to and out to the sea. There is the bowl of the har­bour, rimmed with bush and filled with reflect­ed sky. There is the sky, most­ly blue, some­times grey, often set with clouds scud­ding.

There it is. Our town. Where you live. Where I live.

Where is this moment for you?

Is it, as the Front Lawn once had it, fly­ing over­head?

over Welling­ton Har­bour
Ori­en­tal Bay is stand­ing there in the sun­light

Is it that first sip of Mojo or Fuel?

Is it Courte­nay Place at the week­end?

Where? What? With whom? Com­ment, zoomin, or blog away!

Alan
Miscellaneous
20 Comments
April 19, 2007

The Wellingtonista Bowling League Draw

It gives us tremen­dous plea­sure to announce the draw of our Bowl­ing League. Brave (but fool­ish for think­ing they could pos­si­bly beat us) teams from Xero, Sil­ver­stripe, Click Suite, Clemenger BBDO and the fan­tas­ti­cal­ly named Bowl­tron will be tak­ing part and there­fore get mas­sive kar­ma points.

SEE THE FULL DRAW HERE.

Round 1 will be Tues­day 24th at 8pm at The Lanes on Wake­field St.

The rules on the night are as fol­lows:

  • If at the end of the game your team’s sum total (total of all four play­ers) is high­er than your oppo­si­tion’s then you get four com­pe­ti­tion points.
  • If your team con­sumes more than four alco­holic bev­er­ages (or aver­ages more than one per play­er) you get a bonus com­pe­ti­tion point
  • The team with the high­est sum total on the night gets an extra bonus point.

So if you booze up and roll like a god your team could come away with 6 points.

Expect to see many peo­ple at Clemenger cry­ing on Wednes­day morn­ing after the Bowl­ing­ton­ista give them the thrash­ing of their lives. Hur­rah!

Joanna
Events / Wellingtonista
20 Comments
April 18, 2007

Flight of the Conchords: Jenni

Near­ly for­got! Flight of the Con­chords Wednes­day!

“What a hilar­i­ous mis­un­der­stand­ing!”

noizyboy
Comedy
2 Comments
April 18, 2007

Carnage on the corner

Fan­cy a lit­tle acci­dent spot­ting while you enjoy a nice piz­za? Word on the street is that the best seat in town is at Sco­pa.

Michael Gregg com­ments:

Some­one will be injured on the Ghuznee/Cuba Cor­ner soon. Spend ten min­utes in Sco­pa and watch the inter­sec­tion to see for your­self.

Pedes­tri­ans cross­ing Ghuznee Street are strug­gling with the new two-way traf­fic flow­ing through Ghuznee. There is no reminder to look both ways and reg­u­lars are falling back into old habits, glanc­ing and run­ning. Even worse, the new traf­fic lights bring traf­fic out of Cuba at the same time as the pedes­tri­an sig­nals engage, mean­ing the inter­sec­tion brings impa­tient dri­vers and bustling, rush­ing walk­ers togeth­er. As the weath­er dete­ri­o­rates, I’m wor­ried that some­one might get hit.

The solu­tion:

  1. Remove the chains and allow pedes­tri­ans to cross diag­o­nal­ly and on both sides of Cuba Street halt­ing all vehi­cle traf­fic for this peri­od. This will quick­ly clear the back­log of walk­ers by allow­ing more room to cross, plus take them off the street when the cars get their right of way.
  2. Install clear sig­nage at eye height and on the curb.
  3. Mark the Ghuznee east inter­sec­tion clear­ly with a no-left turn arrow.
  4. Mark the Cuba inter­sec­tion with left and right lanes to direct turn­ing traf­fic.
  5. Put two way arrows on the Ghuznee road­way (like we do for tourists on SH1) for both entry/exits into this inter­sec­tion

How are you enjoy­ing the two way traf­fic on Ghuznee?

I love it, but then my favourite mem­o­ries are of cars going the wrong way down Molesworth St. Such a bliss­ful spec­ta­tor sport.

Martha Craig
Urban Issues
9 Comments
April 17, 2007

3rd Annual NZ Comics Weekend

For the third year in a row, the New Zealand Comics Week­end is up and run­ning from at Graph­ic Com­ic Shop (106 Cuba Street), and the South­ern Cross Gar­den Bar (39 Abel Smith Street, Welling­ton.)

This annu­al fes­ti­val of inde­pen­dent comics runs along­side the Armaged­don Pulp Cul­ture Expo in order to show­case and high­light the under­ground tal­ents in New Zealand Comics.

More info here at Feel­ing Great.

stephen clover
Events
0 Comment
April 17, 2007

A Mighty Mighty Mighty Weekend

Not only is The Mighty Mighty one of our favourite bars, what with its endear­ing­ly gauché fit out and enter­tain­ing­ly gauché barstaff and wot-not, but this week­end they host two very excit­ing (and very dif­fer­ent!) gigs.

Mëstar are tour­ing their recent album Shut The Squiz­wot Fac­to­ries Down and on Fri­day night (the 20th) they play at Mighty Mighty with Hot Swiss Mis­tress:

(Sor­ry for the stink pho­to of the gig poster but it was the best I could do with my phone-cam­era on the way to work this morn­ing.)

And then, on Sat­ur­day night (the 21st), at the start­ing time of 9pm is the avant-punk the­atrics of Mr. Ster­ile Assem­bly, with Xenu and Thee Strapons:

stephen clover
Music
4 Comments
April 14, 2007

Alt.country at the Bathhouse

Amer­i­can alt.country leg­ends Richard Buck­n­er and Edith Frost are play­ing togeth­er at the San Fran­cis­co Bath­house on Wednes­day night.

There are three kinds of Amer­i­can folk artist: those who sit, con­tent­ed, on a back porch con­tem­plat­ing Amer­i­ca’s land­scape and ways; those for whom its land­scape and ways are some­thing to stand against or move bold­ly through; and those whose Amer­i­ca is a shad­owy, impres­sion­is­tic place that moves inside of them. This [lat­ter] is the area that the som­bre-voiced Richard Buck­n­er has been explor­ing since 1984 –(Sylvie Sim­mons; The Guardian, 2004)

stephen clover
Events / Music
1 Comment
April 14, 2007

Beautiful Mash

We all know that in Welling­ton, every­one and their dogs are already busy mak­ing films of some descrip­tion already, but for any aspir­ing film-mak­ers not cur­rent­ly up to their eye­balls in dig­i­tal video, here’s your chance. LOOP Record­ings want you to make a video for Adi Dick­’s song “Beau­ti­ful View”.

Adi Dick video promotion

They’re pro­vid­ing you with near­ly a Giga­byte of green-screen footage of the singer, then hand­ing it over to you to mash it up with your own footage or ani­ma­tion to cre­ate your inter­pre­ta­tion of the song. You have until the 20th of May.

Tom
Music / Television
0 Comment
April 13, 2007

What up, weekend?

Want­i­ng to stalk us this week­end, and/or find some­thing for your­self to do? Here are our sug­ges­tions:

Joanna
Events
1 Comment