Wellington v. Baku
Tom over at WellUrban has been leading the campaign to get Wellington added to the excellent GridSkipper site (an online urban travel guide which is part of the same online blog empire that includes Gawker, Defamer and Gizmodo, amongst others). As such, Wellington is now in competition with Baku – capital of Azerbaijan – for […]
Solo 22 – Voyages
Of course, we here at the Wellingtonista would never blow our own trumpets, but we’re happy to blow our families’ – in a non Southland kind of way, of course – so we’re pleased to tell you about the new exhibition on at the Academy Gallery called Solo 22. There’s paintings and sculptures by other […]
A natural love
Dear fellow Wellingtonistas and the good people of Wellington in general, If the weather is as gorgeous tomorrow as it is today, you must do what I did at lunchtime today – get golden crisp fish’n chips from Thorndon Fish’n Chips (don’t let the name fool you, it’s next to A-Mart and across the road […]
Something 4 the weekend
If you’ve become all festivalled out recently, or, like this Wellingtonista seem to find the whole thing sliding by you without seeming to make any impact despite best intentions otherwise, then take heart: life does continue elsewhere. For example, this weekend, the suburban environmentalist can get their car’s emissions checked at: […] the Westpac Stadium […]
You know you’re from…
Jimmy Jangles has produced a handy guide to knowing which part the Greater Wellington region you’re from… You know you’re from Wellington when… You know you’re from The Hutt when… You know you’re from Porirua when… Particularly like the Wellington trait of being able to “…detect 27 different shades of black suit.” UPDATE! Old news […]
So here’s our man again…
So here’s our man again. This time I have a bit more information. His name is India Bharti (sounds suspiciously like Doderiol Fharti to me), and he is, without doubt the very best Bhartiphone player I have ever heard! No kidding. Of course, he is also the only Bhartiphone player I have ever heard, but […]
Busking 2006
I guess it’s the Fringe, or the Festival itself that brings these guys here, but this particular busker is well worth a look at. Today he was in Manner’s Mall. I could hear him a block or so away & the sound he was producing made me wonder if one of the theremins was in […]
Wellington Airport highlights package
For those of you who haven’t experienced the ‘thrill’ of landing at or taking off from Wellington Airport when there’s a decent breeze blowing, the video below will give you an idea of what to expect. Which is terror. Warning, video has annoying, irrelevant bad electronica soundtrack – we advise speakers off for this one.
lunchtime confrontation
We will admit it was the mention of a freely downloadable podcast commentary in this week’s Listener that drew us in. Some of us Wellingtonistas are more geeky than others. But given what seems to be the theme of the City Gallery‘s latest exhibition, Australian artist Patricia Piccanini‘s In Another Life (19 February to 11 […]