Cast your vote for SunnyO!

There’s only a couple of days left in the vot­ing for the Annu­al Web­log Awards, and Wel­ling­tonista’s res­id­ent life­style block expert – Llew of SunnyO – is cur­rently in Bronze Medal pos­i­tion with a healthy 200 or so votes. This already sur­passes the effort of our Pub­­l­ish­er-in-Chief – Nat­alie Biz – who notched up a […]

Red Carpet Webcam

If you can­’t make it down to the King Kong Red Car­pet extra­vag­anza this after­noon, keep in mind that the Cour­tenay Place traffic web­cam has an excel­lent view of the hap­pen­ings. (Note: requires a plug-in, IE seems to auto-install it, Fire­fox does­n’t). UPDATE: More stream­ing video options here.

The Dockside Christmas Menu

This par­tic­u­lar Wel­ling­tonista was lucky enough to be invited to an asso­ci­ate’s Christ­mas lunch at the Dock­side. It’d been a while since we’d been there, and last time it was a wintry even­ing & we huddled some­where upstairs. Yes­ter­day how­ever, was as trop­ic­al as it comes & we were delighted to dis­cov­er that our table […]

King Kong Premiere Red Carpet Screening looms

Well, the weath­er fore­cast does­n’t look too flash – “Often cloudy, odd shower. Humid with light winds” – but we sus­pect that won’t stop thou­sands of people head­ing down to Cour­tenay Place tomor­row after­noon (Wed 14 Dec) for the offi­cial NZ premiere red car­pet screen­ing of King Kong. A few roads in the vicin­ity are […]

What is this Tunnel for?

Ben over at ben.run is intrigued by the above tun­nel, loc­ated in the Ngaio gorge val­ley… It looks old, how­ever there is a pipe in it that appears to be still con­nec­ted. If there is a pipe in the tun­nel, then it must have anoth­er end, rather than just a bor­ough in the hill. So […]

Being part of the community

It’s all very good and well read­ing Wel­ling­tonista every day, and think­ing to your­self “hur­rah, I am an act­ive part of Wel­ling­ton! I am hip and young and down with the kids” – but what have you done for the com­munity lately? I’m not talk­ing about giv­ing to char­ity, or coach­ing a sports team, or […]

So, how about that Cricket?

So, it’s lightly drizz­ling up here at Wel­ling­tonista Towers at present, which is just a short walk from the Sta­di­um, where today’s One Day Inter­na­tion­al (or Oh Dee Eye as they seem to have taken to call­ing this form of the game on the telly) between the NZ Black Caps and the Aus­trali­an, er, Baggy […]

Hataitai: All your food are belong to us

Have you ever wanted to just eat your way around a sub­urb? No? Well, we here at Wel­ling­tonista have, and we figured it would make sense to start with Hataitai. After all, who does­n’t love Hataitai? So here’s what you can get to eat:

Final Wellington Film Society Update for the Year

Thanks to Dav­id Lind­say, WFS Pres­id­ent, for send­ing these notices through­out the year. Poster Sale How many times, when you have been to the Wel­ling­ton Film Fest­iv­al, have you wished you could have one of the posters that were on dis­play in the foy­ers – even some of those that were moun­ted on card. Well […]

Links for Thursday, 24 November 2005

Drunks on the streets of Wel­ling­ton? Maybe they’re just act­ing out Radi­o­head videos. Know your dress code for some of the bars around Wel­ling­ton. (Hint: a Cher sing­let, how­ever styl­ish, won’t go down well at Boo­gie Won­der­land.) UDPATE: Wel­lUrb­an has cast his dis­cern­ing stat­ist­ic­al eye over the dress codes of the vari­ous estab­lish­ments men­tioned, and […]