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 […]