Lachii @ Paramount: 27 November

One for all you film and music enthu­si­asts out there (and more espe­cially if you’re both): Lachii – the single-shot film by Ed Dav­is with accom­pa­ny­ing live music by HDU’s Tristan Dinge­mans (aka Kahu) – is hav­ing a pub­lic screen­ing at the Para­mount this Sunday night (Novem­ber 27) at 9:30pm ($15/$10). From the blurb… Lachii […]

Checkmate

A recently received email from one of the bet­ter chess play­ers in the region: This even­ing (22 Novem­ber) start­ing at 6pm in the Cent­ral Lib­rary there will be a pub­lic spec­tacle. 30 of the strongest Chess play­ers in the Wel­ling­ton region face sim­ul­tan­eous exe­cu­tion at the hands of former World Cham­pi­on­ship Can­did­ate, Nigel Short. This […]

Wellington Music Week: 21–27 November

Wel­ling­ton Music Week gets under way next Monday (21 Nov), with a raft of sem­inars, gigs and events over the course of the week. If you’re look­ing for one good big night out, then the Show­case gig on Thursday (24 Nov) looks the go, with OdESSA, Charlie Ash, Autumn Stone, Zirkus, Mon Ami and the […]

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Links for Wednesday, 16 November 2005

New Mys­tery Bar action over at Well Urb­an Is watch­ing Par­lia­ment in action the new blog­ging spec­tat­or sport? Stan­ley Climb­fall (via Gman inc.), Michael of Michael’s World and Dav­id Far­rar have been watch­ing the open­ing exchanges of the new Par­lia­ment­ary ses­sion. The 2005 Chap­man Tripp Theatre Award nom­in­ees have been announced. Good to see the […]

F69 – photos galore

There’s some great snaps of the F69 scut­tling over in The Sink­ing of the Wel­ling­ton flickr photo pool, like this one from Pieter Pieterse. Thank­fully this par­tic­u­lar Wel­ling­tonista lives just around the corner from the Bay, so did­n’t have to brave the heavy traffic and some­times incom­pre­hens­ively incon­sid­er­ate park­ing of the many people who had […]

First Pohutukawa Flowers of 2005

As spot­ted on the 12th of Novem­ber in the grounds of the St Hilda’s Anglic­an Church, on the corner of The Parade and Hum­ber Streets in Island Bay. Any claims from any­one on an early flower­ing?

F69 sinking postponed all go!

It’s all on. The wind speeds giv­en in the mar­ine fore­cast are still vaguely bor­der-line, but it’s nice and sunny, and the swell isn’t too big, so, why not? Indeed – too windy, so post­poned until tomor­row: 3pm, Sunday 13th Novem­ber. Check the offi­cial site for details.

F69 scheduled to go down this weekend

Yes indeed, unless the wind gets up too much, this Sat­urday (12 Nov) at 3pm, the ex-Frig­ate F69-Wel­ling­ton is going to be scuttled off the south coast, between Island and Houghton Bays (just to the East of Tapu Ter­anga – the island of Island Bay). There’s prob­ably going to be a heap of people going […]

Of Importance to the Paramount?

I just wanted to mangle that last title sorry. but if Play­sta­tion 3 comes with a free pop­corn maker, I’ll wager that it’s all over.… …The cinema industry has been whinging at the down­turn in cinema tick­et sales for the last few years, and the advent of High Defin­i­tion TV & DVD isn’t going to […]