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 […]