Places we like to shop & watch outrageous music videos – The Guava Tree
This lunchtime I spent a pleasant 20 minutes or so in a new store called The Guava Tree. Not normally a place frequented by Wellingtonistas, but my interest was piqued by the vast plasma screen observable through the shop window playing what appeared to Bollywood movies. I’ve always wanted to see a Bollywood movie. They […]
Whale tail no fluke
Terrible headline pun lifted directly from the Hutt News, which this week reveals more about the man behind the fake whale tail that is currently flipping and flapping amonsts the waves in Wellington Harbour. Turns out Phillip Waddington, a noted local potrait artist, created the fake tail (made of bamboo, inner tubes and black PVC) […]
Watch Sputnik Run.
You may have seen this on TV1 news last night. Local woman stalks crocodile… When the large box arrived at the office for Bindi, we were intrigued… not least because she wasn’t in the office for a few days & we wondered if maybe we should open it & save it from perishing… on the […]
Geckos and skinks
The Wellingtonista has been going for a while now, yet there does not seem to be any mention of that unique Wellington institution, the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, a large fenced-off and predator-free “island” in a valley beside Karori. We must apologise for this lapse. And make up for it by suggesting an outing this weekend. […]
Hello NZ Girls!
We heard you might be dropping by… and in your honour, we’d like to offer you the chance to WIN A DATE WITH ORLANDO BLOOM* Hope you find something of interest here, we’ll endeavour to target your particular demographic (reliably informed: female, 18-25 years) over the next say… until we get bored with it. In […]
Public Address | Club Politique | Burying One’s Feet
I’m sure Che Tibby won’t mind, but this is one of the finest love letters to Wellington I have ever read. Public Address | Club Politique – Burying One’s Feet
A Whale of a Tale
One of the more bizarre bits of news we’ve seen around the place recently was the Case of the Fake Whale Tail in Wellington Harbour. Several people spotted what they thought was a windsurfer in distress off the Petone beach, so a launch was sent out to make a rescue. Upon arriving at the scene, […]
Botanic Gardens’ Playground Closed…
A notice was dropped in our letterbox the other day informing us that the playground in the gardens would be closed for the next 3 weeks or so, while 6 ancient pines were removed. The council stated that it regretted the need to remove these trees as they were much loved, especially the magnificent specimen […]
Links for Monday, 15 August 2005
Tom Beard at WellUrban continues his investigations into finding single men in Wellington. This time it’s Toyboys & Sugar Daddies. The billboard space near the corner of Cuba and Ghuznee has been getting a lot of comment around the place, with both a ‘controversial’ Hell Pizza ad featuring a demonic George Bush, and an ‘illegal‘ […]
Film Society for August
Apologies, a bit slow on film society news this month… I’m posting this too late to cover Place Vendome, but what remains is well worth seeing. JEANNE AND THE PERFECT GUY (1998). At first glance, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau’s film appears to be a relatively traditional French melodrama about AIDS – well acted and […]