Psst… wanna be a movie star?

48 Hours – Officially NZ’s largest film competition. Hundreds of teams of film-makers kick off tonight all around the country & finish on Sunday night. Damian Christie suggests “if you’re approached by a bedraggled film crew (the chances are high, there’s a couple of hundred teams around the country), be nice to them, do what […]

The Wellington Town Hall

Because the hip young team members go there for things like Nick Cave concerts, and the team members who are in the family way go there to see The Wiggles, we thought it was about time that Wellingtonist paid a small tribute to the lovely venue that is The Wellington Town Hall. Opened on December […]

Hurricanes down amongst the one-eye’d

If you’re a rugby fan you’ll know that the Hurricanes are already through to a semi-final to be played at either Christchurch or Sydney depending upon how the weekend pans out. A win over the Crusaders this weekend would have a huge psychological advantage at this semi-final To ensure some balance to the unbiased cheering […]

Be The Difference: We believe in recycling

The Wellingtonist office (penthouse, with panoramic harbour views, and a helipad to which James & Natalie get dropped off from their weekly commute from Barbados… the rest of us park our matching porsches in the subterranean carpark downstairs…) received this email today. It said to pass it on… and since we think it’s a worthy […]

The Film Festival that lasts all year long…

We thought we’d be the first to post here actually. That’s “we” because James has given strict instructions that there is no “I” in “Wellingtonist”. Um… possibly he said it “starts with “we””. But anyway, it’s clear already who the team players are, eh? So we had this epiphany in the bath last night. (By […]

The Wiggles; and an introduction

Hello. I’m Alan. You may remember me from such blogs as half-pie. No? Oh. James has added me to the roster of contributors, for which I am very flattered. I’m still figuring out what I could possibly relate about this fine city of ours that could be relevant and timely. And indeed, I was going […]

Flash Harry and OdESSA

As we’ve mentioned elsewhere, Flash Harry is without a doubt among our absolute all-time favourite Wellington acts. He’s only done a handful of shows in Wellington, let’s see… Cuba St Carnival last year – great fun!, a show at the Massey Bar – somewhat drunken on our part, and at the tsunami appeal gig at […]

Kaikohe Demolition

A reminder that the Film Archive‘s Media Theatre has a couple more screeings of the excellent Kaikohe Demolition documentary later this week, on Saturday 14 May at 6pm and 7:30pm. …[A] documentary by intrepid New Zealand filmmaker Florian Habicht captures the gracefulness and poetry of demolition derbies. Ah, yes: there is a harsh, strangely lyrical […]

a Beehive of Wellingtonista

Knowing full well how hard it is to maintain even a couple of blogs, we couldn’t help but reach out, and pull a few of the finer Wellington bloggers into the digital quagmire with us. So a welcome to those responsible for Hubris, SunnyO, MiramarMike, The Backyard, and Half-Pie. The obvious question arises. What is […]

Exclusive!

As spotted in Island Bay. Yet another fantastic example of the real estate industry taking liberties with the actual meaning of words. What’s really good, though, is the ‘VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT’ bit on the Professionals’ sign. You can tell the person writing it has started off with nice big bold spacing, but then realised too […]