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Best of the week: 9–16 June 2016

Best con­tri­bu­tion to soci­ety The month­ly Repair Cafe at Ngaio Union Church.  How cool to have a big room full of incred­i­bly com­pe­tent humans ded­i­cat­ed to help­ing oth­ers for free (you can con­tribute koha and if you don’t have coins, ask them for their bank account num­ber). I took a record play­er and was not […]

Meet Zoe, the Very Green Gardener

Our inter­views with cool peo­ple con­tin­ue! 1. Hey, who are you and what do you do? I’m Zoe and I run The Very Green Gar­den­er, which is a lit­tle gar­den­ing com­pa­ny in Pōneke. We main­tain peo­ple’s gar­dens as well as sup­port them to do their own gar­dens. (Edi­tor note: Zoe also writes an excel­lent newslet­ter […]

Best of the week: 2 June to 9 June 2024

Our week­ly roundup of best things in Welling­ton con­tin­ues and this week we’ve got con­tri­bu­tions from Alan, Joan­na, Martha and Tom. Best new place for dogs off leash We dis­cov­ered that dogs are ok unleashed on the Remu­ta­ka Incline so we were able to take our fluff­beast bik­ing with us (she’s got her own bike […]

Review: The Transgender Agender

I’m here on the ground at Wellington’s Fringe Bar to catch a show at the tail end of the 2024 New Zealand Inter­na­tion­al Com­e­dy Fes­ti­val — The Trans­gen­der Agen­der. This line­up of fab­u­lous trans and/or non-bina­ry come­di­ans made much mer­ri­ment on the last Sat­ur­day of this year’s NZICF, much to the joy of their sold-out […]

Best of the week 26 May — 2 June

This week fea­tures con­tri­bu­tions from Alan, Nadia, Emma and Joan­na Best val­ue lunch­es for those days you’re work­ing in town and have for­got­ten that you’re sup­posed to be mak­ing your lunch or eat­ing left­overs… I’m kin­da hes­i­tant to men­tion it (as I don’t want them to run out before I get there) but the $9 […]

Review: Femme Natale — The Queen Years

Reviewed by Talia Carlisle The tal­ent­ed team behind Femme Natale have worked their butts off to bring a mag­nif­i­cent sketch show­case of par­ents’ inner adult desires to BATS The­atre. After return­ing from Edin­burgh Fringe with a new lease on par­ent­hood, their new iter­a­tion of Femme Natale is refresh­ing­ly hilar­i­ous and impor­tant to share in a […]

A walk for transgender youth

This week’s pro­file takes us to the oth­er side of the Remu­ta­ka Ranges for a very good cause.  1. Hel­lo! Who the heck are youse and what are you up to? I’m Kylie, and col­lec­tive­ly we’re the Parry/Hannen whā­nau. My 17-year-old daugh­ter and I are walk­ing across the Wairara­pa into Welling­ton to raise mon­ey and […]

Best of the Week: May 18–25

Our week­ly wrap-up of what’s good,  this time fea­tur­ing fea­tur­ing Emma, Joan­na and Tom Emma’s bests Best the­atre: Farce Onion at BATS — a deeply warm­ing joy­ous non­sense impro­vised time Best vibes: Still­wa­ter — I only had a drink there with some mates so I can’t speak to the effi­ca­cy of their cof­fee or food […]

Best of the week: May 11–18 2024

A new week­ly fea­ture! Here’s what was good! Hope­ful­ly future edi­tions will include bests from oth­er Welling­ton­ista mem­bers too. And don’t for­get, if you want to con­tribute to the site, please email us! Best deliv­ered food of the week The grilled lemon­grass chick­en sal­ad from Rock Yard (pic­tured here with slow cooked pork in roti […]

A ginterview with the mothers of Mothers Ruined

Full dis­clo­sure: I have worked with the Moth­ers on Boom Gin — a col­lab­o­ra­tion with my eth­i­cal cloth­ing com­pa­ny, which is fund­ing a schol­ar­ship to the week­end for fat babes that I run. Even if I had­n’t done that though, I would still think they are very cool and inter­est­ing peo­ple who make deli­cious prod­ucts […]