Get your game face on…..
Wellington on a Plate programme goes live on their website this Friday. The Grow Wellington formal WOAP launch party tomorrow night. Visa ticket pre-sales 16 June. It’s nearly game on…..
Queen’s Birthday Craft Weekend
Handmade has pretty much established Wellington as the place for crafty & makey types from across the country to hang out this weekend. There are classes, lectures, tastings, exhibitions & a pop-up shop. This year is that the majority of it is taking place in one spot, the TSB Bank Arena and Shed 6. which makes it a […]
Annie
The last live musical I saw was Jesus Christ Superstar in about 1990, to be honest I’m not your average musical reviewer. However, I do regard myself as a bit of an Annie expert because it played the very important role of being the movie I went to for my 10th birthday. Annie was in […]
Roasty comfort
It must be the weather. I’ve been thinking about roasts a lot. So here’s a round-up of the ones I could dig up around the city (there may be others, so please add to the list in the comments): Matterhorn – from 5.30pm until they run out (only so many portions). A different surprise meat […]
Can it really be the end?
Well the Castle that Cares is on its last week and boy is there a line-up celebrating the highlights and the high-nights of the good ship Mighty Mighty. We’ve Wellingtonisata Awarded prizes there, we’re broken up, pashed up, made up, spewed up, chatted up, felt up and partied hard with the best of them. And […]
DCM Winter Foodbank Appeal
People often come to DCM because they have run out of money and can’t buy food. But that’s not the start or the finish, when a person visits DCM for help they look at the underlying reasons that have brought them to the Foodbank. So instead of just being the net at the bottom of the cliff […]
Notional Significance: Asylum
[See all Notional Significance posts] After my detour, I head back to the motorway’s edge. My route takes me along Mexted Terrace—a name that is engraved across Tawa’s skin, and with its twin associations of car dealerships and rugby it encompasses two dimensions of the suburban mythos. On the corner of Tremewan Street, with the […]
Crafters brew corner
How to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear? That was the question for the brothers who own the building just off the corner of Victoria and Vivian when their former tenants’ venture to open a bakery/café dissolved. So in true kiwi fashion, they decided they’d better jump in themselves and do something […]
It’s their birthday but we get the presents
Beloved Miramar institution is turning three, and to celebrate, they’re publishing a cookbook! You get to vote on which recipes you think should be included, and go into the draw to win a copy of the book, an invite to the launch, and a voucher to spend at the restaurant. The person/s who nominated the […]