Gabrielle McKone at Photospace

And in more pho­tog­ra­phy news, any­one who’s a fan of Welling­ton pho­tog­ra­ph­er Gabrielle McK­one’s dai­ly pho­to­blog can see 850 of them, on the wall in an exhi­bi­tion at Pho­to­space, 37 Courte­nay Place. Over the last five years Gabrielle has post­ed 1900 images, one a day, most­ly out and about in Welling­ton. The exhi­bi­tion opened last Fri­day […]

A benefit auction for Phil Jacobs

A few years ago my son’s point-&-shoot need­ed a sim­ple repair. I realised I had no idea where to go to get cam­eras fixed. Were there even cam­era-repair­ers any more? When they break, don’t you just buy anoth­er cam­era? A friend said “Oh, there’s that guy on Jack­son Street — he fix­es every­thing”. “That guy” […]

Zinefest 2012

Welling­ton Zine­fest annu­al zine mar­ket and fes­ti­val returns to Mighty Mighty this Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 17th. Now in its 6th year, Welling­ton Zine­fest is New Zealand’s longest run­ning fes­ti­val of zines. ‘Zines’ or ‘fanzines’ are self-pub­­lished mag­a­zines cre­at­ed to high­light music scenes, fan­doms, activism, craft, cre­ative writ­ing or sim­ply the zinemaker’s own odd­ball obses­sions. Zine­fest brings […]

Review: The Tigers of Wrath

“Our par­ents do not fol­low a tra­di­tion­al per­spec­tive, grow­ing small­er on approach. Only lat­er will their true scale be appar­ent.” — Alan Moore, The Birth Caul Once, so the leg­end goes, there were a race of beau­ti­ful fiery-eyed chil­dren who heard the clar­i­on-call of a new and brighter age; and buoyed by the pros­per­i­ty wrest […]

Review: Paper Sky

Hen­ry is a reclu­sive writer with a dead­line (and a sad secret). He’s being hound­ed by his boss, his new neigh­bour is dis­tract­ing, and to top it all off, his char­ac­ter, Lumi­na,  is fight­ing for her life.  Will his imag­i­na­tion help him come to terms with his prob­lems in the real world? Red Leap The­atre’s […]

Discover the Light House Cuba before the world’s movie-talkers spread the word during Skyfall

The Cuba Quar­ter’s newest enter­tain­ment venue is a wel­come addi­tion indeed, with the well-respec­t­ed Light House Cin­e­mas spread­ing into Welling­ton prop­er (sor­ry Petone but whatch­agone do, you’re Petone) via their new loca­tion oppo­site Havana on Wigan Street. If Cuba Street and Courte­nay Place had a fight (what do you mean “if,” right?), this now gives […]

Journey to Adventure

Here at the Welling­ton­ista we are gen­er­al­ly in favour of the bicy­cle as a styl­ish and use­ful means of trans­porta­tion. It’s true we don’t all cycle, but as pro­po­nents of liv­able urban spaces we can all appre­ci­ate that one less car trip is a good car trip. Along those lines, Cycling Welling­ton is a great […]

The city chocolate fix

Hur­ray, anoth­er guest post from Heather at Food­ie Gems of Wellie Where to go in the city for a qual­i­ty choco­late fix between usu­al excus­es — choco­late fes­ti­vals, Valen­tines, East­er, Xmas, nation­al choco­late day, your birth­day, your best friend’s birth­day, White Day in Japan, Choco­late Dipped Fruit and Fon­due day in the US (hmmm, any […]

More pop than a firecracker

Sat­ur­day sees the return of Craft2.0 to Welling­ton, and the long wait for the Novem­ber fair to come around is total­ly worth it. It’s also total­ly worth read­ing to the end of this post for a Craft-tas­tic  give­away. Sat­ur­day’s fair runs from 10am till 4pm. Craft2.0 will be in its grand­est and largest space ever, in the upstairs […]

Review: The Hobbit Companion

It’s not by chance that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s was the set­ting that would become the default tem­plate for the pop­u­lar notion of high-fan­­ta­sy; no arbi­trary cir­cum­stance that led to Tolkien’s intri­­cate­­ly-craft­ed argot becom­ing the lin­gua fran­ca of the sword-and-sor­cery genre as it’s com­mon­ly under­stood today. Tolkien, with his fel­low Inkling and under­study in Chris­tian­i­ty […]