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 […]