Miniature Wellington

Via Dave on Twit­ter (and a few oth­ers includ­ing, we now see, the Dom Post) comes this love­ly Welling­ton time-lapse video from local film mak­er Jared Gray: If only all those cars were that small in real life!

Cocktail tales in the Capital

Two cock­­­tail-relat­ed news bites for you today. Item one! Last week saw the offi­cial launch of The Black Spar­row, a beau­ti­ful space with very deli­cious food and drinks. You might be like “huh, what, where?”. We’ve already writ­ten about the bar, but that was when it was con­fus­ing­ly called Deluxe — it’s under the Embassy […]

FixTV: people in Wellington doing cool things

The first episode of FixTV has gone live on their FB page. It’s filmed at Down­stage in front of an audi­ence. I don’t think they’ve quite got the mix right in terms of what they want for the web chat show ver­sus what I want from a show when I’m in a the­atre. There are […]

Cooking class something to raw about

Urban Har­vest has been doing real­ly inter­est­ing tastings/cooking class­es for a while out of their Mount Vic­to­ria shop. We went along to a Pacif­ic Har­vest sea­weed class, and were deli­cious­ly sur­prised, It was a fun night as well, so I thought I’d give you a heads-up about the next class com­ing up. They’re hav­ing a […]

Quick Brown Fox Launch, Friday July 6th

Giv­en the pas­sion of cer­tain Welling­ton­istas for all things cof­fee, and the obses­sion of oth­ers for cock­tails, it was nev­er going to be hard to tempt us to the launch of a new arti­san cof­fee liqueur. Add a label fea­tur­ing an anthro­po­mor­phised fox inspired by the Wildean dandy Lord Hen­ry Wot­ton, and throw the par­ty […]

What we’ve been tweeting about lately

Do you fol­low us on Twit­ter? A lot of you do. But you might miss our tweets in amongst all your very impor­tant updates from sports­peo­ple, so here’s what’s been going on. We talked about a new Mojo open­ing in the Tele­com build­ing on Willis Street, and what a relief that was since it was […]

Wellington winter nostalgia (no, really)

Today’s guest post comes cour­tesy of Daisy Coles — you read more of her stuff over at daisyandzelda.wordpress.com I’m sit­ting in my togs on shady grass in a hid­den cor­ner of Europe. I’m watch­ing the drag­on­flies flit round a lazy lit­tle branch of the Danube, with a wine spritzer in one hand and an incom­pre­hen­si­ble news­pa­per […]

You should have lunch at Duke Carvell’s this July

July would be a real­ly good time to have a week­day lunch at Duke Carvel­l’s on Swan Lane. Why? Because a) it’s deli­cious and warm­ing and b) they’ll donate 20% of your bill to one of a range of char­i­ties. Bloody good work! Our Tom B is the May­or of Duke Carvel­l’s (well, on Foursquare […]

Wellington has braaaaaaains

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Noise and Pic­tures, the Welling­ton team who took out the V 48 Hours movie com­pe­ti­tion with their clip Brains?. Is it just us or is New New­lands actu­al­ly less scary than Cur­rent New­lands? NOISE AND PICTURES from 48HOURS on Vimeo.

Craft2.0 is back in the City

Tomor­row, Sat­ur­day 30th sees the return of Welling­ton’s favourite fair Craft2.0 in the sun­ny and light atri­um of the Chaf­fers Dock Build­ing, down­town Welling­ton City It’s a cel­e­bra­tion of all things, craft, hand­made and indie design, in one place for just one day.  A curat­ed selec­tion of  crafters, mak­ers and design­ers will offer a world […]