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 […]