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Review: Sunset Road

Lucia and Luka are twins, liv­ing in Rotorua. They can’t wait to turn 21 and leave town for a dif­fer­ent life. Their Mum and Dad brought them to New Zealand from the Cook Islands. Rotorua is their dif­fer­ent life. Mum and Dad have expec­ta­tions and dreams for their chil­dren. But as they get clos­er to […]

Data without borders

They say that knowl­edge is pow­er, and when it comes down to it, knowl­edge often comes from data. But how do you get the most out of your data? Or how do you get your hands on some­one else’s? Find out on Thurs­day June 28. Data With­out Bor­ders NZ is gath­er­ing a net­work of non-prof­its, […]

The lemurs, they are attacking

This is an invi­ta­tion to attend a very spe­cial event, The Lemur Attack Force Launch Par­ty and Fundrais­er. TONIGHT at the Hop Gar­den from 7pm, it looks to be hoots of fun — details of the shenani­gans are avail­able at http://lemurattackforce.co.nz/the-lemur-attack-force-launch-par­ty-is-on/.   In 18 Days Aimee Whit­croft and Dane Fos­ter are tak­ing a wee dri­ve from […]

Beware, Wild Animals!

Wel­come to the jun­gle – it’s time to dance. The Jo Sand­wich is proud to present Wild Ani­mals, a night of danc­ing and may­hem to raise mon­ey for Welling­ton SPCA. On July 20, the Bur­gundy Room under­neath Bar Bode­ga will be host to a roar­ing­ly good time. Trust your ani­mal instincts on this one and […]

The Winter is coming

Well it’s pret­ty much here.… although today ain’t half bad and here’s hop­ing the week­end is kind. Just a note, there’s rather an insane amount of good stuff open­ing tomor­row at City Gallery Welling­ton. They are launch­ing the Win­ter Sea­son with a heap of new shows. Plus it seems they are sneak­ing in a new […]

Ladies & gentlemen, start your salivating

The Visa Welling­ton On A Plate fes­ti­val was launched last night at the Saint James, in amidst lash­ings of Ruth Pret­ty’s whipped but­ter, gin­ger beer-bat­tered fish and Whit­tak­er’s choco­late creme brulee. Oh lordy, we ate like roy­al­ty and were still made even more hun­gry by read­ing about some of the events on offer. Tick­ets go […]

Happy happy birthday

I have a sneak­ing sus­pi­cion the Masked Barfly has a few Manda­to­ry suits in his wardrobe. And now the Cuba St store is cel­e­brat­ing a spe­cial birth­day — 15 years in busi­ness!!! Design­ers Clare Bow­den and Fiona Edwards first met while train­ing in fash­ion and fash­ion tex­tiles at Welling­ton Poly­tech­nic. Now they have a league […]

I like the St James theatre but not what was on stage

Last night we — along with a range of oth­er fan­cy media types were invit­ed by Pos­i­tive­ly Welling­ton Venues to have drinks & canapes and watch Rock the Bal­let at the Saint James The­atre last night .  Based on the love­ly peo­ple we met, and the amaz­ing food and ser­vice we were offered (Light­ly seared tuna on won­ton crisps! Veg­e­tar­i­an […]

Review: All my sons

Joe and Kate Keller are liv­ing a ver­sion of the Amer­i­can Dream. They have a com­fort­able lifestyle, a lov­ing son, nice new neigh­bours. How­ev­er there is a dark event in their past involv­ing their old neigh­bours which will impact on their future. Arthur Miller’s Tony Award win­ning play was first per­formed in 1947.  It’s an […]

Get creative for Queen’s birthday weekend

Typ­i­cal­ly a Welling­ton­ian makes haste for the near­est air­port or road come Queen’s birth­day week­end, but the reverse is start­ing to hap­pen for those of a cre­ative bent as Hand­made hap­pens for the sec­ond year in a row. Hand­made is home to all sorts of mak­ing relat­ed things — from cook­ing to craft­ing they are […]