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 […]