Archives

Review: Chekhov in Hell

Anton Chekhov wakes up in Lon­don after being in a coma for 100 years.  He explores Lon­don — going places,  meet­ing peo­ple.  Jason Whyte, as Chekhov, does­n’t get to say much. How­ev­er, he is the cen­tre of the play, with the oth­er char­ac­ters using him as a mir­ror to reflect them­selves. Direc­tor Eleanor Bish­op keeps […]

Six Barrels totally instagrammable but also delicious

You know how we feel about Mon­terey, so it should be no sur­prise to you that we were very very excit­ed when we heard that Joseph was open­ing up a new fac­to­ry in which to bot­tle his deli­cious syrups, which is also a cafe too.  Six Bar­rel Soda Co has found a home in the […]

fabric-a-brilliant

Imag­ine if you will,  40 tables  stacked full of vin­tage fab­ric from the 1950s and 1960s,  and lace from the 1920s.  Add in all sorts of delight­ful sewing acces­sories like but­tons and vin­tage pat­terns and you start to get an idea for what the bian­nu­al Fab­ric-a-brac sale  is  all about It’s being held this Sat­ur­day 19 […]

Let’s help Wellington SPCA into a new home

Welling­ton City Coun­cil would like your views on the draft Long Term Plan 2012–22. The draft plan sets out what the Coun­cil is propos­ing to do over the next ten years. Pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the Welling­ton City Coun­cil Draft Long Term Plan runs from the 16th April to 18th May 2012. This is your chance to have […]

Something to hum about

Hum­ming­bird has been on Courte­nay Place for a long time (twelve years!), and has just under­gone a com­plete refur­bish­ment. The Welling­ton­ista was invit­ed along to check out the revi­talised space and new menu, and what we found was very very good. In their own words: The site was once, many decades ago, a butcher’s shop […]

Review: Lucrece

An adap­ta­tion of Shake­speare’s nar­ra­tive poem “The rape of Lucrece” by Binge Cul­ture Col­lec­tive. It’s a visual+audio instal­la­tion at the Toi Poneke Gallery plus a live per­for­mance on Thurs­day and Fri­day evenings.  Fiona McNa­ma­ra’s direc­tor’s note states “This pro­duc­tion of Shake­speare’s poem claims the text, writ­ten by a man in a patri­ar­chal soci­ety, as a […]

Fashion in reflection

Fash­ion­ably late is usu­al­ly a term reserved for the tru­ly glam­ourous, so per­haps it is apt that this belat­ed post is a snap­shot of Welling­ton Fash­ion Week. Group A – April 19 After a well-groomed schmooz­ing open­ing par­ty, things tru­ly kicked off – with stilet­tos on – with the Group A show on Thurs­day night. […]

Action! Claude Rains brings it to the Hutt.

If you hap­pened to be cruis­ing near the Aval­on Skate Park a cou­ple of week­ends ago, you may have been lucky enough to wit­ness a most unusu­al scene, local band Claude Rains were film­ing their first music video for their upcom­ing, self-titled first album. Direc­tor Gwen Isaac pulled in some favours and there was a […]

Pirates at Roar

Shiv­er me tim­bers, pre­pare to enter the wicked world of pirates.  Eight artists will sail the sev­en seas dis­cov­er­ing pirate trea­sure.  Jew­ellers Buster Collins, Vaune Mason and Aman­da How­ley are tak­ing on the acces­sories of pirate-ism with a vengeance.  From eye patch­es to col­lars, hooks to com­pass rings, these jew­ellers will pro­vide all the treats and trea­sures that real­ly […]

A super great night with Gamefroot

Last night the City Gallery played host to the launch of Game­f­root, a new plat­form on which to build plat­form games — or more specif­i­cal­ly, a HTML5 Game Cre­ation tool. If you can use a web brows­er and if you can use mouse to click and drag – then you can use Game­f­root. The bar has […]