Wellington Fashion Week is coming.
The first Wellington Fashion Week takes place 18th-26th April. There will be a variety of events including different shows, pop-ups, a high tea and of course lots of deeply hip people. We’re pretty excited and will be reporting from various events. You can find a timetable and info here. The designers showing are Starfish, Nicola […]
We like to play games
You know how it goes – you have no food or booze in your home so you need to leave the house, so you text your friends to see if they want to meet you somewhere, and so they do, and you get food and you get booze, and that’s a good thing, but then […]
Notional Significance: Downstream
[See all Notional Significance posts] My narrative has been marooned in Johnsonville for over eight months, a fate that, if not actually worse than death, is perilously close to it. In fact, it is exactly a year since I walked this section of road, and last week’s remembrance was the spur I needed to get […]
we pause for some pretty
It’s Academy Award day in LA and we know the answer to the fashion question of the day “what are you wearing?” for two Wellingtonians, Jana Barrett and Jennifer Bloomfield. The answer = Voon. Jana’s husband, Weta Digital’s Daniel Barrett (who will be wearing a Merino wool tuxedo), was the Animation Supervisor and Jennifer’s husband […]
Review: Michael James Manaia
This solo show starts with a welcome and karakia. After a serious start it flips into a madcap story. As the action progresses we hear a man telling us the story of his life – what his parents were like, why he went to Vietnam, what happened there, and what happened when he came back […]
New Zealand International Arts Festival 2012
The New Zealand International Arts Festival opens tonight with a live event in conjuction with the launch of First Contact. It’s FREE, family friendly, and starts at 8:30pm outside Te Papa. There are visuals by Linechecker and music and dance from the Whitireia Performing Arts School, The Nomad, Horomona Horo, Rhombus in Dub and Rayjah45. First […]
We also have ‘opinions’ – a protest against transphobia
If you’re on the Twitters, you would have seen yet another digusting piece of bigotry and bullshit churned out by Rosemary McLeod about how transgender people shouldn’t be parents. The @dompost rebuttal? “The column is her opinion.”. Yes, and they’re the ones who paid for her to have that opinion published. Luckily, the Queer Avengers […]
It’s Shrove Tuesday, let’s talk religion!
Ha ha ha, of course we’re kidding. Let’s talk about pancakes instead.We wanna know where Wellington’s best pancakes are at. Today for lunch I went to Cafe Panama (in fact, I am still there. Woo!), and this is what I ate: I thought I was ordering standard pancakes with banana and bacon for $11.50, but […]
It was a very good beer
After having a great evening at Fork and Brewer last week for the Official Wellingtonista Unofficial Webstock Wednesday Warmup, where large numbers of local beer and large platters of delicious nibbles were placed before us like the Web Royalty we wish/pretend/believe ourselves to be, I was extremely excited to hear about the event they are […]
NZ Fringe Festival 2012 into week two
The New Zealand Fringe Festival presents emerging artists in a festival of weird and wonderful performances around Wellington. The shows are are reasonably priced (or free) and are held in venues all over the city. The programme is full of shows, conveniently divided in the programme into genres – Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre, or Visual […]