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Sweetie darling mwah

It was with slight trep­i­da­tion I signed up to cov­er Welling­ton Fash­ion Week. I do love clothes, but I don’t know any­thing about fash­ion shows. I’m will­ing to learn though, and it was a good chance to pull on my best shoes. Joan­na and the Fly and I trot­ted off to the open­ing par­ty on […]

A farewell

So, OMG, this is my final post for the Welling­ton­ista. I’m leav­ing this town for a more norther­ly loca­tion. I’m sad to leave Welling­ton and the W’ista, but it’s been a fun four years. I’ve met lots of cool peo­ple, had lots of amaz­ing expe­ri­ences and shared them with y’all. As my farewell, I present […]

Binge Culture takes on Lucrece

“Audi­ence mem­bers will be seat­ed close enough to touch the per­form­ers and view­ers will be encour­aged to think about the ways they look at women’s bod­ies — both on film and in the flesh.” No, that’s not the press release from Welling­ton Fash­ion Week. Instead, it’s Lucrece: An Adap­ta­tion of Shakespeare’s the Rape of Lucrece, […]

Feliz cumpleaños, La Boca Loca!

Our favourite Mira­mar Mex­i­can restau­rant is turn­ing one, and to cel­e­brate, they invit­ed us along to learn how to make tor­tillas, and to taste some tequi­la. It’s a hard life being a Welling­ton­ista, but if we have to rub shoul­ders with mouth heroes like Jon­ny and Rachel and Mar­tin, well these are the lengths we’ll […]

a visit to Zealandia

Over East­er, the weath­er sud­den­ly went all set­tled and warm. This is per­haps not unusu­al for autumn, but giv­en the crap sum­mer most parts of the coun­try have had for the past few months it was some­what unex­pect­ed. In fact the fore­cast for East­er was so dire that it played a rea­son­able part in us […]

I’d rather be under the sea

It’s been too long since you last lost your­self on the dance floor, right? And you haven’t dressed up in ages. You can’t even remem­ber the last time that you drank a bright blue cock­tail. Oh yes, we’re feel­ing your pain. And even more than just feel­ing it — we want to fix it. And […]

WYFC first birthday party, Easter Sunday

There’s a group of tru­ly awe­some peo­ple in Welling­ton who do great things, and they’re hav­ing a par­ty. Does­n’t that sound like the sort of thing you should attend? Yes! Come to the WYFC’s first birth­day, and help us cel­e­brate our first year and bring in our sec­ond. In the last year we’ve helped raise […]

World Cinema Showcase 2012

After a splen­did Welling­ton Film Fes­ti­val last year, the New Zealand Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val might be for­giv­en for putting their feet up and tak­ing it easy but instead they have gone out of their way to pro­duce anoth­er bas­ket of good­ies to fill the East­er week­end and beyond: the grand­ly titled World Cin­e­ma Show­case. Arguably […]

Glee meets V for Vendetta

Musi­cals aren’t every­one’s cup of tea. But if said musi­cal is set in Welling­ton and involves the assas­si­na­tions of Glee type char­ac­ters it’s hard not to want to know more. Joshua Hop­ton Stew­art has writ­ten a hilar­i­ous piece of musi­cal the­atre based on his team’s entry in the 2010 V48Hour Short Film Com­pe­ti­tion, Soci­ety Slump […]

This fish is still fresh, even after two years

Hap­py sec­ond birth­day to our favourite Welling­ton print media, Fish­head! Thanks for the fun reads, the great par­ties , and for giv­ing our city a mag­a­zine and fan­tas­tic quiz host/Jam MC. Their sec­ond birth­day issue is out now in shops every­where. Here’s to lots more!