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A jamboree… of jam

A high­light of the Welling­ton food­ie’s cal­en­dar is  The Great Welly Jam Off.  Since the first Jam Off held at The Old Bank Arcade the even­t’s trans­formed into a must-make and must-taste event.  At 10.30am this Sun­day (March 25th)  The Great Welly Jam Off.  brings the jam­my good­ness to The City Mar­ket.   The City […]

Another season, another reason for making coffee

How hard can it be to make a real­ly good cup of cof­fee? The cor­rect answer, as any Welling­ton­ian knows, is “Real­ly bloody hard!” A good barista is a thing to be cher­ished, and the best of the best come togeth­er every year for the Huh­ta­ma­ki New Zealand Barista Cham­pi­onship to show off their skills […]

Wellington in a Pint (or four)

“Would you like to come and drink free beer?” the mes­sage asked. What does a self-respec­t­ing barfly say to that? ‘No’? And so the Fly found itself buzzing around the adver­tis­ing types at the Fork & Brew­er last night for the launch of Clemenger’s new Welling­ton in a Pint cam­paign. Adver­tis­ing types are not the […]

Notional Significance: Halfway

[See all Notion­al Sig­nif­i­cance posts] On one side: the beige of town­hous­es; the her­met­ic white­ness of Fletch­er Construction’s offices; the twee com­forts of a gar­den cen­tre. On the oth­er: a wall of green­ery, smug­ly set­tled exotics loom­ing over dense indige­nous under­growth and the raw-cut clay below. Hard-won colo­nial­ism con­geals into aspi­ra­tional her­itage, but with a psy­cho­geo­graph­i­cal […]

Wellington Bus Review

This has been cross-post­ed to Sus­tain­able Welling­ton Trans­port. Greater Welling­ton Region­al Coun­cil is cur­rent­ly con­sult­ing on the Welling­ton City Bus Review. This is man­dat­ed by the Region­al Pub­lic Trans­port Plan, which requires a review of trans­port ser­vices at least once every five years. The cur­rent shape of the net­work has exist­ed for decades and the city […]

Beautiful Burnout tasting session

Fran­tic Assem­bly and the Nation­al The­atre of Scot­land are over here with their acclaimed show Beau­ti­ful Burnout. Tonight there’s a spe­cial ‘Social Media Call’ for social media users.  The cast will per­form two key scenes from the show, then will be avail­able for a short Q&A ses­sion. You’ll be able to film, pho­to­graph, tweet, and/or […]

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 […]