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Ben Hana, aka Tarzan, aka “Blanket Man” dies

As report­ed in the NZ Her­ald and Stuff. I remem­ber see­ing him asleep on the cor­ner of Courte­nay Place and Tory Street, bathed in sun­shine, loin-cloth akim­bo, home-made alu­mini­um-can dope-pipe rest­ing peace­ful­ly by his slum­ber­ing body, only a cou­ple of weeks back. It seems weird that we won’t see him there again. R.I.P. (Remem­ber, you […]

My highlights for 2011

I had a busy year, which shows in my poor post­ing record recent­ly. Despite the man­i­fold rea­sons to be cheer­less, there were also plen­ty of good things hap­pen­ing in Welling­ton: on the water­front, up Cuba St and all over town.

gorgeous and original Christmas gifts to be found at Craft2.0

Thanks to the good folk at Craft 2.0 even Decem­ber 23rd isn’t too late to shop for gor­geous and orig­i­nal Christ­mas gifts. The Trunk Show strikes for the sec­ond week this Fri­day and as if you had your own per­son­al shop­per we’ve com­plied a list of gift ideas for you. All you have to do […]

My personal Wellington highlights of 2011

We did­n’t have the TAWAs this year, but lots of awe­some­ness still took place. Here’s a very self-indul­­gent look at what I par­tic­u­lar­ly loved and did­n’t — hope­ful­ly oth­er Welling­ton­istas will add their own posts too.

Bryan Pepperell — skeptic?

Turns out Welling­ton City Coun­cil­lor Bryan Pep­perell isn’t sure about the authen­tic­i­ty of the moon land­ings. On his face­book page, he states… The moon land­ings are an open ques­tion. Hav­ing worked in pho­tog­ra­phy in the 1960’s I’m still try­ing to fig­ure out how the films sur­vived 280F. There are more unan­swered ques­tions but is it a […]

Unveiling Unveiled

Bet­ter than Christ­mas morn­ing was how this non fash­ion­ista* described Mon­day morn­ing at Te Papa when Tom and  I wit­nessed Keira Miller from Lon­don’s Vic­to­ria & Albert Muse­um unpack­ing an embroi­dered silk satin wed­ding dress designed by Nor­man Hart­nell in 1933. Keira is in Welling­ton to super­vise the unpack­ing and set­ting up of Unveiled: 200 years […]

Craft2.0 brings you a Trunk Show

We’re not sure if you’ve heard yet but that mad sea­son we call Christ­mas is just around the cor­ner and if you’re like us you’ve prob­a­bly got one or two peo­ple you still need to find the per­fect gift for. You could pack your sneak­ers and your pink elbow guards and head out with the […]

No poison at this PoissonHead afterparty

We know that you are gut­ted (like a fish!) that you can’t par­ty with us at the TAWAs this year (so gut­ted you could­n’t even com­ment, appar­ent­ly). Luck­i­ly, we DO have a way for you to get your par­ty on with some fab­u­lous Welling­ton media types any­way! Pre­sent­ing: the Fish­Head mag­a­zine after­par­ty! This Thurs­day Decem­ber […]

Deluxe is deluxe

One of the most excit­ing and stim­u­lat­ing things about liv­ing in Welling­ton is the fact the our cin­e­mas are con­tin­u­al­ly rein­vest­ing in their facil­i­ties and always try­ing to top each oth­er in qual­i­ty of fit out and cus­tomer expe­ri­ence. What have we done to deserve this!? This year the burghers of Mira­mar got the Ming […]

Urban Harvest

Urban Har­vest is a Welling­­ton-based com­pa­ny that deliv­ers local­ly grown pro­duce, meat and oth­er culi­nary delights. For the fes­tive sea­son, they’ve branched out into Christ­mas ham­pers, and have opened a pop-up shop in their Mt Vic­to­ria head­quar­ters (29 Hania St) for those who like to get up close with their yule­tide nomz. The Welling­ton­ista were […]