Candidates: Sea Rotmann for the Greens in Wairarapa
We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions. Answers are restricted to 30 words each, and we publish them exactly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? My name is Dr Sea Rotmann and I want NZ to be green and […]
forget fireworks this is an explosion of fabric
Kind of inspired about getting into making post-Craft2.0? Well if fabric is your thing, then Fabric-a-brac is the place you want to be this Saturday From WoW winners and fashion designers to Christchurch earthquake evacuees and button obsessives, the stallholders at this weekend’s fabric- a-brac event will be part of the biggest fabric-a-brac event ever. […]
TAWA6: not this year
Let’s get the bad news out of the way quickly: we’re not going to be able to bring you the The Annual Wellingtonista Awards this year. This makes us sad. But December is always a damned awkward month, and collectively this year we’re short of sort of available time required in abundance to get the […]
Top times at Kopi Tiam
Over the past couple of months I have been reviewing Malaysian restaurants all around Wellington for Malaysia Kitchen (full disclosure – I got refunded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! Today’s Malaysian quest takes us out of the CBD to Newtown, but luckily parking is easy at Newtown Mall and we can do […]
Wellington candidates – we want to hear from you
Remember when we asked questions of mayoral candidates? Well it might have escaped your attention while people chased a little ball around a field, but there is an national election in less than a month’s time. Holy shit! If you are running as a candidate in the Wellington region, we would like you to answer […]
Fast, fresh, tasty and kind of awesome
On Thursday night, our old bowling league arch nemisisisis buddies ClickSuite launched a new iPhone and iPad app called Fast, Fresh and Tasty. We went along because we were promised food and drink, and you know how good that is at getting us to leave our houses, but we were pleasantly surprised by the app itself. Fast, […]
It’s Saturday so it must be time for Craft2.0
It’s Craft2.0 Day!!! today October 29th 2011 from 10am till 4pm Craft2.0 has packed it’s bags and moved from the Hutt to Wellington City and can now be found at the same location as City Market, Undercover in The Atrium, Chaffers Dock Building,1 Herd St, Wellington, It’s the commitment to New Zealand-created, independent design that […]
Phoenix Foundation on Jools Holland
Hey, it’s Friday! And we haven’t done Friday music vids for aaaages. So, for your viewing and listening pleasure, here’s Welly-boys-doing-good-overseas, the Phoenix Foundation, playing live on the BBC’s Later with Jools Holland show… Feel free to add your own Wellington-themed (or, otherwise) musical suggestions in the comments.
My kingdom for some booze with my satay!
Over the past couple of months I have been reviewing Malaysian restaurants all around Wellington for Malaysia Kitchen (full disclosure – I got refunded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! Satay Kingdom (Shop 212, Left Bank, Wellington) is named by many people in Wellington as their favourite Malaysian because of its prices. It […]
Rasa Malaysia – top eats near the top’o Cuba
Over the past couple of months I have been reviewing Malaysian restaurants all around Wellington for Malaysia Kitchen (full disclosure – I got refunded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! A freezing southerly was blowing around Wellington when I met with a group of friends at Rasa Malaysia on Upper Cuba Street, […]