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Candidates: Holly Walker for the Greens in Hutt South

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? I’m Hol­ly, I’m from the Hutt, and I want a clean green econ­o­my that […]

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 […]