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Mark Shea is an Aus­tralian film­mak­er and trav­el­er who com­bines his two loves to cre­ate short trav­el­ogues of the places he vis­its. Ear­li­er this year he was in Welling­ton, and was inspired to get a lit­tle more in depth than his usu­al style, tak­ing to the streets to ask the locals what it is they […]

WOW comes early

The Welling­ton­ista has been going along to the World of Wear­ableArt show for the past three years, and we’ve come to have a bit of affec­tion for the grand cel­e­bra­tion of the extrav­a­gant mash-up of fash­ion, design and cos­tumery that is wear­able art. The WOW show and awards are com­ing a month ear­ly this year […]

WOP: The taste of happy

So, a cou­ple more excur­sions to restau­rants with Welling­ton on a Plate menus. I’m con­sid­er­ing going to the Ware­house and buy­ing a pair of elas­tic-waist­ed track­pants for the rest of Welling­ton on a Plate. Most recent­ly I paid a vis­it to Cuba Street icon Florid­i­tas and Hip­popota­mus at the Muse­um Hotel.

Review: Eight

Mono­logues have always struck me as excit­ing things to watch. There is only the per­former and the audi­ence. If the audi­ence does­n’t like the per­former then it can seem like a very long time sit­ting in the dark wait­ing to get back to the bar. If it works then it’s mag­i­cal. In Eight, there are […]

WOP: let’s hear it for the Floyd

I have clear­ly timed career moves bad­ly, because in the hun­gry wait for Welling­ton on a Plate I was unem­ployed and spent large parts of the day dream­ing about where and what I would eat, but now it’s on, I have a tem­po­rary job and it’s not in the CBD. Dis­as­ter! How­ev­er, it turned out […]

WOP: Give me shelter

So, Welling­ton on a Plate — it’s quite good, yeah? While Joan­na is a (deli­cious­ly) sea­soned pro, this is my first year sam­pling the culi­nary delights of the fes­ti­val of nomz. So I fig­ured I should share my find­ings. Here are my first two expe­ri­ences — Mar­tin Bosley’s and Fox­glove.

Our movies have gone to the dogs

Remem­ber Footrot Flats? Of course you do. You prob­a­bly did­n’t even need that link, unless you’re a wee lit­tle thing or new to the coun­try. Mur­ray Bal­l’s car­toon strip about farm life and a dog named Dog ran every day in the Evening Post for near­ly 20 years. In fact, in 1987, Footrot Flats: A […]

Snow in Cuba

You might not have noticed, but it’s pret­ty cold in Welling­ton right now. In fact, let us be the very first peo­ple to tell you: it’s snow­ing in some parts. Woah! Now we have dis­pensed with the usu­al sar­casm, please enjoy this beau­ti­ful video by Ro Tier­ney of the snow in Cuba Mall. Snow on […]

WOP: Eating the other cheek

Miss Hun­gry & Frozen said the oth­er day “I think cheeks are the new shanks”. Read­ing var­i­ous Dine menus for Welling­ton on Plate, they are indeed every­where. You won’t hear a com­plaint about that from me. Instead, you get to read about how I had beef cheeks for lunch and then din­ner on Thurs­day. Atlanta […]

WOP: A deluge of dreadfulness at Monsoon Poon

Our mouths have been work­ing over­time this week, with all the Welling­ton on a Plate action going around. Of course Tues­day had the abort­ed attempt at Lager­field and then eat­ing off the reg­u­lar menu at Fratel­li. Tonight we’ve got reviews of Mon­soon Poon, Atlanta and Bet­tys for you, which to sum up were DREADFUL, decent […]