A couple of new(ish) bars

Hey, remem­ber when we used to be on top of all the open­ings and clos­ings in town and filled with reviews? Yeah me nei­ther. The ‘ista is old and prop­er­­ty-and-busi­­ness own­ing now, and we have Twit­ter instead of our group mail­ing list. But we can still try! So to that end, here’s a cou­ple of […]

Preview: The Loneliest Whale in the World

This isn’t a break up show. It’s about marine sci­ence. So begins the blurb for this pro­duc­tion com­ing up at Bats The­atre from July 10–14. A play about whales seems to be very very time­ly for Welling­ton right now, but this one has been in the mak­ing for a long time. “Four years ago, my friend […]

A secret to share

Today’s guest post comes from Heather of Food­ie Gems of Wellie. Yay, we love guest posts! We all love a secret. Espe­cial­ly one that deliv­ers plea­sure. A jaunt around the recent­ly launched Secret Art Walk uncov­ered all sorts of Welling­ton trea­sures. From the mag­nif­i­cent rata cone archi­tec­ture of the Supreme Court to the holo­graph­ic dis­play […]

ALL of the meat

The time that car­niv­o­rous Welling­to­ni­ans have been drool­ful­ly antic­i­pat­ing has arrived: Big Bad Wolf has opened in Wake­field St. This is a char­cu­terie with a local twist, as their prod­ucts incor­po­rate wild game ani­mals along with the more famil­iar­pork, lamb and beef. Beasts that have giv­en their lives for a high­er pur­pose are vis­i­ble in […]

It’s Shrove Tuesday, let’s talk religion!

Ha ha ha, of course we’re kid­ding. Let’s talk about pan­cakes instead.We wan­na know where Welling­ton’s best pan­cakes are at. Today for lunch I went to Cafe Pana­ma (in fact, I am still there. Woo!), and this is what I ate: I thought I was order­ing stan­dard pan­cakes with banana and bacon for $11.50, but […]

Capitol opposite of punishment

With a cou­ple of fam­i­ly birth­days tak­ing place over the hol­i­days, Jan­u­ary was a good time to assem­ble for din­ner togeth­er. Hav­ing dined at Capi­tol before (in fact, it’s been nom­i­nat­ed for TAWAs mul­ti­ple times), I was­n’t put off by its Flash web­site or that they don’t take book­ings for groups small­er than eight. As […]

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.

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 […]