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 […]