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 […]

So long, Marbecks Cuba Mall

It looks like the Mar­becks on Cuba Mall is clos­ing down, leav­ing the blessed Slow­boat and Real Groovy the only music shops in the area. It does­n’t real­ly come as much of a sur­prise — record shops today seem to exist main­ly for music nerds and CD-buy­ing grans. ’90s-style music shops like Mar­becks are a […]

Japan City: the fruity fruits of globalisation

The for­mer Hal­len­steins build­ing on Cuba Mall has been under­go­ing a bit of a facelift, get­ting rid of its cute and inter­est­ing 1980s post-mod­­ern facade and replac­ing it with some­thing that looks a lot less inter­est­ing (sob!) But what’s lost in the build­ing has part­ly been made up for with its cheer­ful new ten­ant, the […]