Willy Smackntush: COVEN URANUS - a celestial gathering

Come to Coven: Uranus. You bet your ass it’ll be good.

Movies love to show nightclubs as glam­or­ous places with dance­floors heav­ing with ridicu­lously good-look­ing people, all wear­ing the most amaz­ing out­fits – but that had nev­er been my exper­i­ence. Not until I went to Cov­en: Slum­ber earli­er this year, that is.   View this post on Ins­tagram   A post shared by Cov­en Events Wel­ling­ton […]

Chasing the Black Dog with beer

Last night we went to the open­ing of the new Black Dog brew­ery on Cuba Street, and, spoil­er alert, it was bloody delight­ful. All pics were sup­plied by the pub­li­cist because if you fol­low us on Twit­ter, you’ll know I can­’t pho­to­graph for shit. A con­fes­sion: I had nev­er been to the old Black Dog […]

Happy happy birthday

I have a sneak­ing sus­pi­cion the Masked Bar­fly has a few Man­dat­ory suits in his ward­robe. And now the Cuba St store is cel­eb­rat­ing a spe­cial birth­day – 15 years in busi­ness!!! Design­ers Clare Bowden and Fiona Edwards first met while train­ing in fash­ion and fash­ion tex­tiles at Wel­ling­ton Poly­tech­nic. Now they have a league […]