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 […]