Five questions with Wanda Harland

Full dis­clo­sure: the Welling­ton­ista is all about nepo­tism. So we thought it was about jol­ly time we sat down (well, emailed) our Martha, who has been a very impor­tant part of the ‘ista since like 2006 at least (although she is much less of a bad influ­ence on us now than she used to be), […]

Smells like year-old fish and rotten eggs. But awesome!

Has it real­ly been a year since Fish­head mag­a­zine launched? Appar­ent­ly so! Con­se­quent­ly, they’d like to par­ty with you! There’s be cock­tail spe­cials, free entry and Welling­ton super­group The Eggs play­ing. Fish­head birth­day after­par­ty Thurs­day March 31, 9pm-mid­night CQ Bar in the Qual­i­ty Hotel, 223 Cuba Street. Last one in’s a rot­ten…

A lake of laksa

As it’s get­ting cold­er, and we’re get­ting colds, the minds of the Welling­ton­ista turn towards hot, spicy sat­is­fac­tion. For some of us (well, at least me), this means lak­sa. But where on earth in Welling­ton can we find Malaysian food??? What’s that you say, on every sec­ond block? Okay, fine. But not all lak­sas are […]