Winners at the 2014 Capital Awards

Here’s our stor­i­fied cov­er­age live from the Cap­it­al Awards because we’re too lazy to type it all out. Hope­fully this is still access­ible. [View the story “Win­ners at the Cap­it­al Awards” on Stor­i­fy]

Domestic violence isn’t funny. Hopefully these comedians are

Last week, we gave away a pass t0 Ray­bon Kan’s com­edy show as a favour to a friend. On hear­ing about what his show con­tained, I am so very sorry we did. Jokes about Chris Brown beat­ing his girl­friend? Not okay.  Here are some handy New Zea­l­and stat­ist­ics from Women’s Refuge One in three women […]

What we’ve been tweeting about lately

Do you fol­low us on Twit­ter? A lot of you do. But you might miss our tweets in amongst all your very import­ant updates from sportspeople, so here’s what’s been going on. We talked about a new Mojo open­ing in the Tele­com build­ing on Wil­lis Street, and what a relief that was since it was […]

The home of the schnapps election

‘Zum­wohl’ does­n’t sound like some­thing that ori­gin­ates in Wel­ling­ton, but it turns out that Ulf Fuehr­er (appar­ently a real name!) and his Aotearoa Dis­til­ler­ies Ltd com­pany that makes the award-win­n­ing schnapps are based right here. Add that loc­a­tion to our love of pub­lic ser­vants express­ing opin­ions, our twit­ter addic­tion, our mutu­al admir­a­tion agree­ment with Pub­lic […]

Flim Wellington!

We get to keep The Hob­bit. Yay! Every­one has opin­ions on the mat­ter, because every­one knows someone who’s worked on LOTR (my mum made some of the mugs in the “it comes in pints?” scene in the last movie). We’re stoked for the people who work in our film industry, but less impressed about the […]

Wellingtonista Twitter

Being the hep cool web cats that we are, the Wel­ling­tonista has recently set ourselves up a Twit­ter account so that we can send out updates about what you should do with yourselves. If you’re already a twit­ter user, head on over to our account and sign up to receive the word from the streets, gen­er­ally at a one-or-two updates per day rate. If you haven’t used Twit­ter before, we’ve got a little spe­cif­ic how-to after the jump.