NZ’s longest running outdoor cinema

It’s that time of year again. Some mega out­door film view­ing action lies ahead for the Wel­ling­ton region. Let’s all raise our faces sky­ward in the hope the weath­er comes to the party this year as the line-up is the right mix of clas­sic, con­tem­por­ary and fun! Kick­ing off  THIS Thursday 6 Feb­ru­ary AT *6:30PM […]

Middle of Middle Earth Market and Movies

There’s a hob­bit-abrew­ing in this wee city of ours. Today we’ve got anoth­er guest post from Heath­erC from Food­ie Gems of Wel­ling­ton all about the mar­kets going on. Get in quick!  If you’re a LOTR fan, you could do worse than get your­self down to Wait­angi Park for 6pm each of the next three nights […]

Sooooo… we gonna ban this too?

waitangi park

Just ask­ing.

A Snark at the Park

A guest post from Kenno…

Wait­angi Park, yeah, sigh, it leaves me flat. Be warned, that will become the most over­used descrip­tion of the next few years. It’s an urb­an space sur­round­ing the mar­vel­lous Te Papa and thereby it’s not simply a Wel­ling­ton space but a space that should migh­tily reflect the nation­al char­ac­ter.

Well, if the idea was to reflect bland con­ser­vat­ive con­form­ism and lock-step simple minded­ness with all the indi­vidu­al­ity and self expres­sion of a school­girl uni­form, then it will suc­ceed. I, for one, thought we might want to reflect oth­er, per­haps more appeal­ing aspects of the nation­al char­ac­ter. Don’t get me wrong, this place would really wow them in Nel­son or Timaru, but, this city is a little bey­ond that, a bit more mature, slightly more cos­mo­pol­it­an and farther away from pig-dogs and pad­docks. Right? God, I was really try­ing to under­state the case.

A natural love

Dear fel­low Wel­ling­tonis­tas and the good people of Wel­ling­ton in gen­er­al, If the weath­er is as gor­geous tomor­row as it is today, you must do what I did at lunch­time today – get golden crisp fish’n chips from Thorndon Fish’n Chips (don’t let the name fool you, it’s next to A‑Mart and across the road […]