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February 29, 2008

Four and a half things to do this weekend

1. Right now you should go and buy your tick­et to the Wel­ling­ton Girl Geek din­ner, because accord­ing to their site, there are only three tick­ets left. And you know you want to go, because a) Brenda is awe­some at all things inter­web b) I’m speak­ing and there must be a reas­on why I’m so hub­rist­ic­al and c) we already men­tioned the hope­ful swag.

2. On Sat­urday, you should go to the Gay and Les­bi­an Fair in Civic Square, because, to quote Sue, it’s “fully licensed with rumours of white­bait frit­ters”.

3. As if that was­n’t enough of a fair, on Sunday there’s the New­town Fest­iv­al!

4. Also on Sunday, the Cos­tume Cave is hav­ing a sale of its old cos­tumes, so you should go along and get some new out­fits to spice up your life. As a side note, I was going to do a post at one stage recom­mend­ing that you rent any wigs you may need from the Cos­tume Cave instead of since Cre­at­ive Sho­woff in Thorndon they’re $10 instead of $20, but then I was a month late in return­ing a wig to Cre­at­ive and they did­n’t charge me any­thing, so that’s nice.

And the half point: Since we know there’s plenty of Auck­landers who read this site as well, on Sat­urday at 5pm the Auck­land­ista is hav­ing its first meet-up in an extremely untrendy bar near the Via­duct, and so if you’re inter­ested in con­trib­ut­ing to the site, you should get in con­tact to find out where they’ll be and come along.

Joanna
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April 27, 2007

What up, weekend? 27 April edition

So, what to do over the next couple of days? Do like we do, and do these things:

  • Get your fancy pants on, and head along to the Madame Fancy Pants new store open­ing tonight at 217 Cuba St.
  • I’m sure you know by now how we feel about any­thing even vaguely Tiki-related, so nat­ur­ally Voo­doo Mambo at Mighty Mighty ranks highly on our must-do list.
  • Or, if you’re after some­thing more tra­di­tion­al, why not check out the Maori Mar­ket 2007 at the TSB Bank Area? it prom­ises to fea­ture

    …paint­ings, weav­ing, sculp­ture, wood, sil­ver, bone, gold, and green­stone carving, clay, Ta Moko or tra­di­tion­al tat­too with items ran­ging in price from $500 to $80,000.

  • How about an immers­ive envir­on­ment of light and sound? That’d be Look­less­ness and it’s on at the Film Archive. Sat­urday night sees a “live per­form­ance by the artists entitled Light-mantled Sooty Albatross. People are invited to view live in action “the mutli-pro­ject­or ana­logue delights: spliced and bub­bling mar­mite col­lage, eye-bend­ing glass light, and bleached, hon­eyed sprock­et-holes.”
  • Or, if you prefer your birds to rise frm the flames, there is, of course the Phoenix Found­a­tion play­ing at San Frindigo on Sat­urday night.
Joanna
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