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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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