We hear from some of the 2016 candidates in the local body election

So, we asked some ques­tions. And we hoped that can­did­ates would get in touch with us. In pre­vi­ous years, we’d obtained a spread­sheet of every single can­did­ate and emailed them, and frankly, work­ing as a group, it was a bloody lot of work get­ting their answers back, try­ing to hunt them down, try­ing to make […]

Webstock 2016: Wednesday Warmup with the Wellingtonista

It’s that spe­cial time again! For the sixth year not quite in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence. You know the deal with this by now – it’s not an offi­cial Web­stock event but they like us, and it IS an offi­cial […]

Eats, rides and city living (and now earthquakes!)

This post is an intro­duc­tion since the folks at Wel­ling­tonista have kindly invited me to join their merry band (and I now have an unex­pec­ted day off since the office is closed). So a little about me ….  I LOVE Wel­ling­ton, food, events, eat­ing exper­i­ences, movies, solo Sat­urday morn­ing wanders, soak­ing up the city vibe, […]

Wellingtonista on the Wheels of Steel

VBC logoSpin­ning the plat­ters that mat­ter on VBC from 7 to 9 tonight on behalf of the Wel­ling­tonista will be… Dan S.

Hardy souls happy to be enraged or enlightened by some blasts from the past (many tunes will be con­jured from actu­al vinyl arti­facts) can tune in on 88.3FM or by vis­it­ing http://www.vbc.org.nz/ where they will stream the con­tent dir­ect to your PC speak­ers. I’ll try and make a record­ing of the show for pod­cast con­ver­sion but, in the likely event I am con­sumed by pan­ic, I make no guar­an­tees.

Stephen’s intro to ver­sion 2.0 still applies:

The show will go from 7 – 9 pm, NZDT (GMT+13). The stu­dio line is +64 4 463 9994 if you feel like ringing up and abusing/encouraging me.