Win tickets to the Grand Speakeasy Murder Mystery

Cham­pagne, canapes and cold-blooded murder are three of our favour­ite things, so we’re pretty happy to be able to have a double pass to give away to The Grand Speak­easy Murder Mys­tery on this Sat­urday, May 16. Romeo was found tra­gic­ally poisoned in the speak­easy, join the invest­ig­a­tion into his murder and help a psych­ic detect­ive solve […]

Win a VIP double pass to the Wellington Wine and Food Festival

Wel­ling­ton is a city over­flow­ing with good res­taur­ants and fine drops to drink. It seems ridicu­lous that we haven’t had our own day-of-food-and-wine-and-oh-okay-fine-beer yet. Luck­ily, that’s about to change with the cun­ningly named Wel­ling­ton Food and Wine Fest­iv­al. The Fest­iv­al brings togeth­er the best of loc­al food, wine, bever­ages and res­taur­ants, out­doors on the water­front […]

Win tickets to Raybon Without a Cause

[pullquote]Why did King­ston kill Bernie? Because he tried to mount Vic­tor­ia [/pullquote] Every­one likes jokes, right? And every­one likes some­thing for free. So would you like to win a double pass to the open­ing of Ray­bon Kan’s com­edy show on May 7? Fresh from record­ing his first live stand-up DVD, Ray­bon Kan returns to the […]

Good cola has good karma (and a giveaway)

A lot of people I know, myself included, have had a rough couple of weeks, so let’s talk about nice things instead! Spe­cific­ally, let’s talk about Karma Cola and Ginger­ella. The good people at All Good Organ­ics (they lit­er­ally are good people!) dropped some off for us to try, and they were deli­cious. The Karma […]

Batucada Sound Machine in town to shake it

Cuba Street Car­ni­val favour­ites Batu­cada Sound Machine have returned to New Zea­l­and with a new album of tried and true road-tested tunes entitled Don’t Keep Silent, due for release Janu­ary 23rd, 2012. In addi­tion, BSM have planned their first ever com­pre­hens­ive tour of New Zea­l­and to cel­eb­rate the album release includ­ing a spot at WOMAD […]

Will you play, baby?

Wel­ling­ton five-piece The Thomas Oliv­er Band have spent the past few years tour­ing and play­ing live through­out New Zea­l­and with the likes of Fat Freddy’s Drop, Gin Wig­more and Britain’s Oli Brown. With­in this time the band have also writ­ten and recor­ded their debut full-length album Baby, I’ll Play to be released in early 2011. […]