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. […]