Blogs / February 2022
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If you want to Fight for Freedom, go to Ukraine
- Eye of the Fish
- The numpty-heads down at Parliament continue to protest and cause disruption, crying out for Freedom, when they honestly do not know what real “fighting for...
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Artist interview: Acclaimed Wellingtonian artist Robèrt Franken
- Wellington City Libraries
- Wellington artist Robèrt Franken was born in 1946 in The Hague, into a family with a long and rich artistic heritage. He grew up in the studios of Mesdag, connected with the Panorama Mesdag Museum, and is a sixth-generation artist.
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Scaffold city
- Eye of the Fish
- Just a quick question to the architectural / urban world out there – what the heck is happening to this building? I thought it was...
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Household battery recycling
- Wellington City Libraries
- On Monday 14 February 2022 Wellington City Council is launching a recycling programme to divert used household batteries from the landfill. How it works You can drop off your used batteries for free at: Island Bay Community Centre Karori Library Kilbirnie Library Newlands Community Centre Tawa Community Centre Te Awe Library (CBD) Tip Shop at… Continue reading Household battery recycling →
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Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Drongos Go Home!
- Eye of the Fish
- Urban protest has a long history in New Zealand and especially in Wellington, being the capital and all that. I’ve been on a few myself...
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Staff Picks: The best CDs of 2021
- Wellington City Libraries
- Mark’s Pick: Vulture prince. / Aftab, Arooj [VINYL ONLY] “Vulture Prince” is the third album from Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer Arooj Aftab. It made ‘Best of the Year’ picks even halfway through last year, and has been pressed on Vinyl 3 times since it came out last April – all of which sold out almost instantly.… Continue reading Staff Picks: The best CDs of 2021 →
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Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Paddington
- Eye of the Fish
- MR AND MRS Brown first met Paddington on a housing development platform. In fact, that was how he came to have such an unusual name for a...
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The Paddington, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: Trifles
- The Wellingtonista
- Reviewed by Shauwn Keil. Upon entering the theatre, we are treated to a magnificent set, designed by Jasmine Bryham. Everything that reminds you of Nana and Poppa’s house is present. Jars of God knows what across the kitchen bench. A kettle and cool mugs. Dinner set items. A paua shell ashtray on a shelf on […]
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Light rail in Auckland: should Wellington be afraid?
- Talk Wellington
- It’s only January and already the blockbuster announcement of the year: finally, grownup-city mass transit for our largest metropolitan centre! But a lot of smart people have made a lot of weird decisions in there… could Wellington experience similar weird? So after an interminable-feeling period of cluster-shemozzle uber-bungle, it was Officially Declared: Auckland will get...
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