Featured / April 2011
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Notional Significance: Gully
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] The path bends with the motorway, peeling away from the hills, presenting a widescreen panorama of residential Thorndon.
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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You can’t trust the new real-time bus system; don’t
- The Wellingtonista
- Earlier this month Alan heralded the beginning of the roll-out of the Regional Council’s new Real Time Passenger Information project.
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Narrative Playgrounds group show at Pixel Ink Gallery
- The Wellingtonista
- Narrative Playgrounds is a group exhibition at Pixel Ink Gallery of visual works by emerging and established New Zealand artists.
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La Boca Loca
- The Wellingtonista
- With the opening of The Roxy cinema, Miramar has suddenly become a rather popular little neighbourhood.
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Jamming culture
- The Wellingtonista
- Saturday’s Jamoff at Craft2.0 was a great success. We were on the spot with this video report. In a field of 24 entries, your correspondent achieved a near perfect score of 3-3-3-3-2 in his aim to produce the most mediocre jam.
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The little Fair that Could – Turns 5
- The Wellingtonista
- Saturday marks the 5th birthday of Craft2.
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The Illuminati are Sacrificing Children in Capital E!
- The Wellingtonista
- If you sometimes wonder what the hell Alf Rune is going on about (and to be honest, we all do at times), a link or two might help.
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The cupboards are bare
- The Wellingtonista
- The Wellingtonista is not just about bringing the snark to the deserving.
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How we could actually improve our roads
- The Wellingtonista
- If you’ve ever driven from Newtown to Kilbirnie, you’ll know how godawful the intersection with State Highway One is.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wednesday’s council meeting
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- As most of Wellington knows, the majority of the council have forced it to sit for an “extraordinary” meeting, at 5:31pm Wednesday, to deal with the situation of the council’s position to the NZTA proposals, despite Celia’s best efforts to delay the situation.
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Notional Significance: Disinterment
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] The entry to Bolton St cemetery is unremarkable: a gap in a white fence off a respectable street, a canopy of pines, plain crosses against a corrugated iron fence.
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“But hey, I have red hair”
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- The saga over Celia’s public bullying of her deputy, Ian McKinnon, is only getting stranger. She’s now shrugging off her offensive actions due to the colour of her hair… Yesterday Ms Wade-Brown played down the incident, saying it would have been “more appropriate” to have the discussion in private, “but hey, I have red hair”.
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Celia loses control (and the plot)
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- There is an incredible story in today’s Dom Post from Dave Burgess… Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown has accused Deputy Mayor Ian McKinnon of betrayal in a furious rant in the public reception area of the city council’s offices.
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Mojo Origins
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- So with Starbucks, according to
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It’s MAC GONE MAD, Wellington version
- The Wellingtonista
- We’ve all had many chuckles at Damn You Autocorrect, but then we came to the shocking realisation that Steve Jobs must have secret insider knowledge of Wellington.
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Cinephilia: World Cinema Showcase 2011 Preview
- The Wellingtonista
- For this year’s World Cinema Showcase preview I started with a list of all the films I wanted to see and then realised that I had used up my entire world limit.
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Notional Significance: Concrete Archipelago
- The Wellingtonista
- The path, from tilted field down into the motorway chasm, winds past richly-tagged garage walls and rear fences.
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Letting Space on the Terrace
- The Wellingtonista
- From the public art programme which brought you Kim Paton’s Free Store and Tao Wells’ The Beneficiary’s Office (which both caused significant national media interest and debate) I’d like to present to you: Colin Hodson’s The Market Testament.
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The carrots! They are mobbing!
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- Conscious Consumers is organising New Zealand’s first Carrotmob.
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Rumble in the Jumble
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- The Great Eclectic Jumble sale is back, for those of us who love all things vintage, the Jumble sale is like a single op shop on crack, and really good high quality crack at that.
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Did I Believe You Should Look Around You?
- The Wellingtonista
- At the Wellingtonista, we love us some live theatre and comedy.
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A great yarn – what Tash did next
- The Wellingtonista
- Remember Tash from It’s A Tree? Not content to rest on her laurels – or tuis, or flowers, badoom chish – she’s kept herself busy in the world of wool, opening up Holland Road Yarn at 281 Jackson Street, Petone.
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Snapper for trains?
- WCC Watch
- Very interesting revelation in today’s Dom Post that the GWRC is missing out on about $9,000 in train fares every weekday because the trains are too crowded for ticket collectors to get to the patrons… It was revealed today that Greater Wellington regional council has lost about $260,000 as overcrowding on trains prevents staff from collecting fares.
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Drunk Councillor: Keeping local body politics classy
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- You never know what you’re going to read when you open the Hutt News, but a story about a drunk local body politician should surprise no one… Roger Styles is not backing down after a series of heated exchanges with Greater Wellington Regional Council chair-woman Fran Wilde last week.
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Wellington: screwed
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- So not only are many of our buildings going to collapse – but it seems that the very building that houses our city council is an earthquake risk. Given how vital the WCC will be to any disaster efforts, this is very scary. The article is very light on details – particularly how much it would cost to fix the problem. If anyone has any more information – please send it through.
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predictive bussing revisited
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s been the better part of a year since we wrote about the Regional Council’s Real Time Passenger Information project.
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Notional Significance: Up and Under
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] The path sidles away from the road.
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Parkour update
- The Wellingtonista
- Creative Commons photo by Alexandre Ferreira on Flickr In November 2007 I posted an article about the exciting pursuit of parkour in Wellington, and it’s been one of our most enduringly popular articles, generating a steady stream of traffic and comments.
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A Cuba St cafe that’s not a cafe in Cuba St
- The Wellingtonista
- Last week I was in sunny Napier, idly strolling down Dalton Street, when I came across this curious cafe.
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