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• Surf’s Up Too

  • 12 Nov 2009
  • Eye of the Fish
  • People power rules. Or so it seems today - if the paper is right, then the Maranui may be about to be saved. We discussed the 5th Scenario here, with some reasonably heated dialogue, but it sounds as though a sensible agreement has been reached.
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  • This Eye of the Fish newsitem has 3 comments.

    • ‘The only thing I did not like about Maranui cafe was that it was always packed! I’m glad they were able to save the building, it is quite a classic kind of surf front building and I think a good solid upgrade to the internals and as you say sprinklers wou’
    • ‘There are 4 buildings there - if Maranui and Lyall and the Toilets are three, what is the other one, and is it going to get demolished too?’
    • ‘I don’t know if Kerry P. got it right - the overwhelming message was that Council should make good on its self-insurance. If my house burnt down, I would expect insurance to pay for repairs. If my neighbour complained that it wasn’t fair that my insurance’

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• West Hollywood lounge experience

  • 10 Nov 2009
  • The Wellingtonista
  • Today's Dom Post reports that the Loaded Hog will, intriguingly, be redeveloped into a "west Hollywood lounge experience".
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  • This Wellingtonista newsitem has 10 comments.

    • ‘Speaking of which, I went to that new "Public" bar last night (ex Sport bar) and it was all you imply, but loud too. What's that you say? No, sorry, totally deaf now. The walls were vibrating, that's how loud it was.’
    • ‘"West Hollywood Lounge Bar" means to me that there has to be one certain ingredient, that is lacking from the current Hog experience. I'm talking, of course, about the arrival by limo. West Hollywood is all about the pavement, the arrival at it by blac’
    • ‘ The weird thing about Slade, they were originally skinheads, but back when skinheadism was a youth fashion and hadn't been co-opted by racist hooligans.’

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