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• • Seraphine Pick - 14 March, City Gallery

    • 24 Mar 2010
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    • The name Seraphine Pick conjures up images of a conceptual artist with a rock and roll attitude.
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• • Rhian Returns

    • 15 Mar 2010
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    • Many called it the best live performance of 2009.  Rhian Sheehan’s Standing in Silence: live was an epic night at Downstage.  It brought to life an acclaimed album, taking the music to another level of intensity, even leaving some in tears as the bows were made and the lights came back up.  Yes, it was that freakin’ emotional.So can we have some more Mr Sheehan?  Well yes.  Yes we can.Standing in Silence: live returns for 2010, this time stretching its legs in the luxurious surrounds of Wellington’s Opera House on the 19th of June.Once again we will be gifted with 14 talented contemporary, classical and electronic musicians, performing live alongside a filmic backdrop of moving images, shot all over the world and specifically created for the Standing in Silence show.Joining Rhian on-stage will be Jeff Boyle from Jakob, Tom Pierard (Strike), Raashi Malik (Rhombus), Jeramiah Ross (Module), Steve Bremner (NZSO, Strike), Jess Chambers, Andy Hummel, Brett Skinner, Al Frazer (all Woodshed Sessions), plus a 5 piece string section. I missed this the first time around...  I’m not going to make the same mistake twice.  You would be wise to do the same.Get your tickets here. -Darren
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• • Neil Gaiman - 13 March, Wellington Town Hall

    • 15 Mar 2010
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    • There is a new thin white duke, and his name is Neil Gaiman.  Polite relaxed and confident, with a slight northern-English accent, Neil is writing rock-star royalty all-over.Gaiman is the author behind the Sandman graphic novels, as well as seminal road trippin’ mythology-busting novel, American Gods, and the button-eyed creepiness of Coraline.
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• • Extreme makeover

    • 9 Mar 2010
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    • We've decided to give Texture an extreme makeover!  We've picked out the best bits of Texture and put it into a new blogging website - complete with a hot new look and name - Word on the Street.
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• • Enter The Kale-Dragon

    • 7 Mar 2010
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    • Combine the intense stare (And eyebrows) of Bruce Lee, with the sonic-boom of music-maestro Karsh Kale, and what do you get?  Cult-classic awesomeness with a twist of modern mind-f*$kery is what.
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• • The Liquorland New Zealand Beer Festival returns… doh…!

    • 27 Feb 2010
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    • Next Saturday the mighty Beer Festival returns to the capital for nine hours of frivolity AND with it comes 24 breweries, six restaurants, one winery and capacity for 10,000 people.
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• • Pre-loved Fashion Sale? Yes Please.

    • 27 Feb 2010
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    • Anna Wintour - eat your heart out.
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• • Gods and Heroes - 20 February, Bats Theatre

    • 24 Feb 2010
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    • The Greek gods have fled Olympus, deciding to take refuge in.
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• • Little Bushman live with the NZSO - 23 February, Album Review

    • 24 Feb 2010
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    • I remember the first time I saw Warren Maxwell live.
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• • Connan Mockasin: Please turn me into the Snat - 23 February, Album Review

    • 23 Feb 2010
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    • It’s been an 18 month journey for the man known as Connan.
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• • Three more nights to go...

    • 22 Feb 2010
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    • That’s right, don’t miss your chance to catch the last three nights of the 2010 French Film Festival at the Embassy Theatre.
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• • Songs, Street Parties and Sustainablility for Mt Vic

    • 21 Feb 2010
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    • Rain baptised the inaugural Mt Victoria, Inner City Festival in 2009.
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• • Eyes Wide Open: Love and Guts – 11 February, Manky Chops Gallery

    • 20 Feb 2010
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    • Last week Manky Chops Gallery hosted its second Love and Guts art exhibition, strictly three days only, which was heralded to be one of the most memorable shows to date.
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• • Electric Wire Hustle – 13 February, San Francisco Bathhouse

    • 20 Feb 2010
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    • Local Wellington trio, Electric Wire Hustle, have had a busy and very successful year with the release of their self-titled debut album, a European tour and a jam-packed summer festival schedule, all in the name of their incredibly popular contemporary hip hop, soul, funk and jazz infusion.
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• • Anne Frank: A History for Today – 20 February, Te Papa

    • 20 Feb 2010
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    • The tale of Anne Frank has always fascinated me, ever since I read her diary as an impressionable twelve year-old girl.
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• • Sacha Vee: debut album release...!

    • 19 Feb 2010
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    • This Saturday is your chance to check out Wellington’s hottest songstress in action, as Sacha Vee releases her debut self-titled EP at Hope Bros on Saturday night.
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• • Reward a Wellington Hospitality Star!

    • 14 Feb 2010
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    • It’s best of the best time for the Capitals golden gods of hospitality.
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• • Love to Roooooooooooll?

    • 11 Feb 2010
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    • This Valentine's Day you can celebrate love, summer and the joy of cycling at the Frocks on Bikes' romantic extravaganza, Love to Roll.
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• • Vernon God Little – 4 February, Downstage Theatre

    • 10 Feb 2010
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    • This month Downstage Theatre plays host to twenty-one young actors and one epic adaptation of DBC Pierre’s Booker Prize winning novel, Vernon God Little.
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• • High Tea at Martha's Pantry - 29 January

    • 10 Feb 2010
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    • Now let me be very clear.
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• • Cutting into the Fringe

    • 8 Feb 2010
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    • It’s just days to go until life on the edge will begin.
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• • It’s the year of the TIGER…!

    • 5 Feb 2010
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    • The Chinese New Year has always fascinated me, mostly the idea that it grew from a legend that foretold of a wild beast that attacked and killed villages at the end of every year and was only dissuaded from its merciless path by loud noises and bright lights.
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• • A Day in Pompeii

    • 2 Feb 2010
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    • In 79 AD Pompeii, a Roman town-city near modern Naples, was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius.
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• • Them Crooked Vultures - 29 January, TSB Arena

    • 2 Feb 2010
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    • The allure of sex, sweat, thunderous drumming and chugging riffs lies at the heart of Them Crooked Vulture’s sound.
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• • From Dot Culture to Street Culture

    • 31 Jan 2010
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    • The bad news first - Yes, Yayoi Kusama’s trippy extravaganza of dots will wrap-up this Sunday at the City Gallery.
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• • Go Go... New Zealand Post Readers and Writers Week...!

    • 27 Jan 2010
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    • On Tuesday evening the New Zealand International Arts Festival officially launched the New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week programme and it truly has something for everyone.
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• • Signer: Next We Bring You the Fire - 22 January, Album Review

    • 26 Jan 2010
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    • Ex-Wellingtonian Bevan Smith pokes his head up somewhat, with a tasty little morsel of an album.
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• • Camera Obscura and The Books – 19 January, San Francisco Bathhouse

    • 26 Jan 2010
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    • An exciting double-act hit the Capital last week that was definitely not to be missed.
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• • Andy C and MC GQ - 14 January, Sandwiches

    • 26 Jan 2010
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    • Not knowing much about Drum and Bass or the highly acclaimed Andy C, real name Andrew Clarke, I headed along to Sandwiches more concerned with what hour I would hit the hay on a school night rather than how the actual performance would pan out… how wrong I was to think that this night would put me to sleep.
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• • Locale - 26 January, Toi Poneke Gallery

    • 26 Jan 2010
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    • Another name for Locale could have been “3 Photographers chasing the New Zealand-ness that resides in the often seen but rarely regarded.
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