Blogs / December 2007
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Building rumours 21: end-of-year round-up
- WellUrban
- Here's an assortment of new building news to wrap up 2007, starting from the confirmed and moving towards the more speculative.The apartment building at 158 Cuba St, which one would expect to be approaching construction since the previous building was demolished a little while ago, now has a name and a shiny website: Cubana.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Bill Hammond - City Gallery
- The Wellingtonista
- Assuming you've made the right decision (and are having your hols in February), then we here at the Wellingtonista advise you to get yourself along to the City Gallery for the FREE Bill Hammond exhibition, Jingle Jangle Morning. And why? Because even when it's crappy out, Bill's painting is there for you.
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The last ten metres
- The Lazy Fern Track Blog
- In late December 2005 strange thrashing and grunting noises were heard from the bush above South Kaori Stream. Wild pigs? Blind mountain bikers? Exploring botanists? Nope, it was the first of many exploration trips to find a suitable route for the proposed easy downhill track. Two years later, and the last ten metres of the track has just been built!
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The fun police
- WellUrban
- "Graffiti Alley" between the Left Bank and Ghuznee St may have just been edged out in the Wellingtonista Best Public Art awards, but it's still the most dynamic and democratic site of all. There were some particularly interesting goings-on a couple of weekends ago, and when I walked past early one the evening the masked artists were hard at work; later that evening they were still there, but being sternly spoken to by the boys in blue.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Embracing your inner show-mom
- The Wellingtonista
- Late notice but tonight at the Film Archive, cnr of Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets, at 6:30pm the Friends of the Film Archive present a special insight into baby contests, beauty competitions and screen tests from yesteryear. It’s free. It’s hilarious.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- Just the one new film opening this week:
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Wellingtonian of the Year, 2006, how's he doing now?
- The Wellingtonista
- Time to take a quick look at how last year's Wellingtonista Wellingtonian of the Year is getting on in the wake of a full year of promotional engagements & speaking gigs.
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Get your shopping on
- The Wellingtonista
- Sunday, this sunday from 11am till 2pm Craft2.0 is on at TheNewDowse. It's a free event and promises to be the biggest fair yet, with over 70 different crafty types selling amazing stuff.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Bowen Integrated Ruckus
- WellUrban
- There's been a lot of publicity, most of it negative, about the planned "Bowen Integrated Campus". There hasn't been much to go on, apart from this one rendering, but even so it seems hard to reconcile some of the statements about it with the plans.
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Wellington vs. Auckland
- The Wellingtonista
- A long weekend away provides the perfect oppotunity to reexamine the age-old battle. In our first chapter, our agent goes to Auckland. In our next chapter, an enemy agent will come here...
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Tunnel vision
- WellUrban
- The long-delayed Ngauranga to Airport Transport Study has finally come back with some options for public consultation. It'll take a while for me to crunch through the many megabytes of reports, brochures and forms, but for the meantime I'll just point you to the Dominion Post's barely restrained glee at the prospect of more roads and tunnels, and frogblog's reasonably measured response.
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See The Darjeeling Limited for FREE
- The Wellingtonista
- MySpace Black Curtain is holding a special screening of The Darjeeling Limited in Wellington at the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday 18th December at 8pm.
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Awards results...
- The Wellingtonista
- Hearty congratulations to all our winners.
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Who's going to drive you home tonight?
- The Wellingtonista
- How about you try out a Green Cab? Their all-Prius fleet and commitment to planting trees to offset their carbon, along with their "'ethics first business second" mantra sits happily with the dirty lefty hippies of the Wellingtonista.
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