Blogs / June 2007
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Free tickets to Downstage (limited time, conditions apply)
- The Wellingtonista
- The lovely people at Downstage have offered Wellingtonista-readers the chance to see the new NZ play Finding Murdoch free next Monday or Tuesday.
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PHOTOS: Peter Baillie / The Moon Whispers
- Wellington Live Music
- ePeter Baillie, the esteemed master of Acoustic Lounge, took the stage on Wednesday for an entertaining slot. I've known Peter since I first moved to Wellington, and this is, incredibly, the first time I've seen him play. Peter has strong songs, and a very entertaining stage manner.
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A breath of fresh air
- WellUrban
- While the council's first moves after announcing their "carbon neutral" aspirations were dubious to the point of being counter-productive, here's one very tiny step in the right direction. Vector Energy is trialling urban micro-turbines, first in Waitakere and then in Wellington.
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REVIEW: The Children of Underground Lair
- Wellington Live Music
- Albert Williams was the first act of the night at Bodega on Wednesday. He started off humbly and then proceeded to absolute blow me away.
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How not to go carbon neutral
- WellUrban
- A couple of weeks ago, Wellington City Council decided that Wellington should aspire to become carbon neutral. Since then,a council-controlled organisation has started promoting cheap weekend parking; andthe Regional Council plans to increase bus and train fares by 10%.
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Adshel bus shelter Vote at Council in 1999
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Adshel bus shelters arrived in Wellington as a consequence of Mayor Blumsky and Councillors Foster,Gill, Gotlieb, Goulden, Hutchings,Johnston, Morrison, Parkin, Piper, Prendergast and Shaw voting for them.
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BAND REVIEW: Niko Ne Zna
- Wellington Live Music
- Isn't being totally detached from your everyday reality something that appeals to most? Listening to Niko Ne Zna allows for exactly that to happen.
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Mojo rising
- WellUrban
- Mojo already has six cafes in Wellington, and the cartel continues to expand. There's an outlet planned for the ground floor of the Watermark apartments, and according to the neighbours, there will soon be a Mojo in upper Cuba St.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A lovely email in from Pansy and Poppy
- CataBlog
- Pansy and Poppy came to us when their elderly owner died, and were adopted almost a year ago by a lovely family in (from memory) Palmerston North. They sent us a lovely email and some photos last week that I'd...
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Building rumours 14: buildings everywhere!
- WellUrban
- There's just so much going on at the moment (not just apartments), this will have to be just a brief survey of all the building activity and proposals that I've come across.
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GIGS: 20th - 27th June
- Wellington Live Music
- Here's a list of some of the gigs on from today til next Wednesday. Starting from next week I will post the gigs from Thursday -Wednesday on the Monday so you have time to decide!
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Wellington City Council keeps switching business rates onto your rates bill.
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- oday, in the closing stage of the Draft Annual Plan, Jack Ruben and Bryan Pepperell moved an amendment to stop switching the rates from business onto the residents' rates bill. Those voting for the Ruben / Pepperell amendment were:
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Soup's up!
- The Wellingtonista
- Apparently it is National Soup Week, and since we of course believe everything that marketing people tell us, we'd like to know where the best soup in Wellington can be found. Is it served in bread at Kapai? Whatever it is at The'Ho that Gemma from Texture obsesses over? Something from the ever-expanding Wishbone? Or is there really no better soup than Continental Cream'o Vegetable cup'o soup served in a mug under a duvet on a couch to fight off a hangover?
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Tag team
- WellUrban
- We've already had a few discussions here on WellUrban about graffiti, and while I've tended to be sceptical of anti-graffiti "flying squads" while singing the praises of street art in Waitangi Park and Ghuznee Street's "Graffiti Alley", a lot of other people see all graffiti as mindless vandalism.
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Rock the vote Wellington / Election 2007
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- In 2004 Bryan Robert Pepperell received 18,115 votes and came second in the Wellington City Council mayoral race. Bryan is the clear contender standing again for the people. Ask your friends to support him in this 2007 October election.
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Mo' hotels
- WellUrban
- No-one builds plain old "hotels" any more: they're always "boutique hotels". The cutely-named Ohtel opposite Waitangi Park sounds like it will be exactly that, however.
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Exhibition: Cameo Appearance
- The Wellingtonista
- The exhibition Cameo Appearance at Mary Newton Gallery brings together eight artists working in the area of the portrait - Tony Bond, Gavin Hurley, Anna-Marie O'Brien, Gary Freemantle, Tanja Nola, Octavia Cook, Areta Wilkinson and David Cauchi.
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A Photo Day in the Life
- CataBlog
- Well, it's been a good Sunday. 2 cats homed, 2 new very enthusiastic new members who are keen to help out with fostering, and two people in with donations of food etc for us. First off, our dear Sooty finally...
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Film Festival Sneak Peak
- The Wellingtonista
- some of you will be like me and saving your pennies up for the 36th Wellington Film Festival. It hits town on July 20th and runs till August 4th. If the early line up announcement of some globally anticipated films is anything to go by it's going to be yet another great see festival.
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Quick questions
- WellUrban
- Is it better to have a supermarket in Mt Cook, so that the locals can do their shopping on foot rather than taking a taxi from Thorndon via the bypass, or a swimming pool? Would replacing Crossways with 3-4 storeys of apartments, and creating a new set of community facilities on the ground floor, be a possible compromise that would keep Mt Vic residents happy?
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Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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GIGS: Ritalin, Tommy Pickett and more
- Wellington Live Music
- THURSDAY 14TH JUNE-Happy 8pm $5Charlette Hannah, Fanuc Man, Jeremy Brick, The Ramps-Bodega 9pm KohaMatthew Pixie Pickering, Dave KemptonFRIDAY 15TH JUNE- Old Studio 9 (All Ages)Ritalin, Not Quite Right, Whispers for Warning, The Lucky StrikesSATURDAY 16TH JUNE-Mighty MightyThe Aviators CD release party-SubnineThe Offbeats, Skaface Claw, Freddy Fudd Pucker and moreSUNDAY 17TH JUNE-BodegaRikki Doolan, Matt Holliman, Shaun K AndersonMONDAY 18TH JUNE-Southern Cross'Acoustic Pioneer'Tommy Pickett
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Pruning With The Stars! Sunday 17 June
- The Wellingtonista
- This weekend sees the Annual Rose Pruning Demonstration at the Lady Norwood Rose Garden in the Botanic Gardens. Want to bone up on proper garden maintenance? This is your chance! The Wellington City Council has laid on the roses, and the experts.
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Toytown
- WellUrban
- I've been wondering when the houses relocated for the bypass would be re-inhabited, thus bringing some life back to a ravaged district. Surely it wouldn't be long before they were snapped up? But no: Karo Drive and Tonks Grove are going to look like toytown for quite some time to come.It turns out that under the Public Works Act, Transit has to look for the original owners or their descendants, and then offer the properties to them at market prices.
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Sorry, been a bit out of sorts
- CataBlog
- And not really up to blogging over the last couple of weeks. Truth to tell, not been a great deal to report. However this weekend (or at least yesterday) our Lucky lad got a new home! Fingers crossed he'll settle...
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A week in the capital's politics
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Thinking there was political capital to be made in riding climate change Mayor Prendergast attempted to change the window dressing on her watch in the run up to the October election.
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Neutral aspirations
- WellUrban
- Thanks to ShoppingFix for pointing out that at tonight's Strategy & Policy meeting, Wellington City Council will consider becoming carbon neutral. At first I thought that this just referred to the council's own operations, but on reading the report it turns out that they also intend for the whole city of Wellington to become carbon neutral.
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Crafting at Pataka
- The Wellingtonista
- CRAFTING is a part of THE BIG LOOK-SEE at Pataka this weekend, which is an open day event for galleries and museums in the region.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Fear and Loathing
- WellUrban
- The Dominion Post have followed up their lists of the best and worst buildings in Wellington (selected by the Architectural Centre) by telling us what "we" like and "loathe". It's not clear from the article exactly who "we" are: it seems to be a combination of reader's letters in response to the other lists, random vox pops, pupils from Upper Hutt College, and Russell Walden.
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Hamish McKay Gallery reopens
- The Wellingtonista
- (via White Fungus News...) The new Hamish McKay Gallery is now open at Level one, 39 Ghuznee Street.
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Chinese Garden needs to be in the right place in Wellington!
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Nearly everyone supports a Chinese garden in Wellington(in fact for over ten years) but not on Frank Kitts Park...
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