Blogs / March 2008
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- Looks like the weekend is going to be beautiful, again. Perfect weather for, ahem, sitting in a darkened air-conditioned room watching a flickering light on a screen. And Hollywood has come to the party with a couple of films that are going to make sitting in the sunshine seem like the most natural thing in the world.
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Turn OFF your lights - 8-9pm tomorrow (Saturday)
- The Wellingtonista
- Support the Earth Hour initiative tomorrow (Sat 28th) and turn off your lights between 8pm-9pm. But it will be dark! I know ... fun eh!? Light candles, play spooky games (I recommend Werewolf) or tell ghost stories - in essence HAVE FUN! And it's not just about the lights, that's the minimum. If you can turn off anything else then do so - how about turning off the computer!!!
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Metropol-itan ?
- Eye of the Fish
- Hot on the heels of the Barrio development comes another development of inner-city apartments (first blogged on WellUrban). This one is designed by Archaus - the most prolific architects in Wellington. The site has had a couple of schemes proposed for it previously: one by Abri Architects of Auckland which was shot down in flames pretty quickly, and the other, curvy one that never really saw the light of day except for a feature in the Wellurban blog. This one may be around a little longer. The site, is a highly sought after corner close to Cuba St, right on the edge of Ghuznee St and Leeds St. Looking at architects drawings it seems to be about 14 stories tall.
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- cuba-street
Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Local bar: Ageists
- The Wellingtonista
- I'm appalled to discover that local Wellington sports establishment the 'Big Kumara', home of more giant TVs than your local Harvey Norman, is willing to ban a willing drinker because he's "too old".
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The Hilton vanishes?
- Eye of the Fish
- The potential Hilton hotel has had the appeals against its consent upheld, signalling what is likely to be the end of the controversial waterfront proposal. Having started the applications process back in later 2005, the news seems like it will be a decisive blow to the project; although an appeal is possible, it must go through the High Court.
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- hilton
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- The Festival of the Arts has been soaking up almost every spare minute of my working day so this is going to be a bare bones update.
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Have a look at show pictures and behind the scenes at Flickr
- The Wellingtonista
- Have a look at show pictures and behind the scenes at Flickr.
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Letterboxes for Writers & Readers Week
- The Wellingtonista
- I'm just guessing that the reason the letterbox outside Borders Bookstore in Lambton Quay has been happily talking to itself (possibly with Emily Perkins' voice) all week, has something to do with Writers & Readers Week.
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Wellington City Council Setting Residential Rates for 2008
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- The differential movement was halted during the election year as it was considered to be politically contentious. It has now been recomended that it move once again, this time from from 4.2 to 3.8 . This movement will have to be added to the residential rate increase. The impact will be felt by all renters and rataepayers throughout the city.
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Becoming Marilyn
- Downstage Theatre Blog
- Just two weeks to go, until Marilyn: Forever Blonde opens at Downstage Theatre in Wellington on March 26.
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Hannah Playhouse, 12, Cambridge Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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T3 can now be ridden either up or down
- T3 Track Blog
- Thanks to Maxxis and the weather gods, myself, Jonathan, Carl, Andrew, Hugh, Brenda, Josh, Simon, Don, Rob, Graham, Lyle and Mana were able to finish the track right through to Trickle Falls.T3 can now be ridden either up or down depending on how you are feeling, it is still a bit rough in places but the more people we get having a go at it the better it will bed down.
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Brother act in WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED!
- Downstage Theatre Blog
- Celebrated Samoan actors Robbie and Pua Magasiva both appear in ATC's new play WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED that premiers at Downstage Theatre on Saturday March 8 and runs till March 16.
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Hannah Playhouse, 12, Cambridge Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Late-night shenanigans are back on the menu!
- The Wellingtonista
- There was a while in 2005 when you knew that on Friday and Saturday nights you could go to Indigo, and they'd be open, and there'd be Nixx-Til-Sixx spinning everything from Bloc Party to Motley Crue and you could drink until 6am. And then that stopped and it sucked. Fast foward to now though, and in 2008, Indigo is now San Francisco Bathhouse, and Nixx-Til-Sixx has been replaced by the fabulous DJ Doofus, but the same thing is happening.
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Courtenay 2.0
- Eye of the Fish
- Is it just me, or has the media coverage of the proposed Courtenay Place changes focused a little too much on the issues related to the curbing of an “out-of-control” party zone, much to the detriment of several other important issues.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- After the excitement of the pre-Oscar rush it's another quiet week at the cinema. Opening all over town (that's Readings, Empire, Penthouse, Regent-on-Manners and Lighthouse Petone) is the historical drama The Other Boleyn Girl featuring the dream team of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson along with Eric Bana as 'Enery the Eighth.
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Hutty goodtimes
- The Wellingtonista
- The Hutt is a seething mass of culture (as if you didn't know), and at the moment there is a particularly splendid outdoor exhibition of sculpture, Shape Shifter.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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3 things Miramar needs
- The Wellingtonista
- 1. Mesh network 2. The cinema open 3. Statues of Pillars of Argonath either side of 'the cutting'
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A city littered with poetry
- The Wellingtonista
- Now, everybody has seen the poetry which seems to appear just about everywhere down near the lagoon and around Te Papa, right? This one took me by surprise though. It's Fiona Kidman, and is in such a comparatively out-of-the-way place I literally stumbled across it.
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Something fishy going on
- The Wellingtonista
- Which waterfront restaurant, famous for its seafood, is unlikely to be telling its guests that their special fish de jour Sole is actually frozen, not fresh?
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