Blogs / July 2009
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Fem-Cat Friday introduces Becky
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- Little 12 year old Becky came into the shelter as "Bungeye", having lost her right eye in a car accident when she was young. Becky3.jpg Our volunteers hated the name and felt that it focused on her physical issues rather than the lovely cat that she is. Normally we don't rename our cats, but so many people felt that her name just didn't do her justice that we've made an exception in this case.
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Minuit: Find Me Before I Die a Lonely Death Dot Com - Album Review
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- The Minuit-machine has regressed to a child-like state… And I like it.
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Old dogs and new tricks
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- Wellington's "ol' faithful" taxi-cab company Combined (or Wellington Combined Taxis to give them their full title) have gone through a bit of a transformation in the last 12 months or so.
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Fush and CHUP
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- Thanks to a very helpful chap at the Council, we’ve got some more images to show and tell regarding works to the Council Housing Upgrade Project.
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Use 'em or lose 'em
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- According to a story in the Dom Post today, a Greater Wellington regional council report up for debate this week suggests closing the least-used stations in the region (Muri and Kenepuru stations on the Paraparaumu line).
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Muri Station, Wellington
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Ladi 6 - 25 July, San Francisco Bath House
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- Ladi 6 with Parks + Julien Dyne = textbook example of a damn fine time.
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Open Souls - 24 July, San Francisco Bath House
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- Now it has been roughly a year since Open Souls have played in Wellington, but with the up and coming release of their new album ‘Standing in the Rain' we have been graced with a nationwide tour.
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Ladi 6 - 25 July, San Francisco Bath House
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- Ladi 6 with Parks + Julien Dyne = textbook example of a damn fine time.
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Indoor, Outdoor Flow
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- Welcome to a new dawn in Cuba Street history.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Man-Cat Monday (well, if you were in a different timezone, on a different planet)
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- The Wellington CPL would like to introduce to you, the somewhat shy, but absolutely lovely, Henry!
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Seeking the Golden Jandal
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- It’s time to grab your shields and hoist your kilts, kiwi filmmakers.
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Fem-Cat Friday is back!
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- Yep - it's been a while, I know. No promises, but I'm going to try to get back to highlighting one of the girls in the shelter looking for a new home each Friday. (If anyone can think of a better name than Fem-Cat Friday, please let me know!) Man-Cat Monday is also planned to follow.
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World Press Photo exhibition returns….!
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- That’s right! The 52nd World Press Photo exhibition returns to Wellington between 11th of September to the 4th of October 2009 to showcase the world’s finest photojournalists.
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Review: Strike Sessions with Adam Page
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- Strike Session with Adam Page is about halfway through its run at Downstage. Strike is a long-standing New Zealand-based percussion group, and they've teamed up with Adelaide multi-instrumentalist Adam Page for this show. After the jump, kumaras, mirimbas and old car parts. read more
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A ray of sunshine in a wet and windy July
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- It’s time for the Craft 2.
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Affordable Housing
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- It’s nice to be able to talk about good things happening in the Wellington architectural market, and the recent announcement in the DomPost about the new replacements for the WCC Regent Park flats is, to me, really good news.
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The Woolshed Sessions – 19 July (7pm), Downstage Theatre
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- The creative octuplet that is The Woolshed Sessions merged their artistic talents once again to perform to an adoring Wellington audience last Sunday night, as part of Downstage Theatre’s new monthly music night.
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The Whimsical Work of Drypnz II – 19 July, Manky Chops Gallery
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- England-born street-artist Drypnz has been based in the capital since 2006, having previously lived in Nelson after stints in Israel, the Marshall Islands and the Caribbean.
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One Massive Feast of a Festival
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- Why have one fantastic event when you can have 30 all at once?! Wellington On a Plate is the latest (and quite possibly greatest) festival to hit New Zealand’s capital.
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Go Wellington gets three more old diesel bangers for the trolley routes
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- Further evidence of the desire of all concerned to marginalise Wellington’s trolley buses is hardly needed, but wait, there is still more.
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Same old
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- The Graffology and Wgtn Wall Street graffiti blogs noticed that the Wellington City Council's anti-graffiti posters (you know, these ones) had illustrated the evil graffiti by using a photo collage of actual non-illegal graffiti.
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Fight of the Conchords, Part Deux
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- Recently the gals over at Pretty Pretty Pretty ran a poll to settle the age-old argument about which of the Conchords is prettier - Bret or Jermaine.
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Pitch Black – 18 July, Sandwiches
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- Dub-Electronica duo Pitch Black made a devotee-orientated appearance at Sandwiches on Saturday.
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Remembering Dr Seddon Bennington
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- Quite apart from the work he did at Te Papa, Dr Seddon Bennington was someone who will be remembered by many Wellingtonians, both personally and professionally.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A Nod from NYC
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- Wellington designer Alexandra Owen has just reached a new apex of success.
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Pitch Black.
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- A much anticipated return to Sandwiches by one of this countries most enduring and consistently relevant electronic acts - Pitch Black.
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Outer-T Competition announced
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- Outer-T Competition announced Maximus 18-07-09 1 comment competitionwaterfront We’d hoped to be first to bring you details of the competition on the Outer-T, but the Architectural Centre bet us to it. Ideas welcome - closes 24 August. Oddly enough, there’s not a thing on the websites of either Wellington Waterfront or the City Council yet.
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Puddle puddle puddle
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- The loveliness of one of New Zealand's best-ever pop bands The Puddle is manifesting at Happy on Saturday night. They've even got a video for a single off one of their new albums: Support from Marineville. Happy downstairs cnr Vivan and Tory streets.
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Dr Seddon Bennington memorial
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- Chief Executive Officer, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 2003–2009.
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Never mind the bad puns, here's Pollux
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- One of the worst-kept secrets in Wellington bar-land is about to be revealed: new wine bar Pollux will open next week, in what was once the State Opera House espresso bar in Manners St.
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Nab your coin-purse…
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- …The New Zealand Affordable Art Show has returned to Wellington once again and brings three-days of reasonably priced art for our perusal from 31st July to the 2nd August at the TSB Bank Arena.
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Entertaining Mr Sloane – 4 July, Circa Theatre
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- Entertaining Mr Sloane is the work of English playwright Joe Orton and is often touted as an immoral and scandalous black comedy that shocks audiences by its crude sexual themes and calculating heartlessness.
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Downstage in High Definition
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- Just before my Wellingtonista privileges are removed due to, erm, non-compliance with acceptable posting chronometry (or something) here's an update on everyone's favourite professional theatre, Downstage.
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Humpday - 9 July, NZ International Film Festival Preview
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- If you think that this movie is about Wednesday being the “humpday” in the middle of the working week – well, you are very WRONG.
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Unmade Beds - 9 July, NZ International Film Festival Preview
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- Unmade Beds is one of the most talked about movies at this years NZ International Film Festival.
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Kowtow Clothing are gearing up for summer
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- All the winter sales happening at the moment can only mean one thing: We are on the home-straight to sunshine-city people, yeah! Okay, so maybe I’m counting my free-range chickens before they hatch.
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Petone Winter Carnival
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- Celebrate winter with a bang! The second annual Petone Winter Carnival is a major one-day festival celebrating the very best of winter on the iconic Petone foreshore.
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Waku waku desu
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- This Saturday is the main event for Wellington's Japan Festival which kicked off 6 July with the Friend to Friend exhibition in the Fletcher Challenge Foyer.
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Kaumtāua Kapa Haka at Te Papa goes global, 11 & 12 July
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- The final weekend of the 2009 Matariki Festival at Te Papa is by no means the least with the return of the popular Kaumātua Kapa Haka.
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Louise-Michel - 9 July, NZ International Film Festival Preview
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- No no no not the French Anarchist Louise Michel who assisted in the championing of the social revolution in France, but rather a delightful quirky comedy that has done very well on the film festival circuit this year… awarded Best Screenplay at San Sebastian and a World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Originality at Sundance… though a revolutionary-class-driven-theme threads its way through the plot. The story begins in a small French village, Picardy, which is home to a toy-factory packed full of working-class women making an honest living… well… that was until they arrived at work one morning to find the factory stripped bare of machinery. So with a pittance of a redundancy, the women decide to merge their monies to make a significant combined-wealth BUT what should they do with their newly acquired fortune…?! purchase a pizza place…?! commission a nude calendar… ?! or hire a professional hit-man to kill their deceptive former boss…?!Well, the latter was the suggestion of Louise (Yolande Moreau), a mildly-retarded-illiterate-cross-dressing-ex-con named Jean Pierre, and surprisingly the bitter factory workers were unanimously in favour of this proposal. So with that, Louise sets out to organise the hit and stumbles across Michel (Bouli Lanners), a cross-dressing-trailer-park-security-guard named Cathy, and the agreement is secured.However, it soon transpires that Michel isn’t the professional hit-man he purported to be and commissions terminally-ill patients to undertake the assassinations. I pluralise assassination, because Louise and Michel soon realise the quaint factory is but one piece in a multinational corporation and so their quest for revenge results in numerous murders that span Picardy to Brussels and then to the tax-haven of Jersey. The film is borderline ridiculous, but this is what I loved about it, from a wheelchair-bound man getting hit by a bus to Michel’s bald-cancer-suffering-cousin shooting a cocktail-party goer at point-blank. Packed full of quirky humour, intrigue and absolute absurdity, it was an intelligent comedy that I thoroughly enjoyed. Louise-Michel was an unexpected treat. - Karyn See it in Wellington on the 17th and 19th of July.
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Stuff our readers like
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- We have a guest post for you by the voluble Anna Jane Wilson who also likes hats, boots, coats and scarves.
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If you want it, go get it…
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- Fancy checking out a world-class female vocalist MC…?! then why not head to the San Francisco Bathhouse on the 25th July and witness the soulfully-smooth vocals of Ladi6, as she arrives back in Wellington, for one night only, as part of a petit-winter tour.
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Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra: Magical Winter Show(s) – 27 June (9pm), Michael Fowler Centre
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- Purported as their only winter gig… which due to rocketing demand turned into two-shows-one-night… the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra packed out the Michael Fowler Centre… twice… on a brisk winter Saturday night.
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Something to mull over
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- Having observed a steaming hot urn of it at the Southern Cross on Saturday night, surrounded by blankets and hot water bottles, we want to know: where can one get the best mulled wine in Wellington, how much will we have to pay for it, and approximately what alcoholic percentage will it be? Do our work for us in the comments section. Thanks!
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Harbour Cycling
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- News of this has just come to light here at the Fish headquarters: the Council is supporting the ‘Great Harbour Way‘ cycle path along the edge of the big pond out there, “proposed to run almost 70 km from Pencarrow right around Wellington Harbour before finally ending at Owhiro Bay on Wellington’s South Coast.
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South Coast Gallery on Cuba - 29 June, 169 Cuba Street
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- It’s almost a blink-and-you’ll miss it affair. Hidden away in a little nook down Cuba Street, is the inner-city child of Island Bays finest art space - South Coast Gallery on Cuba. The Island Bay version of the gallery was first established in 2006, a neat little place to view and pick up some local or international artworks - after a little relax time on the beach that is. The Bay version is view by appointment, so it’s kinda nice to just be able to amble in and out of the Cuba premises whilst on the way to/from work or play.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Group Exhibition at Cuba’s Enjoy
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- Enjoy Public Art Gallery, in conjunction with the Goethe-Institut and Massey University School of Fine Arts present; The Urban Workshop: Cuba St Portraits.
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Strike and Adam Page bring the noise
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- It’s a clash of the noisy titans: Improv-music hero, Adam Page, is set to match his skills and sound with that of fiery percussion group Strike, for several very special shows at Downstage theatre.
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Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di Ferragosto) - 3 July, NZ International Film Festival Preview
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- If I was to describe this delightful little Italian film in a word, it would be charming.
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Youssou N'Dour: I bring what I love - 2 July, Wellington Film Festival preview
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- I bring what I love is a long overdue tribute to the man known as the “voice of Africa”.
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La vie d'artiste - 2 July, Wellington Film Festival Preview
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- La vie d'artiste shows the painful, funny, and often degrading journey one goes through on the way to becoming a successful creative (or not).
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A Bit Of Love for an Old Organ
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- The Wellington Town Hall is rated amongst the top ten in the world for acoustics, and this was a significant argument in the 1970s and 80s when the demolition of the Town Hall became a possibility.
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The Whimsical Work of Drypnz
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- Drypnz will be familiar to many Wellingtonians with his distinct street style gracing the streets, alleyways and gallery walls around town.
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Ravenous for theatre…?!
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- Then head along to the BATS theatre and check out the annual Young & Hungry Festival, which is set to kick off on the 10th July!This year is the fifteenth birthday of this unique festival that seeks to support budding theatre-types in all aspects of the industry, from acting to design to marketing to backstage crew.
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Hikoikoi - 25 June, San Francisco Bathhouse
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- Petone-based Hikoikoi have been knocking-about the Wellington music scene for a good few years now, mostly entertaining large-ish crowds at various summer music festivals.
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