Blogs / June 2009
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Post-Script on The LTCCP 2009 -2019
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- LTCCP 2009-2019 voting record on some big expenditure items in the worst recession in 100 years. For the record I was joined by Councillors Steph Cook, Leonie Gill and Helene Ritchie in opposing the continued switch of commercial rates onto the residents rates bill.
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A loving farewell to one helluva cat
- CataBlog
- Today just after 1pm, we said a final goodbye to our wonderful, amazing, handsome hunk of Man-Cat, Ratty.
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Harbour Cities
- Eye of the Fish
- It was great to see the Dominion Post actually use some of its reporters to explore some of the local issues in the Weekend, with a two whole (almost) full pages on developments on the Wellington waterfront.
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Dub Encounters Volume One
- The Wellingtonista
- As Wellingtonians, we love dub, right? [citation needed] Sometimes to a fault, even? [citation needed] Anyone else remember that famous review a few years back in Pavement magazine of some local outfit that read: More effing trumpet-dub from Wellington Anyway if its to your taste, there's some serious dub trickery coming down in the next couple of weeks... [the details after the
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A question of affordability and rates for wellington city / why we have failed with our ltccp 2009-2019
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- The following is taken from “IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF NEW ZEALAND” BETWEEN WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL Appellant AND WOOLWORTHS NEW ZEALND LIMITED AND OTHERS….
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Miss Moppett finally gets a home!
- CataBlog
- In just about the best news ever, our fabulous Miss Moppett has finally found the people worthy of becoming her devoted slaves and has a new home! It's been 3 and a half years since she first came to us...
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The Wellingtonista visits Snapper
- The Wellingtonista
- Some of us at the Wellingtonista are rather fond of the old Snapper card. We worked through its teething troubles and are now happily tagging on and off as we bus about the city. So when Miki Szikszai, CEO of Snapper, asked us if we'd like to visit Snapper HQ and learn a bit about what's new in the world of the magical talking fish box, we (well, Alan and I) jumped at the chance.
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Nocturnal Sunshine
- The Wellingtonista
- Well today there is time to squeeze the out the last of solstice by squeezing out a quick post to mark the occasion. Mid-winter is officially here with the end of the shortest day, the end of the growing power of cold and darkness and the start of the growth of warmth and light. While there is plenty to celebrate about mid-winter (mulled wine, boots, hats and scarves spring to mind) t
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Blunder over the wires means weekend trolley buses will not resume. Why am I not surprised?
- Poneke
- Weekend trolley bus operations will not resume, despite Wellington ratepayers and taxpayers paying $9 million a year to run these expensive buses seven days a week from first bus to last.
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Terrible design
- Eye of the Fish
- I’d heard about these things being installed at Auckland Airport, and I just thought that was typical Jafa bad design in that godawful domestic airport of theirs, but knock me down with a wet kipper: we’ve now got them here in Wellington as well.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Snapper, re-visited
- The Wellingtonista
- It's been a long time since we've mentioned Snapper in these pages. In the meantime it's become so much of an everyday part of life in Wellington now that it hardly seems worth mentioning anymore. Or is it? Recently we got an email from Snapper asking us if we'd like to come and see what they're up to. It seems they've had a few other things on the go as well as the recent Valley Flyer conversion
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Thorndon Tavern : Thai Takeaway
- Eye of the Fish
- Thorndon’s quite the place to be you know. But there is an eyesore that is troubling the residents, above and beyond such other eyesores such as the American Embassy, the abortion of a supermarket carpark, the ugly lumpy tower of the Police Association, the row of non-descript office towers etc: yes, its the Thorndon Tavern.
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110 Molesworth Street, Wellington
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Whare 'nuff
- The Wellingtonista
- This Thursday the 18th of June, Deidre Brown's "Maori Architecture: from Fale to Wharenui and Beyond" will be launched at the School of Architecture in Vivian St.
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Frank Kitts Park, Lambton, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Capture Matariki – Ka hao a Matariki
- Te Papa's blog
- In partnership with TelstraClear and NZ Post, this year’s Matariki festivities include a unique photography event utilising the existing OurSpace infrastructure as well as the newly developed OurSpace TelstraClear Screen, scheduled for installation on the front exterior of the building in the coming month.
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OPT all GO for APT
- Eye of the Fish
- In case you haven’t seen the news, a small item from the Council website today says: Mayor Welcomes Overseas Terminal Decision
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The Wellington Ukulele Orchestra
- The Sidestrip
- A heartbreaking video to the title track from the Heartache EP, by the Wellington International Ukulele.
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A quiet night in the suburbs
- The Wellingtonista
- Spotted at the Railway Station is this hilarious anti-graffiti ad: Find out what this nice young suburban couple are up to after the jump. Hey, let's use our first-year media studies skills to analyse the poster! So there they are, a nice young suburban couple relaxing out on their deck. She's got a glass of white wine, he's got his hand down his pants, and you just know there's a barbecue a
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A week of it
- The Wellingtonista
- What a week to look forward to! Tuesday 9th: Pecha Kucha at the OPT from 6:30pm. We love these nights, and this time they've got writers, artists, cartoonists and landscape architects (among others) in the line-up. Those with a practical interest in street art might have to rush there from the At Large planning meeting at Manky Chops, which starts at 5:30. Wednesday 10th: Artist Matt Hunt (aka Ace
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Big Freeze Video
- The Wellingtonista
- Video of last week's 'Big Freeze' (previously blogged about by Sue here). Courtesy: The Sidestrip
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Karaoke: ur doin it rong
- The Wellingtonista
- Is it just me, or is there something odd about this poster outside the new "Newkor" Karaoke restaurant in Dixon St? That singer looks somewhat ... uncomfortable. Perhaps it's something to do with the item on the menu that's described only as "WARNING! Extreeeemley! Hot and Spicychicken" [very sic]. In other news, the re-opening of Happy on Friday night was a happy occasion ind
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Freedom to act
- Te Papa's blog
- The other night we hung the two McCahons we bought last year – Scared and Mondrian’s last chrysanthemum. They’ve gone up in Toi Te Papa.
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Cold Train
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington's Tranz Metro trains have lately been known for certain carriages with broken heating. It's horrible enough being (relatively) young and only faced with a 30-minute chilly commute. I wouldn't want to be a Paraparam gran making the hour-long trip to Wellington in an unheated carriage. But it seems that while the carriages are slowly being fixed, Trans Metro are also paying attention to,
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Buses to go through Manners Mall
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Hi – I’m sorry to say we lost this battle today. Those voting against opening Manners mall to buses were: Councillors Bryan Pepperell, Leonie Gill, Hayley Wain and Jo Coughlan Special thanks to the Facebook Group Save Manners Mall and WGTN LOVE MANNERS MALL (Maria)
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Manners closes, but what will open?
- Eye of the Fish
- If you have read the Dominion Post article on Manners, you will know that the plans to un-mall Manners Mall have just been passed. If you have read the Dominion Post article, you will also not know the full story. Whether due to the breaking nature of the announcement, or somewhat slanted journalistic intent, the dom doesn’t make mention of the news that the lower end of Cuba St down to Wakefield will be redeveloped as a pedestrian-oriented public space.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A diamond in the rough
- The Wellingtonista
- What are you doing on Saturday? How about you go on a treasure hunt to find me* yourself a diamond ring? iChild on twitter explains it: So, what's this all about then?? Story goes, guy bought ring for girl, girl didn't want ring. Guy couldn't give it to another, and doesn't want to sell it. Guy also happens to be the guy behind Donoogle.com ...Guy decides that rather than just having this ri
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the big freeze
- The Wellingtonista
- this Friday June 5 is World Environment Day And in our fairy capital city, and in other spots around the coutry hundreds of people will “freeze” together to show united action for climate change. The Freeze is set to kick off at 1pm for just 5 minutes right now the location is all secret squirrel, but stay tuned Nick Potter, Personal Assistant to Mr Freeze and lead co-ordinator of a te
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