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Blogs / May 2009

June 2009 | April 2009
    • Fat Freddys release new album
      • It’s been four years since Based On A True Story, but Fat Freddys Drop have FINALLY released their follow-up full-length album, Dr Boondigga & the Big BW. The boys have been meticulously crafting Dr Boondigga for over two years, slyly injecting new songs into live shows, to see what does and doesn't work.  What we’re left with is the cream of the crop, including lead single, 'Pu
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    • Get your *** on…
      • Out Takes 2009: A Reel *** Film Festival is a showcase of local and international *** cinema that tours Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The festival brings together the best feature films, short films and documentaries that authentically reflect many *** communities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, takatāpui and intersex communities. The films often have strong *** character
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    • Storm in our coffee cups
      • Now, I'm not sure if you've noticed or not, but the weather lately has been somewhat less than pleasant. Unless you happen to be a wavewatcher or rather crazy surfer, that is, in which case there have been some rather spectacular things to see. If you're the kind who'd rather stay inside nice and warm, here's a fantastic video that Dave Frampton has made to show you what you're missing Storm i
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    • Flipper! Flippin’ Yeah
      • Flipper, in their current incarnation of Bruce Loose, Ted Falconi, Steve DePace and Rachel Thoele, are making their way to the San Francisco Bath House on June 18th as part of a longtime coming and largely antipodean tour. Flipper formed in San Fransico back in 1979 and went on to become one of post-punk’s, no-wave’s and noise rock’s most significant bands. They even had a large impact on the grun
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    • Comedy Divas – 18 May, Embassy Theatre
      • I have never been to the Comedy Divas evening, it is something that I have always intended to check-out, but have inevitably missed it every year. I think it’s the allure of a diverse range of comediennes and the promise of a goodie-bag for a reasonable buck, that gets me every time. Clearly a total win for a tight-arse that thinks stand-up comedy can be a bit of a gamble…
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    • Love jewellery…?!
      • Then why not learn to make it yourself…Wellington based jewellers Annie Collins and Vaune Mason are passionate about providing support to emerging jewellers and small object makers… so much so that they operate their own studio, Workspace Studios, on Abel Smith Street AND teach jewellery classes.  Yay!The classes are small, maximum eight, and are available for beginners right through to the m
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    • Xpressway To Yr Skull
      • X Way Vision is a video of live performances by artists from the Dunedin-based Xpressway record label. Performing artists include The Dead C, Alastair Galbraith, Plagal Grind, Chris Heazlewood & Greg Cairns, Shayne Carter, and Chug. Screening at the Film Archive, Wednesday 27 May at 7pm. Tickets $8/6 concession. read more
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    • Women are appealing
      • Wellington Women's Refuge and Te Whare Rokiroki Maori Women's Refuge are looking for volunteers to collect money for the Women's Refuge Annual Appeal 2009.   Join a team of people who have fun collecting much needed money on the streets of Wellington. In just one hour you can play a huge part in protecting hundreds of women and children at risk of domestic violence in their own homes.  
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    • Ohtel Wellington - 15 May, 66 Oriental Parade
      • Okay, so here’s a first for texture (I think). I’m reviewing a hotel. And guess what? It’s freakin’ cool baby. Ohtel is situated on the prime real estate of Wellington’s Oriental Parade. It’s a fairly compact building, with an understated yet stylish exterior. The theme throughout the hotel is 50’s urban chic.
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        • Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Lots of local artisan fare for aficionados
      • The City Market to be located on Chaffer’s Dock Function Centre is a new weekly wine and food celebration, showcasing local artisan products and their producers. The project is being championed by award-winning chef Martin Bosley and Rachel Taulelei of local food company Yellow Brick Road. So, rest assured some fine names are being showcased: Harrington’s, Hardie Boys Ginger Beer, Daisy a Day, Emp
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    • Max Gimblett’s ‘white stone clear water’ at Page Blackie
      • Max Gimblett is arguably one of New Zealand's most internationally successful living artists. He very recently showed at New York’s Guggenheim Museum and became the first New Zealand born painter to do so. Albeit, a naturalised American now, the Auckland-born Gimblett is back in New Zealand to open ‘white stone clear water’ tomorrow at the Page Blackie gallery here in Wellington.   
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    • More tea, Martha?
      • So winter kinda sucks, and the economy sucks, and the government sucks, and everything pretty much sucks. Except oh wait, do you know what doesn't suck? Tea and cakes and good company! So as the first of a series of posts of Cheering Upness, we'd like to recommend that you book yourself and an adored friend in for High Tea at Martha's Pantry, a lovely little place at the top of Cuba Street that has oldschool tea cups and all kinds of girlie pretty stuff on display.
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        • 276 Cuba Street, Wellington


    • Blood Wedding + Newlyweds = Free
      • Ah-ha! The epically thrilling, tragic love story Blood Wedding is free next Tuesday for newlyweds… or anyone else game enough to don a wedding dress or tuxedo…Tickets to this special performance will be allocated on first-come, first-served basis through Circa Theatre’s box office to anyone in a wedding dress or a tuxedo or who can present their Marriage Certificate dated from the 26th of May 2008
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    • Wellington Batucada want YOU
      • Remember the Cuba Street Carnival?  What about those fantastic, drum beating, fish-headed guy’s who took the illuminated night parade by storm?  Well they want YOU. Wellington’s Batucada – our very own community-based Samba percussionists – are on the lookout for new talent.
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    • Intersection of Impending Death
      • So, the John St/Riddiford St/Adelaide Rd intersection has undergone a bit of a lights phasing tweak. It took this particular Wellingtonista by surprise when, last week, I confidently started to cross John St as the lights turned to red, only to discover that instead of my little green man, I was now the target for traffic coming down from Adelaide Rd.
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        • Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Ukulele's on Fire
      • It’s time for witty banter, sparkling harmonies and blazing… Uke riffs? Yes, the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra is back, just in time to heat-up the Michael Fowler Centre with a very special, one-off winter extravaganza. Age Pryor and his merry band of mischief-makers will be breaking out the Uke’s on Saturday the 27th of June – to blast the MFC with their storming brand of musical may
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    • Deerhunter to Stalk out SFBH
      • Strangenews, Gaelsburg, cheeseontoast.co.nz and utr.co.nz present Atlanta’s Deerhunter at San Francisco Bathhouse on Tuesday, 16th of June. Part ambient, part art rock, the four-piece will be pausing briefly in New Zealand as part of their substantial world tour. They have toured with some insistent and lurid bands over recent years, including Nine Inch Nails, TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and
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    • Matt and Kim tonight!
      • Brooklyn-based noisemakers Matt and Kim are a charming, dorky, chaotic, euphoric two piece with Kim on drums and Matt on keys. Their 2006 debut and recent release Grand are both full to the brim of their own blend of spontanious punk on a fistfull of happy pills which really shines live. More like an out of control house parties than concerts, their shows are an exhilarating, rambunctious affair,
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    • Top 3 things to look forward to in Winter
      • Feeling a little chilly?  Wrapped up in several layers of clothing but still got a bad case of the shivers?  Well it's only going to get worse, because winter is getting closer and closer... The best way to avoid the cold is to meet it head on - get yourself moving and out amongst it.  You can sit at home, annoying your cat & feeling sorry for yourself, or you can check out some
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    • A thing at Spacething
      • There's an exhibition opening on at Newtown's Spacething tonight (Thu 7 May), featuring new artwork from Helen McVey and Tania Price. There will also be live music from (the excellently named) Public Toilet ltd, Chris Palmer and Dan Beban, as well as casual rock cocktail poetry by Eliot White. Starts at 6pm. 171 Adelaide Road. 
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        • 171 Adelaide Road, Wellington


    • Monet: No need for Money
      • Monet and the Impressionists is free of charge for Wellington City residents and rate payers on Thursday 7th May!Wellington City Council has wrangled this whack free-entry-offer as part of its sponsorship arrangement with Te Papa.  The Monet and the Impressionists exhibition has been showing at Te Papa since the 14th February and is the largest collection of Impressionist paintings to ever co
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    • A book sale worth walking up a hill for
      • It's sale time at Vic Books again, both at the Kelburn Campus and the Pipitea store by the train station. The sale runs from Monday May 11-Thursday May 28, and if you're clever you'll figure out a way to get to the sneak preview with wine and nibbles at the Kelburn shop, from 3pm, Thursday May 7th. ‘Tis the season of twisted umbrellas, so it's time to stock up on books which will keep
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        • Victoria University of Wellington, Waiteata Road, Aro Valley, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)


    • Piermont
      • The scaffold has come down and the last of the glass balustrading was going on Saturday morning - and its great to see at last what Piermont really looks like.
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        • 82 Cable Street, Wellington


    • Biennale becomes accessible for Aotearoa
      • Te Papa and Creative New Zealand have just revealed that our national museum will be hosting New Zealand’s 2009 Venice Biennale entries in 2010. The special exhibition will be showcasing the artists Judy Millar and Francis Upritchard who are distinguished both here and abroad. After graduating from the Elam School of Fine Arts in 1983, Millar developed her practice amid scholarships and travel and
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    • Happy to change hands
      • Happy Bar always likes a surprise.  And that attitude hasn’t changed, with the established ‘Experimental’ music venue moving into the capable hands of new owners, Deborah Resnick and Sam Macleod. The more out there shows will be limited to one night a week, with Tuesday’s becoming “Experimental Tuesday's”, continuing the Happy tradition of weird and wonderful performances.
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    • Best Busker
      • Cuba Street is nothing if not the Busking home of Wellington, and at any given time there are normally at least a couple of buskers, thrashing out chords and trying out their talents on our eardrums.
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        • Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


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