Blogs / August 2010
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Celia Wade-Brown answers the questions
- The Wellingtonista
- Yay, we have our first response! Thanks to Celia Wade-Brown for her answers to our questions.
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We will ask the questions!
- The Wellingtonista
- Now that we have a definitive list of mayoral candidates, we thought it was time we send them some of the questions we'd crowdsourced over Twitter ages ago.
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Are you disappointed by the National Cycleway?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Last November I predicted we’d soon be seeing the then new logo for the New Zealand Cycle Trail on signs up and down the country.
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I wanna be a Shweeb Dweeb
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Yet another cool idea at the design intersection of bikes and public transport.
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The Princess and the Sausage
- The Wellingtonista
- Most "pop-up shops" emerge in vacant retail spaces, but The Princess' Bedroom was different: the shop itself popped up, in the form of a brightly-painted caravan in a gravelly old Ghuznee St carpark.
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Helene Ritchie writes
- Eye of the Fish
- Johnsonville Neglected by Council.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Sail carts, land yachts and recumbent trikes
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- On old maps of Asia, where as medieval cartographers would draw sea monsters in the oceans, they would sometimes draw Mongol sail carts in the middle of the steppe.
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WOP Review: the $35 lunch at Foxglove
- The Wellingtonista
- Sometime last week I took my sister to lunch at Foxglove.
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Andy Foster writes
- Eye of the Fish
- “There’s been a lot of angst from some people in Johnsonville about Plan Changes 72 and 73.
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Patrol
- Hutt Chick
- wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I arrived at the police station. The others were waiting. I got into the waiting patrol car, and buckled up. I was going out on community patrol in Naenae. Community patrols work alongside police to build safer communities, providing an extra set of eyes and ears. We drove a random route but to some set areas, through schools, up alleyways behind businesses, making sure the streets were safe and providing a visual deterrent for tagging and other crime.
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Capital Fetish Ball
- The Wellingtonista
- Once again, we are leaving it waaaaaaay late to let you know about an upcoming event.
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WOP: Cupcakes and Cocktails
- The Wellingtonista
- On Monday night my sister and I went to our first Wellington on a Plate event - the way sold-out (they added a couple more sessions even) Cupcakes and Cocktails at Martha's Pantry.
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Whither Johnsonville
- Eye of the Fish
- There’s some big news from the Council this week, as they debate whether or not to adopt District Plan Change 72 and 73.
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The Syntax of Public Transport
- Eye of the Fish
- Following on from previous discussions on all things transport and urban, I’ve had a play round and tried to depict some of the issues that are striking the city planners and traffic engineers – as well as causing wrangles between Mayor Kerry and Sir Bob Jones.
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Environmental assistance for buildings
- Hutt Chick
- Eco Design advice is now available for those building residential housing in Lower Hutt.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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WOP Review: the $25 lunch at Finc
- The Wellingtonista
- For my first Wellington on a Plate meal deal, I decided to go to Finc, with the delightful company of a friend I'd just seen killed twice on Saturday night.
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Book yourself into the book fair this weekend
- The Wellingtonista
- Normally around this time our lovely Sue would be getting all rapturous about the Downtown Community Ministry's Annual Book Fair, but since she's rather busy, let me just tell you that the fair is happening again this weekend (August 21 & 22) at the TSB Arena, with doors will open from 9am to 4pm each day.
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Spaced Out
- The Wellingtonista
- The Film Archive Traveling Film Show is back in Wellington this week with a brilliant selection of space films sourced from their extensive collection. read more
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The Syntax of Wellington Political Space
- Eye of the Fish
- A quick post today to briefly introduce the subject that seems to have got some people excited: that the WCC has hired Space Syntax to map out conditions in Wellington’s CBD.
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Wellington is a cycling city
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- An early drizzly weekday morning in Wellington and there are still hundreds of people riding on the waterfront: There is some suggestion to make the cyclists go along Jervois Quay instead of the waterfront.
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Review: The December Brother
- The Wellingtonista
- The December Brother is the newest production from the SEEyD Theatre Company. It comprises of three mini plays, all linked with the common form of family and the search for truth. read more
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Getting burgered at WOP: The Greenman
- The Wellingtonista
- As my first taste of Burger Wellington, I decided to check out The Greenman because I had errands in the area, and their offering sounded quite delicious: Whiskey and Maple Lamb Burger Local lamb patty with lettuce, tomato and pineapple salsa on a shawarma bun, served with friesread more
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More food reviews that you can stomach
- The Wellingtonista
- So y'all asked for more food reviews with pics, so today I am going to do short reviews of the following places: The Ambeli The Grill at the Duxton Lagerfield as a function venue St John's Restaurant I hope you don't mind that I've put them all in one post. read more
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Ideas for Wellington #2 thru #11
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I pinched a map from this page on the Greens website.
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Eat and eat and eat: win a voucher for the Occidental
- The Wellingtonista
- Congratulations to Richard who you will find hiding away at Munchen Burger getting his borsct on. This week we've got our last prize to give away, thanks to celebrate Wellington on a Plate, thanks to the lovely Positively Wellington Tourism, we have a $100 voucher to The Occidental to give away.read more
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bryan pepperell interviewed on Scoop
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- See the interview with text on www.scoop.co.nz
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A Do Nothing for Cyclists Mayor?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- With the new trains coming the Greater Wellington Regional Council is reviewing its policies for bikes on trains.
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New Zealand's Next Top City
- The Wellingtonista
- Writing recaps of New Zealand's Next Top Model is something that I'd normally do over at Pretty Pretty Pretty, but since the first episode of Season Two was filmed in Wellington (nice work, Positively Tourism!), I thought I might put up some thoughts on all the places that they shot.
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Wellington roads need tolls for cars
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- It seems the NZTA is to waste another $29 million dollars on State Highway 1 between Aotea Quay and the SH1/SH2 split, which is barely more than 3 kilometres.
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Rare duck seen in Waiwhetu Stream
- Hutt Chick
- A rare Brown teal (Anas chlorotis), or pateke, was recently spotted on Waiwhetu stream which had flown in from Zealandia in Karori.
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Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Mayor Kerry speaks
- Eye of the Fish
- In response to a recent posting here on Eye of the Fish, and possibly in response to my slightly provocative comment that …. “It is increasingly difficult to write about design in a city which pays only lip service to it,” I’m pleasantly surprised that Mayor Kerry Prendergast has taken the time to add a comment to the posting. In case people have missed it, and because it is, after all, from the Mayor, I think it deserves a little more prominence and so, here it is:
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Site upgrade
- The Wellingtonista
- Hey all, just did a site upgrade (from Drupal 5.
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Eat and eat and eat: win a voucher for Sojourn at the James Cook Grand Chancellor
- The Wellingtonista
- Congratulations to Tracey who wants to be burgered senseless but will also be enjoying a good time at the General Practitioner as well.
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I'd like to lodge a compliment, please
- The Wellingtonista
- I spent two weeks living on the 28th floor of a hotel in Tokyo when I was ten, and ever since then, I have been obsessed with hotels. As you probably know, here at the Wellingtonista, we're also very fond of free food and drink, so when the Travelodge invited us to for Cocktails & Canapes, of course we responded enthusiastically.
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Yummy cha?
- The Wellingtonista
- A group of eight of us went to Yum Cha on Saturday at Regal, above SMK on Courtenay Place, because I had a massive craving for chive pancakes.
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