Blogs / February 2010
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Earthquakes and Tsunamis
- Eye of the Fish
- One side of the Pacific plate: horrificly large earthquake.
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The Liquorland New Zealand Beer Festival returns… doh…!
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- Next Saturday the mighty Beer Festival returns to the capital for nine hours of frivolity AND with it comes 24 breweries, six restaurants, one winery and capacity for 10,000 people.
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Pre-loved Fashion Sale? Yes Please.
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- Anna Wintour - eat your heart out.
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Gods and Heroes - 20 February, Bats Theatre
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- The Greek gods have fled Olympus, deciding to take refuge in.
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Little Bushman live with the NZSO - 23 February, Album Review
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- I remember the first time I saw Warren Maxwell live.
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Ignite Wellington
- The Wellingtonista
- Next Tuesday, 2 March, sees the very first Ignite evening in Wellington, 6.
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Connan Mockasin: Please turn me into the Snat - 23 February, Album Review
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- It’s been an 18 month journey for the man known as Connan.
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Three more nights to go...
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- That’s right, don’t miss your chance to catch the last three nights of the 2010 French Film Festival at the Embassy Theatre.
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The art of the panhandle
- The Wellingtonista
- The "Excuse Me" guy aside, Wellington doesn't see all that many panhandlers around.
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Songs, Street Parties and Sustainablility for Mt Vic
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- Rain baptised the inaugural Mt Victoria, Inner City Festival in 2009.
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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42Below Cocktail World Cup in Wellington this year
- The Wellingtonista
- We'd been wondering for a while where our other favourite McKenzie brother has been at because we haven't seen him behind the bar at Hooch or Hawthorn for ages, but of course we kept forgetting to ask, because naturally we were too busy asking for another drink.
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Eyes Wide Open: Love and Guts – 11 February, Manky Chops Gallery
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- Last week Manky Chops Gallery hosted its second Love and Guts art exhibition, strictly three days only, which was heralded to be one of the most memorable shows to date.
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Electric Wire Hustle – 13 February, San Francisco Bathhouse
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- Local Wellington trio, Electric Wire Hustle, have had a busy and very successful year with the release of their self-titled debut album, a European tour and a jam-packed summer festival schedule, all in the name of their incredibly popular contemporary hip hop, soul, funk and jazz infusion.
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Anne Frank: A History for Today – 20 February, Te Papa
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- The tale of Anne Frank has always fascinated me, ever since I read her diary as an impressionable twelve year-old girl.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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I for one welcome our new mirrorball overlords
- The Wellingtonista
- Te Papa's forecourt may look as if it's under attack by giant glittery space balls, but it's actually the start of a two-year kinetic sculpture installation called "The Mimetic Brotherhood", by Peter Trevelyan. There's not much kinesis evident at the moment, but once the installation is complete, expect the plinth-eating monsters to start pulsating in their full hydraulic glory.
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One step closer to a city-wide alcohol ban
- The Wellingtonista
- The council is going to draft a by-law to ban drinking in public places.
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Sacha Vee: debut album release...!
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- This Saturday is your chance to check out Wellington’s hottest songstress in action, as Sacha Vee releases her debut self-titled EP at Hope Bros on Saturday night.
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Look mum, no poles! Wellington’s trolley buses now have batteries
- Poneke
- The photo above is of Designline trolley bus 363 about to enter the Mt Victoria Tunnel en route to Miramar, Route 2. Of course, there are no trolley wires through the Mt Vic tunnel. Route 2 runs through the wired Hataitai bus-only tunnel.
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Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Look mum, no poles! Wellington’s trolley buses now have batteries
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- BACK BY POPULAR REQUEST Believe it or not, out-of-Wellington readers have asked for more articles about the capital’s trolley buses.
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Carnivals and Festivals
- Eye of the Fish
- Every year, around this time, Wellington comes alive with festivals and carnivals.
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A well named cafe
- The Wellingtonista
- Newtown: It's a bit shit.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Reward a Wellington Hospitality Star!
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- It’s best of the best time for the Capitals golden gods of hospitality.
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The blessing of the fleet at Island Bay
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Liberating Everyday Life
- Eye of the Fish
- Despite the small space in which it is situated, the retrospective of Bill Toomath’s work is an expansive exhibition.
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Kilbirnie gets some extra love
- The Wellingtonista
- Someone (or someones) has got their outdoor knit on at Kilbirnie Park. Hurray for loves! I wonder what the council's take on this kind of graffiti is...
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Land of the Long White Cloud
- The Wellingtonista
- "The brain is a multi-faceted thing that thinks about all sorts of things, mostly bullshit.
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Warmups, Webstock, Wrestling.
- The Wellingtonista
- Holy crap, next week is going to be insane.
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Love to Roooooooooooll?
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- This Valentine's Day you can celebrate love, summer and the joy of cycling at the Frocks on Bikes' romantic extravaganza, Love to Roll.
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Vernon God Little – 4 February, Downstage Theatre
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- This month Downstage Theatre plays host to twenty-one young actors and one epic adaptation of DBC Pierre’s Booker Prize winning novel, Vernon God Little.
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High Tea at Martha's Pantry - 29 January
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- Now let me be very clear.
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Cutting into the Fringe
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- It’s just days to go until life on the edge will begin.
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i
- Eye of the Fish
- Last week, was of course, the unveiling of the iPad, Apple’s biennale Next Big Thing. However, on a more local note, last week also featured another product launch: the iLoft, or 85 Waterloo Quay. Normally a property development isn’t pitched as a ‘product’, but in this case the cue comes straight from the developers themselves.
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85 Waterloo Quay, Wellington
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A plan for 2012
- The Wellingtonista
- So imagine if the worst thing in the world* happens, and Wellington loses its bid to continue hosting the Sevens.
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It’s the year of the TIGER…!
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- The Chinese New Year has always fascinated me, mostly the idea that it grew from a legend that foretold of a wild beast that attacked and killed villages at the end of every year and was only dissuaded from its merciless path by loud noises and bright lights.
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A Day in Pompeii
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- In 79 AD Pompeii, a Roman town-city near modern Naples, was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius.
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Them Crooked Vultures - 29 January, TSB Arena
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- The allure of sex, sweat, thunderous drumming and chugging riffs lies at the heart of Them Crooked Vulture’s sound.
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