Blogs / January 2010
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From Dot Culture to Street Culture
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- The bad news first - Yes, Yayoi Kusama’s trippy extravaganza of dots will wrap-up this Sunday at the City Gallery.
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Boganwatch
- The Wellingtonista
- AC/DC - the greatest band on the planet - are playing in Wellington tonight and Saturday on the Black Ice tour, and the city has been overrun by bogans, glorious bogans.
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Davis Food Market: an investigation
- The Wellingtonista
- We noticed Davis Food Mart pop up on the corner of Taranaki & Karo Drive a little before Xmas, so we decided it was time to check it out to see if Mt Cook now has a proper supermarket to call its own. It doesn't. But we did find some very interesting things anyway, and you can read more about them after the break. read more
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Go Go... New Zealand Post Readers and Writers Week...!
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- On Tuesday evening the New Zealand International Arts Festival officially launched the New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week programme and it truly has something for everyone.
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Signer: Next We Bring You the Fire - 22 January, Album Review
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- Ex-Wellingtonian Bevan Smith pokes his head up somewhat, with a tasty little morsel of an album.
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Camera Obscura and The Books – 19 January, San Francisco Bathhouse
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- An exciting double-act hit the Capital last week that was definitely not to be missed.
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Andy C and MC GQ - 14 January, Sandwiches
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- Not knowing much about Drum and Bass or the highly acclaimed Andy C, real name Andrew Clarke, I headed along to Sandwiches more concerned with what hour I would hit the hay on a school night rather than how the actual performance would pan out… how wrong I was to think that this night would put me to sleep.
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Locale - 26 January, Toi Poneke Gallery
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- Another name for Locale could have been “3 Photographers chasing the New Zealand-ness that resides in the often seen but rarely regarded.
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A new dialogue with Julia
- The Wellingtonista
- So, Julia Deans, singer in the TAWA-nominated Fur Patrol and all- around pretty lady has a solo album coming out this year. The first single off it is called "A new dialogue" and it has a rather lovely video. Enjoy!
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Basins
- Eye of the Fish
- In other news, keep an eye out on this website from NZTA regarding the long-awaited ‘options’ for the flyover in the Basin Reserve.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Supreme Pacifika
- Eye of the Fish
- A short post – featuring the work of one of our readers who prefers to remain uncredited: showcasing the new Supreme Court, but with a more pacific-style wrapping to the ’screen’.
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A teatowel coffee guide to Wellington
- The Wellingtonista
- NZ History have recently added an amazing tea towel, thought to be from the mid-1960s, listing the coffee houses of Wellington.
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Scaffold’s Off
- Eye of the Fish
- Hooray, the Dominion Post is finally taking an interest in architecture! Well Done to their photographer Kent Blechynden with his page 3 photo, a full frontal spread of the boys from PyraDeck striking the scaffolding on part of the Sodo apartments.
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Getting slayed at the Customs Brew Bar
- The Wellingtonista
- There'd been a bit of tooting over on Twitter about Customs Brew Bar, a new cafe from Coffee Supreme, so when it opened the Wellingtonista paid a visit.
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Songstresses aplenty at the Botanical Gardens…!
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- The pinnacle of the he NZCT Summer City Festival is upon us, with twenty-two consecutive nights of free entertainment courtesy of the ASB Gardens Magic Series, and this year there are a number of talented female songstresses on the bill.
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Quality time with the family at Osteria Del Toro
- The Wellingtonista
- Annoyingly, Osteria Del Toro doesn't appear to have a website. However, what they do have is an awesome alternative to yum cha on Sundays (and I think it's only Sunday afternoons)
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Big Willy in Town
- Eye of the Fish
- We’re back in business. How could we not be – today of all days. There are so many things that we could discuss – a Whale on the loose, a Dolphin run amok, a Basset feeding kittens, horrific tales of woe from the mess that is Haiti, a right royal Willy shaking hands, a Cockatoo with a cock or too, and a Fish on the comeback trail. But most of all, a giant bronze Crayfish cage plonked down on Lambton Quay, with a pinecone stuck inside. Oh, there is too much irony in the world to waste time with platitudes – knives and forks ready – let’s get stuck in.
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UK film sensation unites with NZFC for Masterclass
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- It’s a beautiful sight when fate brings two like-minded strangers together.
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Films by Starlight
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- This February the Film by Starlight series returns to The Dell in the Wellington Botanic Gardens as part of the Summer City programme and the line-up is particularly impressive.
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Bloggers predict: 2010
- The Wellingtonista
- We're written about UP's Bloggers Predict event before, but this time, I'm one of the people doing the predicting on January 28 from 5.
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Josh Wink at Sandwiches this Saturday Night
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- Embracing a diligent work ethic, a spiritual mindset & a self-taught mastery of dancefloor devastation using little more than a pair of turntables, Josh Wink has worked hard since 1990 to become one of the world's most in demand purveyors of experimental, electronic, danceable music.
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Why? – 18 December, San Francisco Bathhouse
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- I struggled convincing anyone to come along with me to catch the Californian indie hip-hop five-piece, Why?, with most noting that they had better things to do than listen to a skinny-white-rapper with a moustache.
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Rise of the Medusa
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- It’s been a little over a year, but the Vivian Street venue that was formerly known as Valve and Hole in the wall, has been reincarnated for the third time running as bar Medusa.
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