Blogs / July 2010
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Ideas for Wellington #1 – Bikepaths across the Cake Tin concourse
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- This is the first in a series of ideas for Wellington, which will be mostly bicycle, and public transport related.
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Hoko Kai on the Waterfront
- The Wellingtonista
- Te wiki o te Reo Maori is drawing to a close, with the finale being held at the markets on the waterfront this Sunday.
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Mayor Ogden and credit card use
- Hutt Chick
- Credit card spending by our elected officials has been in the news quite a bit recently.
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Set your brain on fire with Ignite
- The Wellingtonista
- So many presentations are like really really weak broth, with only a hint of actual content floating around in far too much weak sauce.
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Less Mahi, more Kai
- The Wellingtonista
- You know how there is often cool free stuff happening at lunchtime if you have your ear to the ground (actually Twitter may well be the modern digital jungle drum or smoke signal if you know how to fossick and filter, or you could just just follow us on Twitter).
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Eat and eat and eat: win a voucher for the General Practitioner
- The Wellingtonista
- Congratulations to Nicole and her fantail for winning our Rata competition.
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Band Substances
- The Wellingtonista
- An unfortunate number of Wellingtonistas are rather fond of making rather terrible puns quite frequently, which means a lot of my time is spend making "Badoom chish!" sounds.
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Noodle noodle noodle
- The Wellingtonista
- Not that it needs any pimping by us, but thought you should know that Wagamama in the Meridian building on the Waterfront is giving away free noodles today from 12 - 2.00pm. We are talking don buri, udon and beef noodle salad here people, well worth waiting in line for if you have the time. Behold the line at 11.30am last year....
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Indoor Stadium options
- Eye of the Fish
- In the interests of being a good citizen, and supporting the search for another possible site for the TSB Arena should it chose to relocate away from it’s foreshore-grabbing frontline position (surely the most pointless place for a ‘black box’ to be), I thought it may be useful to research some other sites around town that have been mooted.
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Rebels in so many ways
- The Wellingtonista
- Remember the good time y'all had last year at the TAWAs? Sure, a lot of that was us up on stage, but also, it was the Klezmer Rebs, playing rollickingly good tunes.
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Men Behaving Badly
- Hutt Chick
- In Auckland there has been a completely dysfunctional relationship between the Auckland City council and Auckland Regional Council.
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Eat and eat and eat: win a voucher for Rata Cafe
- The Wellingtonista
- Congratulations to Angus who won last week's prize.
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Questions and answers for the fishheasd magazine interview
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- An interview with Mayoral candidate Bryan Pepperell1.
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Review: Mark Twain and Me in Maoriland
- The Wellingtonista
- In 1895, an elderly, ill Mark Twain embarked on a world lecture tour, in order to earn enough money to pay back the $100,000 debt he held.
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Don’t shelve community libraries
- Hutt Chick
- The seven community libraries have been under threat by Cr Roger Styles in the past, and now Cr Max Shierlaw is suggesting they go.
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Film festival frenzy
- The Wellingtonista
- I am not going to see a single film at the Film Festival.
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Wellington's rates out of control
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Recently I asked for the compounding rate increase for residential property over the last five years from the city council´s CFO. My records from 1 July 2003 to 30 June to 2004 show my rates at $1275.69. They are now $2204.52. That’s close enough to 73 percent and I pay for my own rubbish. The figure I was given by the CFO was 45 percent.
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Have a wander around some wool
- The Wellingtonista
- There are craft markets that happen occasionally like Craft 2.
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Wellington Film Festival opens tonight!
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s never been a tougher time to be running a film festival.
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Eat and eat and eat: win a voucher for Elements Cafe
- The Wellingtonista
- We already told you how excited we are about the upcoming Wellington on a Plate festival, and now we're even more excited to announce that we're working with Positively Wellington Tourism to help you get the most out of the event.
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Where did I stick my Stadium?
- Eye of the Fish
- Following swiftly on from the news that Wellington Waterfront is even thinking of demolishing the existing stadium, comes the question: If not there, then where? Its clear that the current site can’t cope with much more expansion, given that it is quite a large building already, and I can’t see anyone being particularly happy at the big shed getting even bigger or shedier.
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Apartments Dead
- Eye of the Fish
- As the song went, “there’s a fine, fine line between pleasure and pain”. And so it is with the apartment market in Wellington, and my compulsion to write on this blog. One minute it seems like its not worth continuing with the blog as nothing much is happening on the Wellington construction scene, and the next minute – oh my god, they’re reporting about possibly tearing down the Event Centre, about apartment projects going phut, about Soso Apartments causing the death of the entire apartment scene in Wellington, the end of the Parade Cafe, the luxurious Pet Palace costing pussy an arm and a leg, and many more.
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Water conservation in the pipeline?
- Hutt Chick
- It is great to see that Capacity is fixing water leaks, but we could be doing so much more to conserve water and save residents the cost of a $142 million dam.
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Review: Mauritius
- The Wellingtonista
- I tried stamp collecting when I was younger.
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Undo the top button on your pants
- The Wellingtonista
- It's time to eat eat eat! The programme for Wellington on a Plate has been launched, and it is making us mighty hungry.
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Smell the 'glove
- The Wellingtonista
- It may not be what we were expecting from a "West Hollywood lounge experience", but all that money certainly has ensured that Foxglove is a vastly more impressive visual experience than the ol' Loaded Hog. But a bar is not just about the pretty, so how does it stack up? See what the 'fly thinks after the jump. read more
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I just can't get you out of my garden
- The Wellingtonista
- Here at the Wellingtonista we'd like to think we have a fairly diverse range of readers, but perhaps we don't cover enough of the really pop side of pop culture.
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Checking out the checkins
- The Wellingtonista
- Since location-based social media website Foursquare became available in here in November last year, iWellingtonians have taken to it with enthusiasm.
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