Blogs / June 2010
July 2010 | May 2010-
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Review: Te Radar's Eating The Dog
- The Wellingtonista
- Te Radar's show Eating The Dog has the hypothesis that New Zealand's history and national character have been shaped by all the crazy fools out there, having ill-fated adventures, making things that don't quite work, and generally getting a bit carried away.
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Interesting times - Election Poll 2010
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- An opinion poll for the Dominion Post asked on 3 March 2010:[6] Would you vote for Kerry Prendergast for a fourth term as Wellington mayor? 25% said that they would vote for her, whilst 44% said that they would not.
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Reviews in brief: the Recovery Room
- The Wellingtonista
- If you're looking for a fairly affordable dinner, let me recommend the Recovery Room in Newtown to you.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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An Eighties Eye
- The Wellingtonista
- We're indebted to the Architectural Centre for pointing out this fascinating architectural time capsule at NZ On Screen.
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Knack Market is fun
- The Wellingtonista
- Knack Craft market is Wellington's boutique style market.
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Minding your Manners
- The Wellingtonista
- There was a bit of a ruckus on Victoria Street yesterday, when anti-Manners Street, pro-Manners Mall protester Benjamin Easton started smashing up the road with a sledgehammer.
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Impressive Tongan tapa – an installation challenge.
- Te Papa's blog
- But one Tongan tapa cloth (ngatu) in Te Papa’s collection is amazing because of its size – it is more than 22 metres long and over 4 metres wide. We have never been able to display it rolled out before – we didn’t have a wall big enough, until now…
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Telecom bricks
- Eye of the Fish
- The number of tower cranes in Wellington has come down by one, in a surprise move last weekend.
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No water privatisation in wellington -yeah right!
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- On Thursday, 17 June 2010, the Wellington City Council Strategy and Policy Committee met to finalise Council's submission on the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill. Radio New Zealand's response this morning was misleading to say the least in that it stated that Wellington City Council had backed down on water privatisation through public pressure. It was one of the more misleading news items that I have ever heard. Council was not changing its policy but was making a weasel worded submission on the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill.
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Ghost in the hall
- The Wellingtonista
- Over the coming weekend, the town hall will echo with the sound of New Zealanders competing furiously against Australians and Americans to build a website for charity in 24 hours.
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A fair weekend ahead
- The Wellingtonista
- If you havn't recovered from Craft2.
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Mind your Manners
- Eye of the Fish
- Well, Well, Welly. Wellington City Council weren’t joking when they said they were going to start work on the Manners Mall bus route. Notice in the paper one day, ripping up those horrid concrete bricks (not one of the design team’s best choices it would seem) the next day. One of our regular readers sent this pic in as they started work:
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How shall we split the bill?
- Hutt Chick
- Unless someone is feeling particularly flush, this question can be quite awkward.
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King of the Kapital
- The Wellingtonista
- King Kapisi was spotted around Welly town today with a laptop of new tracks. He is actually a Wellingtonian (take that Auckland and Samoa, fight you for him) who knew? Anyway here is clip of Kapisi showing some local favour.
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From the Terrace to Pompeii and back
- The Wellingtonista
- Those of you with an interest in textiles, history and dressing up might be veeeeeeeeeerry interested in an upcoming lecture to be held at St.
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What's for lunch, Lower Lambton?
- The Wellingtonista
- Because we are so almighty powerful and capacious, we're frequently opening up branch outposts of the Wellingtonista Towers.
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Stars in our eyes
- The Wellingtonista
- It is time to get cozy in our coats, fish out last year's gloves, fluff up the winter-weight duvet and limit our movements as winter sets in.
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Estadio at the Temperance -- viva o futebol!
- The Wellingtonista
- We at Wellingtonista Towers are pleased to see something happening at the old Temperance premises on Blair St.
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Locals and Tourists
- The Wellingtonista
- Eric Fisher has been geomapping Flickr photos of cities around the world.
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Hey Victoria, tell us a story!
- The Wellingtonista
- Hey you, Vic student! Shouldn't you be busy studying instead of reading blogs? Well fine, if you're looking for ways to occupy your brain, Vic Books has a suggestion for you Vicbooks is running a duo of writing competitions, one for Poetry and the other for Short Stories.
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CML building
- Eye of the Fish
- There was a mention a month or two ago of the origin of the CML building, when regular reader Robyn mentioned that it was one of her favourite buildings.
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No stopping the big spenders at Wellington City Council
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Over the years I have talked a lot about Wellington City Council’s debt.
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Public Access between Wainui and Eastbourne?
- Hutt Chick
- Photo courtesy www.
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Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Carmen's a bitch
- The Wellingtonista
- Tonight saw the opening of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's Meridien season of Carmen.
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Rocky road for Cuba Carni
- Eye of the Fish
- Front page news today that the Cuba Carnival is canned for next year, and that the future of the whole event is in doubt: Oh No, Say It Isn’t So! That sucks – it really does.
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One step closer for Hutt EnviroHouse
- Hutt Chick
- The Lower Hutt EnviroHouse is one step closer.
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Art Free for All
- The Wellingtonista
- The Free Store has been open at 38 Ghuznee Street for 11 days now and word has certainly got out that there is such a thing as a free lunch.
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Maranui v2
- The Wellingtonista
- It's a cold, rainy Tuesday afternoon in the first day of winter. Why, it's a perfect day to go to the beach! The occasion is the first day of business for the back-from-the-dead Maranui Cafe. After being damaged in a fire last year, escaping the threat of demolition and managing to keep not just the building intact but also the business, the cafe has been reborn, like a phoenix rising from a pile of coffee grounds and sand.
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Maranui Cafe, Lyall Bay Parade, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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