Blogs / March 2010
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Bye-bye, Wellywood sign
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington Airport has actually listened to the massive public opposition to the Wellywood sign (and potential legal troubles from Hollywood) and have ditched the idea.
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Fight for your right to party
- The Wellingtonista
- If you want to do anything about the proposal to extend the liquor ban to cover the whole city 24/7, get your submission in now.
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New City Architect appointed
- Eye of the Fish
- The folk here at the Fish have been following the reshuffling down at the City Council with interest, as they restructure the Urban Strategy Group yet again and find new positions for expired urban designers and heritage advisors.
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What up, Easter?
- The Wellingtonista
- So today we asked on Twitter for people to tell us what's going to be open and what's going to be closed over Easter.
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Up up in a way
- The Sidestrip
- TheSidestrip visited the Wellington Aero Club 80th anniversary celebration at the Wellington Airport last March 27,2010.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Out, damned spot!
- The Wellingtonista
- Despite my frivolous title, it seems that most people loved the Kusama installation "Dots for Love and Peace", and are sad to see it removed, dot by colourful dot, from the front of the City Gallery today.
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Flying in and switching off
- The Wellingtonista
- The Oaks complex sometimes seems like a hospitality Bermuda Triangle: fast-food joints and dodgy convenience stores jostle with bars of almost unrelenting crapness.
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Culture Kicks
- The Wellingtonista
- This Sunday 28 March there is an international celebration of the beautiful game going on at Martin Luckie Park, Berhampore 9am - 5pm.
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Berhampore, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Treespotting
- The Wellingtonista
- I'm more likely to write about nightlife than wildlife, but I do like urban observations in general, so Project Noah caught my eye.
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Art, Art, Art!
- The Wellingtonista
- So, right now there's a whole lot of really good stuff being exhibited in Wellington's galleries. City Gallery After the hugely successful Yayoi Kusama exhibition turned the gallery into a magical wonderland, the main gallery space has now been given over to three also wonderful artists. More after the jump. read more
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Seraphine Pick - 14 March, City Gallery
- Texture
- The name Seraphine Pick conjures up images of a conceptual artist with a rock and roll attitude.
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City-wide liquor ban consultation starts next week
- The Wellingtonista
- A few weeks ago we wrote about the proposed city-wide ban on "drinking and carrying liquor in public places, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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The Wellingtonista's top ten things to do in Wellington
- The Wellingtonista
- This list was published in abbreviated form in the first issue of FishHead, which is having its launch party tonight.
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Hello, Kitties
- The Wellingtonista
- You know there's that cat you see on the way to the bus stop - the one that rolls around on the footpath and lets you tickle his belly, and you've nicknamed him Captain Choicepants? Well, that's a neighbourhood cat. Inspired by the Neighbour Cats zines, Petra Jane has created a public Google map of neighbourhood cats around Wellington and beyond.
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Night Noms
- The Wellingtonista
- Anyone who has been down to the waterfront this week would have seen a large rusty barge parked in the lagoon and a bunch of scaffolding and marquees going up. You may well be wondering, "what the hell is all of this in aid of?" Well gentle reader, today for one day only, the area around the lagoon and Frank Kitts Park is being transformed into a slice of Asia (well about 10 or so slices of Asia) for the Southeast Asian Night Market.
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Get your fresh Fishheads today
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington has a new magazine called FishHead and the first issue is out today.
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Test Cricket
- The Wellingtonista
- When the New Zealand cricket team (note not BLACKCAPS™) first toured South Africa in 1953 they had never won a Test Match and were given no show against a ruthless South Africa, on pitches tailored to support their fast, mean quick bowlers. The cricket was tough, and victory was ultimately beyond New Zealand's grasp, but it wasn't the cricket that ensured that the series became a NZ sporting legend. The 1953 Second (Christmas Day) Test is famous for the profoundly moving story of one player, Kiwi fast bowler Bob Blair, and his story has been brought to the stage by talented actor Jonny Brugh (Sugar & Spice) and it's playing now at BATS. During the rest day of the Test, Blair got the news that his fiancée Nerissa Love had been killed along with 150 others in the Tangiwai Rail Disaster. When play resumed on Boxing Day nobody expected Blair to play any further part in the game. Without giving too much away, the rest (as they say) is history. Brugh's play is a moving and beautifully acted treatment of the story. He plays dozens of parts (Blair & Love; cricketers Rabone, Reid, Sutcliffe, etc; Prime Minister Sid Holland) and imbues them all with fine detail and a sweet comic sensibility. He brings, not just the game to life, but the era - a different age.read more
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Handmade is the best Made
- The Wellingtonista
- Autumn is upon us, and seasons changing means only one thing in the Wellington Craft World. It's Knack time. Knack time being this saturday from 9.30am till 2.30pm at Berhampore School. Knack is a glorious seasonal market which also doubles as a school fundraiser. So you get to buy handmade from the artist which is grand and then know that you are also helping out a school. It's like double doing good, with shopping . Knack's full of lovely handmade things, and is often where some of Wellington's newests crafters make their selling debut, so it's a great market for those of you wanting to be ahead of the. There's loads of parking at the school or catch the bus and amble up the hill.
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Berhampore, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The rugby sculpture
- The Wellingtonista
- A proposal was unveiled yesterday for a Weta Workshop-designed rugby-themed sculpture to grace the city, somewhere, In Time For The Rugby World Cup. The sculpture is highly symbolic, with the DomPost providing a list of all the symbolism, but what does the sculpture most resemble?
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Rhian Returns
- Texture
- Many called it the best live performance of 2009. Rhian Sheehan’s Standing in Silence: live was an epic night at Downstage. It brought to life an acclaimed album, taking the music to another level of intensity, even leaving some in tears as the bows were made and the lights came back up. Yes, it was that freakin’ emotional.So can we have some more Mr Sheehan? Well yes. Yes we can.Standing in Silence: live returns for 2010, this time stretching its legs in the luxurious surrounds of Wellington’s Opera House on the 19th of June.Once again we will be gifted with 14 talented contemporary, classical and electronic musicians, performing live alongside a filmic backdrop of moving images, shot all over the world and specifically created for the Standing in Silence show.Joining Rhian on-stage will be Jeff Boyle from Jakob, Tom Pierard (Strike), Raashi Malik (Rhombus), Jeramiah Ross (Module), Steve Bremner (NZSO, Strike), Jess Chambers, Andy Hummel, Brett Skinner, Al Frazer (all Woodshed Sessions), plus a 5 piece string section. I missed this the first time around... I’m not going to make the same mistake twice. You would be wise to do the same.Get your tickets here. -Darren
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Neil Gaiman - 13 March, Wellington Town Hall
- Texture
- There is a new thin white duke, and his name is Neil Gaiman. Polite relaxed and confident, with a slight northern-English accent, Neil is writing rock-star royalty all-over.Gaiman is the author behind the Sandman graphic novels, as well as seminal road trippin’ mythology-busting novel, American Gods, and the button-eyed creepiness of Coraline.
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Councillors happy with high numbers of Pokies
- Hutt Chick
- A report in the Hutt News showed there are problems with the number of pokie machines in Lower Hutt, but councillors will not do anything to change the status quo.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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5.8 percent Rate increase to Wellington's homeowners and zero to commercial buildings
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Actually the rate increase is closer to 6.5 percent to the residents if you take into account the swimming pool improvements proposed as an option in the DAP (Draft Annual Plan.) The total rate increase including the commercial and residential sector is quoted as 2.8 percent but when the sectors are broken down the commercial is zero and the residential is 6 percent or 6.5 percent depending on the final fix in the DAP.
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Supercilious City: Pods cast
- Eye of the Fish
- It’s times like this that I feel quite sorry for Aucklanders.
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Wellywood Sign Generator
- The Wellingtonista
- The Wellywood sign madness/awesomeness continues! Aucklander Edward from has created the Wellywood Sign Generator. This is a crop of my attempt, where I have added a helpful "lol" to explain that the sign is a "send-up" and a "tongue-in-cheek play" on the Hollywood sign.
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Extreme makeover
- Texture
- We've decided to give Texture an extreme makeover! We've picked out the best bits of Texture and put it into a new blogging website - complete with a hot new look and name - Word on the Street.
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The new issue dividing our capital
- The Wellingtonista
- First it was "Bret or Jermaine?" then "Smash Malice or Brutal Paegent?" but now it's time for the really big decision - which Facebook group to join - "Hey, let's NOT have a 'Wellywood' sign in Wellington"or "A WELLYWOOD sign on the Miramar Cutting Hill is a STUPID idea"?
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Hooray for Wellywood
- The Wellingtonista
- Everyone knows that while Wellington has a world-class, award-winning film production industry, it's been sorely lacking one serious thing: a giant sign proclaiming WELLYWOOD.
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Modernista
- The Wellingtonista
- There's a lot on at the moment for fans of Modern architecture.
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Enter The Kale-Dragon
- Texture
- Combine the intense stare (And eyebrows) of Bruce Lee, with the sonic-boom of music-maestro Karsh Kale, and what do you get? Cult-classic awesomeness with a twist of modern mind-f*$kery is what.
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Polychromatic cutie
- Eye of the Fish
- Since the one day symposium last year on the architecture of the 1980s, I’ve been paying more attention to buildings from the 1980s.
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120 Cuba Street, Wellington
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Variation 11
- Eye of the Fish
- The Wellington City Council must have known it was going to be picking a hard road to go down when it proposed Variation 11, and sure enough, the District Plan change is due to go to appeal at the Environment Court.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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