Blogs / April 2011
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Community Garden Opens at 181 Daniel Street Newtown 2pm today
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Mayor Celia Wade-Brown with Southern Ward Councillors Bryan Pepperell and Paul Eagle at the opening of Daniel Street Community Garden toda.181 Daniel Street Newtown 2pm today
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Notional Significance: Gully
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] The path bends with the motorway, peeling away from the hills, presenting a widescreen panorama of residential Thorndon.
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New Electric Bike Magazine
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Visit http://www.electricbikemag.co.uk/ for free pdf downloads of their first 3 issues starting from Issue 0 They review ebikes and ebike kits. I don’t think the magazine will be free forever, but these first issues are. Worth a bit of a read if you are interested in electric bikes.
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You can’t trust the new real-time bus system; don’t
- The Wellingtonista
- Earlier this month Alan heralded the beginning of the roll-out of the Regional Council’s new Real Time Passenger Information project.
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Narrative Playgrounds group show at Pixel Ink Gallery
- The Wellingtonista
- Narrative Playgrounds is a group exhibition at Pixel Ink Gallery of visual works by emerging and established New Zealand artists.
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Musical Fences and Xylophone Bridges
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- In the centre of Queensland is the somewhat unique town of Winton.
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La Boca Loca
- The Wellingtonista
- With the opening of The Roxy cinema, Miramar has suddenly become a rather popular little neighbourhood.
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Jamming culture
- The Wellingtonista
- Saturday’s Jamoff at Craft2.0 was a great success. We were on the spot with this video report. In a field of 24 entries, your correspondent achieved a near perfect score of 3-3-3-3-2 in his aim to produce the most mediocre jam.
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The little Fair that Could – Turns 5
- The Wellingtonista
- Saturday marks the 5th birthday of Craft2.
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The Illuminati are Sacrificing Children in Capital E!
- The Wellingtonista
- If you sometimes wonder what the hell Alf Rune is going on about (and to be honest, we all do at times), a link or two might help.
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The cupboards are bare
- The Wellingtonista
- The Wellingtonista is not just about bringing the snark to the deserving.
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How we could actually improve our roads
- The Wellingtonista
- If you’ve ever driven from Newtown to Kilbirnie, you’ll know how godawful the intersection with State Highway One is.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Notional Significance: Disinterment
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] The entry to Bolton St cemetery is unremarkable: a gap in a white fence off a respectable street, a canopy of pines, plain crosses against a corrugated iron fence.
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Toilet Talk too
- Eye of the Fish
- Not wanting to put too fine a point on it, but this town needs more public WCs.
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Melling Line Bus Replacement Replacement News
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Since the cluster-fluff of extending rail service to Waikanae, retimetabling for overcrowding and not introducing the Matangi trains on time, you all probably know by now that the Melling Line trains have been replaced by rail replacement buses, and are leaving from the dreaded platform 9 at Wellington Station.
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Mojo Origins
- The Wellingtonista
- So with Starbucks, according to
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Cinephilia: World Cinema Showcase 2011 Preview
- The Wellingtonista
- For this year’s World Cinema Showcase preview I started with a list of all the films I wanted to see and then realised that I had used up my entire world limit.
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It’s MAC GONE MAD, Wellington version
- The Wellingtonista
- We’ve all had many chuckles at Damn You Autocorrect, but then we came to the shocking realisation that Steve Jobs must have secret insider knowledge of Wellington.
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We can’t build our way out of congestion
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- On a day when the NZTA has been accused of bullying it is perhaps time to comment on the NZTA’s call for public comments on the section of State Highway 1 between Aotea Quay and Ngauranga.
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Notional Significance: Concrete Archipelago
- The Wellingtonista
- The path, from tilted field down into the motorway chasm, winds past richly-tagged garage walls and rear fences.
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Letting Space on the Terrace
- The Wellingtonista
- From the public art programme which brought you Kim Paton’s Free Store and Tao Wells’ The Beneficiary’s Office (which both caused significant national media interest and debate) I’d like to present to you: Colin Hodson’s The Market Testament.
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The carrots! They are mobbing!
- The Wellingtonista
- Conscious Consumers is organising New Zealand’s first Carrotmob.
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Rumble in the Jumble
- The Wellingtonista
- The Great Eclectic Jumble sale is back, for those of us who love all things vintage, the Jumble sale is like a single op shop on crack, and really good high quality crack at that.
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Did I Believe You Should Look Around You?
- The Wellingtonista
- At the Wellingtonista, we love us some live theatre and comedy.
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Crazy unicyclists crossing Australia
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Here at the Wellington Region Cycleway blog I can say I am pretty fond of the nutters nice people who decide to cross a continent on a bike, or on foot, or on a pogo stick or whatever.
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A great yarn – what Tash did next
- The Wellingtonista
- Remember Tash from It’s A Tree? Not content to rest on her laurels – or tuis, or flowers, badoom chish – she’s kept herself busy in the world of wool, opening up Holland Road Yarn at 281 Jackson Street, Petone.
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A Cuba St cafe that’s not a cafe in Cuba St
- The Wellingtonista
- Last week I was in sunny Napier, idly strolling down Dalton Street, when I came across this curious cafe.
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Parkour update
- The Wellingtonista
- Creative Commons photo by Alexandre Ferreira on Flickr In November 2007 I posted an article about the exciting pursuit of parkour in Wellington, and it’s been one of our most enduringly popular articles, generating a steady stream of traffic and comments.
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predictive bussing revisited
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s been the better part of a year since we wrote about the Regional Council’s Real Time Passenger Information project.
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Notional Significance: Up and Under
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] The path sidles away from the road.
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Micro-ferries for Porirua Harbour
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- It seems Wellington Region’s public transport system is falling apart, with the GWRC busily working out how to shed hard-earned ridership, when it should be doing the opposite.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington’s best set of stairs
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- So where provision has actually been made and there is some quality pedestrian infrastructure then it can be celebrated. For instance there is a great set of stairs to get up to Amritsar St in Khandallah.
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Submit on the Wellington City Council Community Draft Annual Plan now. Don’t dither!
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Submit on the Wellington City Council Community Draft Annual Plan now. Don’t dither! Democracy only works when we all participate. With low turnouts at election time and poor participation rates in the Council Community Annual and Long Term Council Community Plans, outcomes can get distorted. If you don’t vote and participate in the process then you shouldn’t complain about the outcome.
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