Blogs / January 2011
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Whare Waka
- Eye of the Fish
- Whither to, waiwhetu… While we’re waiting with willing Waitangi welcome, windy Wellington’s waka wends wetly with Waiwhetu, where wrangles wearily wear worrisomely.
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A Ngaio Gorge cycleway
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- This post is a thought for the future, being a little ahead of the curve. After we’ve built the Great Harbour Way and we’ve built the bike lanes across the Cake Tin concourse, and Wellington is a city of trams and ferries and bicycles we might like to consider developing this idea.
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Ngaio, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- I understand that New Zealand is proportionally the biggest market in the world for dance movies – the Step Ups, Stomping the Yards, dance battle films are huge here – so I wonder whether that will hold true for a psychological drama set in the world of classical ballet.
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For DavidP
- Eye of the Fish
- Inspired by his suggestion from this post: Stop the Flyover Schiphol is built on a drained bit of land that used to be be the Harlemmermeer.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Offbeat is on
- The Wellingtonista
- When Offbeat Originals mysteriously and suddenly closed last year, we were terribly update.
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Webstock directions: rock out, tweet up
- The Wellingtonista
- We’re not going to bother telling you about Webstock because a) you should already know all about it and b) there was only one ticket left as of this morning (although there are still tickets to the ONYAs available, so get on that.
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2011 Calendar by Tim Denee
- The Wellingtonista
- If you’re a bit late in getting your 2011 calendar sorted out, you could do worse to download and print out Wellington graphic designer Tim Denee’s lovely (and free!) design. Get it over at his website.
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WordCamp
- The Wellingtonista
- Lunchtime at WordCamp 2010.
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Superstar DJ
- The Wellingtonista
- Happy brings back its Vinyl Friday sessions for 2011.
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Stop the flyover!
- Eye of the Fish
- I finally posted my first blog entry here just a short while ago, but it’s been a long time in the making.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: Etiquette
- The Wellingtonista
- A man and a woman sit across a table from one another at a Wellington cafe.
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Catching a Ferry to Massey Regional Park
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- This website for the promotion of the Massey Regional Park deserves not only a wider audience, but to actually be acted upon.
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Camping at Circa
- The Wellingtonista
- While lots of Wellingtonians are off holidaying in remote parts of the country (huddling under canvas, finding sandbags to keep the creek out, hoping the caravan doesn’t blow away) Circa Theatre have kindly brought the camp site to those of us who stayed at home – in the form of Dave Armstrong’s new play The Motor Camp.
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Department of Linky Love: The Examiner
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s nice to see some solid local news reporting over at new Wellington website The Examiner. The Examiner says it aims to be “… a site where we look deeper and think harder about the city we live in and the issues that matter to us. It is also a forum for telling Wellingtonians’ stories, especially for people who would not otherwise have a voice.” Neat. Welcome, The Examiner.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s that time of year when the serious Oscar contenders start rolling out.
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Vanishing appears
- The Wellingtonista
- There are a few shops around town that cater to pop-culture junkies and seekers of retro memorabilia, but newcomer Vanishing Point (40 Abel Smith St) adds a personal twist.
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Wishbone blows, harder
- The Wellingtonista
- In case kinda nasty and over-priced food, and rumoured worker exploitation weren’t reason enough to dislike the (surprisingly-successful) Wishbone, how about this for some odious sentiment: Said by Barbra Streisand, apparently The internets suggest that the quote should actually read “eating only the top half of each slice”, but frankly that doesn’t even make sense.
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The Owls Are Not What They Seem
- The Wellingtonista
- You know that we’re big fans of Madame Fancy Pants.
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PhotoChop III
- The Wellingtonista
- On this week at Thistle Hall is the biennial PhotoChop exhibition, centred around the art of collage.
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The Indian job
- The Wellingtonista
- Those of us around the Civic Square or waterfront areas may have noticed a bit of a kerfuffle involving a fleet of Minis hooning where cars aren’t normally allowed.
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Waikanae River Paths
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- February 19 marks the planned opening of the extension of suburban Welly railway services to Waikanae.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- This weekend, film fans, you can watch the new animated Yogi Bear movie in two different formats, compare the two and then have an erudite discussion of the related strengths and weaknesses of the new “re-booted franchise” versus the beloved, barely 2D, original.
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The Johnsonville Shambles
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- One of the main reasons I blog is to make the world a better place, but I tell ya what, it doesn’t seem to be working.
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I’ve changed my mind about light rail
- Eye of the Fish
- Hello and Happy New Year to all of you Eye of the Fish followers.
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My Public Transport: Kerry Wood
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- <em>From time to time we plan to post Sustwelltrans members’ own experiences of using public transport.
- Accepted from Sustainable Wellington Transport posts
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So long, Marbecks Cuba Mall
- The Wellingtonista
- It looks like the Marbecks on Cuba Mall is closing down, leaving the blessed Slowboat and Real Groovy the only music shops in the area.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- A New Year brings with it several resolutions and one of those is that I will return to regular contributions here at The Wellingtonista.
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