Blogs / November 2011
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Te Araroa Trail to finally be opened
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- At Shorland Park in Island Bay this Saturday at 10am the Governor-General, Lieutenant General Sir Jerry Mateparae will declare open Te Araroa, the Long Pathway.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Borrowing and Lending – Latest News
- Te Papa's blog
- Adam Art Gallery has opened a new exhibition this November: Shadowgraphs: Photographic Portraits by Len Lye.
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Wendy’s comes to town
- The Wellingtonista
- There have been rumours for a while that a Wendy’s was coming to Wellington, and finally I received a report from the Kapiti: a Wendy’s had just opened in Paraparaumu.
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Still under mediocrity rule
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- 50% of people are below average by definition, and tonight nearly all of them voted National.
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For a richer New Zealand
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Spotted in Levin tonight. For a richer New Zealand. Back with bicycle related posts after tomorrow’s kerfuffle.
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Palmie Chic
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- You may or may not be aware of the cycle chic movement – and here are some examples – such as Copenhagen Cycle Chic, or closer to home Auckland Cycle Chic.
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The obligatory election commentary
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- On Saturday this site has to go off-line for the day so to stay within the electoral laws (I don’t understand why, and it seems pretty dumb to me) and I hope you all turn the voting experience into a positive activity, by walking or cycling to your nearest booth and casting your ballots.
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Everyone knows Wellington is a (Satay) Village
- The Wellingtonista
- Over the past couple of months I have been reviewing Malaysian restaurants all around Wellington for Malaysia Kitchen (full disclosure – I got refunded some of the costs).
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We’ve got a craft fair tomorrow
- The Wellingtonista
- Saturday is Election Day, but more importantly (to me at least) it’s Christmas Knack Day.
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Two Things You Should Do This Week
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Thing One… Come to the Basin Reserve this Thursday, 24 November, from 5.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellywood: blown away
- The Wellingtonista
- So apparently we voted for the Wellington sign that’s being blown away. Naturally, Robbie Ellis has even more to say about it.
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Exploring a Wellington South Coast Plant Community
- Te Papa's blog
- Te Papa’s Botany team recently ventured to a Wellington City Council Reserve called Hue tē Taka Peninsula/Moa Point located on the south coast of Miramar Peninsula. Our aim is to compile a species list of the plant community, supported by vouchered specimens that will be stored in Te Papa’s herbarium (collection of dried plants). Most plant species including seaweeds, moss, liverworts, lichen, ferns and seed plants will be collected. Before collecting any plants, we obtained a permit from Wellington City Council.
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cuba Cuticle
- Eye of the Fish
- Recently, while we were talking about the curious case of the Demolition Order placed on the little green Dry Cleaners in Cuba St, I took a visit up to Cuba (St) to take a photo and found something rather odd.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New display about the Bay of Plenty oil spill
- Te Papa's blog
- A few weeks ago, we have created a new display in NatureSpace, our Discovery Centre on Level 2. The subject of the display is the Rena Oil Spill off the coast of Tauranga. This display has gone in to create interest, and inform the public about this event.
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Mandatory helmets, cycling policies and who to vote for.
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- The good people at Helmet Freedom have taken perhaps the inevitable step of subtitling the Fall of Berlin movie, noting the failure of the Melbourne and Brisbane helmet schemes especially in regards to mandatory bike helmets.
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The home of the schnapps election
- The Wellingtonista
- Ulf Fuhrer with his product Zumwhol at D4 bar in Wellington.
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A very long menu at Long Bar
- The Wellingtonista
- Over the past couple of months I have been reviewing Malaysian restaurants all around Wellington for Malaysia Kitchen (full disclosure – I got refunded some of the costs).
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Group proposes reinstating steam train to Manhattan’s High Line
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- If you haven’t noticed there’s been a bit of an interesting (and sometimes ugly) debate about the Rimutaka Incline Railway group who want to destroy the Rimutaka Rail Trail for cyclists and their upcoming proposal to the GWRC Cultural and Social Wellbeing Committee.
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Candidates: Jonathan Fletcher for National in Rimutaka
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Little Bark – Party
- The Wellingtonista
- Friday music video time. Here’s a new one from Wellington’s Little Bark. Lots more good Little Bark listening (and free downloads) over at her bandcamp page.
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Public Transport Spine survey, last days
- The Wellingtonista
- Greater Wellington Regional Council and Wellington City Council have partnered with NZTA to investigate the public transport corridor that runs through the Wellington CBD, between the railway station and the regional hospital in Newtown.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Candidates: Stephen Whittington for ACT in Wellington Central
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Russel Norman for the Greens in Rongotai
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: Wake Less
- The Wellingtonista
- Binge Culture Collective were “attempting to create an environment that’s as fluid and responsive as a dream is.
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Candidates: Annette King for Labour in Rongotai
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Candidates: Gordon Copeland for the Conservatives in Hutt South
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Candidate: Chris Hipkins for Labour in Rimutaka
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Ladies in the House
- The Wellingtonista
- I would have had this up sooner but something happened with the site and we lost it for a bit.
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KK’s A-OK
- The Wellingtonista
- Over the past couple of months I have been reviewing Malaysian restaurants all around Wellington for Malaysia Kitchen (full disclosure – I got refunded some of the costs).
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Review: Drowning in Veronica Lake
- The Wellingtonista
- Veronica Lake was a film star in the 1940s.
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The other important vote
- The Wellingtonista
- The general election is only a few weeks away, but right now there’s another important vote happening.
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Candidate: Charles Chauvel for Labour in Ohariu
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Moustache etiquette for Movember
- Te Papa's blog
- If you are giving a mo a go for the first time during Movember, then here’s something you may not have considered before: how do you avoid getting a droopy, wet moustache while having a cuppa?
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Candidates: James Shaw for the Greens in Wellington Central
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Metropolis
- Eye of the Fish
- In place of the usual big bangs and anti-catholic burning of an anti-royalist effigy on Saturday night, some of the Fish crew saw the film Metropolis at the Michael Fowler Centre. It’s not the first time I’ve seen it, but it is the first time I’ve seen it that has really done it justice. The film has been restored, almost, to a state of perfection – the edited version we have all seen for the last 80 years now replete with an extra half hour of footage, sourced from Argentina (16mm, grainy and badly scratched), with 11 snippets from New Zealand (presumably 35mm, and in much better condition). Huge round of applause for Frank Stark and the New Zealand Film Archive, and the frankly wonderful job they are doing, rescuing our filmic memories from the nitro-fuelled dustbin of the past.
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Transmission Gully – knight in shining armour or Trojan horse?
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- I have a friend who lives at Paekakariki. When he bought his house it was a small, quiet seaside town. Now it is a small seaside town, but not quiet. The main road traffic roars past day and night, ruining his peace. And there are many people in Pukerua Bay, Plimmerton, Mana, and Paremata telling the same story. It is these people who have been pushing for the Transmission Gully Motorway (TGM) – the knight in shining armour that will rescue them from the traffic baddie.
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Transmission Gully Motorway, Kenepuru, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Candidates: Alex Speirs for ACT in Hutt South
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Candidates: Tane Woodley for the Greens in Rimutaka
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Candidates: Paul Foster-Bell for National in Wellington Central
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Candidates: Kelly Buchanan for the Alliance in Wellington Central
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Date an MP
- The Wellingtonista
- Political Speed Dating comes to Wellington next Wednesday.
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Candidates: Grant Robertson for Labour in Wellington Central
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorates to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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TAWA6: not this year
- The Wellingtonista
- Let’s get the bad news out of the way quickly: we’re not going to be able to bring you the The Annual Wellingtonista Awards this year.
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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forget fireworks this is an explosion of fabric
- The Wellingtonista
- Kind of inspired about getting into making post Craft2.
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Festival 2012
- The Wellingtonista
- I’m old enough to remember when the Arts Festival was known archly as The New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.
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Top times at Kopi Tiam
- The Wellingtonista
- Over the past couple of months I have been reviewing Malaysian restaurants all around Wellington for Malaysia Kitchen (full disclosure – I got refunded some of the costs).
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Candidates: Holly Walker for the Greens in Hutt South
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorate to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Candidates: Sea Rotmann for the Greens in Wairarapa
- The Wellingtonista
- We invited all candidates in Wellington electorate to contact us with their answers to fifteen crowdsourced questions.
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Fast, fresh, tasty and kind of awesome
- The Wellingtonista
- On Thursday night, our old bowling league arch nemisisisis buddies ClickSuite launched a new iPhone and iPad app called Fast, Fresh and Tasty.
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Wellington candidates – we want to hear from you
- The Wellingtonista
- Remember when we asked questions of mayoral candidates? Well it might have escaped your attention while people chased a little ball around a field, but there is an national election in less than a month’s time.
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