Blogs / February 2012
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We like to play games
- The Wellingtonista
- You know how it goes – you have no food or booze in your home so you need to leave the house, so you text your friends to see if they want to meet you somewhere, and so they do, and you get food and you get booze, and that’s a good thing, but then UGH, you’re stuck talking to your friends.
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Notional Significance: Downstream
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] My narrative has been marooned in Johnsonville for over eight months, a fate that, if not actually worse than death, is perilously close to it.
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Review: Michael James Manaia
- The Wellingtonista
- This solo show starts with a welcome and karakia.
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we pause for some pretty
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s Academy Award day in LA and we know the answer to the fashion question of the day “what are you wearing?” for two wellingtonians, Jana Barrett and Jennifer Bloomfield.
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We also have ‘opinions’ – a protest against transphobia
- The Wellingtonista
- If you’re on the Twitters, you would have seen yet another digusting piece of bigotry and bullshit churned out by Rosemary McLeod about how transgender people shouldn’t be parents.
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New Zealand International Arts Festival 2012
- The Wellingtonista
- The New Zealand International Arts Festival opens tonight with a live event in conjuction with the launch of First Contact.
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It’s Shrove Tuesday, let’s talk religion!
- The Wellingtonista
- Ha ha ha, of course we’re kidding.
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It was a very good beer
- The Wellingtonista
- After having a great evening at Fork and Brewer last week for the Official Wellingtonista Unofficial Webstock Wednesday Warmup, where large numbers of local beer and large platters of delicious nibbles were placed before us like the Web Royalty we wish/pretend/believe ourselves to be, I was extremely excited to hear about the event they are holding this Thursday.
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NZ Fringe Festival 2012 into week two
- The Wellingtonista
- The New Zealand Fringe Festival presents emerging artists in a festival of weird and wonderful performances around Wellington.
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Wellington Region Updates
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I updated my post on a Days Bay to Wainuiomata gondola by tramping the route and taking some nice photos and … The Rimutaka Rail Trail is no longer under threat.
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Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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International hipster attraction
- The Wellingtonista
- Air New Zealand have recently launched a campaign to persuade reluctant Australians to choose New Zealand as a holiday destination.
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No evidence that stoats have impacted on Kapiti Island’s birds
- Te Papa's blog
- Kapiti Island is one of New Zealand’s premier bird sanctuaries. It is home to nationally important populations of little spotted kiwi, kaka, North Island saddleback, stitchbird and North Island robin, as well as other threatened bird species. The island was considered to be free of all introduced mammal pests after rats were eradicated in 1996. [...]
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Incoming: Supermodel and Sleeping Dogs
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington rockers Supermodel are teaming up with Christchurch wave-makers Sleeping Dogs and kicking off the year with a North Island tour.
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Should they stay or should they go?
- The Wellingtonista
- We receive a lot of press releases here at the Wellingtonista, but few are as charming as this one: Brad and Nancy are actors who are also a couple, and they’re trying to decide if they should live in England or New Zealand.
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Less than a week til Webstock ’12!
- The Wellingtonista
- Can you feel the excitement in the air? Hear the squeak of glasses being polished,Threadless packages being opened, plaid shirts being ironed and beards being fluffed? Next week, Wellington plays host to the greatest most awesome conference in the world.
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Get Mr Gay Wellington to Mr Gay World!
- The Wellingtonista
- This weekend in Auckland is the Big Gay Out.
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Island Bay Festival 2012
- The Wellingtonista
- The 28th annual Island Bay Festival kicks off tomorrow (Sat 11 Feb), with a heap of events and activities planned for the coming week.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Incoming: Badd Energy
- The Wellingtonista
- Sike-electro weirdos and recent ”that’s interesting” Flying Nun Mark II signees Badd Energy are back with a new single/video and tour.
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Thwarted access to the hills
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- In other countries there is a right to roam.
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Review: The Motor Camp
- The Wellingtonista
- Two families take their caravans to The Windmill Motor Camp for the summer holidays.
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