Blogs / January 2012
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Summer fairs are here
- The Wellingtonista
- After the rush of pre-Christmas shopping when it’s all about everyone else and the right present for the right person and being lovely and selfless, it’s rather nice when summer fair season rolls around.
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The Restaurant Website Drinking Game
- The Wellingtonista
- In our review of Capitol, we mentioned how we go there despite the dreadfulness of their website (but you probably missed that bit and cut straight to talking about negronis).
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Batucada Sound Machine in town to shake it
- The Wellingtonista
- Cuba Street Carnival favourites Batucada Sound Machine have returned to New Zealand with a new album of tried and true road-tested tunes entitled Don’t Keep Silent, due for release January 23rd, 2012.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Lanterns of the Cross
- Eye of the Fish
- A short, sharp, sweet and sour chilli post: aren’t the new Lanterns at the Southern Cross garden bar great? Love ‘em ! Thanks for the pix Bambi – and thanks to the Southern Cross Bar for being so awesome. Whoever the architect is, deserves a medal I tell ya ! Gung Hai Fat Choy ! [...]
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Capitol opposite of punishment
- The Wellingtonista
- With a couple of family birthdays taking place over the holidays, January was a good time to assemble for dinner together.
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Book review on Human Transit
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I’ve written a guest post on the Auckland Transport Blog. It’s a book review of Jarrett Walker’s Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives. To read the review you’re going to have to click here. I’ve written 2 other book reviews on Wellington Regional Cycleways before: Pedaling Revolutions, and Build Your Own Electric Bicycle
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Parallel freeway system proposed for Melbourne
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Australian cricketer Shane Warne has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons – he was impatient when his new model Mercedes couldn’t get past a cyclist so he tried to pass anyway clipping the cyclists back wheel and breaking the poor guy’s bike.
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Keep that picnic rug in the car
- The Wellingtonista
- Just a note to anyone planning on heading to the Dell for the 2012 Films By Starlight screening tonight, Bill Cunningham New York has been postponed due to the wind until tomorrow night, Friday 20 January.
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On the passing of Ben Hana
- Downstage Theatre
- On 15 Jan our Courtenay Pl neighbour Ben Hana, more commonly known as Blanket Man or Brother, passed away at Wellington Hospital. In the days since an impromptu ‘shrine’ has appeared on the wall of the ANZ building where Ben was most commonly seen over the last few years. The shrine, like Ben, is destined to become controversial. Simultaneously creative and destructive, as it spreads over the faux-grecian façade of the bank questions and conflicts will arise as to whether it should be left alone, or washed clean. A fitting tribute, and one that would’ve no doubt amused the man himself.
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Downstage Theatre, Cambridge Terrace, Mt. Victoria, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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Blanket Man, Rest in Peace
- The Sidestrip
- It’s a sad day for Wellingtonian as the most famous vagrant has died the other day at the Wellington Regional Hospital of unknown causes. music by Sione Mohenoa “thank you”
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Feast of Sto Niño in Wellington
- The Sidestrip
- Over the weekend, Filipinos around the World celebrated the feast of Sto Niño especially in Cebu, Philippines. I was lucky enough to covered the event and it was showed on GMA 7 newscast in the Philippines
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Ben Hana, aka Tarzan, aka “Blanket Man” dies
- The Wellingtonista
- As reported in the NZ Herald and Stuff. I remember seeing him asleep on the corner of Courtenay Place and Tory Street, bathed in sunshine, loin-cloth akimbo, home-made aluminium-can dope-pipe resting peacefully by his slumbering body, only a couple of weeks back. It seems weird that we won’t see him there again. R.I.P.
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Farewell Blanket Man
- Eye of the Fish
- Since this is a blog devoted to the city of Wellington and its sense of place I can’t imagine that we could not mention his death. He was a permanent fixture of the streets of Wellington and was a bit of the spirit that, for me at least (and clearly others), made this city the interesting place it is to be.
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