Blogs / May 2013
June 2013 | April 2013-
-
Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN’T?!
- The Wellingtonista
- If you think the restaurant that sits on the corner of Cuba and Vivian Streets, alongside Frutti, and opposite Logan Brown serves a) food and b) Mexican food then you are sorely mistaken and should get yourself to La Boca Loca asap.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- featured
-
-
-
Halfway House
- Eye of the Fish
- I’m quite interested in New Zealand’s old architecture, particularly those old colonial buildings that we haven’t preserved much of, but can still be found. So I went to Glenside, near Tawa to see an old colonial house. Apparently the suburb of Glenside used to be called ‘Halfway’ back in the day because it was located [...]
- Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed
- Tagged as:
- tawa
- heritage-buildings
Middleton Road, Grenada Village, Glenside, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand/Aotearoa
-
-
-
Making it a Handmade Weekend
- The Wellingtonista
- Got plans for the long weekend? Depending on all that weather it may involve togbaggoning and making snow persons.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Tagged as:
- snow
-
-
-
Park: wise
- Jack Yan
- Earlier today, the following press release was issued by my campaign team.
- Accepted from Jack Yan posts
- Tagged as:
- parking
- cuba-street
Wilson, Swan Lane, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
-
-
-
Getting ready for global
- Jack Yan
- I’ve known of this for some time through Medinge: the globalizing of The New York Times.
- Accepted from Jack Yan posts
- Automatically tagged as:
- election-candiates-2010
- blogs
-
-
-
Social Media Today on Google’s malware detection: ‘how is their warning not libelous?’
- Jack Yan
- I found Carla Schroder’s blog post about Social Media Today’s battle with Google’s less-than-stellar malware detector last week, and happened on it again today.
- Accepted from Jack Yan posts
- Automatically tagged as:
- election-candiates-2010
- blogs
-
-
-
Review: No Holds Bard
- The Wellingtonista
- The actor playing Hamlet is suffering a crisis of confidence.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- featured
-
-
-
In Wellington, the players need to change
- Jack Yan
- The below was written on April 22, 2013, in response to an article in The Dominion Post.
- Accepted from Jack Yan posts
- Automatically tagged as:
- election-candiates-2010
- blogs
-
-
-
No surprises from Ford Australia, but it sends the wrong message for manufacturing
- Jack Yan
- Ford’s announcement today that it will end car production in Australia is no surprise, with the closures of Broadmeadows and Geelong.
- Accepted from Jack Yan posts
- Automatically tagged as:
- election-candiates-2010
- blogs
-
-
-
New at the Movies: Kon-Tiki, Snitch and Broken
- The Wellingtonista
- Speaking as someone whose taste for adventure doesn’t stretch much further than going to the dairy in the rain, the reckless self-endangerment represented by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg’s Kon-Tiki was a genuine eye-opener.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- featured
-
-
-
Old halls come alive with new music
- The Wellingtonista
- You know the drill.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- featured
-
-
-
New at the Movies: Star Trek Into Darkness, Song for Marion, Gambit, Spring Breakers and Maori Boy Genius
- The Wellingtonista
- The 2009 Star Trek reboot went into production on the eve of the writers’ strike and therefore had no right to be as entertaining – or to make as much sense – as it did.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- featured
-
-
-
When it comes to convention centres, it pays to think ahead
- Jack Yan
- The New Zealand International Convention Centre has been announced in Auckland.
- Accepted from Jack Yan posts
- Automatically tagged as:
- election-candiates-2010
- blogs
-
-
-
New at the Movies: The Company You Keep, Rebelle (War Witch), Haute Cuisine, Antiviral and Jurassic Park 3D
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s easy to laugh at ageing movie stars.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- featured
-
-
-
Domestic violence isn’t funny. Hopefully these comedians are
- The Wellingtonista
- Last week, we gave away a pass t0 Raybon Kan’s comedy show as a favour to a friend.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- featured
-
-
-
Wellington isn’t ‘dying’, but we’re going to have to prove our mettle
- Jack Yan
- That didn’t take long, John.
- Accepted from Jack Yan posts
- Automatically tagged as:
- election-candiates-2010
- blogs
-
-
-
Lessons from Salt Lake City
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I had reason to visit Salt Lake City, Utah and the city has a west coast kind of Denver like vibe to it, and is a wholly more likeable place than, say, Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Accepted from Wellington Region Cycleways
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- transport
- cycling
-
-
-
Dialogue on my campaign’s Facebook group: Wellington buses and student discounts
- Jack Yan
- My Facebook campaign group (Back Jack 2013) is getting some traction, though my Facebook page does have more members.
- Accepted from Jack Yan posts
- Automatically tagged as:
- election-candiates-2010
- blogs
-
-
-
warm, fuzzy and very cuddly
- The Wellingtonista
- Every month the Underground Market has a larger Theme Market with more specialty stalls.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- featured
-
-
-
Win tickets to Raybon Without a Cause
- The Wellingtonista
- Why did Kingston kill Bernie? Because he tried to mount Victoria Everyone likes jokes, right? And everyone likes something for free.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Tagged as:
- mount-victoria
Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
-
-
-
What a Feeling!
- The Wellingtonista
- Do you ever wonder what happens at the end of the day to the freshly made bread that Wellington bakeries can’t sell? Do you ever wonder what happens to the fresh fruit and vegetables at the markets that are still edible but not good enough to sell? I can tell you.
- Accepted from Wellingtonista Blog Feed
- Automatically tagged as:
- blogs
- featured
-