Blogs / February 2014
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Review: Miss Bronte
- The Wellingtonista
- As we walk into the theatre a woman sits on stage frantically writing in a tiny book. She wears a plain blue dress made out of different patterned fabrics. Her hair is parted in the middle and tightly pulled back. Every so often she pauses, looks into the distance, then scribbles some more. The furniture […] The post Review: Miss Bronte appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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Fringe Festival 2014 – Brooks & Brown in Literally Anything
- The Wellingtonista
- We sent along intrepid theatre goer and Yarn Celebrity Tash Barneveld to check out a new Fringe Show by Brooks & Brown.
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Is it jellyfish season?
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- I just spotted 2 pinky frilled jellyfish in worser bay. I didn’t hang round to take photos but more may wash in with then high tide and there may be more around the south coast it’s often this time of year we get a swarm for a few days. They looked a little like this […] The post Is it jellyfish season? appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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Notional Significance: Backbone
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- [See all Notional Significance posts] In memory, my feet are weary as I leave the Halfway. My present tense seems strained now, an affectation of immediacy undermined by the distance between walking and writing: years since I was here in the flesh; almost as long since my words last travelled this road. But I must […] The post Notional Significance: Backbone appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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New Zealand Festival
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- The New Zealand Festival starts with this free event tonight in Civic Square. I’ve heard there will be more dancing than sitting so wear your dancing shoes. Also opening tonight – the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, Deca Dance, Needles & Opium, and Our Broken Voice, plus the visual art exhibitions. See you there! The post New Zealand Festival appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Live Leader Board
- The Wellingtonista
- Here at the Wellingtonista we’re firm faves of Richard Aindow - former editor of Fish Head magazine, and Quiz Master of Wednesday nights at Mighty Mighty – so we were pleasantly surprised to catch him outside the Rogue & Vagabond last night with a group of lycra-clad lit-up young ladies in incandescent costumes. […] The post Live Leader Board appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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Buses – lets get some action on the do-able
- Sarah Free
- I must confess to a feeling of dismay when I heard that Greater Wellington Regional Council had voted in their draft 2014 annual plan to raise bus fares yet again. This is despite continual talk about needing to promote public transport, talk of off-peak reduced fares, free transfers, and reduced youth fares. Wellington bus users […]
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Fix and Fogg, Wooden Spoons and Little Black Devils…
- The Wellingtonista
- Some more Wellington artisan products now all available under one roof at Moore Wilson for your tasting pleasure, and more well deserved chocolate accolades for Bohemein fresh chocolates (long time provider at MW).
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Do mayoral candidates dream of electric sheep?
- Jack Yan
- The original link is long gone, but I sure wish the media here did its job during the 2013 mayoral election and administered the Voigt-Kampf (I know it was spelt differently in the movie) test from Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. This was from The Wave, 11 years ago, during San […]
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The New Zealand Fringe Festival
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- The New Zealand Fringe Festival has been going for a week and it’s got just over two more weeks to run. Sadly, I’ve only made it to two shows so far (because moving house) a pathetic effort really, because there are HEAPS. Cabaret, circus, comedy, dance, music, theatre, visual art – there are a lot of […] The post The New Zealand Fringe Festival appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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‘Nothing to be Done’ but laugh
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- Comedian Luwita Hana Randhawa does look a little serious below. She looks like someone who probably doesn’t take a lot of nonsense. Someone who would handle a heckler with a dry, sassy quip that would leave everyone wishing they’d thought of such a line, because everyone has those “If only I’d said that” moments. I […] The post ‘Nothing to be Done’ but laugh appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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The religiosity of the superbrands
- Jack Yan
- Another friend asked the Windows laptop v. Macbook question on her Facebook today. You can predict what happens next. The cult came by. As with the last time a friend asked the same question. The cult always comes and proclaims the superiority of the Apple Macintosh. And it is a blinding proclamation, of […]
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In education, everyone deserves a chance
- Jack Yan
- I am a huge fan of Sir Ken Robinson, the educational expert. This video has been around for a few years, but it’s well worth another watch. Everyone has the potential within them—so we need ways of encouraging this for every life, rather than suppress them in favour of just the three Rs. […]
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Flashback to 2002: Australia’s first Winter Olympic gold
- Jack Yan
- This is the sort of thing I would throw on my Tumblr but the Olympic Committee won’t allow embedding there. Ergo: It’s from the 2002 Games, where Steven Bradbury takes home Australia’s first gold in the Winter Olympics. The last lap is at around the 1′30″ mark. Fast forward to 2014 and remember […]
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Water trumps fire
- Jack Yan
- Since I used to post updates of the web browsers I used: I have switched to Waterfox, replacing Firefox. Since the latest Flash updates a few weeks back, Firefox has been crashing twice a day. Other weird things have happened, too, like the save file dialogue box failing to appear after several hours’ use, […]
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This week it’s the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models; what’s next for our destination marketing?
- Jack Yan
- In Lucire’s publication history, more Americans than New Zealanders have read from the title. Online, that was always the case, as we started off in 1997 with a 70 per cent US readership, which has dropped to around 42 per cent with other countries catching up with web browsing over the last 16 years. […]
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Frack away, IGas Energy: the Metropolitan Police has your back
- Jack Yan
- The spirit of Gene Hunt is alive and well in the Greater Manchester Police, in the form of Sgt David Kehoe. Arresting someone over a drink driving when he has neither drunk nor driven reminds me of The Professionals episode, ‘In the Public Interest’, about a corrupt police force in an unnamed English city […]
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MG SUV soon a reality: good
- Jack Yan
- I have to admit I get a bit bored of those crying foul now that MG will launch an SUV, one which seems to have some parallels with the Ssangyong Korando C (left). They say that MG should have made sports cars as part of its revival, and that the brand should not adorn […]
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The Rongotai years
- Jack Yan
- This came up today at Victoria University where an old client of ours asked about my 2013 campaign. I remembered there was something about education that I wanted to address at the time. One of the stranger emails during 2013 came from a former classmate of mine at Rongotai College. A brilliant guy at […]
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NZ’s longest running outdoor cinema
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- It’s that time of year again. Some mega outdoor film viewing action lies ahead for the Wellington region. Let’s all raise our faces skyward in the hope the weather comes to the party this year as the line-up is the right mix of classic, contemporary and fun! Kicking off THIS Thursday 6 February AT *6:30PM […] The post NZ’s longest running outdoor cinema appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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Dessert anyone?
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- I’ve been thinking about the fabulous desserts I’ve had in recent times around Wellington (prompted by another couple of really good inhalings over the weekend). I think we’re pretty spoilt with the number and variety of options frankly. Some that stick in my mind (and I do confess to eating a few, so these truly […] The post Dessert anyone? appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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