Blogs / June 2018
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The maternity ward of the early 1980s was a very different place
- Jack Yan
- Virginia McMillan/Creative Commons Now the PM and her partner, Clarke Gayford, have shown off their daughter to the world (video below), it reminded me of my own experiences in the maternity ward many years ago.
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Review: The Elixir of Love
- The Wellingtonista
- Friends, ploughmen and countrymen, you’re invited to the Elixir of Love, NZ Opera’s utterly madcap new creation.
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As the most experienced long-video Instagrammer, welcome to the club
- Jack Yan
- It appears my friend Justin was spot on: I probably was part of a test group trialling longer Instagram videos since April.
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Preview: Meremere
- The Wellingtonista
- A man looks down to his right.
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Review: The Blender (Sundays with BaseJump Improv)
- The Wellingtonista
- With a dash of insanity, a smidge of ridiculousness, and a lot of Wellingtonian wit, BaseJump Improv’s new show The Blender is a wild ride for your Sunday evening.
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Review: Beneath skin and bone
- The Wellingtonista
- Poto Manawa has a new flat.
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Naked girls. Reading. In Wellington.
- The Wellingtonista
- In advance of Naked Girls Reading; the motherhood edition this Saturday at the Fringe Bar, I put a few questions to its producer, Hugo Grrrl.
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Winners and losers from the Change in the GWRC Transport Rate
- Wellington Commuter
- The GWRC is changing how the Transport Rates that fund the regions PT service is allocated to ratepayers. They claim that this change means “Hutt Valley, South Wairarapa and Porirua pay a bit less toward public transport than they do now, while residents in Wellington city, Kāpiti and Masterton pay a bit more”.… Read more ...
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Review: The Atom Room
- The Wellingtonista
- 150 years into the future Sarah and Danny meet, fall in love, and get married in a Wellington devastated by earthquakes, climate change, and the effects of a distant nuclear explosion.
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Saint Fabiola fabulousness
- The Wellingtonista
- Last Friday we had a lovely time at the opening of St Fabiola on Lombard Street (you may have seen us tweeting about the pies from Pickle and Pie, because, you know, priorities), so this week, we caught up with the owner Kirsten for a chat over email.
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The end of US ’net neutrality: another step toward the corporate internet
- Jack Yan
- Elijah van der Giessen/Open Media/Creative Commons That’s it for ’net neutrality in the US.
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It’s not a rumour: longer Instagram videos are already here
- Jack Yan
- Going back from the Hutt into #Wellington.
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NZSO Shed Series: “Juxtaposition”
- The Wellingtonista
- My first trip to the new Shed 6 was a few weeks ago to see contemporary music outfit Stroma.
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My predictions for Wellington on a Plate 2018
- The Wellingtonista
- Tomorrow is my favourite launch of the year – the Wellington on a Plate programme.
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If FCA kills Chrysler today, then it’s another chapter in a company weakening its brands
- Jack Yan
- There’s a rumour circulating that Fiat (specifically, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, or FCA) will kill the Chrysler marque today.
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