Blogs / June 2019
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Review: The Barber of Seville
- The Wellingtonista
- The Barber of Seville is a very silly opera.
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Things to do (quick!), read, talk about: a fresh tasting platter
- Talk Wellington
- SO much good stuff popping up! Here’s a random summary of things you might like ATTEND: The Wellington Forum 4th July This is Rotary’s annual forum gathering civic-minded brains and hearts from around Te Upoko o te Ika.
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Let’s Get Wellington Moving: progress!
- Talk Wellington
- Today and tomorrow, two councils vote to implement their bits of Let’s Get Wellington Moving.
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Safer space for cycling (and scooting): what’s wrong with (some of) us?
- Talk Wellington
- A recent piece on the sudden scuttling of a flagship London project for safer cycling sparked a few thoughts about local opposition to infrastructure for safer cycling – and e-scooting.
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Climate change and intensification: Mandate for leadership! …now what?
- Talk Wellington
- Wellington region people have handed Wellington City Council a mandate on a platter to be strongly progressive and sustainable.
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Ugly? Fnugly!
- Eye of the Fish
- There has been a lot of discussion on the subject of “ugly” buildings recently – it is a subject that seems to excite a lot of people.
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Council confidential: property deals and the public good
- Talk Wellington
- Recent media highlighted the diverse views over local councils’ property dealings and the commercial confidentiality involved.
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Beware the insidious cul-de-sac
- Talk Wellington
- They’re sold as the epitome of the quiet, friendly street – but cul-de-sacs can be toxic for your suburb unless they’re buffered with some antidote.
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Review: Digging to Cambodia
- The Wellingtonista
- Sarita So revisits her Toi Whakaari solo show, turning it onto a longer exploration of making memory and history telling.
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Review: Windigo
- The Wellingtonista
- Wow, did I misunderstand the marketing for this show.
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Review: Cellfish
- The Wellingtonista
- As part of the Kia Mau festival this year I got to go and see the opening night of Taki Rua’s show Cellfish, brought to Wellington after a season in Auckland last year.
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Review: The Weekend
- The Wellingtonista
- Lara has only the weekend to track down her partner as she traverses the world of public housing, drug dealing, and addiction.
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Ngauranga to Petone: Yes please
- Talk Wellington
- Right now it’s impossible to get between Hutt and Wellington cities as a free-range human without having a pretty yuk time.
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Local reporting gets a boost!
- Talk Wellington
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that it’s really frickin hard to do good local issues media.
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DocEdge preview: Honeyland
- The Wellingtonista
- Honeyland Directed by: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska Dressed in a high-necked yellow blouse, mottled long skirt and patterned headscarf, the leathery Hatidze Muratova negotiates a mountain ledge to find a remote hive where she extracts just the right amount of honey so that both she and her bees thrive.
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Rights and responsibilities: the case of the pedestrian crossing
- Talk Wellington
- Auckland, recently: the authorities turned off the buzzing sound on a pedestrian crossing on a busy inner city road, for at best dubious reasons.
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Review: Pōhutu
- The Wellingtonista
- Pōhutu is a multidimensional contemporary dance piece that thrives in liminal space.
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Talking walking so cities can walk the talk
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- The NZ Walking Summit is the year’s unique opportunity to dive deep into talking walking! Living Streets Aotearoa are hosting it and guest-posted for TW here Just walk.
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Review: Over My Dead Body: Little Black Bitch
- The Wellingtonista
- This is the world premiere of the play by Jason Te Mete.
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Wellington City Cheated by Public Transport Performance
- Wellington Commuter
- * When it is finally working, is the new Wellington bus network better than the previous? * This post compares the pre-July 2018 bus timetables with current timetables, and evidence shows that the new peak bus service is often less frequent and slower than it was before. … Read more ...
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DocEdge preview: The Silence of Other
- The Wellingtonista
- DocEdge kicks off in Wellington on 13th Junes (running to the 23rd) and we’ve been fortunate enough to preview some of the films that will be showing.
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DocEdge preview: The Silence of Others
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- DocEdge kicks off in Wellington on 13th June (running to the 23rd) and we’ve been fortunate enough to preview some of the films that will be showing.
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Your tasty updates platter
- Talk Wellington
- So many things afoot! In no order, some stuff that’s been happening this week (or that we’ve stumbled across this week).
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