Blogs / May 2023
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Green fields?
- Eye of the Fish
- When is a MDRS not a MDRS? When Christopher Luxon agrees to it, and then disagrees to it, it seems. What am I talking about,...
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Your handy submission guide: LGWM City Streets proposals
- Talk Wellington
- LGWM has 4 surveys open for feedback on city streets changes they’ll make soon! This is good stuff that should’ve been done years ago, so take a couple of mins to whack in your feedback by midnight TUESDAY 23! The City Streets programme is the fastest-moving part of LGWM with good basic street changes for...
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Budget 2023
- Eye of the Fish
- Budget has just been announced, and I’ve still to go through it, but a couple of things sprung out to me. Public Housing – $3...
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Loafer’s Lodge fire
- Eye of the Fish
- It is a pretty sad day to be writing – and we all know what about. Just over 36 hours ago, a building in Newtown...
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Loafers Lodge, 160, Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: The Coven on Grey Street
- The Wellingtonista
- The first thing that grips me as soon as I walk into Circa Two is Lucas Neal’s gorgeous set design for this show – a huge pohutakawa that stretches up and across the entire stage, a white picket fence, and the outside edge of a traditional weatherboard kiwi house. Cicadas chirp (beautiful sound design by […]
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Review: Fifty Shades of Ray
- The Wellingtonista
- Reviewed by Talia Carlisle. On a rain-splattered Wellington evening, I find myself refuge in BATS Theatre’s Studio space where paper “worries” are hung on string across the small stage. An eager smattering of audience members buzz in excitement, waiting for Ray Shipley to enter, fresh from a popular Christchurch season with a well-crafted set ready […]
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Review: Romeo & Juliet
- The Wellingtonista
- Image credit: Stephen A’Court Reviewed by Talia Carlisle What a magical place Wellington is, when you can start your evening with gin and fresh seafood at Cinderella’s for the Wellington on a Plate Launch – and pop down to the St James Theatre, home of the Royal New Zealand Ballet for their opening night of […]
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Review: Into the Woods
- The Wellingtonista
- Image credit: Maeve O’Connell. Reviewed by Talia Carlisle Not dissimilar to the high fashion of the Met Gala, I adorned my best tiara and lavender frock, ready to descend Te Auaha’s stairs to Witch Music Theatre’s Into The Woods. There isn’t a more magical staircase to a fairytale full of laughter. If the eye-catching advertising […]
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Public spaces today: familiar, but definitely not “neutral”
- Talk Wellington
- Public buildings illuminated with the trans flag colours, reinstatement of Māori place names, and rainbow pedestrian crossings have some people arguing this is “politicising” public space. But New Zealand public spaces have never been neutral – far from it. This post is for you, TW readers who don’t identify as being part of a group...
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