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    Review: Grifted & Talented

    • 9 May 2025
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    • Reviewed by Bethany Miller Firstly, what a brilliant premise for a comedy game show. Being one of those “gifted” kids, I was taken by the name from the start – the nostalgia of a school programme for unconventional thinkers that I realise now were probably all the oddballs and undiagnosed neurospicy types. Honestly, a lot […]
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    Ten Years in Pōneke Part Four – Throwing Down the Escooter Gauntlet

    • 22 Apr 2025
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    • Or, how far can you travel on a Flamingo before it dies on you? A Pōneke Easter Experiment. Do not try this at home. It’s not wholly dangerous, but it is a little foolhardy. Mostly it’s just time consuming and will make your legs ache. I’ve been scooting ever since I was a kid. I […]
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    Ten Years in Pōneke – Part Three (AN EGG HUNT RETROSPECTIVE)

    • 10 Apr 2025
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    • One of the first things that happened when I moved to Pōneke in 2015 was the Big Egg Hunt. From March to April 2015 100 giant eggs were hidden around Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch, with the eggs being auctioned off to fundraise for Starship at the end of the quest. I love a little quest, […]
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    Review: Everything That Happened at Number 68

    • 15 Mar 2025
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    • Have you ever considered flatting in Melbourne? Wondered what to look for in a flatmate? What are the red flags, green flags, rainbow flags to look for? Grab a tea and a blanket and cosy up for Nick Robertson’s Fringe Festival adventure, Everything That Happened at Number 68. As Nick shares with us, “Sharehouses come […]
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    A Once in a Lifetime Ballet Treat this Friday & Saturday

    • 9 Mar 2025
    • The Wellingtonista
    • For the first time in fifty years, the Scottish Ballet visits Aotearoa for a dream collaboration. This Friday and Saturday in Pōneke only, the RNZB and the Scottish Ballet will share the stage to present four gorgeous works. Dextera (Scottish Ballet) commissioned to celebrate the Scottish Ballet’s 50th Anniversary in 2019, is created by Franco-British […]
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    It’s time for the Wellington Pride Festival

    • 5 Mar 2025
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    • Wellington Pride Festival is happening from 7 – 23 March this year and it’s time to get excited! The first Pride celebrations in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara were organised as part of campaigning for Homosexual Law Reform in 1986, and honestly you only have to read the Facebook comments (don’t read the Facebook comments) to see exactly […]
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    Ten Years in Pōneke – Part 2 (a very long walk)

    • 21 Feb 2025
    • The Wellingtonista
    • In 2015 I was living at Weir House. It was my first year of study and the first time I’d spent any longer than two weeks away from my parents. I was mooning over a girl who didn’t like me back, bad at being a person and making connections and pretty sure I wasn’t into […]
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    10 Years in Pōneke – Part One!

    • 17 Jan 2025
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I’ve been living in Pōneke for ten years this February, and honestly – I can barely believe it. It certainly doesn’t feel like ten years have passed since I was left to fend for myself at Weir House, ready for my first year at university – but somehow, the time has passed and here we […]
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    Review: Triple Double Trouble

    • 29 Nov 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Review by Nicole Winters Triple Double Trouble is a hilarious and engaging show, and truly made us care about the characters. With a rotating cast of doubles – today’s show is made up of Jonathan Mandeno & Thomas Bauer, Sarah Ashill & Tony Yuile – each night gives you something different. During our show, each […]
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    Review: Thank You Ten

    • 21 Nov 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Review by Felicity Cozens Love musicals? Love Footlights? Want a journey through every show they’ve done since 2014? Book through Ticketbooth and get down to Te Auaha on Dixon for a typically fabulous Footlights show! Laura Gardner’s set is deceptively simple – a raised dais and a set of stairs topped by a platform – […]
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    Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    • 28 Oct 2024
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    • Delve into the sublime, surreal and a little bit sexy this Halloween with the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s rebirth of their iconic ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A co-production with the Queensland Ballet and first performed in 2015, this stunning performance combines the late Liam Scarlett’s choreography with Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream score […]
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    Bands popping off in Pōneke: Baldleaf

    • 2 Oct 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • I am a massive fan of early shoegaze like Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, and really anything with that ethereal, dreamlike quality that transports you from your bedroom or local venue into the clouds. For this reason I was extremely excited to discover the music of Baldleaf, self described “5 chip 1 fish”, and their […]
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    Dream a Little Bigger with This Year’s World of Wearable Arts

    • 28 Sep 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • United States designer Grace DuVal (and seven time WOW finalist) has taken the Supreme WOW Award this year with her piece Curves Ahead. Built of bright orange road netting, road signs and bedecked with a mohawk of traffic cones, this piece is a blazing bright beacon amongst the rolling sea that is Dream Awake – […]
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    Bands popping off in Pōneke: Daisy Grae

    • 23 Sep 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Funky Wellington four piece Daisy Grae have exploded in popularity since charting in the top 20 hot NZ singles with their song Control in 2020, packing out venues such as Valhalla and San Fran with a strong and irresistibly fun live energy. With funky guitar licks akin to the Red Hot Chili Peppers or Jimi […]
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    Bands popping off in Pōneke: Debt Club

    • 16 Sep 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Debt Club is a band whose sound has gone through a major evolution since their origins as high school friends in “The Classic”. Undergoing some changes in their original lineup, their sound has also moved from more traditional classic rock to an eclectic mix of indie, folk rock and alternative country. In an impressive live […]
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    Bands popping off in Pōneke: Mall Goth

    • 14 Sep 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • “I’m having a nervous breakdown on stage, if it was anywhere else you would think I was crazy. But I’ve somehow managed to trick you into thinking it’s cool.Unless you think we suck, I guess, that’s ok too.” says lead singer of Mall Goth on stage at San Fran, where the band is becoming a […]
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    A closing pop-up sale for fat babes as yet another business closes

    • 11 Sep 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Remember how I promised to post more often and I haven’t really delivered on that? Well I’m trying to get less busy so I can. Truly I am. And one of the ways I’m doing that is by closing the House of Boom. Please tolerate me while I cut’n paste this in third person rather […]
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    Come to Coven: Uranus. You bet your ass it’ll be good.

    • 26 Aug 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Movies love to show nightclubs as glamorous places with dancefloors heaving with ridiculously good-looking people, all wearing the most amazing outfits – but that had never been my experience. Not until I went to Coven: Slumber earlier this year, that is. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Coven Events Wellington […]
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    Review: Hamlet – One Hour. Three Actors. Denmark Will Never Be the Same

    • 21 Aug 2024
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    • As someone who’s never read or seen a performance of Hamlet, I might seem like an unlikely reviewer for TheJoMarsh’s adaptation at Bats Theatre. However, if I, with my inexperience, can easily follow and enjoy ‘Hamlet – One Hour. Three Actors. Denmark Will Never Be the Same,’ then anyone can. In this high-tech, dystopian take […]
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    Review: Lizzie

    • 20 Aug 2024
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    • By Talia Carlisle Have you ever heard someone scream bloody murder? It’s worth cutting down the door to watch LIZZIE, the rocking hit musical by WITCH Music Theatre, where murder sounds hellishly good…. This punk rock’n’rollercoaster will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. So tighten your corset and quieten […]
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    Circa Theatre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Best of the week 15 July – 4 August

    • 4 Aug 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Words apparently don’t mean anything anymore, so here’s our best of the week covering… a little bit more than a week. Because life. So here’s what’s good and Wellington-related this week! Best adult learning option that you didn’t know about Some people know Make Room for their wonderful children’s STEM education classes, but you may […]
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    Review: Hine Te Rēhia

    • 21 Jul 2024
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    • It’s a chilly winter day in Pōneke, but the joy from the audience surrounding me and my theatre-going companion could warm the most cynical of souls. We’re here to see Hine Te Rēhia, a gorgeous piece of theatre by Auckland-based Tutatara Collective, and the mood in the room is unbelievably high. Forgive my lack of […]
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    The Grid – New Digital Art Space

    • 18 Jul 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Written by Nadia Freeman Wellington’s newest and potentially first digital art space opened this month, and I am deeply appreciative of the entrepreneurial spirit of Shannon Brosnahan Inglis and Delainy Jamahl. In an era when investment in the arts is dwindling, launching a venture of this scale and quality is inspiring. Initiatives like this infuse […]
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    Meet Pepper Racoon – what a ratbag!

    • 17 Jul 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • 1. Hello, who are you and what do you do? I’m Pepper Raccoon and I’m an artist and merch designer inspired by nature, magic, and internet culture. I design my own affordable art products, and produce a lot of them in my home studio as well, and have been in business for 8 years selling […]
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• • Best of the week 7-14 July 2024

    • 14 Jul 2024
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    • Here’s what’s good and Wellington-related this week! Best book that every Wellingtonian should read because I just did and wow Sodden Downstream by Brannavan Gnanalingam. This has sat neglected on my bookshelf for far too long after it came out in 2017, but as our public transport gets worse, terrible weather events get more frequent […]
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    Best of the last little while – June 2024

    • 3 Jul 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Hey, guess who’s been too busy with other brain things to update this for a while? That’d be me. But let’s not waste time on it. Here’s the best things for a while. Best behaved weather of the week Nice weather on a public holiday allowing us to sit outside around a fire and set […]
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    Meet the creatives behind HINE-TE-RĒHIA

    • 21 Jun 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Presented by Tuatara Collective, HINE-TE-RĒHIA is a multilingual theatre experience coming to BATS Theatre in July. Devised, created and performed by an all-female BIPOC cast, this exciting show promises to leave you gasping in awe of their talent. I had the chance to interview Jason Te Mete (previous deviser/director), Tāwera Ormsby (co-Kaiwhakahaere of Tuatara Collective) […]
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    BATS Theatre, 1, Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Best of the week: 9-16 June 2016

    • 17 Jun 2024
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    • Best contribution to society The monthly Repair Cafe at Ngaio Union Church. How cool to have a big room full of incredibly competent humans dedicated to helping others for free (you can contribute koha and if you don’t have coins, ask them for their bank account number). I took a record player and was not […]
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    Ngaio, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Meet Zoe, the Very Green Gardener

    • 11 Jun 2024
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Our interviews with cool people continue! 1. Hey, who are you and what do you do? I’m Zoe and I run The Very Green Gardener, which is a little gardening company in Pōneke. We maintain people’s gardens as well as support them to do their own gardens. (Editor note: Zoe also writes an excellent newsletter […]
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    Best of the week: 2 June to 9 June 2024

    • 9 Jun 2024
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    • Our weekly roundup of best things in Wellington continues and this week we’ve got contributions from Alan, Joanna, Martha and Tom. Best new place for dogs off leash We discovered that dogs are ok unleashed on the Remutaka Incline so we were able to take our fluffbeast biking with us (she’s got her own bike […]
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