Featured / June 2008
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- Yet another school holiday looms and Dreamworks' attempt to capture the animated audience (or rather 'the audience for animation') before Pixar's WALL·E emerges in September, is Kung Fu Panda starring the voice of Jack Black.
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Eat Lessbanese
- The Wellingtonista
- We've mentioned Habebie Restaurant before (well, actually I can't find a link, so maybe we didn't actually) but we have exciting news - it's BYO now (and may have been for a while now), but more importantly, from Monday-Thursday, all mains (except seafood) are $17.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Giant Pile of Rubble Terrorises Wellington City
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- What the hell's going on down Maginnity Street?! One by one, we can defeat this thing Wrecked cars! A massive pile of rubble! Rescue crews moving in! OMG, the big one has finally hit! And yet Petherick Tower is looking surprisingly undamaged... All is revealed after the jump.
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It's Film Festival time
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- Last night a select group of over 500 people at the Paramount were treated to the launch of this year's Wellington Film Festival programme.
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Paramount Theatre, Wellington
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7 Point 5 Degrees And Back
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- It's 7.5° and back, a collaborative project by Gonzalez and Wellington artist Alannah Gunter. In Linz, Austria passers-by watch a monitor inside a canal-tube (above) and are in turn watched by a webcam. Placed at 7.5° to the earth, the camera-tube is a virtual tunnel through the earth to Wellington where the live image screens nightly at the Film Archive Loading Bay. A similar camera-tube is installed in Abel Smith street; what it sees is what the Linz passers-by will see.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- When times are quiet in the cinema business (as they have been all year) owners respond by opening more and more films and hoping something will stick. This week sees the Penthouse open yet another contemporary British comedy-drama, funded by the UK Film Council using National Lottery funds (much like Happy-Go-Lucky and Brick Lane which are still screening), Grow Your Own.
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Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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It ain't easy being Green (Cabs)
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- Our favourite cab company has expanded to Auckland and Christchurch and are doing pretty well in both. But it's not all expansion and increasing profits. Recently the eco-friendly cab company has had to defend itself against statements from the head of the Taxi Federation. Then they had to fend off claims from other taxi companies (Combined in this case) that they were also "green".
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books, books, books....
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- Collections for Downtown Community Ministry's annual Book Fair Fundraiser are underway. I love the book fair, because you name a book and you'll most probably find it there. Plus you get to go shopping and know that all you money is going to a good cause - like addressing homelessness in Wellington. Scattered around town are wheelie bins for people to donate their unwanted books.
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The Rise and Fall of Western Civilization: Part One
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- This looks really good: You can see some more of John's work on some of those big display units at the new park on the western end of Courtenay Place (Courtenay West Park?).
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