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- Live tweeting the new bus route!
  - 28 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Wellingtonista blogger Robyn Gallagher has had a fun morning trying out the new bus route – in both directions! She live tweeted the affair – you can read them on her twitter, or by using the hash tag #mannersbus If anyone has any photos – please send them through! Update: Robyn has now finished, with the following tweet: “Righto, Manners Street bus lane has been fully examined.
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- Wellington Region Governance Review
  - 28 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - As you may have read, on Friday PricewaterhouseCoopers (I think their space bar is broken) released their review on local body governance in the Wellington Region, as commissioned by the Wellington Mayoral Forum.
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- Governance Review – the six options
  - 28 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - As previously mentioned, the Wellington Regional Governance Review contains six options for potential future governing arrangements.
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- Wellington’s new route
  - 28 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - It’s been a long time coming, but finally the buses are running through the thoroughfare formerly known as Manners Mall.
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- JUST GOOD STUFF is back for 2010
  - 28 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Craft madness! Creative creations! 6 days to solve all your Christmas shopping needs, while supporting local creatives – it’s practically guilt-free! Featuring JUST GOOD STUFF from: Genevieve Packer, Gabby O’Connor, Lucy Adams, Phillipa Cowdrey, Alanah Gibson, Wendy Neale, Ngaere MacKinnon, Flora Waycott, Isel Greta Jane, Hermon & son, Flora Gray, Tess & Gab, Mary Adams, Susan Wilson, Catherine Key, Eloise Evans, Rebecca Bewick, Kelly Olatunji, Craftcamp and more… Friday 17 December – Wednesday 22 December 2010 12noon – 7.00pm Opening 6.00pm Thursday 16 December Thistle Hall Gallery, Upper Cuba Street, Wellington CASH ONLY Heaps of good stuff from just $5. Check out the Just Good Stuff blog for a preview of some of the good stuff on offer (updated regularly, so check back for even MORE good stuff…) 6 days to solve all your christmas shopping needs, while supporting local creatives – it’s practically guilt-free!
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- Supreme Welly goes to long standing councillor
  - 26 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Warm congratulations go out to Ruth Gotlieb who picked up the Supreme Welly award last night… Mrs Gotlieb served as a Wellington city councillor from 1983 to 2001 – seven consecutive terms for the Eastern ward – before shifting to the Capital & Coast District Health Board, from which she retired in October.
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- Breaking: Super city on the table
  - 26 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Dominion Post is reporting that the PricewaterhouseCoopers review of local governance in the Wellington region – commissioned by the Wellington Mayoral Forum – has been published.
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- Waterfront Fiesta
  - 24 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - There are many nice casual lunch places in town.
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- Project update #2
  - 24 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Te Wharewaka O Poneke The latest waterfront development, Te Wharewaka O Poneke, is quickly nearing completion.
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- Duckpond-gate – Councillor Best responds
  - 23 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Following on from our earlier post on the current scandal *cough* in the duck ponds at the Bonatic Gardens, we’ve asked Councillor Ngaire Best to comment on the lack of testing, and potential damage to the flora and fauna surrounding the duck ponds.
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- Vote in the Wellingtonista awards!
  - 23 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Wellingtonista, a staple of the Wellington blog scene (do we have a blog scene?), are having their 5th annual Wellingtonista Awards. Read all about it here. And then vote here. And if you’re really keen, go to the awards night – December 3 from 6.30pm at Mighty Mighty.
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- Vigilate justice – coming to a suburb near you.
  - 22 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Mirimar miscreants beware – the good folk of the eastern suburbs are banding together and establishing a community patrol group to protect their patch several nights a week.
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- White-washing out 100% pure image
  - 22 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The New Zealand Herald (we’re not sure why) are reporting, in the form of an extended version of a WCC press release, that the duck pond in the Wellington Botanical Gardens has turned a ‘vivid white’.
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- TAWA5 Best Contribution to the Internet from Wellington
  - 20 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Given that Wellington is the web capital of New Zealand, it makes sense that it’s full of people doing awesome things with and for the web.
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- TAWA5 Best Suburban Destination
  - 20 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - The suburbs.
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- TAWA5 Best Thing in Wellington
  - 20 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - This category is a bit of a mixed bag.
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- TAWA5 Best Event
  - 20 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - There’s always something to do in this town we love, but these are the pick of the crop, and are circled in red on our calendars.
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- TAWA5 Best Drink in Town
  - 20 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Wellington is full of bars, and those bars are full of drinks (and drunks).
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- TAWA5 Best BYO
  - 20 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - BYO restaurants to us are places where you can hold a large gathering, you can eat some tasty food, and if you don’t count the cost of your bottle, you can get totally stuffed for around $25.
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- Voting is now open in fifth annual Wellingtonista Awards
  - 20 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - We’re exhausted from a mammoth day of posting all the nominations (bloody good work, team!) so we just wanted to let you know that voting is now open. Go read our sticky post for links to all our nominations, and make sure you check them out before you cast your votes. Then we’ll see you on December 3 from 6.30pm at Mighty Mighty. Hurray!
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- Observed on Featherston Street
  - 19 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Spotted on Featherston Street in the window of Espresso Republic. We’re informed that the landlord of this building is Sir Bob Jones, and this sort of thing seems right up his alley.
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- TAWA5 Most Needed
  - 19 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - We love this town.
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- TAWA5 Best Shopping Experience
  - 19 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Stuff, glorious stuff, oh how we love to take you home with us.
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- TAWA5 Best Service
  - 19 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - What makes a cafe/bar/restaurant a place to you want to return to over and over again? Simple.
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- TAWA5 Best Outdoors Experience
  - 19 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Walking along the waterfront What could be better than a stroll along the waterfront? Not much! On a sunny day, it seems all of Wellington is walking/riding/running between Queen’s Wharf and Chaffers’ Marina.
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- TAWA5 Most Missed
  - 19 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - We loved you… and then you were gone.
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- TAWA5 Best Late Night Experience
  - 19 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Things get a little different in town once the sun goes down.
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- TAWA5 Best Art Experience
  - 18 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - The difference between art and pornography may be hard to define, but whatever these experiences could be classed as, they definitely moved us.
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- TAWA5 Best Café
  - 18 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Not to be confused with “Best Coffee”.
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- All about this year’s The Annual Wellingtonista Awards
  - 18 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Hello my lovelies, for the fifth year in a row, it’s time for The Annual Wellingtonista Awards (#TAWA5).
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- TAWA5 Best Restaurant
  - 18 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Restaurant dining is the sort of thing that you do on special occasions, but also any time you want something to eat and you don’t mind spending a little bit of time and perhaps a bit of money to do it.
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- TAWA5 Best Live Performance
  - 18 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Wellington is a great going-out town with gigs galore on any given night.
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- TAWA5 Best Coffee
  - 18 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Blood may be thicker than water, but coffee is pretty much more important than blood.
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- TAWA5 Best Regular Entertainment
  - 18 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - As we know, Wellington is full of fun things to do, and on a regular basis.
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- YouTube streaming for improved council transparency
  - 17 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - From BoingBoing: “One of Calgary’s newly elected mayor Naheed Nenshi’s campaign platform was improving City Council transparency and accessibility.
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- Here kitty, kitty
  - 17 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - So the race is on.
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- Faulkner on the difficulties facing the CCDHB
  - 16 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Kapi-Mana have done an interview with veteran CCDHB member Margaret Faulkner (first elected in 2000, second highest polling candidate in 2010).
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- Capacity reveals investment, not corporatisation, the answer…
  - 16 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The CCO charged with operating Wellington’s water infrastructure, Capacity, is jointly owned by WCC, Hutt City Council and the Upper Hutt City Council.
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- Jewels of Whitireia
  - 16 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - On Thursday night the Annual 2010 Whitireia Student Contemporary Jewellery Auction will be held at Mighty Mighty with National Radio presenter Kim Hill controlling the hammer as auctioneer.
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- Pecha Kucha 9
  - 16 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - This Monday is another Pecha Kucha Night, where a fine line-up of creative people present short talks on topics they love.
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- Former deputy mayor rains on Labour’s parade
  - 15 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - TV3 have posted a remarkable story about Porirua City Councillor (and failed mayoral candidate), Litea Ah Hoi.
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- DHB mergers on the horizon?
  - 15 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Labour are claiming to have advance knowledge of plans by National to rationalise the DHBs, abolishing the some of the chairs and leaving some people chairing two DHBs.
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- Massive changes to local democracy almost upon us…
  - 15 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - It’s likely that sometime this week the Government will push through it’s Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill under urgency.
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- A source of an open bar
  - 15 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Last week I represented the Wellingtonista at the New Zealand Open Source Awards.
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- Manners Street bus lane fiasco – storm in a tea cup?
  - 15 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Wellingtonian has run a story about the continuing controversy over the new bus route through Manners Street.
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- ‘Green shoots’ in the Hutt
  - 15 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The Hutt News have taken a leaf out of their parent, The Dom Post’s book, and done a fluff piece on newly elected councillor, Lisa Bridson (Independent, Eastern Ward), and her quaint habit of, shock horror, cycling.
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- Project update #1
  - 15 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - We’re going to start doing semi-regular updates on the various projects the council is involved with.
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- Smell what The Rock is cooking
  - 15 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Generally speaking, things called The Rock are awesome.
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- Christmas in Cuba? Something smells fishy
  - 15 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Obviously, the most important calendar item of the year is coming up on December 3, when we hold The Annual Wellingtonista Awards for the fifth year in a row at Mighty Mighty, but we think you might need to warm up for the event.
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- Meet the Council
  - 14 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - From the council website… Local organisations and groups playing a role in Wellington city are invited to meet the new Mayor and Councillors.
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- Fabric Frenzy sets wild crafters into the wilds of newtown
  - 11 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - If you are in Newtown this weekend watch out for fans of fabric and all things handmade, November fabric-a-brac is full – and raring to go.
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- Wellington Love Letter
  - 11 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Wellingtonian Jesse Lewis-Evans was leaving and decided to make a music video to express his love for this fair city.
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- From Paris to Pompeii – again
  - 9 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - As part of Massey University’s ‘Blow’ Creative Arts Festival, Leimomi Oakes is once again presenting a a free talk and fashion show From Pompeii to Paris: the Classical influence on Western fashion See history come to life with a talk exploring how ancient Greece and Rome have influenced fashions in the West.
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- TAWA5 – a call for your nomination suggestions
  - 8 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Hello, good people of Wellington.
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- Ward offices coming?
  - 7 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Yesterday’s Sunday Star Times ran a piece quoting several of the new members of the Auckland Council complaining about their rate of pay ($80K base, with one councillor for almost 75,000 people).
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- Meeting this week
  - 7 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - The first full council meeting for the 2010-2013 trianeum is this Thursday the 11th, starting at 9:15. They have not uploaded an agenda for the meeting, but once it is finalised it will be here. We won’t be able to make it to the meeting, but will be looking forward to reports. It will be fascinating to see the dynamics of the new council.
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- Oh Baby, Baby
  - 4 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Actor Stephen Bain and his miniature house This Friday and Saturday night, film maker Julie Hill (who’s name you may recognise from her work at Radio New Zealand and on Frontseat ) is screening the premiere of her documentary, Baby where are the fine things you promised me? at the Film Archive.
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- Sleepers, Awake!
  - 4 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Wellington electronic music fans will have fond memories of the While_you_were_Sleeping nights.
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- Get rid of your old computer crap
  - 4 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Photo by Flickr user StormPetrel1 You know all that stuff under your bed, in your wardrobe or in your bottom drawer? Yeah, that old laptop you were going to sell on Trade Me when you upgraded five years ago, and your crappy old cellphone you could never go back to since you bought your spiffy new smartphone.
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- Somewhat mixed up
  - 4 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - On Wednesday night, Mix & Mash was launched at the City Gallery, asking people to use data to make new things.
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- Recycling changes
  - 3 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - Many households over Wellington will have got a letter from the council this week asking if they would like their regular green recycling bin to be replaced with a 140 litre wheelie bin (or plastic recycling bags if you’re property isn’t “accessible”).
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- Well that didn’t take long…
  - 3 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - So Celia’s rabid Green pro-cycling agenda is quick to take hold… (Sarcasm aside, it does sound like a good initiative!) Would you like more confidence riding a bike? Would you like to ride more with your children and pass on good riding skills? WCC are running cyclist skills courses.
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- Draft portfolios leaking…
  - 3 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - We’ve had a few anonymous tips about the draft portfolios.
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- Well you can’t say she doesn’t walk the talk…
  - 3 Nov 2010
  - WCC Watch
  - From Stuff… US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Wellington surrounded by a swathe of security personnel.
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- On a Mission
  - 2 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Photo by Dominika Zielinska Two of our number were lucky enough to (wo)man a console each at mission control on the opening night of the new season of Apollo 13: Mission Control at Downstage Theatre.
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- The Lane comes to Wellington
  - 1 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - You know how you saw the lineup for the St Jerome Laneaways Festival and were like “Oh man, such cool bands, but I don’t want to have to go to Auckland to see them”? Well now you don’t have to! Haha! Awesomeness.
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- Hey hey, it’s Parliament Open Day!
  - 1 Nov 2010
  - The Wellingtonista
  - Photo by Flickr user jemsweb Wellington may be the Coolest Little Capital in the World, but it wouldn’t be the capital without Parliament.
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