Featured / March 2011
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Leggett leading the way…
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- Porirua’s new Mayor, Nick Leggett, has fronted a video encouraging people to make submissions on the council’s Draft Annual Plan. A fantastic example of how local body politicians can engage with their constituents…
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A lake of laksa
- The Wellingtonista
- Satay Kampong dishes up the salty sour goodness As it’s getting colder, and we’re getting colds, the minds of the Wellingtonista turn towards hot, spicy satisfaction.
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Smells like year-old fish and rotten eggs. But awesome!
- The Wellingtonista
- Has it really been a year since Fishhead magazine launched? Apparently so! Consequently, they’d like to party with you! There’s be cocktail specials, free entry and Wellington supergroup The Eggs playing. Fishhead birthday afterparty Thursday March 31, 9pm-midnight CQ Bar in the Quality Hotel, 223 Cuba Street. Last one in’s a rotten…
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Notional Significance: Resistance
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] I weave through concrete islands and metal barriers to the edge of the Basin Reserve.
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Grey paint and padlocks
- The Wellingtonista
- There was a photo in last Tuesday’s Dom Post of a paintbrush-toting chap in bright orange.
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Notional Significance: Underground
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] As I approach the tunnel mouth, I can’t help but notice the looming cliff to my right.
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Wellington Killah Beez on the Swarm
- The Wellingtonista
- We like our blue cheese served with honey at Pollux, and we like our cocktails honey-rimmed at S&M.
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Tsunami threat in Wellington
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- I’m not going to try and cover this in depth, but seeing yet another tsunami story in the paper reminded me of this excellent post on Eye of the Fish. It should be required reading before anyone jumps to conclusions. Enjoy.
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Morrison: Zealandia a ‘bottomless pit’
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- Interesting story in the Dom Post today, it looks like the Zealandia board are going to go crawling back to council asking for up to $700,000 in extra funding.
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Craft Beer for Japan
- The Wellingtonista
- Creative Commons photo by elh70 on Flickr To raise funds in the wake of the diaster in Japan, Hashigo Zake is holding a tasting of Japanese craft beer on Thursday 24th March at 6:30pm.
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Notional Significance: Isthmus
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s a given: New Zealand is a young land.
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We be jammin’
- The Wellingtonista
- Have you planned your Craft2.
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Temporary
- The Wellingtonista
- TEMPORARY is a pop-up shop that appeared a few weeks ago in the ground-floor café space at the Garden Club on Dixon Street.
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Notional Significance: Takeoff
- The Wellingtonista
- National significance begins with a roundabout: from the air it looks like a navel, the axis of the world, the green Omphalos where one begins.
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Council votes to increase rates burden
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- The council has been deep in discussions around the draft annual plan for some weeks now, and reports are starting to emerge of a very strong left/right divide, and the numbers might surprise you.
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First the Greens, now Labour…
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- Ian just can’t decide which colour he is…
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Notional Significance: Flyer
- The Wellingtonista
- Before reaching the starting point of the journey, I need to take a preliminary journey, from something resembling the heart of the city to the start of the highway: the airport.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New council column
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- Salient, the Victoria University student magazine, has a new column this year, written by Kate Pike – Kate Follows Celia.
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Wellington Film Society starts tonight
- The Wellingtonista
- “Wellington Film Society opens tonight? You don’t say!” All over the world it is volunteer organisations like the Wellington Film Society that keep the flame of film art alive so that cinephiliacs like me can get a decent palate cleanser every Monday night after a weekend of Hollywood tosh.
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Notional Significance
- The Wellingtonista
- Allow me to introduce, not myself exactly, but the little series of posts that the Wellingtonista people have kindly allowed me to publish here.
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Steak frites: does what it says on the box
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- In the background, lamb.
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Offbeat is back!
- The Wellingtonista
- The Offbeat Originals story has a happy ending it seems — they are open for business, since Tuesday even. We can report that the fishburgers are just as they always were. Business resumes at Offbeat Previously: What happened? Most missed Signs of life And the original Wellingtonista Offbeat review
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