Featured / September 2011
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Increase in vinyl sales helps independent music stores
- Newswire.co.nz
- VINYL represents 30% of sales for Auckland-based music retailer Real Groovy and its owner expects that percentage to increase.
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Review: He reo aroha
- The Wellingtonista
- Do Tawata have a hot-line to beautiful? This is the second production I’ve seen from them in as many weeks that has opened my heart and lifted my mood.
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Theatre: the REAL NZ Festival
- The Wellingtonista
- The next round of theatre and performance courtesy of the REAL NZ Festival starts this week.
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Hands around the Basin – a protest
- The Wellingtonista
- A guest post from Alex Braae The Basin Reserve is for many Wellingtonians a special place, and for many different reasons.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: Te Radar’s Eating the dog
- The Wellingtonista
- Te Radar has a passion for history.
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Review: Four flat whites in Italy
- The Wellingtonista
- There’s no doubt that Circa puts on a great Roger Hall and this iteration of Four flat whites in Italy is no exception.
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Parking Day update
- The Wellingtonista
- After getting in touch with appropriate people from Wellington City Council to discuss plans and get permission, it has become obvious that participating in Park(ing) Day is going to be difficult.
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“No bottles dick”
- WCC Watch
- Love it.
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Live broadcasting (Hamilton) council meetings
- WCC Watch
- From September 29th, Hamilton City Council will be live streaming their council meetings.
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Review: I, George Nepia
- The Wellingtonista
- I, George Nepia is a beautifully written, beautifully realised play.
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Our Hearts Will Go On
- The Wellingtonista
- I was alerted to a music video of a long-haired fellow performing an emotional rendition of “Titanic” theme song “My Heart Will Go On”.
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Vandals attack fake rugby turf…
- WCC Watch
- A pretty sad story in this morning’s Dom Post… Vandals have tried to set fire to an artificial rugby field set up in Civic Square for kids to play the game during the Rugby World Cup.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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More on shared spaces…
- WCC Watch
- In contrast to the shared space on Lower Cuba St, an interesting project in Auckland has just finished – the New Lynn Shared Space. Auckland Trains has done a great post, filled with photos. Enjoy.
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Shared spaces – a call to arms
- WCC Watch
- Greg Bondar has written an excellent critique on The Wellingtonista, discussing the new “shared space” on Lower Cuba Street.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Shared Library resources
- WCC Watch
- The Kapi-Mana reports that members of the Porirua, Lower Hutt, Kapiti Coast and Masterton libraries, as well as the Whitireia and WelTec polytechnic libraries, will soon all be able to reserve books from each other.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Rugby World Cup and You, Too
- The Wellingtonista
- Despite Hadyn’s earlier post we know there’s a reasonable proportion of you out there (just as among the Wellingtonista itself) that are relatively meh about this whole World Cup thing.
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Sharing spaces
- The Wellingtonista
- Following Auckland’s lead, Wellington has opened Lower Cuba Street as a shared space.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Rugby World Cup and You
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s a very exciting time.
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Should Terry sell the Phoenix?
- WCC Watch
- Interesting piece in this morning’s Dom Post with an opinion from Councillor John Morrison that Terry Serepisos should start his climb back from financial woes by selling the Wellington Phoenix… Mr Serepisos has made it clear the Phoenix is not for sale, even though he has proposed in the High Court an “orderly” sale of assets he says are worth $232m to repay debts of $203m.
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Old Groove, new Peel
- The Wellingtonista
- When Real Groovy closed its doors in May, many music-loving Wellingtonians were rather sad.
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Going slowly for maximum pleasure
- The Wellingtonista
- It was a beautiful Sunday in Wellington today.
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The glorious struggles of the people’s working-class rugby art sculpture
- The Wellingtonista
- A year and a half ago we were offered a tantalising glimpse of the model of the Weta Workshop-designed Wellington rugby sculpture, noting its resemblance to a provincial junior rugby trophy, a knick-knack gift for a rugby-loving uncle, and a vagina.
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Theatre: New Zealand plays in the next fortnight
- The Wellingtonista
- #RWC11 is prompting an abundance of New Zealand theatre.
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Guest Post: Stephanie Cook and the case for term limits in NZ Local Government
- WCC Watch
- This is a guest post from ‘Wellington Citizen’ – who wishes to remain anonymous due to their employment.
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Wellington Free Wi-Fi Launched
- WCC Watch
- Great news! As of today, there is now free wifi from the stadium to the Embassy theatre, all along the waterfront, golden mile and up Cuba St. Official press releases are here from WCC and CitiLink. You can also follow the service on Twitter – currently it looks like there are quite a few happy users out there!
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Cable car terminal upgrade – submission time!
- WCC Watch
- Council owned Wellington Cable Car Ltd is currently doing consultation on their plans to upgrade their Kelburn terminal at the top of the cable car.
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Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Exquisite Corpse
- The Wellingtonista
- Perched upon the top of Cuba St, Thistle Hall is known for providing Wellingtonians with short bursts of visual arts.
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Residents Happy with Council’s Performance (Those that are still alive)
- WCC Watch
- In an astonishing move, the day after news breaks that a council tenant has been dead in his council flat for up to a year, the council has put out a press release entitled… ‘Residents Happy with Council’s Performance‘.
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