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- Seraphine Pick - 14 March, City Gallery
  - 24 Mar 2010
  - Texture
  - The name Seraphine Pick conjures up images of a conceptual artist with a rock and roll attitude.
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- Neil Gaiman - 13 March, Wellington Town Hall
  - 15 Mar 2010
  - Texture
  - There is a new thin white duke, and his name is Neil Gaiman. Polite relaxed and confident, with a slight northern-English accent, Neil is writing rock-star royalty all-over.Gaiman is the author behind the Sandman graphic novels, as well as seminal road trippin’ mythology-busting novel, American Gods, and the button-eyed creepiness of Coraline.
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- Gods and Heroes - 20 February, Bats Theatre
  - 24 Feb 2010
  - Texture
  - The Greek gods have fled Olympus, deciding to take refuge in.
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- Little Bushman live with the NZSO - 23 February, Album Review
  - 24 Feb 2010
  - Texture
  - I remember the first time I saw Warren Maxwell live.
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- Connan Mockasin: Please turn me into the Snat - 23 February, Album Review
  - 23 Feb 2010
  - Texture
  - It’s been an 18 month journey for the man known as Connan.
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- Eyes Wide Open: Love and Guts – 11 February, Manky Chops Gallery
  - 20 Feb 2010
  - Texture
  - Last week Manky Chops Gallery hosted its second Love and Guts art exhibition, strictly three days only, which was heralded to be one of the most memorable shows to date.
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- Electric Wire Hustle – 13 February, San Francisco Bathhouse
  - 20 Feb 2010
  - Texture
  - Local Wellington trio, Electric Wire Hustle, have had a busy and very successful year with the release of their self-titled debut album, a European tour and a jam-packed summer festival schedule, all in the name of their incredibly popular contemporary hip hop, soul, funk and jazz infusion.
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- Anne Frank: A History for Today – 20 February, Te Papa
  - 20 Feb 2010
  - Texture
  - The tale of Anne Frank has always fascinated me, ever since I read her diary as an impressionable twelve year-old girl.
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  - te-papa
- Vernon God Little – 4 February, Downstage Theatre
  - 10 Feb 2010
  - Texture
  - This month Downstage Theatre plays host to twenty-one young actors and one epic adaptation of DBC Pierre’s Booker Prize winning novel, Vernon God Little.
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- High Tea at Martha's Pantry - 29 January
  - 10 Feb 2010
  - Texture
  - Now let me be very clear.
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- Them Crooked Vultures - 29 January, TSB Arena
  - 2 Feb 2010
  - Texture
  - The allure of sex, sweat, thunderous drumming and chugging riffs lies at the heart of Them Crooked Vulture’s sound.
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- Signer: Next We Bring You the Fire - 22 January, Album Review
  - 26 Jan 2010
  - Texture
  - Ex-Wellingtonian Bevan Smith pokes his head up somewhat, with a tasty little morsel of an album.
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- Camera Obscura and The Books – 19 January, San Francisco Bathhouse
  - 26 Jan 2010
  - Texture
  - An exciting double-act hit the Capital last week that was definitely not to be missed.
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- Andy C and MC GQ - 14 January, Sandwiches
  - 26 Jan 2010
  - Texture
  - Not knowing much about Drum and Bass or the highly acclaimed Andy C, real name Andrew Clarke, I headed along to Sandwiches more concerned with what hour I would hit the hay on a school night rather than how the actual performance would pan out… how wrong I was to think that this night would put me to sleep.
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- Locale - 26 January, Toi Poneke Gallery
  - 26 Jan 2010
  - Texture
  - Another name for Locale could have been “3 Photographers chasing the New Zealand-ness that resides in the often seen but rarely regarded.
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- Why? – 18 December, San Francisco Bathhouse
  - 11 Jan 2010
  - Texture
  - I struggled convincing anyone to come along with me to catch the Californian indie hip-hop five-piece, Why?, with most noting that they had better things to do than listen to a skinny-white-rapper with a moustache.
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- Kora: with Strike - 18 December, Wellington Town Hall
  - 26 Dec 2009
  - Texture
  - Epic is a word I try not to use lightly.
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- Akron/Family – 16 December, San Francisco Bathhouse
  - 21 Dec 2009
  - Texture
  - Formed in 2002, the New York-based Akron/Family has built a solid reputation for performing their energetic improvised folk music, which has been termed equal parts experimental folk and freak folk, on the live stage.
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- Frank Kitts Market - 19 December, Frank Kitts underground carpark
  - 20 Dec 2009
  - Texture
  - Okay, off the top of my head.
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- An Adagio Christmas – 5 December, Downstage Theatre
  - 9 Dec 2009
  - Texture
  - Adagio, the multi-layered circus meets jazz meets live theatre acrobatic performance, has returned to Downstage Theatre this month, this time bearing a hint of Christmas cheer.
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- Jarvis Cocker – 3 December, Town Hall
  - 8 Dec 2009
  - Texture
  - It was with great anticipation that headed along to the Town Hall to catch the solo show of Jarvis Cocker, the man who, alongside cronies the Gallaghers, the Coombes and Damon Abarn, helped sculpt the Brit-pop movement of the mid-nineties.
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- Strike: Sketches - 6 December, Album Review
  - 7 Dec 2009
  - Texture
  - Strike seem to be the group that everybody wants to play with.
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- Wolf’s Liar – 1 December, Circa Theatre
  - 6 Dec 2009
  - Texture
  - This month, Circa Theatre plays host to a gripping and beautifully intelligent female monologue, the Wolf’s Lair, from the acclaimed Almost a Bird Theatre Collective.
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- My Cuba Street (18 Artists) - 30 November, South Coast Gallery on Cuba
  - 6 Dec 2009
  - Texture
  - 18 artists putting together an exhibition inspired by Cuba Street will always tantalise the curiosity of any true Wellingtonian (Even an emigrated one such as myself).
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- Salmonella Dub: Freak Controller - 25 November, Album Review
  - 25 Nov 2009
  - Texture
  - Coming within weeks of Shapeshifter's too-good-it-can’t-be-legal album, is another new release from a modern kiwi legend – Salmonella Dub’s Freak Controller.
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- The Cuban Brothers - 13 November, San Francisco Bath House
  - 16 Nov 2009
  - Texture
  - The Cuban Brothers have become something of a mini, global-sensation over the last few years.
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- Jason Munn – 13 November, Massey University
  - 13 Nov 2009
  - Texture
  - There were a number of events listed in the Blow 09 Creative Arts Festival booklet that caught my eye.
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- The Brunettes – 6 November, San Francisco Bathhouse
  - 8 Nov 2009
  - Texture
  - The Brunettes, with their super sweet lyrics and copious boy-meets-girl duets, are an impressive force and have established quite the following both locally and abroad.
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  - reviews
- Collapsing Creation – 5 November, Downstage Theatre
  - 8 Nov 2009
  - Texture
  - This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of his work On the Origin of Species.
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- Handle the Jandal – 29 October, Embassy Theatre
  - 7 Nov 2009
  - Texture
  - The Embassy Theatre foyer was packed solid for the 2009 Radio Active 89FM Handle the Jandal D.
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