Texture / January 2009
Texture is an events guide, place guide, interactive guide to this fair city. Its role is to hook you up with the best spots to spend your nights and where to recover during the day, all the latest news and information you want from round town and a place to meet only the best people from all over the place. Texture is brought to you by Positively Wellington Tourism with support from heaps of kindly folk round town.
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Big names for this years Wellington Jazz Festival
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- The smoothest festival on the calender is coming our way. Wellingtons Jazz Festival has announced its programme for the 5th to the 6th of March 2009. And there is something for just about all tastes - with old, new, international and local favourites taking centre stage. Speaking on 21 January at the launch of the final programme, Wellington Jazz Festival Artistic Director, Lissa Twome
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Alexandra Owen's first ever boutique
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- Alexandra Owen - the Wellington based designer wowed the fashion critics at her ANZFW debut show in 2007 and again in ANZFW 2008 where the show was termed 'show of the week'. She's taking NZ and the world by storm with her intelligent and mature designs. Now the the first ever Alexandra Owen boutique opens on Saturday at 253 Wakefield Street (under the Museum Hotel Apartme
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Jay Reatard and No Age
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- Time to get excited kids; Jay Reatard and No Age are playing in Wellington at San Fran on 3 February. Yes, we are fortunate enough to be blessed by both Jay Reatard and No Age performing here for your sonic pleasures. This is going to be the show to see this year make no mistake, in fact it's already in my top 10 and it hasn't even happened yet! Recently signed to Matador records for an 8 album de
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Don't Miss the Motorik Workouts of Stereolab on Thursday...
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- London outfit Stereolab are a rare group in that they are a 'homage' band of sorts but still manage to be absolutely terrific and distinctive at the same time. Formed in 1990, Stereolab is Timothy Gane, Andrew Ramsay, Simon Johns, Joseph Watson and Laetitia Sadier. Reliable friends who have seen Stereolab live tell me that the music translates fantastically in a live context, so I am dea
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Thanks for the memories Boulot
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- After some great years of providing fabulous informal dining to Wellingtonians, Boulot restaurant has now officially closed for good. Owned by those infamous Bressolin boys, Boulot brought a distinctively laidback European twist, to the oft-chaotic downtown Wellington area. Their pizzas were of the highest quality, cooked in one monstrous Manuka-fired oven to near perfection. An
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Longing For More Leonard Cohen?
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- I know she is comingI know she will lookAnd that is the longingAnd this is the book...- Book of Longing I keep hearing how sensational Leonard Cohen's Wellington show was. And epic at three hours long! Whether you missed his show and want some kind of a consolation or if you did go and loved it so much that you want to start a Cohen binge, his books will fit the bill.Before he turned h
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Anna Coddington is awesome…
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- …and is returning once again to grace the notorious Mighty Mighty stage to perform a stripped back acoustic set as part of her summer T-shirt tour… oh yeah! Coddington undertook an epic fifteen-date-nationwide-tour in June last year in support of her debut album, The Lake, so this micro summer tour is all about sunshine, playing in some mean (slang for hip-as) venues and, of course, the promotion
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Kreüzberg Summer Café! Hawt!
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- So… Cuba Street has a new place to nab a fantastic coffee and, by all means, it’s a little unconventional.The Kreüzberg Summer Café is a backyard-style café (so an established caravan parked in an old car park set amongst brightly coloured picnic tables) at the top of Cuba Street… like the very top… like pretty much on Webb Street… The café is named after a district in Berlin, which is renowned fo
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Fringe, fabulous Fringe!
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- It’s time to get freaky on it. Because the 2009 New Zealand Fringe Festival is set to storm through your doorway and dance all over your furniture. Just because it can. The programme for this years Fringe fest has been released, and it’s so chocka with Comedy, music, arts and theatre goodies, that Santa has decided to retire and drink mai-tai’s somewhere in the Florida Key’s (Just kidding ch
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Top Five Summer Reads - Breezy and Bright, No Chick Lit In Sight...
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- I always have a precariously towering bookstack next to my bed because I have the unfortunate knack of acquiring books faster than I can read the damn things. For me, one of the best things about having a wee break over summer is the pleasure of having entire days to live inside the sparkly books that beckon from the stack.I can't recommend the following three titles from the last year highly enou
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Early 09 brings good theatre times!
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- Coming from the pen of one of Wellington's most talented writers and performers, Jamie Burgess, (who was behind Shoes, at BATS in March last year, and played the fabulous Munkustrap in CATS at the Opera House in June), is Becoming the Courtesan - a Remarkable Seduction on at BATS from 10 - 17 January. This show is written and performed by Burgess and old friend Karen Anslow, with all ori
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Whanau is number 1 in this town
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- Talk about family values, Wellington has been voted the best place in New Zealand to raise a family. This is according to the ASB top-spot report, which acts as an indicator as to which parts of the country excel in which areas. And you can see why such a decision has been made. Wellington lies smack in the middle of the country, between the sometimes overly conservative Christch
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Throwing Muses only NZ show!
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- SFBH is pleased to announce the ONLY New Zealand show from landmark band Throwing Muses. Over the course of 11 albums, even more EP's and a career spanning a quarter of a century, Throwing Muses have been pioneers in what we now know as "indie" and still remain hugely influential, with echoes of their groundbreaking sound still heard today. Throwing Muses were the first American
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The Top 5 Wellington Events for 2009
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- It’s two-double-oh-nine so what are you gonna do about it?? More of that same old s%*t for another year? Say it with me people… HELL NO!! 2009 will bring us all a load of opportunities to try new adventures - and go to those fabulous events that we missed last time around. As we have recently seen all types of half-baked lists for the year passed (Top 100 songs, albums, movies, e
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The Best Calendar
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- Happy New Year! Other than new begins and creating resolutions that won't be kept, it's time for a new calendar. I have found the best ever calendar, and have bought four of them so far (they made great xmas presents). Women that Rock! Made by the 'Calendar Gals 2009' is a locally made calendar that comes with a CD (which matches the songs highlighted in the calendar), is all about inspiratio
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