The Wellingtonista and Business
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The Restaurant Website Drinking Game
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- In our review of Capitol, we mentioned how we go there despite the dreadfulness of their website (but you probably missed that bit and cut straight to talking about negronis).
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Notional Significance: Gorge
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- [See all Notional Significance posts] The stretch of Hutt Rd from Kaiwarawhara to Ngauranga is a long, dry slog through an artificial valley.
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Temporary
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- 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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Vanishing appears
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- There are a few shops around town that cater to pop-culture junkies and seekers of retro memorabilia, but newcomer Vanishing Point (40 Abel Smith St) adds a personal twist.
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So long, Marbecks Cuba Mall
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- It looks like the Marbecks on Cuba Mall is closing down, leaving the blessed Slowboat and Real Groovy the only music shops in the area.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Get rid of your old computer crap
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- 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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Locals and Tourists
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- Eric Fisher has been geomapping Flickr photos of cities around the world.
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When is a shop not a shop?
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- Right now in Thorndon, Wellington's first Handmade Pop-Up Shop has arrived. It opened on the 13th of April and closes again on the 1st of May. Each day the shop features a different artist or crafter showcasing all their lovely creations.
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302 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington
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The new issue dividing our capital
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- First it was "Bret or Jermaine?" then "Smash Malice or Brutal Paegent?" but now it's time for the really big decision - which Facebook group to join - "Hey, let's NOT have a 'Wellywood' sign in Wellington"or "A WELLYWOOD sign on the Miramar Cutting Hill is a STUPID idea"?
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Day Tripper
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- Sometimes it takes the eyes of a visitor to shed a new light on the ordinary.
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eDay on Saturday
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- It is eDay again tomorrow, your opportunity to put your eJunk in your trunk take it to the drop off point to get it taken care of responsibly.
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A book sale worth walking up a hill for
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- It's sale time at Vic Books again, both at the Kelburn Campus and the Pipitea store by the train station. The sale runs from Monday May 11-Thursday May 28, and if you're clever you'll figure out a way to get to the sneak preview with wine and nibbles at the Kelburn shop, from 3pm, Thursday May 7th. ‘Tis the season of twisted umbrellas, so it's time to stock up on books which will keep
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Victoria University of Wellington, Waiteata Road, Aro Valley, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Google Street View knows where you live
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- Google Maps have today launched Street View for Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. A few months ago, on what looks to have been early in the morning in winter, the Googlemobile drove around the streets of our fair city, photographing the streets. You can now view these streetscapes as the closest zoom-in on Google Maps. They even made it down Cuba Mall! Street View in other countries has
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Samurai Store Coming
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- Almost in order to prove that rumours of the death of genuine, good quality music retailers in this country have been greatly exaggerated, on November 6 Wellington will have a new specialist music retail store.
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151 Willis Street, Wellington
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Team Puppy Guts fingers their way to the top of 48Hours film comp
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- Congratulations to team Puppy Guts who have only just gone and won the grand final of the 2008 48Hours film competition with their dance short F*DANCE, making them the first Wellington team to do so.
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Furious Filmmaking
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- Registration for this year's 'V' 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking competition closes in only 8 days and organisers are once again looking (somewhat apprehensively) at a record-breaking number of entries. 2007 saw more than 120 teams take part in the Wellington region alone, and this year extra capacity has been made available so no one will get turned away.
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Belonging somewhere
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- Opening tomorrow night at the Film Archive - Wellington multi-media artist Sarah Jane Parton presents her wacky take on the future...
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Big Moments on screen tonight
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- Come check out: Life in NZ from the 1950s to the 1980s! The Friends of the Film Archive are launching their 2008 season with a 70-minute romp through pivotal moments in New Zealand's recent history.
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Ice Ice Baby
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- Tonight come along to the Film Archive (corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Sts) to the opening of Á jaðrinum (transl. on the edge), a collection of 15 recent video works from Iceland, curated by Leonhard Emmerling, from 5:30pm.
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Are we a modern city?
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- Case in point ... why do we not have broadband access to everyone in the (wider) city?
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Beautiful Mash
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- We all know that in Wellington, everyone and their dogs are already busy making films of some description already, but for any aspiring film-makers not currently up to their eyeballs in digital video, here's your chance. LOOP Recordings want you to make a video for Adi Dick's song "Beautiful View".
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Rusticity
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- Following the success of the recent Wellington Flickr Group's exhibition at the Paramount, cames yet more photographic goodness from a Wellington flickr-ite legend A Different Perspective (aka Jim Henderson). He's putting on an exhibition of his work down at Island Bay's The Bach cafe, from the 1st to the 30th of April. To get a feel for what you might be seeing, check out his awesome flickr photostream here.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Getting Moore for less
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- Fashionistas may be excited to know about the very temporary-looking Andrea Moore 'workroom' set up by the bus stop on Manners St, whose windows are promising 50-70% off. But those who recently bought a (gorgeous) Andrea Moore dress at full cost might not want to read this at all...
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Borders': opening Thursday
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- As Tom noted back in October, the northern portion of Capital on the Quay is to become a Borders'. Imagine a bookstore with a giant footprint, a café inside, and possibly the largest range of stock in town. That might well be what we're getting.
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Online to On the Wall
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- We all know that Wellington is a great place to take photos: its natural beauty, public art, lively street life and eclectic architecture all contribute to a visually stimulating city. The busy Flickr-ers of the Wellington Flickr group know this, and they've decided to take their best photos into the real world. "Online to On the Wall" opens at the Paramount Theatre tomorrow night at 6pm, and runs until the 28th of March.
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Kirk's Sale, now on
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- WellUrban probably sums up the effect of the annual Kirk's Sale best when he writes... Expect worse than usual queues of SUVs between Karori and Lambton Quay this morning: the Annual Kirks sale is on.
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