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The Wellingtonista / October 2008

The Wellingtonista is a blog about Wellington - New Zealand's capital.

November 2008 | September 2008
    • Tae Kwon Do World Champs
      • Wellington has secured the rights to host the 2011 Tae Kwon Do (or Taekwondo, Taekwan-Do, or other variations, depending on where you look) World Champs. New Zealand finished 3rd at the 2007 World Champs (note, link is to a PDF of the medals table), and, with the sport thriving in NZ, the home team is expected to do well with the next event on home turf.
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      • self-defence

    • Samurai Store Coming
      • 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.
      • Tagged as:
      • music
      • retail

        • 151 Willis Street, Wellington


    • Anti-racism rally and picnic
      • Remember a few years ago when a bunch of punks dressed up as fairies chased the National Front guys around the Railway Station beating them up? LOLarama. Anyhow... Anti-racism activists will be holding a rally and picnic at the Wellington Cenotaph at 10am on Saturday October 25. The rally and picnic is in opposition to plans to hold a "Flag Day" rally by the "Nationalist Alliance", a coalition comprising the National Front, New Right and National Democrats. More about these asshats after the jump.... read more
      • Tagged as:
      • events

    • Greens launch Wellington Transport Plan
      • The Greens have just launched their new Wellington Transport Plan, complete with Green MP Sue Kedgley as their Wellington Transport Spokesperson. Wellington has a pretty kick-arse public transport system as it is, with a well used network of buses, trolley buses, trains and the good ol' cable car.
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      • transport

    • People's Empire
      • Newtown may or may not be a bit shit, but their right-on coffee company People's Coffee (sorry, I couldn't resist adding the apostrophe) certainly know their shit. Their presence in central Wellington is expanding, and two recently-opened cafés proudly stock the People's brand: Meow and Mon Ami.
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      • newtown
      • restaurants-and-bars

        • Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • One more sleep till Craft2.0
      • Craft2.0 springs into the shopping season by returning to TheNewDowse on October 11th with a Craftastic Craftacular (don’t ask us what that means, but pretty much beyond fabulous is a good definition) There are over 60 crafters this time round and as always there is a mix of returning favourite crafters and brand shiny new ones.
      • Tagged as:
      • art
      • events
      • hutt-valley

        • Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • The politics of dining
      • Has anyone noticed that the election campaign has spread to restaurants? Piccolo is sporting a big blue Stephen Franks poster in their window, and I'm not sure what it says about potential National voters if Vivian St is seen as fertile advertising territory. La Kasbah has taken it further: not only was the proprietor wearing a Labour badge, with a donations jar on the counter, but Trevor Mallard was filling up on tagine and couscous tonight!
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      • restaurants-and-bars

    • Wellingtonista Film Season continues
      • Tonight in the special Wellingtonista season of NZ feature films, either roughly related to, shot or set in our lovely capital city (and what a typically brilliant answer to yesterday's weather bomb than this beautiful day?) we have the hilarious feature Mark II, as selected by ourselves. This film is worth viewing for the high-waisted jeans alone....
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      • cinema

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