The Wellingtonista / January 2009
The Wellingtonista is a blog about Wellington - New Zealand's capital.
February 2009 | December 2008-
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No, I will not make a pun about "fringe benefits"...
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- ... but Fringe '09 is just a week away, and there's a lot to get excited about. We may have missed out on the chance to see some Aristophanes under the wharves, but here's a couple of other things that we have our eyes on. Lies and Other Stories Before Bed had a sneak peak/fundraiser event at Mighty Mighty last week, and it looks to be a riot. It will combine film and animation with live performan
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Another twit flying around
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- If you're already on Twitter, we imagine that you already know that the Wellingtonista has a twitter stream. Well now like a moth to a flame, the Masked Barfly has decided to get in on the action with its own brand of insider gossip. If that's your thing, follow the fly!
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Volunteering Tea and Comfort
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- The streets of Wellington on a day like today are a joy, the sun is shining, the breeze is more balmy than bluster and you probably have a home to go to if you need some cave time. In Wellington the streets are shared with all, and if you head into the CBD you will see suits, students, hipsters, children and gold-card holders utilising public space alongside street people and alcoholics.&nbs
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- As Oscar night approaches another of the expected heavyweight contenders goes into cinemas: Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road reunites Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio for the first time since Titanic (still the highest grossing film of all time fact-fans) in a story of a middle-class 1950s couple dissatisfied with the American suburban dream. Based on (what I understand to be) an awesome novel by
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Summer daze
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- We admit it: we've been slack. Normal blogging service will gradually resume as we re-emerge from the rum-induced inebriation heat-induced torpor of summer, but things are taking a while to crank up again. Some of us have been out of town on summer holidays, enjoying all the clichés of the Great Kiwi SummerTM: beaches, jandals, boats, sunburn and ill-advised sexual liaisons. But some of us
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In the summer in the city
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- 1. Have you registered for Webstock yet? Only 33 more sleeps left to go and we are very very excited! 2. Have you checked out the programme for Summer City yet? Wellington City Council's three-month festival of outdoor activities. Events include music festivals, extreme sports, cultural celebrations and children's entertainment. This year, Summer City's music performances focus on Welli
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Comings and Goings
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- The start of each year often sees a shake-up of the bar and restaurant scene, and with the Current Economic ClimateTM one might expect a few more closures than usual. Let's not dwell on such morbid speculation, and look at a few closings and openings that we do know about. While discussing the demise of Temperance (which didn't reopen this weekend, despite DB's threats assurances), Blair mentioned
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For sooth o'er yonder hills doth joust
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- Imagine our delight to find that this weekend there is a jousting carnival in Upper Hutt. Harcourt Park, Saturday and Sunday 10th and 11th January, Upper Hutt. As they said in days of yore, be there or be-eth square.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
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- Following the flurry of Christmas and New Year releases (all of which are still playing), there are only two new titles to report this week. Firstly, The Tale of Desperaux an animated adaptation of a supposedly beloved children's book. Matthew Broderick plays a noble little mouse with enormous ears who teams up with a kitchen-loving rat (Dustin Hoffman) to rescue a lonely Princess (Emma Watson) -
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