The Wellingtonista / March 2011
The Wellingtonista is a blog about Wellington - New Zealand's capital.
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A lake of laksa
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- Satay Kampong dishes up the salty sour goodness As it’s getting colder, and we’re getting colds, the minds of the Wellingtonista turn towards hot, spicy satisfaction.
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Smells like year-old fish and rotten eggs. But awesome!
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- Has it really been a year since Fishhead magazine launched? Apparently so! Consequently, they’d like to party with you! There’s be cocktail specials, free entry and Wellington supergroup The Eggs playing. Fishhead birthday afterparty Thursday March 31, 9pm-midnight CQ Bar in the Quality Hotel, 223 Cuba Street. Last one in’s a rotten…
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Notional Significance: Resistance
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- [See all Notional Significance posts] I weave through concrete islands and metal barriers to the edge of the Basin Reserve.
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Grey paint and padlocks
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- There was a photo in last Tuesday’s Dom Post of a paintbrush-toting chap in bright orange.
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Notional Significance: Underground
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- [See all Notional Significance posts] As I approach the tunnel mouth, I can’t help but notice the looming cliff to my right.
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Wellington Killah Beez on the Swarm
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- We like our blue cheese served with honey at Pollux, and we like our cocktails honey-rimmed at S&M.
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Craft Beer for Japan
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- Creative Commons photo by elh70 on Flickr To raise funds in the wake of the diaster in Japan, Hashigo Zake is holding a tasting of Japanese craft beer on Thursday 24th March at 6:30pm.
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Notional Significance: Isthmus
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- It’s a given: New Zealand is a young land.
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We be jammin’
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- Have you planned your Craft2.
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Notional Significance: Takeoff
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- National significance begins with a roundabout: from the air it looks like a navel, the axis of the world, the green Omphalos where one begins.
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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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Notional Significance: Flyer
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- Before reaching the starting point of the journey, I need to take a preliminary journey, from something resembling the heart of the city to the start of the highway: the airport.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington Film Society starts tonight
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- “Wellington Film Society opens tonight? You don’t say!” All over the world it is volunteer organisations like the Wellington Film Society that keep the flame of film art alive so that cinephiliacs like me can get a decent palate cleanser every Monday night after a weekend of Hollywood tosh.
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Notional Significance
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- Allow me to introduce, not myself exactly, but the little series of posts that the Wellingtonista people have kindly allowed me to publish here.
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Steak frites: does what it says on the box
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- In the background, lamb.
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Offbeat is back!
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- The Offbeat Originals story has a happy ending it seems — they are open for business, since Tuesday even. We can report that the fishburgers are just as they always were. Business resumes at Offbeat Previously: What happened? Most missed Signs of life And the original Wellingtonista Offbeat review
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