The Wellingtonista

Apparently all hell is breaking loose in the Hutt: rumours of heavy rain warnings abound, and messages are going around offices advising people living in Eastbourne to head home NOW. Certainly the rad...

I advise you to fight your way to the door. Wellington's own Slim Chants will be kicking things off from 9pm and Palmy's howing wolf man Boss Christ will take things into the night...... but this CW S...

(actually I'm not sure that he does, but that's another story.) The guy at the CHINA outlet in the Courtenay Central complex has twice claimed to me that his BBQ pork is the best in town. The results...

Consider, hypothetically, that one had dropped one's laptop, breaking the backlight to the LCD screen but leaving the screen itself intact. Consider also that the authorised repair company for the lap...

Today, reader DaveK let us know that Snapper cards have finally gone on sale at a couple of retailers in town, at least. They're also available, along with the card readers that allow WinIE types to d...

Apparently there's a dire shortage of pink Hi-Glo tagger vests in parts of the Eastern Suburbs, and a public appeal has been launched. Stuff: The message is a reaction to Wellington City Counci...

Want new threads but can't afford them in these straitened times? Got some old clothes that you want to see go to a good home? Worried about the environmental obscenity of our throw-away fashion cultu...

On Friday I will (rightly or wrongly) be put in charge of a 15 year-old boy (my nephew-in-law). This will be his first visit to Wellington and I want to show him around. But where do we go and what ca...

Yes, that's the almighty Lazarus Volt kicking the Condor's ass quite soundly, and he'll be doing the same thing to the crotchety old Brute this Friday July 24 at Afterblaster and you should be there t...

Fur Patrol are a band with an agenda. A hidden agenda. Actually it's not so hidden. They want to teach the world to sing, in furfect harmony... *Cough* I'm all punned out. So I'll cut to the chase.....