February 2008
The Archives
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04 vs 09, interwebs
Girls! Geeks! Go!
The Wellingtonista may be all atwitter right now about the Wellington GirlGeek Dinner on March 12 which is one ticket away from selling out, but did you know that it was Auckland which had the country’s first GirlGeek Dinner? No? Well now you do. And it’s having another one, and so Amanda Jackson would like your […]
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Uncategorized
Auckland’s Millennium Shaft
02.29.08 | Permalink | 7 CommentsI love a good public art saga and of interest at the time was the fracas over the Millennium Tree.
In 2005 the Chinese community gifted a one hundred and fifty thousand dollar stylised chrome tree sculpture to Auckland City. It was plonked in the Parnell Rose Gardens to all the usual fanfare and everyone stood […]
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drinking, eating, shopping
Oratia? It’s over there, by Glen Eden.
If you’ve ever driven out to the Matakana Farmers’ Market, you might have found the whole thing a little overwhelming. There’s the lengthy crawl through the show-home-heavy bits of Orewa, and that giant roadworks project which is seemingly never going to get finished, and then by the time you’ve made it to Matakana there are […]
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Aucklandista
Contributors wanted
02.26.08 | Permalink | 8 CommentsHey you! Do you like Auckland? Do you like writing about it? Can you string two words or more together? Do you like us? Do you want to be one of us? We need more contributors. You can post what you want, when you want, and will get fantastic perks like interwebs fame, us being your friend, […]
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events
Lantern Festival ‘08
The 2008 Chinese New Year festivities are nearing their end, which means it’s time for the Auckland Lantern Festival. It’s the ninth year of the festival and by now it feels like an essential part of an Auckland summer.
This weekend, 22 to 24 February, Albert Park will again be the scene of lanterns galore, along […]
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