February 2008

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• anecdotal, entertainment

  Open your own ’80s video shop

  02.18.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Remember video shops? Rewinding, fixing the tracking, due back by 12? As a lad, I’d spend hours in the corner video shop trawling the likes of Joysticks and Brewsters’s Millions to find the perfect tape for that weekend’s slumber party (it was a more innocent time back then, team). If you ever wondered what happened [...]

• events

  Cross Street Carnival

  02.13.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  You know Cross Street? It runs parallel to K Road, between Upper Queen Street and Mercury Lane. It’s the real bad-ass looking street that gets used in TV commercials whenever Auckland needs to look gritty and urban. Yeah, that one. So, this Saturday, 16 February, is the Cross Street Carnival. Awesome! The official word promises: Celebrating the [...]

• anecdotal, drinking, shopping

  Shops we adore: Artisan Wine Suppliers

  02.08.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Last time I was in Auckland, I stayed at the Elliot Street Apartments (I’ll be doing a roundup of Auckland hotels in March), which was above the Elliot Street Stables,  a very Europeany food court-ish space, with an assortment of eateries opening up onto central cobblestoned alleys with communal tables. It was a lovely space, with [...]

• anecdotal

  Northern Busway: Fisking the Herald

  02.08.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  For Aucklanders, traffic is big, right up there with property prices and ‘How’s my hair?’. THAT big. So when I moved to the Shore (love makes you do crazy things, team), getting to work weighed heavily on my mind. I mean, Shore traffic is crap, right? The Northern Motorway is one big car park, right? [...]

• entertainment, events

  Movies in Parks

  02.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The Auckland City Council, with their fancy new triangle logo, are running a series of free outdoor movie evenings in February. Every Wednesday evening at Takahi Reserve (at the foot of Mt Eden), an Aotearoan cimematic classic will be played, and you’ll be able to snuggle up with your sweetie/flatmates/whanau and have a good evening. [...]

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