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Aucklandista, gossip, religion
I’m sure it actually meant to say “sax”
Hi Hadyn here again. As I drove into Auckland during my recent trip north I passed this billboard in Onehunga. Well, according to the Herald this morning Auckland’s Pacific Island Community is up in arms about it “queuing up” to see it. Sorry, to to see it removed. Will ‘Ilolahia, a Tongan community leader, said [...]
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entertainment, music
Stumps at Whammy Bar
The Stumps, Wellington-based purveyors of improvised psychedelic doom noise rock (and friends of The Aucklandista), are coming to town and will be playing at Whammy Bar (St Kevin’s Arcade) on Saturday 26 April. According to a bio I found on the interwebs, “their sound moves from slowly evolving drones to noise prog rock, mixing in [...]
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Accomodation
A room of one’s own
04.21.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI don’t live in Auckland anymore, but it’s a lovely place to visit. A key part of my enjoyment is that whenever I come up, I get to book myself into a hotel and have lovely quiet Jo Time in a tidy room that someone else cleans. Unfortunately, not all hotels are created equal, so [...]
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gossip
Gossip pages – morally bankrupt?
04.17.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments(That’s a hypothetical question, of course) I hate to draw attention to these things, but the Sunday gossip pages reached a new low in the last week, with reports on: a) an unknown “celebrity” apparently thinking that 15 was old enough for a prostitute he allegedly purchased services off, and, b) the release of Philip [...]
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entertainment, events, the arts
Living Room Events
Auckland City Council are supporting a series of live performance events which will be coming to a public space near you throughout April, May and June 2008. I stumbled upon one of these – Die Henkel Spur (the Henkel Way) – today on the way back from a meeting as I walked through St Patrick’s [...]
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