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community, eating, events
Eating for a good cause
My recommendation to you for this Sunday (the 25th) is to forgo the cafe for brunch and head off to New Lynn, where members of the Burmese community will be holding a food fair with traditional Burmese food on offer. Profits will be going towards cyclone relief in Burma, and it runs from 11am – [...]
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drinking, entertainment, events, music, the arts
This looks fun in an odd way – they have a tuba! :)
The mighty Lippizanas a supposedly spectacular psychedelic latin Jazz band with vibes / drums / sax / flute / percussion / bass / tuba are playing on Friday 23rd @ 8.45pm at The Wine Cellar, 183 K Road. There’s a $5 door charge. This just sounds like heaps of fun, and quite beguilingly odd. Manda
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shopping
For The Lose: Sylvia Park Mall
05.20.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsYay! More guest post-age! Fresh-faced Wellingtonista Stephen Clover came to town in the service of rock’n’roll and while here, headed way out east to see legendary Sylvia Park Mall for himself. This is his story… In Family Guy Season 4 Episode 1: North by North Quahog (2005), Peter Griffin walks into the “Beyond” section at [...]
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Buildings
An unorthodox campaign
05.19.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI received this email today from Robbie: “Being that the Aucklandista is a blog about Auckland, it naturally has to obsess about real estate, and since everyone in Auckland works in advertising, it has to obsess about that too. My mate (Jono Aidney) has created a rather unorthodox real estate ad to find a suitable [...]
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events
Public riots at the Readers and Writers Festival!
Well, not quite.. Due to what surely can only be an administrative blunder, we scored central front-row tickets to the “opening” (the festival actually started on Wednesday) event of the Readers and Writers Festival at the Aotea Centre last night, where we were witness to a rare case of audible audience dissent. More after the [...]
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