• Event

    The Mikado

    Fri, 5 Sep - Sat, 6 Sep 2014

    The Opera House Wellington, Te Aro

    The century-old Japanese satirical opera.

  • Event

    Blind Dining

    Wed, 27 Aug, 2014

    WBC, Te Aro

    Like a blind date, but with food.

  • Event

    Farewell

    Fri, 29 Aug - Sat, 29 Nov 2014

    Film Archive, Te Aro

    Giving absence a presence.

  • Event

    Linotype: The Film

    Wed, 27 Aug, 2014

    Lighthouse Cinema, Te Aro

    An almost-forgotten artefact of typography and printing history.

  • Event

    World Press Photo Exhibition 2014

    Sat, 30 Aug - Sun, 21 Sep 2014

    Shed 11, Wellington Harbour, Wellington

    From the year's headlining stories to quieter little moments in people's lives the world over, the annual World Press Photo Exhibition is a deeply human picture of our world in all its separate intimate components.

  • Restaurant

    Mexico

    41 Dixon Street, Te Aro

    A stylish, Westernised synecdoche of an entire country.

  • News

    Win a Wardrobe from Cheap Mondays

    Some new Scandinavian garb for you.

  • News

    Concrete Playground meets the Directors behind Nick Cave’s 20,000 Days on Earth

    The documentary set in an imaginary 24-hour period of Nick Cave's life.

  • Restaurant

    Thunderbird Cafe

    154 Featherston Street, Wellington

    Thunderbird Cafe is what would happen if an eccentric hoarder from Raumati decided to run away to Arizona and start a cafe.

  • Restaurant

    Chow

    Level 1, 45 Tory Street, Te Aro

    With bare concrete walls, plush leather seats and hanging Victorian lamps, Chow does not fall neatly into any specific genre of restaurant/bar.

  • Restaurant

    Caribe Cafe

    54 Cleveland Street, Brooklyn

    There is something ridiculously cheerful about Caribe Cafe.

  • Restaurant

    The Ramen Shop

    191 Riddiford Street, Newtown

    The Ramen Shop easily outshines the other Newtown establishments in the looks department.

  • Event

    A Short History of Jazz

    Sun, 31 Aug, 2014

    Museum of Wellington City & Sea, Queens Wharf

    The evolution of jazz from the early 1900s through to the 1950s.

  • Event

    Writers on Mondays: Kate Hunter and Kirstie Ross

    Mon, 11 Aug, 2014

    Te Papa Museum, Wellington

    The stories behind war veterans' artefacts.

  • Event

    Open Home

    Sun, 17 Aug, 2014

    Newtown Community Centre, Newtown

    Your future mortgage and happiness starts here.

  • News

    Cliff Curtis on Playing a Man with Bi-Polar Disorder

    The Hollywood actor and lead role in New Zealand chess drama The Dark Horse.

  • Event

    Shakespeare in Music

    Sat, 2 Aug, 2014

    Michael Fowler Centre, Te Aro

    Happy 450th birthday to Shakespeare.

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